Eric Qualman, a social media expert and founder of the blog socialnomics.net also developed this really compelling video appropriately titled “Social Media Revolution”.  Qualman created the blog to accompany his widely successful book Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business.  Recently, I showed the video to a group of public-education [...]

Throughout the modern study of creativity it has been argued that “creativity doesn’t happen in a vacuum”. With that said–it could be argued that increased engagement with information (which is more than simply having access to information – i.e. having a book on a bookshelf vs. reading that book) positively correlates to increased creative capacity. [...]

At the release of Daniel Pink’s new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , he also released this short video that introduces a major concept from the book.  In the video, Pink encourages the viewer/reader to ask 2 questions.  The first being: “What’s your sentence?”; and the second being “Was I better [...]

The Learning Event Generator developed by John Davitt is truly a 21st Century Learning Tool.  Not only is it perfectly relevant to this generation of learners but it’s perfect way for anyone to understand the power of the convergence of project-based-learning with that of digital technologies.  This tool in particular is truly difficult to editorialize, [...]

There are a number of evaluation tools that can be used to evaluate an entire organization, a new process, or even a single idea.  While many have heard of a SWOT Assessment, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.  A similar but less known affirmative evaluation tool is called PPCo.  The first P stands [...]