Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms

Just watched this very interesting talk on the fundamental problems with education today. Check it out:

Using Data To Evaluate Teachers

Glad to see that people are using real data to evaluate teachers.


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Presentation at West LA College

On Friday I did a new presentation for the West LA College Leadership Retreat. This was the third time I have been at West LA and they are always very hospitable. It was the first time I did a new presentation I just put together and I really appreciated the response I got from the audience. If you were there, you can find the PowerPoint file here. If you weren't there, the file probably won't make a lot of sense, but feel free to take a look.

CCCApply Workshop

I spoke today at the CCCApply state workshop at Pasadena City College and had a great time. If you are reading this because of my shameless plug, thanks for stopping by. The GTD links I mentioned are in the right column of this page. Enjoy!

Augmented Reality Maps

Once again I apologize to both of my faithful readers for the long absence on this blog. Life is good, but very busy. I'm always fascinated by the human/computer interface and I love to see innovative ideas. This video demonstrates a layering of information on top of the Bing Map system from Microsoft. It doesn't take much imagination to see how this could be used in an educational environment.