Sir Ken Robinson's presentation about STEM & Creativity

I really like his talks. He's a very interesting thinker and educator. It would be an honor to interview him for my thesis...(sigh) someday.

Evolving Technology via Classrooms

Here is a cool article to check out that talks about the various equipment that we've used in an education classroom setting. Some of these are definitely old school while others you probably haven't heard about before or didn't realized what it looked like back then (for all of those newbies and Y generation folks!). It's good to know a little bit of history from each object. Ask your parents if they ever used these things before - I bet you'd be surprise with their stories!

Making QR codes more artistic

Another great find from the twitter world. I'm sure everyone has heard of the QR codes that can be scanned and takes you to a particular website (found in magazine ads, newspapers, etc). But their mundane and bland looking. Well instead of the boring black and white look this site you examples of how you can jazz up your own personal QR codes. Good idea to put on a art website or business card :D

Clock for Procrastinators

I found this to be an interesting idea: a clock that reminds of things to do. I've always been a fan of analog clocks. I rather prefer them for my wrist watches (Egads! Those things still exist?!) since their a lot faster to read than digital clocks, well, for me anyways. I'm sure the idea will generate an online version (hint hint for any developer out there). But still an interesting concept to remind us not to be too lazy!

The power of 140 characters

I found this article from one of my Tech & Learning newsletters and thought this author had a interesting point about Twitter. Overall you have to be careful what you post online. Just like the incident about a teacher being dismissed from her frustration tweet, Twitter has become a venue where people can express anything they want to say. Sure we know our rights and so forth to say whatever you darn want to say (I can be emotional and angry too) but putting that in 140 characters and tweeting it out there makes it fair game to the online universe. Overall think before you tweet. You'll never know who'll pick up your message and interpret it the wrong way.