Archive | Random Thoughts RSS feed for this section
        Like 0         Retweet 9         Google +1 0 

Iowa Educational Leaders Seeing the Connections

Today I find myself in downtown Minneapolis after driving in last night from working with educational leaders in northern Iowa. I was looking forward to getting out and walking around the city, but it so happens I arrived the same time a winter storm has hit with high winds and …

        Like 0         Retweet 3         Google +1 0 

Making a Choice in an Endless Choice World

Over the last year we’ve been fixing up the condo we purchased in Seattle. As we’ve been doing the remodel we find ourselves doing research on such things as kitchen faucets. Who knew there were 1000s of different faucets and not only are there 1000s of different faucets, we have …

        Like 0         Retweet 6         Google +1 0 

5 Billion Cell Phones and Poverty

A report out last Thursday from the United Nations as reported by Fast Company looks at the mobile subscription rate word wide.

I haven’t read the whole article but some of the quotes that Fast Company have are pretty interesting.

There are about 25 mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people …

        Like 0         Retweet 40         Google +1 0 

My TEDx Talk: Communities Trump Content

TEDxKrungThep September 4, 2010

My TEDx Talk titled: Communities Trump Content

        Like 0         Retweet 13         Google +1 0 

The Next Tech Generations

Last weekend I gave a TEDx Talk at the TEDxKrungthep conference here in Thailand. The YouTube video should be out next week and I’ll post it here so you can all rip it apart and tell me how off the mark I am.

As I was preparing for the talk …

        Like 0         Retweet 12         Google +1 0 

Change at the pace of Google

Google anncouned Google Instant today…or was that yesterday….today to me, yesterday to you? Anyway, sometime in the past 48 hours Google launched their new search engine.

Some people have been asking does this change mean anything to educators and education?

The answer is: Absolutly!

It changes the way we teach …

        Like 1         Retweet 88         Google +1 0 

The Social You vs The Professional You

The last couple of working days and the rest of this week I’ve been talking with high school students about why we (ISB) have given them a blog to start building their ‘Professional You‘.

When I put it in terms of Facebook is the ‘Social You’…the …

        Like 1         Retweet 9         Google +1 0 

Picnik.com launches back to school ideas

A friend of mine who now works for Picnik (or should I say Google seeing that Picnik was recently purchased by them), the online photo editing website passed along these little suggestions this week.

New for Back to School
We just launched some handy tools that make it easy to …

        Like 0         Retweet 79         Google +1 0 

Facebook

It’s time to face the facts…

Facebook is the new Google
It has become both a noun and a verb
With over 400 million users it is the largest social-network on the web
Everyone, including parents and teachers are already using it
Parents are getting younger……they get it
Facebook has

        Like 0         Retweet 19         Google +1 0 

Tracking Independent Reading in high school

As I started talking about in my last post, we’re in the process of setting every high school student up with a blog to use as an e-portfolio. To help you wrap your head around why we’re using blogs as our container for this, I suggest downloading and reading …