Validation

Validation is a GREAT little film...watch it...you deserve it!!!

Did you know?

Did you know?


A Google search for "Did you know?" found about 21,900 video clips. The original version of this presentation was created for a Colorado (USA) high school staff of 150 in August of 2006 to start a conversation about what our students need to be successful in the 21st century. I saw another version at a local high school event. Today my uncle sent me a more lively and exciting version.

Here is the "latest official" version:



This presentation is also known as "Shift Happens!".

Happy 200th Birthday Charles Darwin

Happy 200th Birthday Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) wrote On the Origin of the Species which introduced the theory that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life.

Happy 200th Birthday President Lincoln

Happy 200th Birthday President Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) led the United States through the American Civil War and ended slavery (in part with his Emancipation Proclamation).

Some of the most recognizable quotes from US History:

Four score and seven years ago...
...all men are created equal...
...government of the people, by the people, for the people,...

are from Lincon's Gettysburg Address which summarized the Civil War in just 10 sentences and less than 3 minutes.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

TED: Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

We talked about this a lunch today.

Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play.

Tim Brown is the CEO of Ideo, a design firm founded by David E. Kelley in 1991. Brown carries forward Ideo's mission of fusing design, business, and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas. Ideo is the kind of firm that companies turn to when they want a top-down rethink of a business or product -- from fast food conglomerates to high tech startups, hospitals to universities. Ideo has designed and prototyped everything from a life-saving portable defibrillator to the defining details at the groundbreaking Prada shop in Manhattan (IDEO designed those famous see-through dressing rooms).

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

My uncle reminded me of this great TED talk...

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for brain recovery.

TED: Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras

TED: Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras

At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.





What if we raised our children this way?