Social Media & Education: Twitter for Teaching
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...
Social Media & Education: Brief guide to jump-start your social media efforts
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...
Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for 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 Education‘ with facebook as first...
My Thai year – Thailand 2011 – a look back
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...
Tipp(‘s) Off – A story about Basketball, Business and Bullshit
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...
The new youtube
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...
Google rolls out Google+ Pages
Beginning today Google announced to roll out Google+ Pages for businesses. You can brand your site, upload pictures, videos, share, connect, etc….everything you’re used to from this other social network. So check out the intro video. I think there’s not much more to say. We all know how important brand pages can be. Nevertheless I...
All time favorite TV series (from the 80s)
The good thing about getting older is it entitles you (actually I entitle myself to it) to say things like ‘that’s the best thing I’ve seen in MY WHOLE LIFE. The other day I was talking with some of my students about their current TV schedule and we compared series from the past with current...
EMD | Emotionless Decision Making
The other day I came across a recent quote by the Dalai Lama (yes, again) and considered it, once more, straight to the point. Even though I do not only consider it as true in it’s original meaning, I also think its message is truth in almost every aspect of life. Lead by emotions we...
Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V | Social Network competition
During the last few days facebook rolled out some new features, adjustments and improvements or whatever they want to call it. For te ease of use lets just call it googleplusthings. Wait! Before you leave because you think this is just another facebook bashing, google plus is better, fanboy post. It is not! Most of...
The Fun(k) in teaching
First of: This is no self-adulation post! It might sound a little like it (at least some people on facebook told me that it sounds like that) but it totally isn’t meant like that. In fact it took me quite some time to write this since I usually prefer to do stuff and not to...
9/11 – 10 years after
This year seems to be the year of horrible anniversaries. After we remembered 25 years of chernobyl in April it now is time to remember 10 years of 9/11. 9/11 is actually the date when the worst terrorist attacks in history happened in New York City but it also became a synonym for those actions...
