From the Huffpost Health, March 2, 2014. With more people working from home or working from home sometime, here are 5 tips from Gracie Gordon on how to work effectively from home.

Terese Bird and Grainne Conole are holding a webinar on A Pedagogical Look at MOOCs. Funded by the EU project eMundus, they are trying to map out patterns of open educational partnerships between institutions around the world. This webinar will take a pedagogical look at MOOCs. They chose 5 MOOCs, each corresponding to a primary learning approach. They then mapped each MOOC against the 12 dimensions Grainne identified. The blog goes on to attempt to do this with one MOOC as an example.

Terese Bird and Grainne Conole are holding a webinar on A Pedagogical Look at MOOCs. Funded by the EU project eMundus, they are trying to map out patterns of open educational partnerships between institutions around the world. This webinar will take a pedagogical look at MOOCs. They chose 5 MOOCs, each corresponding to a primary learning approach. They then mapped each MOOC against the 12 dimensions Grainne identified. The blog goes on to attempt to do this with one MOOC as an example.

The new science of social physics which is about the way human social networks spread ideas and transform those ideas into behaviors. Alex Pentland has a new book: Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread: The Lessons from a New Science that explores the patterns of information exchange in social networks, the ways humans are like bees, and how networks large and small can be tuned to increase exploration and community engagement.

Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey of Rethinkinglearning have, with the input of those who took their Personalized Learning eCourse, revised the chart for the Stages of Personalized Learning Environments. They now have a chart for Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization, an adapted chart to transform learning to Personalized Learning, and the Stages of Personalized Learning Environments chart. This bookmark brings you to the page to download all 3 charts, as well as their report explaining the Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization chart.

From Sept 2013 - how to use instagram to build a brand and reach out to new customers. These are tips specific to business.

A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning, written by the 21st Century Collective, which includes Cathy Davidson. Includes contributions organized by Motivations, Provocations, Invitations

A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning, written by the 21st Century Collective, which includes Cathy Davidson. Includes contributions organized by Motivations, Provocations, Invitations

From a Beth Kanter tweet. How to improve your FB news feed without buying FB ads. Has screen shots and how to's.

From a Beth Kanter tweet. How to improve your FB news feed without buying FB ads. Has screen shots and how to's.

looks promising for creating animated videos to maybe tell the Studio story. Going to try out the free version and see what it does.

Interview on TED with Sheryl Sandberg from December 2013. Sheryl talks about her experiences since her original TED talk about Lean In.

TEDxStanford talkl by Cliff Naas about the impact of media multitasking and social interaction and emotional intelligence.

Learning is a good way to not only create fresh neurons, but keep them active and healthy. From Infinite Unknown blog

Todd Bishop of Geekwire talks about fears of tossing emails and gets help from the psychologist on the A&E show Hoarders. Dr. Robin Zasio says hoarding emails, like hoarding "stuff" is about fear of needing it some day.

Good list of 10 reasons people save emails, with some humor. Will put on the Unclutter your closet resource list.

Steps to take to delete yourself from any presence on the internet. Although this may not be helpful for all accounts, it does give info on how to delete major accounts like FB, so you can delete selected accounts if you wish.

Steps to take to delete yourself from any presence on the internet. Although this may not be helpful for all accounts, it does give info on how to delete major accounts like FB, so you can delete selected accounts if you wish.

Slideshare on why content curation is the new form of communication, and professional content curators are the new superheros. Nice graphics and a clear message about information overload and how people will capitalize and monetize this.

Very interesting article from the NYTimes on how mindfulness has taken hold in Silicon Valley encouraging tech workers and beyond to take time out, meditate even for a minute, and creating new apps to help you do it. Google has a course on mindfulness that sells out whenever offered. Rebranding mindfulness from groovey discipline to way to clear your head to increase productivity, prioritize to do lists, unclutter your work life.

Article on how the book, Lean In, is impacting men and minority groups as well as women. Male Lean In groups have sprung up to discuss men's roles in promoting and supporting women, and minority groups have started Lean In Circles to address discrimination they have encountered (Asian groups).

Interesting workshop on using instagram, pinterest, infographics for visual storytelling in your business. Thought we could look at this as a model for these types of workshops for us.

Interesting cultural studies piece in the NYTimes about unwanted email. The law is that marketers and businesses must have an option to let you unsubscribe, but fledgling businesses or friends' businesses fall through the cracks. What to do about it? Some new software, hitting delete, creating an email account you never use or view.

Using video chat. Google hangouts, new technology to have virtual happy hours to create a feeling of connection, personal relationships in business settings.

Something for us to sponsor?