Good introduction but doesn't cover what I need explained - "how to pick the text / terms / action words" on the diagrams". Doesn't say why it's different from mindmap.
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The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a "normal" or Gaussian distribution.
The term Long Tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each - usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities
Here is an updated link on the week 9 article by Alan Levine on "Amazing Stories of Openness". It shares various videos and inspiring stories. Truly amazing stuff!
"Open Education Conference Vancouver August 12, 2009 While the Open Education movement focuses on institutional issues, a large ocean exists of powerful individual accomplishments simply from tapping into content that is open for sharing and re-use."
what you are doing right now is the thing that you most want to do.
consequences - are for the most part a matter of choice.
The fact is, most people are very bad at predicting consequences
The prediction of consequences is part science, part mathematics, and part visualization. It is essentially the ability to create a mental model imaging the sequence of events that would follow,
1000 things I knew but forgot is my bi line sometimes. A lot of it does have to do with memory retention. But is memory only cerebral??? W do have body memory , emotional memory and spiritual memory. When we truly learn something it becomes integrated on these levels as well. So yes the only thing that matters IS the present moment, that is how we experience life and learning and that is how we absorb-by our senses not being shut down.
Last week the Wall Street Journal had an article announcing that Edmodo had received a $15 million venture capital investment from the founder of LinkedIn and a former VP of Facebook. That article gave me the idea for this post of fifteen things teachers and students can do with Edmodo.
Bizarre . Privacy is the second biggest concern of young people ( read that in a course posting)...I wonder what Facebook will do next, they have become the brother of Big Brother (google)
I believe its just another way of reducing opinion and openess amongst networks. Its also a very insidious way of saying hey, i am going to know everything about you and control everything that you do...they do it everywhere else in the world why not through social media...
You know from experience that when you enjoy a subject, learning about that subject is easier, more fun, and you retain the information longer. Getting kids to enjoy learning is more productive to education efforts than spending more money, lengthening school days, you name it.
A study from the Stanford University School of Medicine is published this week in Psychological Science showing that children who experience difficulty with math exhibit an altered brain