This morning I was privileged to share a screen with Alan Levine (@cogdog) as we spoke informally to a group of Ken Bauer’s (@ken_bauer )...

“The Tag is the Soul of the Internet” This summer at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities (BLC16) I launched a new presentation...

This summer I took a chance on a new form of conference offering for me – the outside-the-venue-creative-safari. I launched it at Alan...

What is the best part of any conference or similar professional gathering? It’s the people, of course! From purposeful networking to...

note bene: while this post is directly applicable to educational organizations, the strategies may be effectively applied to any...

The other morning I was lingering in my bed in my Airbnb in Maine and noticed something stunning on the white paneled wall…the light...

taken while walking at a trolley station in San Diego Metaphorical Meanderings I recently returned from a speaking trip to both Austin,...

Just over a week ago I had the utmost privilege to fly over two oceans and be part of the inaugural cohort of Sea Salt Learning’s “Social...

This past week I was privileged to meet with dear old friends in the beautiful land that is the U.K. I culminated my part business / part...

Yesterday listening to a beautiful rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit by Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini: I’ve always...

I’ve been reviewing some of my old Theory of Knowledge (TOK in the International Baccalaureate) curriculum as I prepare for a creativity...

Last night I serendipitously came across this great documentary on the great “advertising creatives” of the last 60 years. “Art and...

I’m thinking about asking some friends who enjoy visual thinking to provide a sketch response to this prompt. I always used this with my...

“I’d like to use my lifeline…” I’ve really not watched Who Wants to Be A Millionaire more than a few times, but my pop culture literacy...

I believe the greatest calling of an educator is to inspire one’s students to want to wonder and learn about things on their own, and to...

I chanced upon two things this morning that really struck a chord (you’ll get the pun when you see that both are about famous musicians)....

Prince died today. He was one of the people from my heyday, though I was more in the Cyndi Lauper camp at the time (note that he did...

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of chatting with David Lizerbram, a business lawyer, in his “Products of the Mind” series, “a podcast...

Last week I really enjoyed a little collaborative creativity exercise proposed by Nick Sousanis, author of Unflattening, and taken up by...

“We don’t really want what we think we desire” The other day I stumbled upon this piece from “theorist and provacateur” (read: best job...