Teaching and Learning
Do we know our students?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o] And do we teach from/about/to who they are?
Richard Brisebois
Teaching and Learning
Meet the boy with the incredible brain
He can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head and learn a language in a week. And he may hold the key to unlocking similar abilities in everyone. [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913196365903075662&hl=en] UPDATE 2-28-2008: Daniel should be a source
creativity
Create your own (imaginary) Board of Directors
In his book, Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques, Michael Michalko provides a few suggestions for this technique... 1. Select three to five business movers and shakers, living or dead, whom you admire most (real or fictional, living or dead). 2. Get photographs of your Board and pin them
presentation
Three different presentation styles
1. Seth Godin (17 min.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIVlM435Zg] 2. Guy Kawasaki (40 min.) - no need to watch the whole presentation. However, do not miss the section about the 10/20/30 presentation rule. [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3755718939216161559] 3. Dick Hardt (15
Plain English
Explanation required
An explanation problem exists when there is a mismatch between what is heard and what matters to the target audience. (...) Often, when someone asks "what is...", they really mean "Why does it matter to me?" By considering what matters to someone, the answer becomes different and
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is impatient
“I’m an optimist, but I’m an impatient optimist,” he said during his speech. “The world is not getting better fast enough, and it’s not getting better for everyone.” Coupled with the $33 billion foundation that he has set up with his wife, Melinda, the new Gates philosophy
Teaching and Learning
I will allow late submissions from students when
Comic relief
The only disclaimer you'll ever need
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Information richness
When readers become viewers
There’s no reason to think that reading and writing are about to become extinct, but some sociologists speculate that reading books for pleasure will one day be the province of a special “reading class,” much as it was before the arrival of mass literacy, in the second half of
Comic relief
The perils of not proofreading after spellcheck
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg] See also: Who cheques the chequer?
PowerPoint
The no-bullet presentation
A presentation that practices what it preaches on limiting the use of bullets in presentations. [slideshare id=224654&doc=dodging-bullets-in-presentations-1200056436569340-5&w=425] See also: Words and visuals: Why are you there? Is PowerPoint a blessing or a curse? Pecha Kucha - the 20×20
Odds and Ends
What kind of leader does our School of Business need?
As we embark on a search for a new Dean at my School, I find the question (from an HBR conversation starter) relevant to the ad that we are reviewing for posting. I am wondering how our students would answer that question...