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Creating Great Images With Quotes Is Like Creating Flags For Your Fans To Wave: 3 Free Tools To Create Your Own
Short explanation of Chip & Dan Heath's brilliant book 'Made to Stick' - Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck. With the funny and sticky example by
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LibreOffice is the free power-packed open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs. LibreOffice 4 is the most recent stable version of our software and marks a major milestone for the LibreOffice project.
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The VirtualLearningOrganizationStephen DownesIbagué, ColombiaDecember 5, 2012...
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That learning takes place in a social context is a significant issue. This is why collaboration or ‘cooperative learning’ has become so popular – but it has to be more than social collaboration. Cognitive collaboration needs to be encouraged. As students communicate their ideas, they learn to clarify, refine, and consolidate their thinking. Schoenfeld has said that, ‘Groups are not just a convenient way to accumulate the individual knowledge of their members. They give rise synergistically to insights and solutions that would not come about without them.’
Via Nik Peachey
A new study finds that the use of computers and Facebook are more associated with information overload than the use of television and iPhones.
The open source platform to write and publish print and digital books.
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES, Zaq Mosher, Ken Morrison, Kim Flintoff
Bloom's digital taxonomy Wheel and Knowledge Dimension
"Let's put it out there right now: I am personally not a fan of Klout, which ranks people based on their Internet interactions and engagement on services like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+." Drew Olanoff This is a great article and really worth taking notice of if you are considering using something like Klout.
Often members of a remote workforce can end up being more engaged with their employer's mission, current projects, and supervisors then in-office teams members.
1. Know your goal | make each slide count 2. Plan it out | in some detail 3. Avoid templates | they have the uglies 4.
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Is your iPad getting slow? Check out these 7 tricks to speed up your iPad. This post delivers long-term results, and it explains what does NOT work as well.
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In the past week I have experienced two kinds of professional development (PD). Presented and Paid to attend a conference put on by a well-known education organization focusing on dyslexia, Confere...
By Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn: "In commemoration of a year in print, we present the Startup of You in visual summary. The last year has continued to demonstrate how work and careers need a new entrepreneurial mindset for everyone, not just entrepreneurs."
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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning...Another from TeachThought, which is becoming a real go-to site for direct ideas. This one is one mobile learning, and what learning looks like and what if can afford.
Via GBS Digital Learning Pilot, Carla Arena, Nik Peachey
Smartphones and their use
Work isn't what it used to be, which means training should have changed too, but has it?
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
At its core, content curation is like a great editor or blogger who brings his unique taste and understanding of his target audience to his selection of the best content for his readers.
Present.me is a really easy way to record and share your presentations using your webcam...almost like being there
Really useful tutorial on how to compare and merge presentations in PowerPoint 2013.
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I started reading blogs many years ago when I worked in associations. Back then it was a time-consuming process to go through my bookmarks and check each blog for new content. I had some bookmarks ... Old blog post but worth a read to revisit Google Reader and it's benefits.
Tweet TweetI am often asked how to support social collaboration in the workplace. As I showed in my recent blog post, there are some big differences between learning in an ...
"When employers and employees are divided geographically, emerging software can bridge the gap and enable working together." - Interesting write up on collaboration.
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In find when viewing a magazine the layout has to much going on around it that takes away from the content.