SEO | Social Media | Usability | Teaching

Social Media is definitely a huge field with numerous possibilities to interact or getting started. However facebook somehow simply is the one network which is widely known as ‘the social network’ or even ‘the internet’. So it seemed quite reasonable for me to start my series ‘Using Social Media for...

The term head-fake learning is one of my favorites when it comes to discussions about teaching methodologies. The credit for this term goes unfortunately not to me but to one of my biggest inspirations when it comes to teaching and advice in all terms of mastering ones life, Randy Pausch....

The other day I came across a quote by the Dalai Lama on Facebook (yeah, somehow I did not find him on Google Plus) and considered it as pretty straight to the point and well said. He talks about different degrees of happiness and that it is essential to find...

Social Media HELPS teaching During the last years there have been lots and lots of articles in blogs or newspapers about the fact how bad social communities and the internet per se are for our children. It keeps them away from homework, enables them to check out inappropriate content like...

This is going to be a tough post. I don’t want to rant to much since I really like it over here and the people are still amazing. So please do not consider my words as unhappiness – it is just a comparisson and one or two suggestions from a...

The other day I stumbled across a ‘new’ social network. It focuses on creatives and artists and aims on connecting both. It’s called Stage 32 and uses the slogan ‘fade in’ to stay in your mind. When signing up you’ll be asked to enter your name, location, age and profession (comedian, artist, director, etc…) so...

A few days ago I came across a google+ discussion started by a quite famous German PR guy where he asked what people think when somebody tells them that they didn’t read their post, article, statement or paper and, when asked about it, simply rep...

Since I had so much fun ranting about the soccer (yeah actually it’s called football, like the REAL football but since this posts aims at US Sport I have to use terminology that even the guys understand who play footBALL with an egg…) match the other day I thought ‘hey…let’s pick on a new topic....

Welcome to one of the rare ‘Sascha (yes, that’s how you spell my name, really) can’t keep his mouth shut’ posts that I decided to publish here on my website. Usually I don’t publish them, throw them away or post them elsewhere. However I became to lazy to maintain all those different web personas and...

A post about Social Media & WWE. Two of the things I like very much. Already love it. For those of you who do not know the WWE: WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment and it’s basically a good choreographed, action packed, ‘super athletes compete in fake beatings’. To make it short: It’s a big...

While you’re all going crazy about (wooohooo, a picture sharing platform!) I happend to come across loudlee. Loudlee is a ‘social music network‘ that lets you add songs and artists to your library and follow people (like on pinterest :P) you like. So what’s new with that you might ask by now. And that’s a...

Once more a hands on post about something I tried in class this term. The first time ever that somebody over here tried to pull an ‘interactive’ game off so it wasn’t that easy to get the people involved but in the end it worked out. Not perfectly, but still funny and with the desired...

After already talking about the biggest of all social networks, facebook, and its potential for teaching purposes and the article on how to use a self hosted website for educational matters, it is now time to focus on another big player in the social media hemisphere. Twitter. For those of you who don’t know Twitter...

After my blog post about Facebook & Teaching I received quite a lot of mails asking for more examples and advice on how to use Social Media for teaching purposes. While I am currently writing on further in depth posts on how to use some of the well known social media platforms I thought it...

My first complete year in Thailand comes to an end. Time to reflect, re-think, reconsider and review. Highlights, lowlights, learnings, earnings, disappointments. The good, the bad and the ugly of living a teaching life in Thailand. I divided this post (as well as the complete my-thai.org website) into different sections. Travel, Teaching & Living. I will write...

This week the news spread all over the world (wide web) like a wildfire. The NBA Lockout is over! Players and officials have found an agreement and will settle their differences. We will see a short season (66 games) and it will start with an amazing triple-header on X-Mas day, December 25th. So hey, let’s...

Apparently youtube is testing a new layout of it’s website. And this time it’s not only a minor twist, it’s an actual change! I’ve noticed this on quite some profiles. However I still have some profiles where I still see the old layout. I have to say that I am quite happy with the change...