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Tag: Brain Dump

  • The forest for the trees

    I wonder what Sir Ken (Robinson) would say about this? It seems to me that this sort of thing happens far more often than we might think. So many kids think different, or on scales that are not obvious to adults that there are likely at least one of these in every grade level in…

  • Rethinking delivery – another example of 50% – or is it?

    Between getting photos and videos done from the field trip that I took with Science 100 last week and some of the meetings that I’ve had this week, I’ve noticed something has changed in the world. This is an obvious change, but it seems that very few people want to accept it. This change is…

  • Help! The Interwebs are Broken!

    I remember way back in the days when search engine home pages were not reliable, when Yahoo! or MSN was down, people thought the entire net was down because they didn’t know how to input URLs. Now I don’t think much has changed in the last 5-10 years in terms of how many people use…

  • More traffic from Facebook, building from Twitter.

    In recent weeks it seems that I’ve received much more feedback from within Facebook on my posts imported via RSS from here. I can’t figure out why there has been this sudden explosion in interest in my writing, but I’m thinking a change in how imported data is presented might be part of the reason.…

  • What I learned from Twitter this week

    We’ve all seen on the news how Twitter is being used in Iran and elsewhere for people to share information that governments don’t want shared and in disasters to help inform others of the situation. But over the weekend, it was in some ways “my turn”. The storm (that may or may not have included…