In our work with The Really Useful Media Company, we are very fortunate to work with clients who put together thought provoking events and ask us to document them on video. We recently covered a wonderful series as part of the new Parsons MFA in Transdisciplinary Design, which strikes a particular chord with my personal/academic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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