11 Things I Learned in 2011: Part I: Alison Johnston talks about what she learned starting up InstaEDU (connecting tutors with students) and at a few other startups. 2. It’s not about who you know; it’s about what they know. 6. Building a company is all about learning on the fly. She follows up with 11… Continue Reading muraPOI: January 12, 2012
MIT Department Helps Faculty Connect Innovation and Technology Original at Education Insider blog at Education-Portal.com: MIT Department Helps Faculty Connect Innovation and Technology, cc-by The OpenCourseWare movement made the educational resources from the nation’s top universities available to the world. MIT goes one step further with the Office of Education and Innovation Technology (OEIT), which works with… Continue Reading Interview with Education-Portal.com
Our Top 11 Most Popular Articles for 2011, part 1: From the list, these are the posts that I like. Failure is an Option: Helping Students Learn from Mistakes“: “Instead of using failure as a valuable teaching tool, education discourages it as, well, a sign of failure.” Let’s fail more, to learn more. Revisiting Extra Credit Policies:… Continue Reading muraPOI: January 11, 2012 — Collected Top of 2011 Lists for EdTech
Making the Review of Assigned Reading Meaningful: I find this article especially interesting considering (a) the class I co-taught last year asked students to read articles to prepare for discussion and (b) we’re looking at shifting activities (“flipped classroom”) models in my day job. I like the “Top Ten”, “Secondary Sources” and “Journaling” suggestions. (Faculty… Continue Reading muraPOI: January 10, 2012
Subway Map Visualization jQuery Plugin: Cool plugin by Nik Kalyani to make any visualization look like the London Underground Map. (O’Reilly Radar, Four short links: 16 December 2011) An Event Apart: The Secret Lives of Links: Luke Wroblewski summarizes a presentation by Jared Spool. The Scent of Information is the process by which content communicates to… Continue Reading muraPOI: January 9, 2012
“Amazon Prime, the $79-a-year subscriptin service that gives customers free two-day shipping and access to movies and TV shows, creates Amazon addicts: In the year before a customer joins, he spends $400 a year, on average; in the year after, $900. Prime growth exceeds 50% annually.” Source:Manjoo, F. (2011, November). The Great Tech War of… Continue Reading Friday Factoid: Amazon Prime
Thinking Time: A post by Jacob Gorban made it’s way to a number of sites I frequent. He talks about “thinking time”, and I’m all in favor of it. Reflecting on my work at COSL, one of the things I “got” out of all the traveling I did was the opportunity to get away and… Continue Reading muraPOI: January 6, 2012
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Over the last year I’ve been using mobile boarding passes whenever I travel. One of the problems can be pulling up the boarding pass while in the TSA security theater or… Continue Reading Mobile Boarding Pass Tip–Take a Photo!
Note: I wrote this back over the summer well in advance of Steve Jobs’ death. If the recent Fortune article is to be believed, Apple’s operating and management principles might be summarized as: Directly Responsible Individual: An individual empowered with responsibility for any given project. Everyone’s on the Same Page: The entire team is on… Continue Reading What can we learn…
Here are some stats from Google Analytics and WordPress.com for mura.org for 2012. I managed to do 148 posts in 2012, even though I took a few months off from posting while I was crazy busy in February-May. From Google Analytics Audience Overview 33,715 people visited this site Visits: 36,711 Unique Visitors: 33,715 Pageviews: 47,539 Pages / Visit: 1.29… Continue Reading mura.org Recap for 2012