by Whitney | Mar 19, 2012 | community, Discovery, education, explanations, social media
I come to blogging through Podcasting. As a podcaster, I’ve tried to model what I do in interviews on the work of Terry Gross and Ira Glass, who have a way of making an emotional connection with their interview subjects and their audience by getting people to...
by Whitney | Mar 13, 2012 | community, explanations, learning
One of the largest problems we face is objectification- literally, treating or turning people into things or objects, instead of seeing them as proxies for ourselves. There was an article in the New York Times about a marketing firm hiring homeless people and giving...
by Whitney | Mar 12, 2012 | community, friends, learning, Uncategorized
A few years ago, when I started podcasting and blogging, I knew I was doing something unusual. Being on what turned out to be the “cutting edge” felt a little weird, but I had good company, with a band of fellow geeks and nerds. When the people we told...
by Whitney | Mar 8, 2012 | explanations, learning, parenting, personal, Uncategorized
Gary Stager, an amazing individual in education, and someone who always tells it like it is, has an undying passion for education, and technology in education. But unlike the folks who see computers either as electronic typewriters or gadgets, Gary sees them as tools...
by Whitney | Mar 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
I like politics, because I like policy. While I think there’s a lot of times when more rules gum up rather than smooth out the processes in our Country, there are some functions Government is just better at delivering than others. For example, we all pay taxes...
