The TEDxZU file
I have been a part of many TEDx events since 2009. I co-curated the 1st TEDxDubai with Giorgio Ungania in 2009, an amazingly HUGE event right out of the blocks. Then I found my home in events that are youth and education centered. Education centered in that they are organized by schools. TEDxAbuDhabiU was my [...]
Education at what cost?
As a university graduate and university professor I am constantly struck by the number of people who should have access to higher education but don’t. There are many models of alternative education and each has its place. Shai Reshef founded University of the People in 2009 and I think this is a model that we [...]
Get Motivated!
In September I will be taking on the challenge of being the 1st chair of the Department of Mass Communication at the Canadian University of Dubai. The 1st question people ask is why am I leaving Zayed University after 12 years? Zayed University has been a great place to work and a fantastic personal innovation [...]
The Sound of the UAE
I have been teaching a practicum course at Zayed University in Dubai called Zayed Media Lab since 2003. This course has changed a lot since we first started it, but it has always stayed very true to the core idea of combining what has been learned in the curriculum of the communication college to real world [...]
Those People We meet.
I met Yasser Bahjatt at TEDActive this year. It is incredible what we can learn from others and never seem to get a chance to. This is also the magic of a TED conference. TED puts a group of people together for 6 days and stands back to see what happens. Yasser and I hooked [...]
Hope For Journalism?
I don’t know about you but I love long-form journalism. Think the opposite of tabloid to the micro-point journalism. I am talking about the long, full of detail, investigative story that we seldom get to read today in our commercial driven media. Well sure if we are reading a news magazine we find some of [...]
Zayed University Middle East Film Festival
www.zumeff.com is the link to the ZU Middle East Film Festival. You might be saying, “what another film festival?” But this is film festival with a twist. ZUMEFF started last year as a student graduation project. What usually happens to student graduation projects after the students graduate, nothing. But this project took on a life [...]
information Literacy are we doing anything in the UAE?
For 11 years I have been teaching my own brand of information literacy at Zayed University. I like to think that some headway has been made, I am not sure. What I do know is that there are all sorts of professors doing their own little bit to push the idea of information or maybe [...]
Low Tech Simplicity and it works.
The problem. How do I let students know I am in the office even if I am not sitting in my office? I could use an email, twitter, facebook but then I am faced with the problem a student is not tuned into the tech messaging network. For under $5 I have come up with [...]
Space Matters.
Today I moved my classes to a soon to be lab. Soon to be are the three words you need to hang on. At this moment the space I have moved my classes to is a big echoing box with a few desks for good measure. Funny about the desks in my class, I only [...]
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