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Category: Ideas

  • #hitsunami

    I love that the news that I’m watching is watching twitter and the blogs for the latest breaking (pardon the pun) news.  The whole segment is on the tweets that they’re watching in order to get the latest news. You can rely on the news, but just know that the…

  • Friendship

    Guest Blog Post from my friend Jasmine Kersting.  Check out her blog.  Here’s the post: in college i wrote a paper pertaining to christianity and mutuality w/in friendships. friendships… the good, bad, annoying. the prose was amazing. i made some thought provoking discoveries which seemed to challenge my own mind,…

  • Identity Watching

    Okay, so maybe it’s just people watching.  I’m sitting at a table with a complete stranger sitting across from me chomping on his sandwich and shoveling his fries into his face.  It’s as intimate as 2 strangers can get – without really saying anything to each other.  He is looking…

  • Presencelessness

    This has to do with living a less mediated life.  (You gotta love the irony of this idea coming through a blog post though). What I’m talking about is presence.  Not the ability necessarily to be present, but this idea of where your presence lies.  You can sit in a…

  • Shiny Objects

    I’m sitting in this huge ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.  Wendy Kopp from Teacher for America is speaking.  There are 4 huge 20 feet screens above the stage.  Even though Wendy Kopp is standing up front in the middle of the room on the stage, most everyone would rather…

  • Facebook Vanity URL

    Have you already claimed your Facebook page or unique name or vanity url?  If not, you should.  When Facebook rolls out Titan (here’s my previous post about it) which is Facebook’s full serviced email client – you better have your unique name or vanity url so that no one else…

  • My Photo and Identity Formation

    I have used the same photo for all of my online profiles for awhile.  It’s on every profile that I have.  It’s a picture that I took off of my laptop at a Starbucks in San Clemente while I was waiting for some friends.  I don’t even know why I…

  • Bored not Dumb

    There is a reason why students are leaving college and/or not hanging out at school.  It’s not that students are dumb.  Students are bored.  We as educators bore students.  We talk about student engagement – because we’re not that good at it. As educators, we need to create an environment…

  • An Academician’s Identity

    George Bernard Shaw said that  “Those who can do.  Those who can’t teach.” There is some truth to that in that Academicians or Theoreticians are just that – people that can sit and live in the world of ideas and theory.  They deal in ideas, numbers and a statistics. You…

  • Laptops are No Longer Sexy

    I heard that in a podcast.  (I don’t even remember which one because I listen to a few of them).  As I sit in this seminar and even in a coffee shop, there are a ton of laptops around, but the ones that stand out are those that have the…

  • I Love My Toyota

    I love that there’s so much attention that Toyota is getting.  I love mine.  Please don’t misunderstand me – no offense to the families that have lost love ones.  I mean no disrespect to them. I love my Toyota.  In fact, I have 2.  One of them is a 99…

  • Throw Out Educational Psychology

    At least that’s the way that they planned this conference that I’m at.  It’s a conference of educators – people who work in education. An educational principle that I learned in college was: the mind can only handle what the butt can take.  Okay, so maybe I rephrased it, but…