The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: Dan Pink’s Latest Work

Other April 15th, 2008

http://www.johnnybunko.com/

Johnny Bunko trailer from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.pinktrailer

The only career guide you will ever need. Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (or Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age), is at it again. This time with a provocative Japanese cartoon-style look into making good career moves.

From Publishers Weekly: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Johnny Bunko will be published this month by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin, with an initial printing of 75,000 copies. As the title implies, the book acts as a guide for promoting your career and landing the job that best fits your talents and passions. The title character works in the accounting department at a large company but dreams of putting his creative talent to work. A chance encounter with a pair of magic chopsticks opens up a new world of opportunity for him and teaches him six lessons of the modern workplace.

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My Social Bookmarks (weekly)

Links April 13th, 2008

  1. TESOL-Spain » Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Teenager Learners and Second LifeTales of Mystery and Imagination: Teenager Learners and Second Life\nThis wiki was set up to support my presentation at the TESOL Spain convention in Madrid 7-9 March, 2008 “Global English, Local Perspectives”

    tags: SecondLife, Spain, SL, graham, stanley, tesolspain, blogpost

  2. GroupTweetSend private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends!

    tags: grouptweet, twitter, blogpost

  3. 5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter - ReadWriteWebtags: twitter, readwriteweb, find, blogpost
  4. Group: SA FrameworkThis is where you will find step by step resources to get you started with all sorts of areas of e-learning.

    tags: web, 2.0, blogpost

  5. educationalwikis » Examples of educational wikis

tags: wiki, wikis, web2.0, education, wikispaces, blogpost

      Twitter Crowds at CrowdStatus.com

      Other April 13th, 2008

      EduCrowd at CrowdStatus
      New Crowd: ESL EFL Teacher at CrowdStatus

      Ok, I just started EduCrowd, which must mean that I am the first edublogger to stumble upon CrowdStatus, a mashup site that lets you create your own crowds to follow their most current twitter tweets. Each crowd creator decides who is in the crowd, so it is sort of a personal thing. But you can share your crowds by tweeting the publicc URL. The public URL for EduCrowd is http://crowdstatus.com/EduCrowdcrowd.aspx … DM me on twitter if you would like to be included in the EduCrowd or the ESL EFL Teacher Crowd (@metaweb20).

      Also check out http://grouptweet.com which lets you set up and communicate within user-established groups.

      educrowd.jpg

      Ok, so what is the beauty of CrowdStatus then? I believe it is the ability to break the binds of our PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) and have a little more fun with twitter. For example, I can create a “crowd” on the topic of dog lovers, gourmet cooking, camping, or fishing, etc. I no longer have to stay inside of (isolated in) my primary twitterverse. I can now participate as an onlooker of sorts into many different communities that I self-create. Then, if I choose, I could reply to a specific person even if I am not following them. I can even invite them to enjoy the “crowd” by sharing the public URL; so that they can now participate in a new community that they are interested in but not previously connected with. Crowds are created by people you choose, they don’t have to be following you or you following them. So how do you find people that match your varied interests? You used the twitter search tool or tweetscan to build your crowds. With CrowdStatus, I can now be 100% of all my interests, not just the edublogosphere. I am a whole person again! My twitterverse(s) just multiplied!

      Related twitterings:
      TwitLinks - Tweets for Busy Peeps (links from the most popular tech twits)
      GroupTweet - Send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends!
      5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter -Resources from our friends at RWW

      tHURSDAY tHUMOR

      Humor April 10th, 2008

      If Lincoln Blogged

      Today’s Social Bookmarks 04/06/2008

      Links April 6th, 2008

      Second Life English Blog: Huh!? Another Break?? Are you kidding?

      tags: second life, EFL, blogpost, English, virtual

      Welcome to the revolution… Do you speak SLEnglish? http://www.SecondLifeEnglish.com

      The 21st Century School - Kim Cofino’s Wiki

      tags: blogpost, 21st century, school, 21stcentury, 21stcenturylearning, 21stCenturySkills

      The 21st Century School: Making the Shift Happen

      Today’s Social Bookmarks 04/05/2008

      Links April 5th, 2008

      SEGA Tech » Viva Vocabulary!

      tags: vocabulary, lexis, words

      21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift

      tags: change, implementation, 21stCenturySkills, 21stcentury

        EFL Home in Kuwait_Home

        tags: EFL, kuwait_home

        Exploratree by Futurelab

        tags: graphic organizers, graphicorganizers, exploratree, creativity, HOTS, Blooms

        Graphic organizers meet Web 2.0

        Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab

        tags: exploratree

        FLTeach - Foreign Language Teaching Forum

        tags: FLTeacher, listserv

        WORD: The Official Blog of READ and WRITING magazines

        tags: no_tag

        Writing for Teens

        tags: writing, teens, revision

        Dr. Helen Barrett’s Bookmarks

        tags: eportfolio, portfolios, barrett

        CAL: Projects: National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center: Resources on the Internet

        tags: EFL, English, cal

        Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

        tags: literacy, education, 21stcenturyskills, 21stcentury

        Learning and InnovationSKILLS.pdf (application/pdf Object)

        tags: 21stcentury, 21stcenturyskills

        4Teachers : Main Page

        tags: technology

        Welcome to TeachAde

        tags: no_tag

        Welcome : PBS TeacherLine

        tags: no_tag