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Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching
Teaching / Web 2.0 / Online

Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching

by Sascha Funk on Dec 19, 2011 • 2 Comments
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...
Head-fake Learning
Teaching

Head-fake Learning

by Sascha Funk on Aug 18, 2011 • 1 Comment
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....
Degrees of Happiness - the balance is the key
off topic / thoughts

Degrees of Happiness – the balance is the key

by Sascha Funk on Jul 24, 2011 • No Comments
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...
Teaching & Social Media
Teaching / Web 2.0 / Online

Teaching & Social Media

by Sascha Funk on Mar 23, 2011 • 2 Comments
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...
Culture Clash: Thai Laziness, Politeness & Smile
Travel

Culture Clash: Thai Laziness, Politeness & Smile

by Sascha Funk on Mar 7, 2011 • No Comments
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...
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A new Notebook - do brands still matter?
Web 2.0 / Online

A new Notebook – do brands still matter?

by Sascha Funk on May 30, 2011 • No Comments
4 years after buying my first Mac ever he decided it was time to put our relationship on a higher -well actually hotter – level. Due to the incredible amount of heat he produces right now (repair would cost as much as a new one) I thought it is about time to think of a...
Does paid content need money?
Web 2.0 / Online

Does paid content need money?

by Sascha Funk on May 12, 2011 • No Comments
Currently I can see a lot of discussions about paid content going on in my timeline. Actually I thought this is quite an odd discussion (started years ago, stilborn child due to publisher’s attitudes). But somehow I started to think about it agai...
Hair retention shampoo - hell's gate
off topic / thoughts

Hair retention shampoo – hell’s gate

by Sascha Funk on May 7, 2011 • No Comments
May 6th 2011. A sad day! One of the saddest days in current history. At least for me. Today I was shown the undoubted sign that the devil of aging comes after all of us. With the 30 only days away that was exactly what was missing. Thank you destiny! I will unfriend you on...
The Stream – AlJazeera’s social media community
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The Stream – AlJazeera’s social media community

by Sascha Funk on May 3, 2011 • No Comments
AlJazeera – the immensly growing and weight gaining news network who especially became famous due to it’s good (and more objective) coverage of crisis areas, now launches a new social media community. A stream. The Stream! What is the Strea...
2 weeks backpacking | Thailand and Kuala Lumpur
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2 weeks backpacking | Thailand and Kuala Lumpur

by Sascha Funk on May 3, 2011 • No Comments
Since the life of a teacher is a very hard and stressfull one (stop laughing!) it is more than logical that we have some weeks off from time to time. I spent the last 3 weeks on the road while backpacking across Thailand and Kuala Lumpur. Here are some of my higlights. Chiang Mai –...
City Role Model – Kuala Lumpur
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City Role Model – Kuala Lumpur

by Sascha Funk on May 2, 2011 • No Comments
If there is something like love at first sight it just happened to me. It was the first time for me to enter Malaysia and its capital Kuala Lumpur. Despite all warnings and scary stories about Kuala Lumpur – which is mostly referred to as KL &#82...
25 years after | Chernobyl nuclear disaster
thoughts

25 years after | Chernobyl nuclear disaster

by Sascha Funk on Apr 25, 2011 • No Comments
Tomorrow (April 26) 25 years ago the worst nuclear disaster ever took place. The international nuclear event scale classified it as level 7 accident (with 7 being the worst possible). It all took place in Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine) and affected great parts of Europe in some way and still shows effects...
Skating Thailand: The Udon Thani Vocational College
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Skating Thailand: The Udon Thani Vocational College

by Sascha Funk on Apr 6, 2011 • No Comments
Got those 8 wheels under my feet I can fly so high I can fall so deep But who do I see coming up the track? A little green man with inline skates on his back. (sorry for the bad cover version. See the original song here) To make it short: I finally have some...
Learnable - Ordinary people, extraordinary knowledge | Review
Teaching / Web 2.0 / Online

Learnable – Ordinary people, extraordinary knowledge | Review

by Sascha Funk on Mar 26, 2011 • No Comments
A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting e-learning platform. On learnable.com there are “ordinary people” giving courses in things they are good in and for what they have a passion. So learnable turns the everyday normal guy into a teacher. Right now I did not take a course so I am not sure...
Three decades of technique – a review
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Three decades of technique – a review

by Sascha Funk on Mar 7, 2011 • No Comments
Since I am running towards the 30 (years of age) and I am expecting my early midlife crisis to set in soon I thought I might take a look back on my personal technology highlights that I have seen come and go. So this is a totally personal and by far no...
Web 2.0 & Social Media usage in Thailand
Travel / Web 2.0 / Online

Web 2.0 & Social Media usage in Thailand

by Sascha Funk on Jan 23, 2011 • No Comments
While working in Thailand I, obviously, can not stop my social media addiction. So I thought why not dive into the local social media atmosphere and check out local behaviour and usage. Having that said and not being able to write Thai this was –...
Advertising 2.011 – personalized & deviced
Web 2.0 / Online

Advertising 2.011 – personalized & deviced

by Sascha Funk on Dec 12, 2010 • No Comments
End of the year. Time to look back & forth. Remember what happened, be calm and….moah I can’t stand it. Let’s just go straight to the point. After huge developments in the area of  mobile devices as well as in the area of ads (pl...

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