Archive for June 2010

Boo #2: Shipping, Gifts & Email

This is a recording of a blog post published earlier this month. You can read the original post here where you will find all of the links to people, books and concepts that I mention in the recording. You can find all of my Boos here. And you can subscribe to my Boos direct via [...]

Education Eye – Mapping Innovations

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I received an email today from Sarah Grier at FutureLab to inform me that my blog has been selected to feature on Education Eye. In her words: “Education Eye is a free resource for the education community, pulling together a wide range of relevant and useful innovations selected from the best of the web and [...]

Boo #1: Why AudioBoo?

Links: AudioBoo – http://audioboo.fm iPadio – http://www.ipadio.com Delicious – http://delicious.com/jamesmichie Twitter – http://twitter.com/jamesmichie — Subscribe to my Boos direct via iTunes or RSS.

Shipping, Giving Gifts & Combating the Email Onslaught

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I finished reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin a few weeks ago and while I found it to be an interesting read, the main thesis of the text was nothing I didn’t already practise. I strive every day to “ship” and “give gifts” and I can’t evangelise enough on how important both of these concepts are as a [...]

Welcome to ‘the zone of optimal challenge’

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Last week Merlin John (@merlinjohn) published an article (through FutureLab) titled: “Welcome to ‘the zone of optimal challenge’.” The article is about the Online Games Design course that I was involved with and have tweeted about often using the hash tag #cmdgames. Merlin asked me to provide a quote for the article and I was [...]