How my Dad Positively Impacts my Work and Life
Today is my dad’s birthday. His name is Geoff and he’s 65 years old. Oh, and he’s awesome. And there is a strong relationship between impactful fathering and success in work and life. Fathers are often a young man’s first…
Helping Students Explore Education and Career Options Online
Our case study this week focuses on a BC based start-up that ticks a lot of boxes for us here at The Potentiality. It touches on the core competencies of Thinking and Learning, Communication, and it’s a nice blend of…
Laneway Learning: crowdsourcing education
Ever wondered who invented the roller coaster, or more importantly, why on earth they thought it would be a good idea? Or maybe you’re living with a secret longing to learn the ukulele, but you’ve never had the time to learn how to play anything but a slightly Hawaiian version of Smoke on the Water. Or perhaps, like me, you really love to learn stuff, but the thought of attending (and paying for) a 10 week course in meditation is a little too high on the commitment scale.
The Inspiring World of Adult Education
Last Friday, I got a chance to witness the hefty emotions and cathartic experience that graduation frequently elicits in people. It was a scene that I missed during my own graduation from high school thirteen years ago. When I graduated…
Some of the Coolest School (Community) Programs in Vancouver
Ok, this is the first time (though likely not the last time) I’m going to toot the horn about my employer the Vancouver School Board. Part of the reason I wanted to write this blog post is because there are…
Leaving a Job & Building Connections – Part 2
Maintaining focus during the wrap-up period is one of the most difficult, and most important, parts of successfully leaving a job.
As much as it’s tempting to start taking it easy and wind down to the last day, actually cranking it up is by far the better option.
Strength in Community
Sometime back in Classical Greece someone carved “know thyself” on my least favourite god, Apollo’s, temple at Delphi. No one really knows who wrote it, but a quick twitblog of the interscape will tell you that Socrates (or maybe Plato) took credit for the idea. And Alexander Pope wrote a poem about it a few years later. The point is, before you look outward and certainly before you strive out on a life path – career, family, adventures in foreign lands, kidlets, part-altering-operations – you need to look inside and, well, get a sense of yourself.
Online Communities – Managing your Personal Brand
Do you twit-blog the interscape? Do you or your organization distribute information through the comprehensive and amazing medium of an “online blog website”? Do you have an account on the new social networking tool Bookface? Perhaps you employ these mediums…
The Classroom Community – times be changin’
First thing’s first. It’s called “A Vision of Students Today.” Have fun with it! I’ll see you in 4 minutes and 44 seconds. Here’s the video. Did you have fun? Let’s move on… Education (elementary, secondary, post-secondary) is terribly hierarchical….