I’m constantly talking about and performing brainstorming activities with my students and faculty. I suspect that effective organizations use it everywhere at every level. What is the best way to do it? The following Slideshare slideshow by Andrew Dever introduces the activity and poses several questions along the way. You fill in the blanks. Why [...]
Seth Godin takes a hard swing at the bloated textbook market, concluding that its time is over. This industry deserves to die. It has extracted too much time and too much money and wasted too much potential. We can do better. A lot better. I think he’s right!
Lots of new and exciting debuts and upgrades are here or coming up, and Lifehacker is here to introduce the new products. In its view, the top 4 new technologies are Google Wave, Windows 7, Snow Leopard, and the new generation of smartphones, including iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre. I’m really excited to [...]
Interest among Chinese in attending universities in the United States continues to grow at an astounding rate. The Washington Post reveals that students are drawn to the U.S. due to the high esteem in which its universities are held in China and because of America’s position in the world economy. According to the article: In [...]
As I get within earshot of the end of the school year, I’m in full planning mode for my trip home from China to the U.S.: summer clothes, check; suntan lotion, check; wife and son, check; mindless time wasting activities for when I’m put in quarantine, check. Yes, I’m eagerly anticipating being quarantined in a [...]
An appropriate, sincere compliment at the right time can make someone’s day and, perhaps just as importantly, serve as motivation for continued top performance. The Daily Biz Solutions blog advises that it must be the right type of recognition coming from the right person for the praise to become effective motivation. Christopher Farmer, who is [...]
Numerous media outlets are reporting that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California is pushing forward with his agenda to digitalize the state’s high school classroom textbooks. From the BBC: The BBC’s Rajesh Mirchandani says Gov Schwarzenegger believes internet activities such as Facebook, Twitter and downloading to iPods show that young people are the first to adopt [...]
2009 university graduates are having a hard time finding jobs, not just in the U.S. but also here in China. Seth Godin offers advice on what graduates can do while waiting for the economic future to brighten. His suggestions: Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit. Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, [...]
I’ve been playing around with Wordle, a site that takes inputted text and organizes it similar to a tag cloud, sizing the most frequently used words more prominently in the image. You can cut and paste text or even input your url, the generator does the rest. Here’s the Wordle for all the text of [...]
University graduates here in China are having difficulty finding jobs in the economic downturn. China Daily reports that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urges graduates to “Go West.” (That’s western China, not the Western Hemisphere.) Visiting Xi’an, capital of central Shaanxi Province, from Friday to Sunday, Wen said employment was one of the government’s priorities for [...]
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