Education

New Media Education, Jesse Soleil – Part One

May 31, 2010
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There has been something which I hope to initiate as a side project on learning with a social media twist. I have this belief that Social Media and especially blogging can have such an impact on education and how students approach learning. I wrote a loose blog on how this would work, conceptually. I am [...]

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Kenya Jobs, Management, and Entrepreneurship

March 29, 2010
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In 2007, Kenya led the whole world in Google searches for the word Entrepreneurship. Read this interesting article Greg Watson Article that gives the numbers on this. This is very peculiar because with only a population of just about 3 million with internet access, we must have been extremely obsessed with entrepreneurship to trump all [...]

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MWEA Conference: Mobile and Internet Facts and Figures

February 4, 2010

Mobile Web East Africa Conference started off yesterday with much gusto. For the many of us who were not able to attend, we still managed to keep abreast on the happenings there thanks to a large extent to social media. There is live coverage of the event via Cover-It-Live and you can catch the proceedings [...]

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Blogging in Kenyan Schools: New Age of Writing

February 2, 2010
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Way back in the late 90’s when I was in class 8 was the time I realized that I might actually like writing, just for fun of course. My mum had given me her small Collins dictionary that was older than me and with it my vocabulary got better and better. I always looked forward [...]

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