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5 minutes video on disconnecting from technology by wellcast, March 2013 We have access to the latest devices such as smartphones. 58% of kids between 13 and 17 have smartphones 20 hours a week on the internet doesn't even cover what do on phones Tips: 1 hour a day. Designated no screen time. Do something for an hour without being attached to device. Tip 2--Do it in person instead. Tip 3--go outside. Leave phones at home. Tip 4--don't fall asleep with your phone

Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

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+.

Very nice site by the Milken Institute (changing the world in innovative ways) featuring bite-size multimedia appetizers of its Best Cities for Successful Aging research.

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.

WordPress now has a badge plug in and here is a video on how to use it. So, I think we can issue badges ourselves from our WordPress site.

We don't have to go to the backpack at Mozilla to issue badges. WordPress now has a plug in that does it. Here's a video on how to do badges using WordPress.

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

Absolutely fabulous video (6 minutes) on Connected Learning and how we must change the outcomes based focus of education to awaken the curiosity of each learner and engage with them in learning how to learn given the distribution of resources, ideas, experts, etc. while preserving the learners' autonomy, access to diversity, openness to others for learning, interactivity with similar and diverse co-learners, etc. Film by Nic Askew at Soulbiographies.com interviewing McArthur Foundation person and two professors of education

Excellent resource page for building intelligence dashboard using RSS feeds, Yahoo Pipes, persistent searches, etc. Rheingold uses short videos (usually <10 minutes) to staircase steps for building the dashboard.

Great t fit, you must acquit) 6. Twitter (leads to good information even if it is self-promotional)

short video by Kathryn McClendon on many women not seeing themselves as leaders yet have a long list of accomplishments to show that they are. Distills leadership to three actions: Inspire. Persuade. and Influence. 8.5 minutes long. Talks about her leadership table of women who have touched her life. Women of courage include her mother who immigrated from Guyana with two year old child (speaker). Claudette Colvin--an unwed, pregnant teenager who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, ALA months before Rosa Parks emerged. Marian de Forest--Buffalo, NY woman who became a playwright and journalist. Founded Zonta. Set a place for yourself at table of four.

Good five minute video on women entrepreneurs and how they overcome internal self-judgments/fears to succeed. "Hard to succeed without failure..." "Grateful to mother for failure is a stepping stone to success" "It's fine to risk it." "Way workplace is structured means that a lot of women don't want to be there--pay that price." "If we take the time to regenerate, to renew ourselves, we will be much more successful..."

interview with Lynne Doughtie on new study of why more women aren't moving into C-suite roles. "Mornings with Maria on Fox Business News. 6 minutes long

great short video on how we can be much happier, partly because we can use daily expressions of gratitude and joy to become happy. Happy brains can become happier when they express gratitude and compassion.

A group of friends in Mexico, all entrepreneurs, started talking about their failed ventures. The conversation engendered such deep learning and reflection, they created a regular meeting where they modified the Japanese Petcha-Kutcha model of presenting slides for and narrating the slides for a very brief time. The Mexico group named these f2f thriving on failure group Fuck Up night. Others around the world began to hear about the FuckUp night via social media, and soon were asking the Mexico group if they could replicate the model. Now FuckUp nights are global, and the original group only asks that the model be followed, and any slides and videos of the presentations be shared with the world on the fuckup nights website.

A group of friends in Mexico, all entrepreneurs, started talking about their failed ventures. The conversation engendered such deep learning and reflection, they created a regular meeting where they modified the Japanese Petcha-Kutcha model of presenting slides for and narrating the slides for a very brief time. The Mexico group named these f2f thriving on failure group Fuck Up night. Others around the world began to hear about the FuckUp night via social media, and soon were asking the Mexico group if they could replicate the model. Now FuckUp nights are global, and the original group only asks that the model be followed, and any slides and videos of the presentations be shared with the world on the fuckup nights website.

Keith Ferrazzi, May 3, 2012 on running virtual meetings with "use video" as first requirement to reduce multi-tasking.

Digital Literacy, NYC Department of Education "Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals. "

"Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals."

14 minute video by Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner on their value creation network, April 2015. Explains the value creation network beautifully and impact of social learning from immediate value to potential value to applied value to realized value and then its strategic and enabling value.

article by Jill Duffy on email management, March 5, 2012. Also a two minute video on this page that explains the tips: 1. delete (useless stuff) first when you open the inbox 2. Write short 3. Reuse sent messages 4. Reuse subject lines 5. Use groups/distribution lists 6. Sort to delete 7. Turn off notifications 8. Close email to focus 9. Use auto-replies wisely 10. Delete (or at very least, file messages into folders) 11. Take out the trash (daily) or set up auto-dump

great four minute video by Charles Jennings on how workplace learning should change to reflect reality of 70:20:10 model