The Thinking Stick

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

(Scribefire, my blogging platform finally updated to work with Firefox Beta 4 so now I’m back!)

I had the most incredible experience today. First of all I’m loving working with the high school kids. They just ‘get it’. I don’t have to explain things at a very deep …

Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google

Shortly after the release of this video Google asked you to make your own search stories.

Simply go to http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and start creating your story.

What a great way to teach students search …

Tomorrow marks the start of a new school year. My job title might have changed but the focus remains the same. How do we prepare student for today’s digital world?

I had a chance last week to introduce myself to the high school staff. It happened to be right after …

One of my biggest challenges this year is going to help the High School as a whole find some common ground on expectations for class work and interaction using our Moodle site. We use Moodle as an extension of the classroom. A place to handout work, to turn in …

Everyone has their signs for when summer is over and a new school year is upon us. For me that sign is a 17+ hour trip from Seattle back to Bangkok. Plenty of time to change your state of mind and a clear sign that the new school year is …

Two great birthday gifts came my way today via LuLu.com and Amazon.com.

First LuLu.com is giving everyone 15% off the purchase of Reach meaning it now cost $8.14 through August 15th.

Secondly Reach is now available via Amazon.com.

I’m still working on the Kindle and iPad edition…shooting for August with those.…