I wanted to share a post I wrote to help motivate college students in designing their career as business leaders and paying attention to their dreams and passions. I hope this post helps you as well. In the book “EntreLeadership”, Dave Ramsey coaches business leaders to design their enterprises Read more…
I hope your Monday is going well. I’m pretty excited to share my experience in HackForChange this weekend. It was a great weekend of coding to address civic challenges. What’s the problem? http://hackforchange.org/challenge/help-students-thrive-education-challenge 3 Strategies to Break the Cycle of Poverty for Students and Families Inspirations… http://www.inventtolearn.com/ http://theleanstartup.com/ http://100startup.com/ Read more…
In Paul Tough’s book “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, he underscores the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. How should our educational system reach parents and students who are trying to break the cycle of poverty? This past year, I had Read more…
Like all parents, Sarah and I desire to have our little ones thrive. We want them to learn how to make good decisions since all outcomes of life are the results of choices. We hope that our children learn to love their Catholic/Christian faith and become contributing citizens to their Read more…
This week , Google held their annual technology conference named I/O 2013 for Google professionals and developers. You have to love all the great technology that Google gives to the community for free! I wanted to share a great summary video by Marques Brownlee and highlight announcements that would impact educators and Read more…
Are you looking for an easy way to get started building mobile apps? In this post, I would like to introduce you to a tool called JQuery Mobile that empowers you to craft mobile applications using HTML and a little bit of JavaScript. This free tool builds upon Read more…
It’s my great pleasure to introduce you to our friend Elizabeth Rosenthal. Sarah and I became friends with Elizabeth through our college church at University of Central Florida. As an experienced art teacher, Elizabeth has a great passion for helping elementary school students to be creative. She would enjoy connecting with you at elizabeth.rosenthal@ocps.net Read more…
When I talk to college or high school students about my job as a software developer, I often encounter the question “how do I get started creating apps?” As a software guy, I want to encourage students to become makers. I love the craft of making software and building apps. Read more…
In our work place, we have started a book club around Dave Ramsey’s book “EntreLeadership.” A small tribe of my friends from work gather over lunch to learn Dave’s lessons on business and leadership. One awesome recipe from this book shares how you build personal and organizational momentum. Have focus Read more…
Science fiction (i.e. Star Trek and Star Wars) paint a vision of the future where people can simply use conversational language to interact with their robots and computers. In the future, conversation will become a first class user interface like the keyboard, the mouse, and touch screens. Bruce Wilcox has Read more…