Sweet! Maybe our MDs can take a look at this? :)

For fellow CeL channel content creators!

"Engagement rates are 18% higher on Thursdays and Fridays."

For our ETs and VDs... Noticed any differences when using Google's Hangouts video chat lately? If you did, then you may be one of the lucky users who has already received an upgrade to 720p HD video. The company quietly started to roll out HD for Hangouts to a subset of its users in the last few weeks and hopes to complete the rollout soon

Google today launched Google Tag Manager for Mobile Apps. The new software means developers can publish their app a single time; from then on, they can change configurations, add analytics, remarketing, and conversion tracking without updating it. Just like the Web version, Google Tag Manager for Mobile Apps is free.

Facebook is a known productivity killer. However, it has one advantage over other apps: everyone uses it. You can use it for more than just cat memes and baby pictures. Here are some of the most useful things you can do.

For ETs, IDs, and MPs to explore...

The Facebook plugin for WordPress adds Facebook social plugins to your WordPress site. Associate your WordPress site with a free Facebook application identifier to enable advanced features such as automatically sharing new posts to an author's Facebook Timeline or your site's Facebook Page.

Lifelogging may be the next wave of social sharing - wondering how can we use it to enhance reflective learning?

A simple and elegant method for authenticating users on a system without relying on third-parties or SMS

For MDs and, yes, MPs too.

Instead of a compass telling you exactly which direction to go, it acts as a facilitator, allowing you to work out your own route - and discover new things along the way. This can serve as a metaphor for our 21st-century style of facilitated and directed e-learning. How can we use and even reverse the default affordances of a mobile phone to enhance exploratory and creative learning? Based on the above reflection, here's one random idea for stimulating creative learning using mobile apps: - Language: As you walk along a path, the phone automatically generates a "cloud" of words extracted from geolocated tweets associated with the location that you are currently on, and invites you to contribute your own tweets about your own location.

The ultimate in e-learning affordance... can you imagine the potential for educators and students to be able to design and adapt their own physical user interfaces for normal computer apps?

Really funny!  Perhaps we could play on this idea for e-Fiesta... maybe have a camera where we invite people to look into the camera and find their faces suddenly popping up in a poster of themselves - complete with the #efiesta tag, or something like that. What strikes me is the use of humour and fun in marketing and publicity, especially when it comes to social media. E.g. I esp like how the burly man was very amused at a Hulk'd  version of himself standing over a burning city. People do like to see positive photos of themselves - especially when done by others. (But wonder how the MDs would feel having to photoshop in real-time haha. :D)

Could there be a light at the end of the fragmentation tunnel?