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Google+ has many great features besides adding your friends to circles. The network's video chat tool, Google+ Hangouts, has awesome audio and video quality. If you're curious about the tool but not sure how to get started, the points below will help you be successful when you're video chatting with others on Google+.

YouTube video by Skip Via, prof. at University of Alaska in Fairbanks on Personal Learning Network, 2010. Has a great image of his PLN. He itemizes the tools according to the functions he needs: 1. Find answers 2. Read blogs/news 3. Publish and share 4. Communicate 5. Collaborate 6. Follow colleagues 7. Aggregate resources All based on people who have expertise or need his expertise.

video on google search tips, 7 minutes long, found it from Free Tech4Teachers blog, August 2012.

Four minute video by Michael Wesch in St. George, KS, an assistant professor of anthropology. His video chronicles the evolution of the technical internet through html, XML phases and how the current use of code enables us to share our ideas at an unprecedented rate because anyone can click to write and publish to the world with the simplicity of an off/on TV control. We are (re)creating something new every second and can build relationships with people we never knew existed before. It's now one degree of separation between internet residents even though people may be miles apart in location, employment, lifestyle, temperament, etc. We can choose to collaborate with anyone who agrees to work with us. In fact, we can learn from afar from anyone without affiliating with them or they with us if they have some presence on the internet. We must figure out how to organize the things that matter to us that we harvest from across the internet. Tagging helps us do this. The web 2.0 transition has already had and will have impacts on copyright laws and practices, self-identity in different contexts, privacy, relationships, etc. Are you ready? Am I ready?

Great YouTube on what big data is, how it is being used now, and what it will become. Also shows how 1 person can generate a huge amount of big data, and how it will increase exponententially over the next 10 years.

Great video on the concept and use of big data

A somewhat humorous look at how the marketplace is focused on the buying power of younger people, not those over 60.

Adafruit was founded in 2005 by MIT engineer, Limor "Ladyada" Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Over the last 6 years Adafruit has grown to over 45 employees in the heart of NYC. Adafruit has expanded offerings to include tools, equipment and electronics that Limor personally selects, tests and approves before going in to the Adafruit store. Limor was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine and was recently awarded Entrepreneur magazine's Entrepreneur of the year.

Someone my London cousin suggested we look at. She is quite something and has grown a very successful company. She is the first woman engineer featured on the cover of WIRED. Her site is interesting, and she awards badges for acquiring skills.

Absolutely remarkable summary of how learning has changed by Jane Hart, June 2014.

In an image-based essay, artist Shana Moulton collects logos from women's health, beauty, and support groups. Here finding: logos for lady groups feature mainly "Squiggles, Trees, Ribbons and Spirals" and other shapes that reinforce gender stereotypes.

great blog post on how skilled learners create more success for themselves to learn, Saga Briggs, October 11, 2014 on InformED

post by Matthew Braga as special to The Globe and Mail, 8/6/14 on how deidentified data can be hacked to reveal identities of users.

some good ideas for planning and convening effective meetings/conferences

Freelance Economy defined by Jacob Morgan, under 8 minutes in Berlin, July 13, 2015.

Video on PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) by Ellen Wagner on evaluating work by secondary educators (including online schools) to affect graduation rates, progress, competency development, and completion. Need common data. Differences in performance by 2 year and 4 year schools, not between public and for-profit so much. Knowing what you can do with the numbers makes the difference.

Very good article by Monica Potts, July-August 2015, Washington Monthly, on how the sharing (really Post-job economy) economy encourages downward mobility among millennials

article by Simone C. O. Conceicao, July 2014, on designing online learning for learners. Reviews book: Design Alchemy by Roderick Sims. Excerpt "The learner should be engaged in a learning activity at any point in the course. Sims recognizes the need to test assumptions, construct solutions, adjust variables, and/or introduce content within the online environment. "

Nice clear review of why infographics are valuable learning tools by Nathan Bellato, December 2013, eLearn Magazine. "Infographics have one key goal, to provide an audience with short sharp information in a way that is memorable." It says that 65% of learners are visual learners meaning they process faster (60,000 times faster) and retain an image/picture/graphic far longer than narrative. It also includes short videos as infographic tools.

wonderful illustrations showing how introverts and extroverts process learning differently on Susan Cain's blog

very good article by Arthur Piccio on making better and more decisions at YouTheEntrepreneur

How Slack will become a centralized integration point for many functions, NYT, Farhad Manjoo, Bits, December 15, 2015, making it more possible for workers to work remotely.