How to be a great audience (and what's in it for you...) I participated in an interesting experiment today. I was lucky enough to attend career day with 75 eighth graders. Divided into five groups, I got to see a group at a time for about fifteen minutes each. Within three seconds of beginning my talk, I could…
The Effort Effect. The Effort Effect Guy Kawasaki writes: If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read The Effort Effect. This is an article about Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. It examines her thirty-year study of why some some people excel and others don't. [Hint: the…
Unique Sightseeing Roundup: Not So Green, Whale Spotting, Frank Lloyd Wright. Not So Green - The Not So Green web site highlights real life photos (from Flickr) taken out the window of mostly commercial flights, and then compares the photo to a screenshot of the same view inside Google Earth. The focus is mostly on Greenland, but they also have…
The Awesome Victoria Falls in Google Earth. The Victoria Falls have to be one of the most awesome spectacles on the Earth. Fortunately, Michael Fay of National Geographic didn't fail to take some pictures while he was flying all over the continent of Africa for the Africa Megaflyover collection. His photos are mapped into Google Earth at the location of…
Google opens up 200 years of news. Search engine Google launches a service that allows users to search and browse over two centuries of news. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] [Bill: Online and E-Learning]
Parents, teachers & kids speak up on educational technology. Results from an annual Speak Up survey in the United States has revealed students want to see more integration of technology into subjects such as science and maths plus two thirds of parents believe technology is underused in schools. [School Education Headlines]
High-speed Internet roll-out likely within 3 yrs, Coonan says. The Federal Communications Minister says she expects a new high-speed Internet network will start being rolled out within three years, without billions of dollars in public funding proposed by the Opposition. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
Bipolar nation: how to win the 2007 election. It took Labor a decade to realise that, in abandoning Keating, it had also surrendered its claim to the prosperity he had bequeathed Australia. By editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Peter Hartcher). [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles]