21st Century Learning #79 Getting to Know John Schinker October 2, 2009 John Schinker from EdTechWeekly fame joined Alex and Vinnie this week.  We discussed John's background, 21st Century Skills, and technology professional development in his school district.  We'll be back on the 16th.  See everyone then.  <Click here for Chat Transcript> read more Less

Gotham Chopra, CCO of Virgin Comics, talks about scouting talented individuals from India to come work with some of the greatest filmmakers in the world. Listen as Gotham talks about his creative inspiration and his future projects. Less

Gotham Chopra, CCO of Virgin Comics, talks about scouting talented individuals from India to come work with some of the greatest filmmakers in the world. Listen as Gotham talks about his creative inspiration and his future projects. Less

Are you ready to change the world? Google has some money to spend on a few ideas that will help as many people as possible. Whose ideas? Maybe yours. See how it works. Isn't this a cool model for changing your association, your industry, your member's lives? Less

http://www.insidegeek.ca - In this video we are looking at very useful site for designers and web developers called Smashing Magazine. If you are in need of some great inspiration and design ideas, this site has you covered. Distributed by Tubemogul. Less

iPod | 4:17 | To Embed or Email: click above One of the profound yet not often acknowledged (by me) benefits of living in community with other people is that some choose to be the ones who go forward into the unknown, and those adventures ultimately inform and inspire the rest of us. I often think of myself as one of those explorers. Sometimes though, I feel pressure to have to always be on the front line. Today's episode honors those others who have shown me the way, especially my parents, Blanche and Bill. Hawaiian Word: Loli: change, transformation P S We are using Viddler. It has a lot of cool features - you can leave a comment right in the video - or even leave a video comment! Please check it out! (You will need to create free account at Viddler to leave a video comment.) To find the vidgets page on viddler, look in the footer at the bottom of the page! Our username is "beachwalks" if you want to make a custom player to put on your web site. Thanks for sharing! Join us at The Reef for discussion, Reef Radio, and occasional live streaming. Support us by buying your own copy of our Beach Walks Theme music. Please check out our Blogroll page with many more links to our friends' web sites. Less

Quite a while ago, we heard an interview with Bjorn Ulvaeus, one of the members of the band Abba. He described how he came up with the idea for the song, Take a Chance on Me. He said he was out jogging. The rhythm of his steps just kept screaming these words to him … Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance, chance, chance. Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance, chance, chance. His time away turned into a song! You just never know where a great idea is going to come from. Isn’t it funny how many times it will happen in a place that you’d least expect – like in the shower! —— —— Mix it up Sometimes it pays to vary your routine. If you always follow the same routine, you can get stale. The answer is simple – mix it up! Take a different way to work. Get to work later. Take lunch at a different time. Hang out with a different group of people. Whatever it may be, variety can spark new ideas. Get out Mixing it up is a great preventive measure. But what do you do when you’re already stuck? We’ve noticed that getting out is a great way to get unstuck. So try changing your scenery – go for a walk, move around – even if it’s just for a short time. We’ve found even just a few minutes away – from our computers, from our desks – sometimes leads us to the answer for which we were looking. Even Beethoven needed to do it As incredibly creative as Beethoven was, even he would get stuck every once in awhile. To get ahead, he would get out. In the book, Beethoven: The Man And The Artist As Revealed In His Own Words, authors Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel quote the great composer: “You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned, directly, indirectly, – I could seize them with my hands, – out in the open air; in the woods; while walking; in the silence of the nights; early in the morning; incited by moods, which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.” If Beethoven were alive today, maybe he would add “at the coffee shop” to his list!  Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes.  Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed. Related posts Does Your Hobby Work For You? Too Much To Do? Take A Nap! (Image by arki) Less

