Daniel Pink Ustream and CoverItLive Archive

We had a fantastic session with Daniel Pink today. He was even better than he was the first two years (and the first two years he was very good). He seemed more relaxed and really engaged the students in conversation more.

The ustream and CoverItLive archives are embedded below. Unfortunately, the sound on the ustream wasn't great. A lot of static at the beginning, although that gets a little better after about 5 minutes, but still isn't great. But if you're interested in A Whole New Mind, or in the process of skyping with an author, it's still worth your time.

AWNM: Year 3

Once again this year our students in Anne Smith and Maura Moritz's English 9 Honors classes will be reading Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind and discussing it with each other, with many of you, and with Daniel Pink himself (read about previous years' experiences). Students will be holding in-class fishbowl discussions and live blogging chapters four through nine (Design, Story, Sympathy, Empathy and Meaning).

We again have a bunch of folks from our PLN's that will be live blogging with them, and Daniel Pink will be Skyping with them to discuss Chapter 6: Symphony. (Unfortunately due to our schedules not synching very well this year, we'll only get Mr. Pink once this year instead of twice. The good news is that he'll be discussing Symphony this time which is a chapter that we haven't been able to discuss with him before.)

You're welcome to check out the wiki to see when we'll be live blogging, and then tune in to the ustream of the in-class discussion and/or the CoverItLive live blogging on Anne's class blog (periods 2 and 5 on that schedule) or Maura's class blog (periods 3 and 4 on that schedule). We're looking forward to another great learning experience for - and with - our students.