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As usual, Godin offers plenty to think about. Blog: 5/16/11

Blog and business site for Nancy White, a leader in "online group facilitation of distributed work, learning and community groups." The site includes both a blog that speaks to White's current work and interests, and also resources for online communities and related work.

White is a favorite of the KPI team.

Davidson's new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, was released in August 2011. Here, on her blog, you can learn more about the book and her thoughts on education and technology.

Published by Edutopia, PD "courses" on a broad list of technology-related topics, ranging from how to use blogging or Xbox Kinect in your classroom, to blended learning.

Excellent blog by Beth on seek, sense, share--the meat of content curation

Posted by Morten Mystad on the blog Myrstad's Blog, May 27 2011. For more on the topic, see tag ed_curation

June 28 blog by Beth on social media measures. I like the emphasis on relationship building with the organization because a social learning communityis all about building respectful, caring, responsive partnerships on practice shared with others.

Blog "devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational projects."

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

By Jarret Cummings in Jarret's blog, Educause, Nov 9 2011. Review of education policy briefing led by Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter, in which she discussed her department's on-going commitment to open educational resources (OER). Her statement included a wide-ranging definition of OER and information about how OER will tie-in with recently announced government grants.

by Derek Bruff, November 6, 2011. The best justification of the Innovation Lab premise that I have seen. "Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."" Often our students engage in what Ken Bain, vice provost and a historian at Montclair State University, calls strategic or surface learning, instead of the deep learning experiences we want them to have. Deep learning is hard work, and students need to be well motivated in order to pursue it. Extrinsic factors like grades aren't sufficient-they motivate competitive students toward strategic learning and risk-averse students to surface learning. Social pedagogies provide a way to tap into a set of intrinsic motivations that we often overlook: people's desire to be part of a community and to share what they know with that community. My students might not see the beauty and power of mathematics, but they can look forward to participating in a community effort to learn about math. Online, social pedagogies can play an important role in creating such a community. These are strong motivators, and we can make use of them in the courses we teach.

By Doug Belshaw on his blog, dougbelshaw.com, July 25 2012. Belshaw -- who works on badge-related projects for Mozilla Foundation -- describes a new plug-in for WordPress that facilitates creating badges.

I'm bookmarking this to keep in the back of our minds. As we develop the GSCC project -- or possibly for other e-PD projects -- badges may become of greater interest. Interesting to see how badges can be done on WordPress platforms.

The site of Janet Salmons; V2L is interested in "supporting creative ways to work, learn and research online." In addition to the information provided (free) on the site, Salmons also offers consulting services. The blog includes events and organizations of interest. The bookshelf is a "curated" group of books on related topics.

By Katie Ash in the Digital Education blog of Education Week, Sept 1 2010. Ash quotes a study by e-Learning for Educators that finds online PD improved teachers' "instruction and subject knowledge" and "produced gains in student achievement."

Posted by Steve Midgley to the U.S. Department of Education's ED.gov blog on July 28 2010. In this post, Midgley announces the government's plan to "make its educational resources much easier to find and use through a new Learning Registry." This outline of the plan explores some of the technical issues that had to be addressed in order to build the database. Follow the learning_registry tag for a link to the registry itself.

The site defines "blook" as somewhere between a book and a blog, and on this site, there are interviews with researchers and practitioners in a number of interesting fields, including education, "internet & society," and social media.

By Joshua Kim of the blog BlogU, part of Inside Higher Ed, March 29, 2010. Kim reflects on the more successful online learning experiences that he's taken part in, and points to three attributes that made these experiences successful. The comments section also provides some interesting links.

This is a group blog, with contributors from the U.S. and South Africa, writing on topics pertaining to open education, worldwide.

The authors of this site write on all things related to building an audience for and driving traffic to your web presence, be it a blog, twitter, a website, or something else. There is an RSS feed to deliver the regularly published feature articles.

This is the new home of Beth's Blog, "one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits."

A favorite of the KPI team.

Beth's impressions of the 2012 Philanthropy and Social Investment Industry Report and the conference she attended, December 2011. Love the example of the awesomely bad infographics--chuckle out loud funny.