Question 246 of 365: What is the sum of an extended family?
Some slow, some fast: we are all going somewhere different in the same vehicle. Posted via email from The Throughput
Author: Ben Wilkoff
Question 245 of 365: What is our social media policy?
An institution will be known by its use of social media. They will be seen through the lens of every contributor in their ranks. They will either be well represented or incredibly absent, nothing in between. The identities of every Facebook and Twitter user will build into an army of …
Question 244 of 365: Why do users revolt?
Image via CrunchBase Over the past week, something strange has been happening on Digg. Ever since they changed over to a new format for the website and a different submission process, an absolute torrent of users have decided that this site no longer has their best interests in mind. Whether …
Question 243 of 365: What is our greatest coup?
The greatest accomplishments of my life have been evolutionary. I went to college after high school. I got married after college. I had children after getting married. I was hired in a district role after working in a school. There is nothing revolutionary about any of those moves. They were …
All Educational Twitter Chats in One Calendar
Update [05.20.2011]: Sarah Kaiser made one of these too, and it may be more up to date than the one below. I few weeks back I recognized a need for all of the hashtags and twitter chats to have a single calendar that could be added to my own Google …
Question 242 of 365: How do we build things that we want to own?
Image by JOE MARINARO via Flickr The New Belgium Brewing Company has only been around for 19 years. Every employee owns part of the company after the first year of work. You get a bicycle too. After 5 years, they send you to Belgium and relive the founder’s inspiring trek through …
Edmodo for Online Schools… wait, for all schools.
Image via CrunchBase (Cross-posted on the Edmodo Blog. I have not taken any money for this endorsement. They just asked if I would write a review.) I don’t usually make it a point to call attention to a particular technology as being so overwhelmingly beneficial to education as to set itself …
Question 241 of 365: What is a unisexual?
Image via Wikipedia U is for unicycle. I know because a toy told me. My daughter asked me about the validity of that statement. She wanted to know about unicycles. She couldn’t quite understand why someone would want want to ride on a means of conveyance that looked like that. More than …
Question 240 of 365: Why are lists important?
It is my 6th wedding anniversary. Every year, my wife and I make a list of all of the memorable things that have happened since our last anniversary. It sounds hokey, and I guess it is a bit. We sit down after our meal on the night of our anniversary …
Question 239 of 365: Who are the happiest employees?
Those who have slides at their workplaces. It can be outside or in between floors of a building, but having a slide is required. Posted via email from The Throughput