Hi there, welcome to my site. This is an occasional blog, where I write mostly about events and projects I’m working on, but also on things like education reform, learning, and social change. I hope you’ll take a look around, learn more about who I am, what I do, and why. I’d like to know [...]
One of my favorite holiday activities is the New York Cares Winter Wishes program. I sign up online, and a few days later, a letter to Santa arrives in my mailbox, with the address of a community organization that serves children in need. While I’ve occasionally received requests for winter boots in suspiciously adult handwriting, [...]
- The wise words of educators presenting at ISTE’s Leadership Symposium – speaking about the challenges and what is needed to be great teachers:
Julie Lindsay:
- “educational networking, not social networking”
- technology demands being more engaged on the part of teachers.
- curriculum has to change to be more global (meaning, both transdisciplinary ‘global’ and geographic/community ‘global’)
Peggy [...]
Ever since the movie “Iron Man” opened, the popularity of this picture I took last summer in France has ballooned, thanks to people who are searching Google and Flickr for images with the keywords “iron” and “man” and “mask.”
Apologies to the fans. I know it’s not what you were looking for. But if it’s any [...]
Knowing that sites as multilingual as TIG are unusual, it was cool to happen upon a panel at SXSW about website internationalization and localization. While the moderator had a few annoying moments (mostly making a big deal about how many in the audience raised their hands to the question “do you live in a country [...]
Jason Fried is the founder of 37signals.com — an innovative technology company that has made some simple and awesome web-based productivity apps, like basecamp and campfire. He gave an amazing talk about productivity and collaboration (’stuff we’ve learned”) — this is a list of advice I”d kind of like to memorize.
-red flag words: need, can’t, [...]
I’m finally getting my notes from SXSW posted. I took a lot of them, and came home and promptly got really sick. But they will all appear here in good time.
The opening keynote on Saturday was a conversation between Steven Johnson (author of Everything Bad is Good for You) and Henry Jenkins (professor at MIT, [...]
I was never one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up (in fact, I’m still not entirely sure…). But it’s a privilege to me that I had friends who knew exactly what they wanted to be, and blazed paths in pursuit of those goals, so I knew what [...]
Just when I think irony has finally been pushed off a cliff to its death (often while people watching in certain areas of my neighborhood in Brooklyn), my faith is renewed.
This morning I set out to read a New York Times article about the convergence of casual games and social networks, as seen in the [...]
Calling all educators – have you used — or do you plan to use — Ayiti: The Cost of Life game in your classroom? Global Kids would love to know – please participate in this survey!
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