Excellence and Imagination

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Globalisation

Globalisation is changing our world. Businesses, contacts, travel are all different then they were only a few years ago. On this page I hope to find a group of resources that we can use to talk about and think about globalisation.

Video - The Other Side of Outsourcing

Video - The World is Flat with Thomas Friedman speaking at MIT

Video - The New Shape of Knowledge with David Weinberger

Article - A Billion Minds Unleashed

Article - The Best Ideas of 2005

Blog Post - Global Microbrands

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  • 1 avatar   Dean Shareski // Nov 13, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    These are some pretty heady things for your 7th and 8th graders. I’d be very interested to hear their response. Knowing you, they’ll probably eat it up and offer some great reflection.

  • 2 avatar   Fabs // Mar 16, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    hi, just thought i’d let you know, I clicked on the link for “A Billion Minds Unleashed” and the page seems to have disappeared. might want to update that.

    Thanks!

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