Overview | Text 2.0 Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC] Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition. Google is supposedly getting into the market with Google Me, a not-yet-launched, oft-rumored social network that will directly compete with Facebook. Still, Google hasn't had the best track record when it comes to social media attempts. EDIT: The graphic has been updated to include Google Lively. More Google Resources from Mashable: - 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google- 10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings- 5 Must-See Google Easter Eggs- 4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz- The Small Business Guide to Google Apps [img credit: Robert Scoble]
The Learning Layer – Review The Learning Layer: Building the next level of intellect in your organization, begins with some solid insights on how learning is the key to performing in the networked workplace. Learning has been the traditional realm of HR while most systems are supported by IT. This means that HR supports the people who produce the tacit knowledge while IT supports the systems that store the explicit knowledge. Steve Flinn, the author, uses the analogy of knowledge as stock and learning as flow. An organization’s intellectual capital is a factor of both, which “makes it really clear just how inseparable the management of a business’s knowledge is from the learning processes”. The proliferation of current web technologies now presents us with two major opportunities: The knowledge and insights within the heads of people can be leveraged without overtly taking actions to make it so. The first three parts of the book are full of good ideas, insight and analysis, but Part 4 is a bit of a letdown.
iPad bezitters zijn rijk, hoog opgeleid en niet vriendelijk Wired heeft een (niet al te wetenschappelijk) onderzoek laten doen naar het profiel van de huidige i-Pad eigenaren. Op basis van een onderzoek onder 20.000 mensen heeft MyType de persoonlijkheden geanalyseerd. En wat blijkt: de eigenaren van iPad zijn extreem meer rijker, gesofisticeerder, hoog opgeleid, en boven gemiddeld geinteresseerd in zakendoen en geld, en verder minder dan gemiddeld scorend op altruïsme en vriendelijkheid. Volgens de typologie van MyType is dat dus "Selfish". Verder wisten we al van een eigen onderzoek van Yahoo dat de iPad gebruikers overwegend van het mannelijke geslacht zijn en vooral zoeken op: nieuws, sport, financiën en Flickr. Overigens critici van de iPad bezitten voor 96% het apparaat zelf niet en behoren volgens dat MyType onderzoek tot de categorie "independent geeks" categorie. Het lijkt erop dat dit iPad afzeiken voor deze categorie een vorm is om hun identiteit te verklarien.
the UsPaCe project In Defense of Lecture July 27, 2010 at 3:11 pm Lectures have a black eye on college campuses today. We’re told that they are useless, and that they are ineffective with out “explicit constructionism.” We’re told to use active learning techniques in lecture, like clickers. I just served on a Psychology Masters thesis committee. Passive: Where students simply read a text on ecology drawn from a Sophomore-level textbook.Active: Where students either (a) highlighted text of interest or (b) copy-pasted key sections into “Notes.”Constructive: Where students either (a) created self-explanations of the text or (b) created questions about the text. He had a test on the content immediately after the training, and another a week later. The problem is that Georgia Tech students (the subjects in the study) are darn smart and well-practiced learners. Lectures are a highly-efficient form of teaching. We add active learning opportunities to lectures because students don’t usually learn that much from a 90 minute lecture.
Radio 1 Wat wil het geval? Kroonprinses Victoria en haar verloofde Daniel Westling trouwen op 19 juni, en de prinses wil dat papa Carl Gustaf haar naar het altaar leidt. U mag dat heel gewoon vinden, maar Ingmar-met-de-pet denkt daar anders over. In Zweden is de vrouw namelijk geen "bezit dat van de ene aan de andere man overgaat". Dat is ook de mening van negen priesters, meldt de Zweedse nationale omroep SVT. Wat u misschien ook mag verbazen is dat de Zweedse kerk geliefden zowel voor God als voor de staat met elkaar verbindt. En nu we toch in de royaltysfeer bezig zijn, in de gespecialiseerde pers wordt Daniel Westling ook wel de 'sport hunk' genoemd.
ALT-C 2010 Into something rich and strange Nottingham, UK, 7-9 September 2010 Welcome to the web site for ALT-C 2010, the 17th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, which was held at the University of Nottingham. Flyer for the conference [871 kB PDF]. CrowdVine web site for conference delegates. Detailed conference programme. Conference Co-chairs Vanessa Pittard, Director of e-Strategy, Becta, UK; Richard Noss, Professor of Mathematics Education at the Institute of Education, Co-director of the London Knowledge Lab, UK, and Director of the Technology Enhanced Learning phase of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. Speakers There was a welcoming keynote from Saul Tendler, the University of Nottingham's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, and Professor of Biophysical Chemistry. Keynote speakers Barbara Wasson University of Bergen, Norway Unfortunately, illness prevented Barbara from travelling to ALT-C and giving her keynote. Sugata Mitra Newcastle University, UK Invited speakers Exhibitors