by Whitney | Oct 24, 2012 | education, social media, speaking
I’m exploring new ways of learning and teaching, and one way to do this, is to create your own virtual conference, using shared videos, tools and more off the web. Currently, I’m creating a professional development session for a school down in North...
by Whitney | Oct 12, 2012 | blogging, business, community, education, Presentations, speaking
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been giving a lot of presentations to a wide range of groups. Often, I watch other people give presentations and try to pick up tips from what other people do well, and where I can brush the rough edges off my own style. Here are a...
by Whitney | Sep 23, 2012 | economics, education
It’s Sunday morning, and MSNBC is having its third Education Nation event, a bit of a town hall with education experts and political folks talking about education in this country. This year, for the first time, they are including a student town hall, that...
by Whitney | Sep 5, 2012 | economics, education, explanations, recommendations
I was reading an article in USA Today this morning about how many teachers are new to the profession and the high rate of teacher turnover. It also discussed how parents could ask teachers questions to explain and translate test scores, among the various points on...
by Whitney | Aug 6, 2012 | blogging, business, community, education
Chris Brogan talked about resistance in his weekly newsletter, and it got me thinking. Often when I talk to people- educators, non-profits, small businesses – it doesn’t really matter- I hear a sense of resistance when talking about all these “cool...
by Whitney | Jul 24, 2012 | Branding Your Busienss, business, education, explanations, Marketing, podcamp, social media
Part of my job is helping organizations, small businesses and non-profits, understand all this “social media stuff” and why it might be important to their business and projects. Every time I teach a class, I think about ways to tighten up the message and...
