A project I worked on last week reminded me of work we were doing in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s with story telling on the web. Before I tell you about that, let me explain how I got to Manchester, Iowa for rally to support dairy farmers last Saturday.
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Searching for challenges, identifying the problem or issue, investigating the situation, and producing ideas
Leading teams separated by geography and time and the creation of leadership presence.
Change is a constant, and leadership requires we guide people through the transitions that accompany change
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A great preview to a book I am looking forward to reading.
From the NY Times: One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”
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This may be one of the better overviews of Twitter I’ve read.
Finding Utility in the Jumble of Tweeted Thoughts - NYTimes.com.
Soon, machines could twitter as much as people. Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked: “I kicked Mommy at 08:52 PM on Fri, Jan 2!” Mr. Menscher is now considering selling the product.
Pairing sensors with Twitter leads some to think Twitter could be used to send …
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More and more professionals I speak with are echoing the idea that the University should not be in the e mail business. Some even project that as broadband becomes more prevalent via mobile, that providing IP access will diminish, too. Frederic Lardinois column in April 10’s Read Write Web says:
Schools, for the most part, aren’t able to keep up with the speed of innovation on the web anyway, and the fact that many college-run email systems have fallen far behind the innovation curve has driven a lot of students …
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My Twitter feed since Sunday has hit some brief highlights of a workshop I’m attending this week in Norman, Oklahoma.
It’s a workshop who’s attendees are facing incredible change in their world: newspapers are closing, television revenues are shrinking, and more and more citizen journalists are providing lower quality product for storytelling.
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Fiber Optic Comes to Iowa Town | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural.
How will high-speed internet get to small towns? One example can be found in Carroll, a city of 10,000 in west central Iowa that is being completely rewired with fiber optic cable. It’s an $11 million project that will be mostly funded with a $10 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “It will be a total overbuild,” said Wesern Iowa Networks CEO Steve Frickenstein.
WIN officials estimate that Internet speeds will be 10 to 20 times faster …
