When Starting a New Hobby, be Fearless–but Prepare!
So I’m an amateur artist. But amateur or not, I subscribe to the school of thought that if you do something, you should do it right. Painting
Girls Learn more than Programming at App Boot Camp
img I’ve always thought App Boot Camp was an ambitious project. Last year, when MentorMob, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, and Motorola
Entrepreneurs Empowering Education
What could be better than working with teachers around the world? Here’s what: partnering with an organization that’s helping provide education to those in disadvantaged
Better Essays in Half the Time with sCoolWork
It’s coming up on a year since Kris Chinosorn and I traveled to New York City for the #140edu conference. And we’ve kept in touch
MentorMob takes New York by Storm
Watching Kris Chinosorn and Vince Leung’s smiling faces on the massive NASDAQ screen overlooking Times Square made me feel a lot of things at once.
EdcampSTL – Teachers Trade Tech Tips in St. Louis
Teachers describing to each other how they use technology to improve learning in their classrooms is a powerful thing. Earlier this month, that’s exactly what
Live: MentorMob Rings NASDAQ Bell
We can hardly believe it! The MentorMob team will be ringing the closing bell of the NASDAQ stock market as Chicago Innovation Up-and-Comer Award Winners. Tune
The Dan Plan Guide to PGA Stardom
image via Dan on Flickr Dan McLaughlin is doing his best to settle the age old nature vs. nurture debate. Are a person’s talents, abilities,
Plotting a Digital Badges Revolution in Orange County
This last week I flew to rainy—but warm—Orange County, California, to attend a workshop for all the winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition. Sixty
Give your Talents a Megaphone
MentorMob is a lot of things. It’s an online platform anyone can use to organize the best free learning content on the web. It’s a















