I had  lovely time keynoting for this event (my first CUE event, actually) December, 2014. I consider this to be a “tweenote”, as mentioned in the talk…it’s an idea that started small, with a tweet, then expanded into a blog post , was refined into an Edutopia blog post,  and finally fashioned into this presentation, complete with over 250 (though you can’t tell from the video) hand-drawn or animated slides. You can see the slide deck here, sans internal vids and my animation

What if “professional development” became Pro-FRESH-ional Devlopment? I am tempted to begin this short but nonetheless inspired post with an opening line nicked from one of my favourite YouTube channels, the PBS Idea Channel… Here’s an idea… Here’s an idea to remix professional development or at least those “pre-school meetings” we all attend or even weekly faculty meetings (btw isn’t “meeting” crying out for a euphemistic alternative word?) into something more refreshing, en

When is the last time you realized you had your own personal rain cloud pouring questions? This is what I call an impromptu post, and it’s happening because within hours of each other two of my favourite friends – creative and successful gentlemen I admire profoundly – were brave enough to publicly disclose something… They are scared. Or maybe they were scared, but somehow soldiered on. Thankfully for the rest of us they pushed through their internal naysaying and continued w