One of the upsides of having a blog that goes back nearly four years now is that I have a lot of material I can use to write posts with titles like "Told you so", at least when I can remember what I wrote when and where. The downside is that when you are planning [...]

I feel that I need to explain the phrase "paying it forward" a bit as I am pretty sure that most people think about it as an altruistic move, a gift in the hope that someday, someone will come and pay back. Spoiler: that’s a fairy tale. You read and probably will read about this [...]

YouTube played around with its algorithm, again. Being an educational YouTuber myself since May 2008 I have seen a lot (of changes) over the years. Some were good and helped me to get more exposure and subscribers, others were bad for my channel especially the last change that affected content discovery. Whereas a video I [...]

Fellow edupreneur Sylvia Guinan asked if using Adsense to monetize personal blogs or websites in education actually makes sense. As the answer is a bit more complex I decided to put my answer in a blog post. There are basically two schools of monetizing educational content. One says that you should rather focus on selling [...]

Taking into consideration that I didn’t plan to attend Online Educa in Berlin this year, it is really funny that now I am not only covering the event for EDUKWEST and Today’s Campus but also ended up as a panelist and learnshop host. In case you don’t know, Online Educa is one of the biggest [...]

I have some exciting news to share. This year two of my blogs are nominated at the Edublog Awards! EDUKWEST in the category Edtech Blog and my latest blogging endeavor Fair Languages has got a nomination as New Blog. As every year I need your help which essentially means your vote. Go to edublogawards.com/vote-here and [...]

Soon after my announcement that I joined OpenLanguage as content lead I received lots of emails and comments that anticipated I would not do video interviews from now on. Actually, the opposite is the case. Yes, my new role at OpenLanguage cuts out a nice chunk out of my daily schedule, but I would never [...]

Yesterday, I had a brief however interesting exchange with Benjamin Riley on Twitter about one of my latest posts "In the search of 100.000 Salman Khans". How about 1000 teachers collaborating? See @learnzillion RT @kirstenwinkler In Search of 100,000 Salman Khans ow.ly/hUM9r — Benjamin Riley (@benjaminjriley) February 22, 2013   Benjamin asked what about 1000 [...]

Today a video of Code.org is making the rounds on social media and various tech blogs. You see a lot of high profile tech and pop culture leaders talking about their experiences of learning how to code and how it changed their careers. The conclusion of the video is that we need to teach coding [...]

There have been rumors about paid channel subscriptions on YouTube for a couple of months, but now there is evidence for that in the code of the YouTube Android app.