by Whitney | Jan 29, 2013 | education
I attended my favorite conference, Educon, this past weekend. There was an interesting set of sessions talking about design thinking in schools, and how we could re-imagine the way schools and classrooms are designed, so that they would promote the skills we say we...
by Whitney | Jan 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Seth Godin has a great post today about Going First. If there’s one gift I want to give my children, it’s the courage to try new things and explore. While that’s something I try to live by example, getting outside our own comfort zone is often...
by Whitney | Jan 3, 2013 | business, community, education, explanations, learning
Every year, folks use January as a time to reframe and recommit themselves to be better than before. I would argue that every day is equally relevant as a marker to try to do better than before, but perhaps a longer time scale, of a week or month is simply better to...
by Whitney | Dec 20, 2012 | community
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin As I went to pick up my high school freshman on Tuesday for the Orthodontist, I was met by a private security guard inside the front...
by Whitney | Dec 12, 2012 | Discovery, education, happiness
When I started Podcasting a number of years ago now, I had to learn how to edit audio. I learned tips and tricks from folks like Mark Blevis and others at Podcamp that were just the thing I needed to make ordinary audio sound much more like professional audio....
