This is a great talk to share with your graduating seniors. Love Jon Acuff’s humor!! On August 29, 2011 at Convocation, North America’s largest weekly gathering of Christian students, Jon Acuff entertained students with witty jokes about current trends on college campuses. Jon Acuff is a Christian blogger and author Read more…
Our ability to speak and have conversations to pass on knowledge is one of our most cherished human qualities. As a young father, I have enjoyed seeing my little ones learn new words and learn how to communicate their needs. Learning language is one of our first big lessons of Read more…
What happens when you put the following ingredients together? 1 bright college student who has a passion for entertainment technology, drama, and computer science. 1 artful user experience designer who loves researching human computer interaction. 1 software engineer who likes to push the limits of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Read more…
Are you looking for a way to fund your dream project or support your cause? The act of making a new product, an innovation program or creating a new service can be very exciting. When planning any venture, leadership has to answer the question: How do we fund this idea? Read more…
5 ways to get more results in your teaching environment. Want to build team collaboration, communication, and productivity? Make work visible! Reduce your stress level with keeping a plan 7 ideas for creating a student centered learning environment by Paul Andersen 5 reasons to love Khan academy for computer science Read more…
Chris Anderson, author of the book “Makers”, argues that the world becomes a more interesting place when the world of bits can be converted to the world of atoms. With the rise of “3D printers,” teachers, students, hackers, and makers can design 3d models and “print” them. The act of Read more…
Kickstarter.com helps creative people and makers bring their projects to market. If you are going to create something new like a music album, a new video game, or a movie, you need funds to pay for labor and resources. Kickstarter.com provides a platform to enable creative individuals to share the Read more…
A powerful technique for building team collaboration, communication and productivity is to make the work very visible. You could create a Google document with a big list of tasks and share it with your team. Simple list applications are not always designed for team speed. In the ideal case, I Read more…
As a leader for a software development team, I really enjoy seeing our team members teach each other. Because I value education, I personally want to understand how various leadership practices foster learning. On our team, we have decided to implement an agile project management style known as Scrum. Seeing Read more…
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/botguy/8090983379/sizes/m/in/photostream/) As I have been listening and talking to advocates of STEAM education, I have come to believe that we need to engage young people in science, technology, engineering, art, and math as early as 3rd or 4th grade. I had the opportunity to start hacking at programming using Read more…