Presenting the love-growth-cash triangle, helping to get your passions, desire to learn, and ability to pay the mortgage, in synch. There's a certain joy that comes from doing what you love, getting compensated for it and constantly learning new things in the process. Your goal should be to maximize each experience and try to cover as many new areas of the bigger triangle as possible.If you have a shit ... Read full entry

Step into the Social Media Classroom a growing resource of all things blogosphere, Web 2.0, and social media. This website is an invitation to grow a public resource of knowledge and relationships among all who are interested in the use of social media in learning, and therefore, it is made public with the intention of growing a community of participants who will take over its provisioning, governance and future ... Read full entry

If plotting computer game strategy was considered a science, would more people take more interest in high-school science? One of the reasons kids get bored by science is that too many teachers present it as a fusty collection of facts for memorization. This is precisely wrong. Science isn't about facts. It's about the quest for facts - the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets ... Read full entry

Yes, some people find the arts degree a waste of three or four years of tertiary level education. I prefer to think of them making for a versatile starting point to then go in any direction you want.* Like, "I have an arts degree and the gift of the gab, I will go places." First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will ... Read full entry

Fill The Dams is an initiative by Andy Parthenopoulos of Noodle Networks to raise funds for charity groups assisting those bearing the brunt of the current drought in Australia. Both individuals and organisations can contribute, and individuals can also submit their blog URL for inclusion on the Fill The Dams site. How's that for an incentive to get involved? Westciv, creators of CSS generator ... Read full entry