Jane Hart's top 100 tools for 2013. Votes of over 500 learning professionals from 48 countries compiled the list. "A learning tool is a tool for your own personal or professional learning or one you use for teaching and training."

The latest list from Jane Hart.

Interesting study using Facebook volunteers. The authors analyzed 700 million words, phrases and topic instances from Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers who took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, age. Used an open-vocabulary technique where the data itself drives the exploration of language that found connections not captured with traditional methods. To date, this is the largest study, by order of magnitude, of language and personality.

Some interesting findings based on age and gender

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Should we check this out? It is an open source web conferencing system built on over fourteen open source components to create an integrated solution that runs on mac, unix, or PC computers.

stats on iTunes apps. Dizzying!

Personalized Learning Blog Love the responsibility vs accountability pyramid and the description of how they define the process of personalized learning system (PLS) vs. a PLP.

I like the icons on the side that describe what you will do. I am wondering if we can use these in the services area so it is clear what each of our E-vents or Learning Labs will entail. I also liked the prerequisite list which makes clear what skills you need to take the course.

College students don't use email because it is too slow, you have to put in a subject, and you have to send it. They all text, which is faster and less labor intensive. They also don't use search engines. One professor reports saying to students (he is an academic adviser) "have you tried Google?). Usually, they hadn't.

blog from Huffington Tech on FaceBook and Twitter stats. interesting stats such as: 32% of all Internet users use Twitter.

More info and stats on mobile/smartphone users.

Great infographic on the use of smartphones by age as well as by type of phone (iPhone, Android, Microsoft, RIM). Highest smartphone penetration rate is 62% in age group 25 - 34.

From the State of Consumers and Technology report from Forrester. Released 12/19/12. Found that those who go online at least daily was 78% of US adults in 2011, and it jumped to 84% in 2012 due to the growing use of smartphones and tablets. At least 50% of US adults owns a smartphone, and 19% own a tablet.

A UK article about how women are taking the lead in the mobile arena. They prefer mobile sites to apps, but use apps, and use social media much more than men. Some stats on the activity of women using mobile devices.

Published 1/7/2013 Basic stats and some surprises, too.

Great infographic with stats on women in the tech world. Some fascinating stats about what women are using, women entrepeneurs and their success, and how women in tech are still underrepresented in C-suite jobs and not recognized as experts by media outlets. great example of an infographic well done.

Great infographic with stats on women in the tech world. Some fascinating stats about what women are using, women entrepeneurs and their success, and how women in tech are still underrepresented in C-suite jobs and not recognized as experts by media outlets. great example of an infographic well done.

"Openlab Workshops' mission is to use open source and free software tools and knowledge to both enable and inspire people's creativity. We are part of the open source and free software community because of their idealistic emphasis on transparency, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration. Since 2009 we've developed and taught over 24 workshops in such topics as programming for artists and designers using Processing, interactive lighting, livecoding, Arduino, and sound generation and analysis."

My cousin Evan Raskob's Openlab Workshop site. They are f2f workshops, but the concept is to bring diverse people together to create and share knowledge about digital art and technology.

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.

"MzTEK is a non-profit organisation with the aim of addressing the imbalance of women artists working in the fields of new media, computer arts, and technology." My London cousin knows these women and says they are really dynamic and terrific. Although their offerings are f2f, they do have online communities. I like the statement that they are aiming to correct an imbalance, which we may be able to use.

benefits of online book clubs: get along with participants as you don't have to hear about their lives, can go online to discussion at anytime, be exposed to books you would not read ordinarily, and no small talk about kids, jobs, kitchen remodels, etc. Something for us to think about!

Great videos on e-learning with such topics as: How does one get started as Instructional Designer? Does Social Media Selling Works? How to build your digital footprint. What's your learning style? Knowledge Creation Digital Age. Embrace the digital communication age. What we're learning from online education. The educators is as site that has resources and blogs about learning. You can spend days here!