Halloween Public Voicemail Board

Enjoy receiving voice messages through SpeakPipe?

What about spooky Halloween voice messages?

Halloween is just around the corner, so we built a public Halloween voicemail board for recording, listening to, and sharing scary Halloween voice messages.

Visit the board here.

Go ahead, record your spooky messages and share them with others.


Don't be shy - you can become a Halloween spooky-star!

Is there a gender gap in education? - #DoNowMalala

Why is it important for boys and girls to receive equal opportunities in education? 
What societal problems can be caused by an inequality in educational opportunities? 
Do you think there is inequality in educational opportunities in America?
If so, what do they look like?

In many places around the world, boys and girls receive different and unequal opportunities to pursue an education. The inequality of opportunity typically has major consequences for these societies, and the individual women and men who live in them.

Last year, 14-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai was targeted and shot by radical Taliban militants while on her school bus. Malala was a youth blogger for the BBC advocating girls education in her native Pakistan, and continued to go to school despite a Taliban ban outlawing women’s education. She was recently interviewed on PBS NewsHour.

You can see the Do Now here:

http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/10/18/is-there-a-gender-gap-in-education/

PBS NewsHour

The Innovation of Loneliness

What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely? Watch and jump into your own conclusions.

The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo.

This week's Do Now: Should We Bring Species Back to Life?

Do Now

If we are able to bring back extinct animals, does that mean we should proceed with de-extinction? Is it ethical? Should humans even be concerned with this?

mammut/Wikimedia Commons

To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowExtinct

2.0 Guest Chef

Today, I am just popping out to say thank you to "La Cocina de las TIC", an excellent project managed by my colleagues Marta and Sara Reina Herrera, who have invited me to be a 2.0 Guest Chef and given me the chance of explaining why I love and use ICT all the time.

Thanks ever so much for allowing me to share ingredients, menus and dressings for 2.0 ESL lessons. It has been a real pleasure to be able to collaborate!

Read full post at La Cocina de las TIC (in Spanish).