Jeremy Wagstaff: Get With The Future: It's Tiddly [Blog Business Summit Archives]

10:58:16 AM    

Working hard but not getting anywhere?

Scott Berkun: Work vs. Progress. Simple work, like mowing a lawn or washing a car has transparent progress: as each small unit of work is completed it's visible to everyone. But with complex work, building software, running a business, writing a novel, it is harder to identify true progress. [Tomalak's Realm]

10:47:04 AM    

Using an outliner to break down projects, actions, and tasks.

How I schedule actions and tasks. The response to yesterday's post caught me quite off guard. I was a bit worried that the general response would be "well duh!". Goes to show I wasn't the only person struggling with getting from next-actions to actual actions. I'm going to walk you through my process for managing my calendar. There are a couple of [...] [To-Done]

10:44:58 AM    

Rob Reynolds and Susan Smith Nash tackle the question, "Is Podcasting for Real in Education?"  [XplanaZine]

10:07:15 AM    

Personas explained.

Personas may be a new concept for many e-Learning designers, although the idea originated with customer-experience guru Alan Cooper years ago. Basically personas help the design team stay focused on the people who will be using the product. Dan Saffer does a great job of explaining what they are, how to create them, and how to use them. [adaptive path]

10:03:06 AM    

David Tosh powerpoint presentation: Computing Means Connecting. via [elearnspace]

11:18:10 PM    

RSS Magic (Quoting Will R. from the Read/Write Web dept. at Weblogg-ed).

... that's the new strategy, get teachers and students rss-ing first. Give them a framework for understanding how disparate looking pieces of content really aren't as disconnected as they seem, and that there are new ways to find and collect and archive ideas from any number of previously unknown places. That all this seemingly random creativity is really not so random at all, that it is "loosely joined" in ways that allow us to make it even more relevant and effective in our practice and in our learning. The old, rigid, preorganized structures (read: schools) are losing their hold on ideas and knowledge, and while they may seem chaotic, these new less organized but more flexible structures can be just as if not more effective.

 [Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom]

11:12:14 PM    

Really using your calendar.

How I learned to stop worrying and love my schedule. I've got about twenty projects on the go at any one time. Some are long term, some are on hold pending outside responses, some are at the proposal stage, and some are at the wrap up stage. I've tried every method under the sun to stay on top of my work. But they have all [...] [To-Done]

11:08:53 PM    

Privacy concerns increase.

Online Users Less Keen to Share Personal Info. Consumers are apparently becoming more touchy about their online privacy, with just 32 percent - down from 41 percent in 2004 - willing to allow websites to track their online behavior in return for... [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing]

10:34:11 AM    

Better simulations.

Avid trumpets facial animation breakthrough.  [The Register]

10:26:45 AM    

Upgrade your Acrobat.

Adobe warns over PDF peril. [The Register]

10:19:53 AM    

Tablet trends.

Go, Tablets! Go!. Today was one of those days that made me yearn for the classroom again. It was the second of two Tablet PC Pilot trainings for about 20 teachers where we really started getting into the pedagogy of how we're going to use these things in the classroom. It was part just exploring the potential of all the cool apps that are coming out for tablets, part evangelizing the changing nature of digital content, and part amazement at watching technology actually work. I love those days when  ...

[Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom]

10:12:33 AM    

DRM and e-textbooks.

Something to consider for your e-Learning materials, if you are an independent producer of content.

Copy-protection gear sneaks into products (USATODAY.com). USATODAY.com - Controversial copy-protection technology is quietly being added to e-books, CDs, DVDs and other products. This fall, students can buy electronic textbooks. Once students download a book, software permits them just one back-up copy - and causes the books to expire after a year or more. [Yahoo! News: Technology News]

10:15:23 AM    

"Non-traditional" students driving online tutoring.

Online Tutoring Part of Growing Trend . When students in Leslie Chernila's English class at the Art Institute of Washington write an essay about the work of Garrison Keillor, she has them send it off to a critic halfway across the country before turning it in. The paper soon returns, complete with comments about structure and word choice. By Mark Chediak. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews]

10:11:26 AM    

InformationWeek: The Web Moves.

"Web video isn't perfect. But it's good enough that now is the time for businesses to give it a close look."

10:51:25 PM    

One view of where we may be going in e-Learning.

Rob Reynolds shares his vision of the future in The Incredible Shrinking LMS -- Or How Learning Will Travel. Where we are headed next is even more exciting. In the next phase of evolution, we will cease to think of learning as tied to any location or single physical technology like an LMS. In this phase, content itself will be intelligent, distributable virtually anywhere, and interoperable across almost all software and hardware appliance types. Learning will be purely about content and our experiences and memories related to that content, while technology will be more of a hidden set of conduits for those materials, interactions, and memories. Technology will be one of many learning preferences that I can select. I will be able to work on my math or reading skills (with identical content and behavior) alone, with a teacher, with other students, on a phone, on a computer, in my car, on a plane, in my house, or, yes, in a classroom. [XplanaZine]

10:17:54 PM    

Smart ads: Is this the future of advertising?

David Freedman writes, "It's becoming increasingly possible to target Smart ads specifically to people who want them. And best of all, you can do this for a fraction of the price of mass-market." [Inc.com]

10:13:38 PM    

Understanding online marketing.

This is an excellent piece on the changes that online marketing has brought to building your business.

Bubble Burst Onliners' Status; Second Boom Hasn't (Yet) Brought It Back.  [MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing]

10:05:39 PM    

Following the scent.

Steve Gillmore on the Great (money) RSS (money) Crisis.

You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.

9:50:50 PM