Very interesting post by Dan Shareski on the connections between parents, school districts, students and the internet.

Your name as an Internet domain. Follow on from previous bookmark - a graduating class were given a domain name each and instructions to set google pages on them. Really good idea!

I am interested in this idea about students owning their name online... what do you think?

Quite a lot of ideas on this blog post I bookmarked a while back - a set of interesting questions to ask people, starting with ourselves!

Via Dan Shareski. Is the way we read changing the way we think? Interesting implications for our students, who have grown in this environment yet are often taught in "the old way".

A nice collection of links from a wiki - see on Dan Shareski's links.

Using mobile phones with students

Job characteristics and strengths at work at Google -
\n\n... analytical reasoning. Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision needs to be made, we start with data. That means we can talk about what we know, instead of what we think we know.
\n\n... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.
\n\n... a willingness to experiment. Non-routine problems call for non-routine solutions and there is no formula for success. A well-designed experiment calls for a range of treatments, explicit control groups, and careful post-treatment analysis. Sometimes an experiment kills off a pet theory, so you need a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don't like it.
\n\n... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.\n\n... passion and leadership. This could be professional or in other life experiences: learning languages or saving forests, for example. The main thing, to paraphrase Mr. Drucker, is to be motivated by a sense of importance about what you do.