I expect this post may actually draw some criticism from various quarters. I am though decided, after seeing (or enduring) the much-hyped Royal Wedding in my country yesterday, to state an opinion in regards to the word, concept, idea, which was seen in abundance yesterday… TRADITION. Growing up in Britain you have a weight of [...]
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With next week being the U.S. Holocaust Remembrance Week I thought it might be timely to re-release a post that I did a few months ago. It relates to the story of Eva Kuper which I found on a Canadian website: This is a beautiful and intensely moving film. The story of Eva Kuper a [...]
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The video above is a presentation at the Teachmeet in Milton Keynes which took place at the Open University in Milton Keynes (Bucks, U.K.) on Wednesday 7th July 2010. The presenter is Chris Leach who is Head of ICT at Winchester House School, an independent school in Northamptonshire. He shows just why Teachmeets can be [...]
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I have been searching over the Easter holiday for my twentieth Top TED Talk. I think I have found it in Eve Ensler‘s Embrace your inner girl. This was a powerhouse of an emotional talk about the way that girls have been treated historically, how they are still mistreated, raped, put down and abused in [...]
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Being an avid follower of Sir Ken Robinson (and now one of his many Facebook friends), I received the following Tweet late last evening.. Some thoughts on Passion at the School of Life: http://bit.ly/gzhZUy I followed the link and this led me to an excellent talk (yet again) by Sir Ken. I have to admit [...]
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Today I saw a wonderful TED Talk by John Hunter about his World Peace Game. I left a comment on the TED site after I had seen the talk. I decided that I would upload the inspiring trailer to the film “World Peace and other 4th grade achievements” that John tells us about in his [...]
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One of my friends on Facebook, Angela Maiers relayed a share about a TedX San Jose talk by Steve Mazan. I watched the talk and thought, yes, he is a funny person and a very slick and accomplished comedian. But as it progressed a more serious message came across through the comedy. A few years [...]
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On April 18th 1906 an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter Scale hit the city of San Francisco. It effectively destroyed the whole city and 3000 people lost their lives. Miraculously, many thousands more did not die whilst buildings collapsed and there was a huge fire. I found the video above with a very moving [...]
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Yesterday, I was watching an excellent video interview of Howard Jacobson, the novelist by Paul Holdengraber of the New York City Public Libraries. At the beginning of the interview Holdengraber says that he had asked Jacobson for seven words that he would use to describe himself. I think that this is an excellent exercise for [...]
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This post follows a link that I get regularly as a follower of a really good education blog called Emerging EdTech. This morning I went to the home page and found that there was a promotional video (above). The idea of doing a promotional video for a blog is a really good one and the [...]
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