The story of stuff

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

A nice introductory teaching tool. It’s really a well-done, 20 minute-online video about how (parts) of capitalism works

flocking in a leaderless group

Three simple rules will make flocking work: alignment, separation, and cohesion.

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Flocking
click on "Run Flocking in your browser"

methods of cheating, courtesy of YouTube

The video-sharing site has clips showing students various ways to sneak in the answers to tests

Star Tribune May 24, 2008 E2
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/19210799.html?page=1&c=y

trauma and recovery

After the earthquake in China on May 12, there is an urgent need for helping the survivors to recover physiologically and psychologically. The following sites provide some resource on trauma and recovery.

www.trauma-pages.com - Dave Baldwin has pulled together a lot of resources here.

www.traumahealing.com - Peter Levine's research assisted post-Tsunami in mitigating the effects of the disaster ... a team also went to Rwanda and New Orleans. There is a rapid treatment model that is cross-cultural as it is not reliant primarily on "talking through" the reaction.

The USASBE syllabus exchange

a helpful resource for faculty creating or modifying courses in entrepreneurship, the site is updated twice per year.

http://www.usasbe.org/knowledge/syllabus/syllabus/index.htm

There are several syllabi on creativity. e.g. Syracuse University
"Imagination, Entrepreneurship and Creative Business Problem Solving"

Bangalore Tiger

How Indian Tech Upstart Wipro Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Competition
by Steve Hamm
Take-home message: Wipro, the Wal-Mart in IT consulting industry.
link at Wikipedia

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

“a clumsy or inelegant — yet surprisingly effective — solution to a problem.”
See a book review at the New York Times on this term Kluge.

MIT's OpenCourseWare

Many of you may have heard about the MIT's OpenCourseWare. It is a free and open educational resource for students and self-learners around the world. Basically, you can download all the materials (ppt slides, syllabus, assignments, cases, etc.) of all kinds of classes that you are interested in. If you are motivated to learn by yourself, this is a good place to start.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

See also: opencourseware consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org

Fair Trade movement

FINE members are:
Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International,
International Fair Trade Association,
Network of European Worldshops,
European Fair Trade Association.

See John Oliver's talk about Fair Trade

Anne-Wil Harzing's website

http://www.harzing.com/
Amazing website on international and cross-culture management.
Publish or Perish
Journal quality list
citation analysis

puzzles.com

A nice collection of puzzles for a team to solve. Ideal for ice-breaking for a new class. Getting to know your team members in a quick way.

Educators' corner for Entrepreneurship

hosted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program
video clips, syllabi, and other materials for teaching entrepreneurship

http://edcorner.stanford.edu/index.html