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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Teaching creativity and creative thinking

"creativity isn't a specific activity; it's a quality of things we do. You can be creative in anything -- in math, science, engineering, philosophy -- as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance." - Sir Ken Robinson

TED Blog: TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything -- and he answered


Monday, June 01, 2009

Communication revolution

For the last couple of years, Google has been developing a communication product, platform and protocol called Google Wave.

Other than the convergence of email, instant messaging and collaborative documents, what is remarkable about Wave is that Google has opened it to everyone. Wave is open source and the open protocol is designed for federation. This means anyone can create their own interface and hosting environment for waves and still communicate across servers.

Find out more at the Google Wave Preview


Thursday, March 19, 2009

Future of education

Last week a conference called Hacking Education re-imagined how education should look in the modern Web 2.0 world. The #HackEdu Twitter Conversations lens has a lot of interesting snippets of discussion from the conference.


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Localyte

I think I live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Izmir, Turkey. The climate is great, the people are warm and friendly and there is a real richness to the history and culture here. If you enjoy traveling, why not consider visiting my city and use it as your starting point to discover how wonderful Turkey is.
See my Profile on Localyte.com!
Travel like a Local on Localyte.com!


Sunday, February 01, 2009

Another lens

One of the great things about commuting is the opportunity to travel without the responsibility of driving. With a smart phone, I often use this time to write.

I have turned some of my latest writing into a new Squidoo lens: Living in Turkey : Housing. It is a guide to housing in Turkey, with particular focus on our own experience of living in inner city and suburban apartments in the beautiful city of Izmir.  



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