There’s a comic where the boss tells an engineer to “give the customers what they want” and the engineer says, “They want better products, for free.” The boss promptly scraps that give-the-customers-what-they-want nonsense. Almost from the first moment we produced Spirit Lake and Fish Lake people have been asking us, […]
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After a session on getting technology into Latin American organizations convinced me I needed to know more about how Chilean schools operate, I scheduled interviews with several teachers. To say that their responses were eye-opening would be an understatement. The first person I interviewed was an eighth-grade teacher and the […]
You have HOW MANY students? Discussions with Chilean teachers
Hello everyone, hope your week was a good one. We’ve come to the end of another week and that means that it’s time for your free educational resource in our Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is clip art from Forgotten Trail. The clip art is of one of the Ojibwe characters […]
Freebie Friday: Forgotten Trail Clip Art
By Abby Jones, M.Sc. PhD Student, Trident University International Word processing is great and serves a huge purpose in personal/business life, but there are times where the words don’t have the impact we want them to, or they don’t provide their own context.  When these instances occur, it sometimes serves […]
Google Docs: Adding Images Part 1
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from December 30, 2015 “What If You Took the Other Fork in the Road?” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. I usually only read poetry when threatened, […]
Throwback Thursday: What If You Took the Other Fork in ...
If you listen to any start-up pitches, you hear about the $XX BILLION DOLLAR global market. When we were in an accelerator program, we were advised to “use global numbers to make your market look bigger”. There is just one problem there. Nearly all of those start-ups throwing out figures […]
The Global Market Ain’t All That Easy
Ogden Nash said, “Foreigners are people somewhere else, Natives are people at home If the place you’re at Is your habitat You’re a foreigner, say, in Rome.” As a general rule, Americans take one of two different views about foreign countries, and, in my experience, both of these views are […]
Am I Crazy to Be Doing Business in a Foreign ...
It’s the end of another week and that means that you’re in right on time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from Making Camp and it’s a video on social structure. The video talks about the importance of the social structure of Ojibwe tribes and how that helped the […]
Freebie Friday: Social Structure
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from April 7, 2015 “The Value of Mean Parents” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. This morning, my sister and her lovely daughter took Julia to the […]
Throwback Thursday: The Value of Mean Parents
1 “OK, explain this to me,” my 10-year-old asked the other day. We have been in Santiago for two weeks now, fully – well, mostly – immersed in Spanish, and her Spanish comprehension has improved probably 10x in that time. Her spoken Spanish – which she never used before besides maybe […]
Learning a Language: Sometimes Words Just Don’t Make Sense
Hello everyone. It’s time for another Freebie Friday. Today’s freebie is from Fish Lake and it’s a PowerPoint presentation and pdf on equivalent fractions. The PPT and PDF titled, “Equivalent fractions and fishing” teaches you the steps on how to reduce to equivalent fractions and compare fractions to solve a […]
Freebie Friday: Equivalent fractions and fishing
Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from October 23, 2014 “What I Learned About Relationships from Judo” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around. Last time, I wrote about what I learned about business from […]