Annabel Lee is the last complete poem composed by American author and poet Edgar Allen Poe . Like many of Poe’s poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are jealous. He retains his love for her even after her death. There has been debate over who, if anyone, was the inspiration for Annabel Lee. Elmira Shelton, Poe’s childhood sweetheart, considered herself as Annabel Lee, even though she outlived the author by many years. And, though many other women have been suggested, Poe’s wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe , who died two years prior to the poem’s writing, is one of the more credible candidates. Annabel Lee was published two days after Poe’s death on October 7, 1849.  Download audio file (annabel-lee.mp3) internet advertising Mobile Version Post tags: american author, angels, annabel-lee, beautiful-woman, childhood-sweetheart, Edgar Allen Poe, eliza, inspiration, love, mp3, narrator, poem, poems, poet © wgb for Great Books Audio ~ A Chapter a Day, 2008. | Permalink | No comment | Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh Less

trstn hinted me towards this one, got really fascinated, need to share it with you all: - ccernn open your mind! Less

Since wordpress wouldn’t let us embed the online reader, we bring you the pdf, so you can take the book everywhere. Download, read, spread far and wide, and if you rework it, let us know so we can marvel and spread. ikkonografikkaa.pdf Less

Thanks to Justin Karkow for point out this post of Christine Southard’s on the New York DEN Blog. Just in time for the beginning of the school year, Dalton Sherman has a message that is sure to inspire anybody who has chosen to devote their lives to education. Less

There’s a great page on the Emory University site called They Did Not Give Up. It shows things that were said to, or situations that were faced by, a number of famous people. . . Some examples The first book that Dr. Seuss wrote was rejected by 27 publishers. The first time Sigmund Freud presented his ideas to his fellow scientists, he was booed from the stage. His response? He returned to his office and kept writing A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” Disney declared bankruptcy several times before he built Disneyland, which was rejected by the City of Anaheim the first time he proposed it. And speaking of Walt Disney, he made a mistake of his own when he didn’t hire Charles Schultz. For Schultz, though, that was par for the course. Even the high school yearbook staff didn’t think much of his work – every cartoon he submitted to them was rejected. After his first audition, the casting director told Sidney Poitier to “stop wasting people's time and go out and become a dishwasher or something." Poitier resolved at that moment to devote his life to acting. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to listen . My first real at-risk business was a Ben Franklin franchise in my hometown. It’s a small town so back-to-school is a bigg season. We wanted to be open in time to capitalize on it. My franchise representative told me it couldn’t be done. His boss said it couldn’t be done. We determined we were going to do it. So we did! We opened to throngs of people patronizing our store and a bigg splash by the local media splash. It was a hit! . Sometimes it pays to listen and adapt . When I was in high school, I tried out for the basketball team. I made the first cut. I made the second cut. When the final cut came out, I looked at the list and my name wasn’t on it. I looked again. I couldn’t believe it! But I hadn’t made the team. So I took up music. I won awards. I even won a scholarship. My failure to make the basketball team allowed for bigger success in music than I could have ever imagined! . So it’s kind of funny. Sometimes it pays to ignore what people tell us. At other times, our disappointments fuel our bigg success. The trick is knowing when to press on with what you’re doing and when to move on to press on. Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes.  Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed.   Related posts The One Ingredient That Guarantees Your Success Abandon Ship! How to Know if You're Persistent or Stubborn (Image by djeyewater) Less

Check out Ryan Bettencourt of Learn From My Life in short chit chat with Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want - # what made you write this book on happiness and how it makes it different than the many other books that are out there? # what is happiness set point?  Why it is important can please talk about that? # What will you advice people to stay happy in general? Less

