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Maya, you have recently written a book on creative global education. What prompted this?

In 2005, my husband and I decided to sell everything and leave our suburban American lifestyle behind in order to have a family adventure abroad.  The tricky part:  we had FOUR TEENAGE DAUGHTERS at the time and had to figure out how to usher them through high school, into college and beyond without following the traditional college-prep path or enrolling them in American schools abroad. 

One of today’s most popular and practical method of data back up is disc burning, and there are two popular disc formats used by the masses: CD (up to 700 MB worth of data) and DVD (up to 4.7 GB worth of data).

Mac OS X comes with its own built-in disc burning feature and users have several ways to access it.

• Build a case study for each project.  It doesn’t need to be overly fancy.  Describe the project objectives, what you did, and the results. If you have examples add them.  If not, at least try to add some screenshots. 


• Create a blog to document your learning.  Use it to capture what you’re doing and thoughts you have during the production process.  If you need ideas to get started, look at some of the demos in this blog.  Take one of the ideas and play around with it. 


• Network with others.  A portfolio’s no good if you have no place to show it(your blog) or share it (your network)

the attempt to ban fake profiles might be unconstitutional because it could end up also criminalizing legitimate speech. "There's so much potential speech that's covered by this, it makes me nervous," he says.

Last year, a Texas appellate court invalidated another harassment law that made it a crime to send repeated emails "in a manner reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend another." In that case, the court ruled that the law potentially criminalized speech that was allowed under the First Amendment.

[t]eachers are caught in this conflict, for their students' sake wanting to respond to the changes taking place in this thing we call writing, and at the same time wanting their students to do well in the 19th-century school essay called for on standardized tests.

Reflection is a great process…a proven process of learning. We’ve been asking students to reflect for years in education so one simple question:

Do you give yourself permission to reflect during the work day?

and another question:

Do your administrators give you permission to reflect during the work day?

• “Learn to work for yourself and not for anyone else. If you don’t, you’ll drive yourself crazy.” -Emily Seawell, online producer/copy editor


• “You need to read more Hemingway; you need to learn to say things without saying them. You’re writing too much and trying too hard.” -Copy editor from the CND (this was the best writing advice I’ve gotten in about a year).


• “Get used to bad editors. For every 10 editors you have, you’ll be lucky to get one good one.” -Metro desk reporter


• “Don’t expect nurturing or praise when you’re in the real world. Do your job well because you should.” -Another metro reporter


• Learn to keep your head up when newsroom morale is low. You’ll forget why you love journalism otherwise. -I got this from a few people


• Limit the amount of time you talk and read about layoffs and the scariness of the industry. You won’t be able to keep going every day if you don’t. -I picked this up from Mary Shedden, health reporter