Harold Jarche continues to rock my world! October 21, 2013 How do we keep an informed citizenry when we are already choosing TV news sources that affirm our existing points of view? His post began to worry me until I saw that it was ultimately a plug for his PKM workshop. Excerpt: With the consolidation of web media companies, where many, and soon, most of us will be getting our information, it will be increasingly important to build diversity into our own personal and professional learning networks. This may get difficult as more mainstream sites amalgamate their feeds and sources into something similar to Googlezon. Therefore, in this emerging network era, we will need to connect to other people, not centralized information sources, for our own sense-making. Diversity of people in our networks will ensure diversity of thought. This is something that even web media companies cannot control, as long as we maintain control over who we connect to.

best rationale for why women need to connect online to learn and lead is right here in this pdf by Seth Godin, 10/17/13, from his blog post today.

Note Jarche's description of their workshop format--semi-structured...

Interesting and accurate summary IMO by Rob Paterson of how work, jobs, and taking charge of your own professional development are changing. Either they have been listening to us, or more likely, we have been reading them! :-) Offers an e-book for $2.99 titled You Don't Need a Job, You Need a Trust Network by Robert Paterson

2 minute video on why Connected Learning is critical. While it's oriented to "younger" learners, and how learning needs to change for them, the principles apply just as compellingly for working adults far removed from their high school and college education eras. It's the world that's changed (s_____d!)...and we need to change with it.

13 apps and programs recommended in Alex Pang's The Distraction Addiction. Maybe useful for uncluttering and intentional priorities learning labs. Appeared in Elle October 11, 2013

Two apps for eportfolios--Desire2Learn and MyDesiretoLearn that we need to check out for the Studio, 10.11.13

a potential tool for displaying data, telling a story, interacting with readers. Found it through Ana Christina Pratas's Scoop.it. 10.10.13

Good reminders of what Lyn has been saying about what we need to do with WLS blog

Example of one page scrolling web site to tell a story--research plans, research results--populated with a little text and big graphics that move, make it very interesting. They suggest this is a better way to go than a PDF for sharing your story.

Great blog post on leadership including a Leadership Theories Timeline that informed me. Wonder about digital or online leadership and how it builds on past theories.

Superb video (9 minutes) on creativity including collaboration and process of learning and innovating. Believe this video should be part of our Studio line-up in some way to prompt discussion, to back up our methods, etc.

Was just thinking about our LeanIn group and the Studio offering a Book Club and here is this invite from PLP for a connected educators book club

Home page for Collaborative Ways, Richard Schultz's and Eiwor Backelund's business on online collaboration.

Great article on DOCC (distributed open collaborative course) by Scott Jaschik, August 19, 2013, that helps inform/substantiate in a small way the Studio Learning Labs model of learning? ""A DOCC is different from a MOOC in that it doesn't deliver a centralized singular syllabus to all the participants. Rather it organizes around a central topic," Balsamo said. "It recognizes that, based on deep feminist pedagogical commitments, expertise is distributed throughout all the participants in a learning activity," and does not just reside with one or two individuals."

Great resource by Idealware for nonprofits to use to use social media well for different purposes such as events, outreach, volunteer recruitment, etc. Oddly, professional development or learning by staff/volunteers/across organizational boundaries is not mentioned. Wonder if we should reach out to Idealware's authors to discuss adding another section to guide next year?

REALLY like this list of things not to do including checking the telephone when you are talking with someone else face to face, receiving multiple notifications during your work time, etc.

interesting take by edudemic.com on social networks and what they capture/express through your participation or as they put it: "the questions lying behind social media" Facebook: What are you studying right now? Twitter: What would you recommend studying? LinkedIn: This is what I've studied YouTube: Here is a video lesson that i enjoyed Pinterest: Here are things I've learned and where I learned them Spotify: What do you listen to? Scoop It: What do you want to learn most? Learnist: What are the next steps and resources?

Neat infographic of things to do on the first day of class including 27 ways for building a team, 27 ways to greet your students, have students set the rules, 27 things to do with students who are not paying attention, and ways to assess prior knowledge. Some of these would work with adults online, too.