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BestVendor Survey of Freelancers Around the World Demonstrates Rise of Cloud Apps August 16, 2012 -- NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 08/16/12 -- BestVendor today released the results of its "2012 Freelancer Survey" focusing on the most popular software and apps used by freelancers to manage their work.

Nice expression of principles by Ruzuku's workforce

Attempt to interest girls in tech careers by Silicon Valley. Interesting in that this is a business decision, not just an altruistic one. Women are not a big factor in the app design field, and it is felt they would design different apps than are currently being produced.

Good career choice for the future

What is the mission? What is important in your work?

People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It's actually easier than you think... even if you have zero design skills whatsoever.

If you've ever wanted to spice up your presentation with a free web 2.0 tool, you're in luck. Presentation tool Prezi has just unveiled some new information that may cause you to start thinking about trying it out.

interesting website that chronicles instructional development; appears to be crowdsourced to some extent. Barbara Bray and Charlotte McGovern are the e-coach team.

Legal ramifications and licenses for sharing data online.

Online learning is useful for helping students master a body of declarative (factual) knowledge - for example, to learn basic facts of geography or biology. It also helps provide an environment to simulate procedural knowledge, such as operating the instruments in the cockpit of a plane.

benefits of online learning as an answer to why f2f learning is better. Flexibility, use of technology, greater interactions with the instructor and fellow students are cited as benefits to online learning.

benefits of online learning: good response to OK's article

Letter to the editor in response to a NYTimes article by Bill Keller that touts the benefits of online learning, and the need to adapt to new technologies, not just teach the same way and put it online.

Good argument for online learning and the use of new teaching methods when using technology.

Two years ago WP Directory had some support issues. It may be OK now. I don't know. this article lists some we may also want to consider. Review list of top WordPress directory plugins and themes that are free or paid. Discusses top 10 plugin and theme to integrate directory for WP blogs.

Open Culture website--lists all kinds of free online courses; should we link to this site or somehow study these to see which ones we might recommend to WLStudio learners?

This blog post is for nonprofits to create marketing personas but it has value IMO for WLStudio, too. How would women at different ages--40, 50, 60, 70, and 80+year olds--relate to the "maven" title? We have suggested that maven 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0 are aspirational levels of knowledge and skill that women would earn by going through different programs. Are these the personas that we wish to present to attract women to the WLStudio in the first place? Or something else?

Examples of personal learning networks Mindmeister mindmaps visible to public

blog on lifelong and personal learning with graphic on a personal learning environment that includes the people (pln) and personal web tools

Excellent exploration of a PLE and how it may or may not integrate with a formal institutionally based and managed VLE (through a school or employer perhaps?) and how the learner needs to own his/her PLE for lifelong and portable learning. Acknowledges the eportfolio that a school might provide a learner (but this can be set up and managed by learner as a formative and summative device).

Authors did an opening exercise at a conference in 2010 to force choices by educators on organizationally controlled vs. individually controlled PLEs. It clear that the shift is toward individualized learning supported/guided by educators side by side not in front of the learner. Excerpt "To help them in this endeavour, institutions have an important role as guides (not leaders) that have to trespass their own walls and enter the environments (in plural) where learning actually takes place, which increasingly is outside of the framework of formality. In fact, this seems to be answering at the WHAT question: what is learning in the digital era? The rest of pairs (Openness and the Barriers) seem to be pointing at the HOW question: how should learning be carried on in the digital era?. The answer seems to be open and flexible institutions, new educational systems and methodologies and a dire organizational change."