“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.” Swedish proverb   A problem may start out as a small little thing. But worry makes it grow. It becomes all consuming. You can’t stop thinking about it. Your heart beats faster. You can’t fall asleep or you wake up and can’t get back to sleep. It follows you, even when you try to forget about it. It turns to fear. . . “Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.” Dorothy Thompson We’re afraid because we’re in the dark. We don’t know what to expect. The future seems so uncertain. It frightens us. To get past that fright, turn on the light! Gather some research. Study the issue. Ask for help. Do anything you can to create more certainty in the face of uncertainty. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt We fear things we think we can’t do. We fear those problems for which we don’t have a solution. We fear what we’ve never done. Conquer fear by confronting it head-on. Take action. When you do something, you gain control. By gaining control, fear is diminished. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott When a storm blows through, there may be damage or there may not. But you faced it! You learned from it – things you did well and things you would change. You gained confidence to tackle yet another situation. We all feel fearful at times. Don’t let it consume you. Confront it head on with a plan of attack. Take action. Then learn. You’ll only become stronger! Subscribe to The Bigg Success Show in iTunes.  Subscribe to the Bigg Success feed.   Related posts These Five Great Quotes Weave the Story of Our Lives    Less

Learn From My Life had amazing conversation with Daryn Kagan last month.  We urge to check the podcast for instant INSPIRATIONAL shot. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:”"; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Beginning to 4:07 – Ryan Bettencourt’s opening comments and introduction 4:36 to 5:59 - What inspired www.darynkagan.com and where do you hope to take that? 5:60 to 7:37 – Daryn, you go from covering war stories and depression and now you cover inspirational stories.  What does this do for you personally? 7:38 to  10:46 - You talk about Inspiration coming in pieces, give us some examples of where that involved in your life 10:54 to 13:10-  We are living in a very challenging times these days What advise will you give people, what can they take from ‘Inspiration coming in pieces’  and apply to their lives? 13:44 to 15:05 – Internet question asked by Paul – What’s the most challenging aspect of what  you do now? 15:35 to 18:12 – Question from Live caller – Jenna – what advice would you give me as a 10 grade student as like you I want to go to Stanford and become news reporter for ESPN. 18:26 to 21: 33 – Top voted question on Website - what was your most memorable interview in TV broadcasting and can you tell us more a little bit about that? 21:51 to 24:44 – Another top voted question on website - what was it like reporting Live on CNN the incidents of 9/11. 24:49 to 26:20 – Online (type chat question) from Jeri - In meeting all of these inspirational people, is there/are there one or two things that sustain these individuals each day? What is key to their ability to face their challenges? 26:20 to 28:54 – Follow-up question by Moe – how do we overcome the fear of unknown? 29:00 to 32:36 – All stories in your book are inspiring, did any one jump out to you personally and resonated more than others? 32:38 to 34:46 – Question asked by Audrey – Please share some quick tips on becoming an online Journalist. 35:00 to 38:01- Top voted questions on website - In your book you talk about belief plan.  How can we start creating these belief plans in our life. 38:02 to 40:22 – How often you refer to belief plan and how often you keep adding to it? 40:24 to 41:56 – How did you know that the time was right for you to do what you are doing right now. 41:58 to 43:38 – Question asked by David – Who are your Mentors and what role have they played in your life? 43:52 to 46:19 – When are you planning a sequel to your book and where do you hope to take these documentaries that you are doing right now. 48:39 to 48:55 – Questions asked by Brian McGuffey -  How spirituality has impacted your life 50:39 to 52:23 – How do people reach out to you with their stories 53:44 to  55:11 - how can we get more kids involved on darynkagan.com as opposed  to on social networking. 58:21 – Closing comments and information by Ryan Bettencourt Less

iPod | 3:59 | To Embed or Email: click on "Menu." I have mentioned Twitter before - there are these odd little quirks that occur because of it. One of them is that I get little sparkles of energy when I see my friends returning from exercise. It somehow inspires me. So today is big shout out to: Ian Kitajima Neenze Faleafine Sprite The site mentioned: One Hundred Pushups Hawaiian word: Makamaka: buddy P S We are trying a new video platform: Viddler. It has a lot of cool features - you can leave a comment right in the video - or even leave a video comment! Please check it out! (You will need to create free account at Viddler to leave a video comment.) Join us at The Reef for discussion, Reef Radio, and occasional live streaming. Support us by buying your own copy of our Beach Walks Theme music. Please check out our Blogroll page with many more links to our friends' web sites. Less