WomensLearningStudio

Joy Bing is quite knowledgeable about SEO and blogging. This article gives some ideas about how to find ideas that will bring interest and interaction.

A map of learning theories that cover the human lifespan, with connections between them, the developers of the theory, and the discipline (such as education, philosophy) they are included in. An amazing map!

You have to see this-really amazing.

Post in WP discussion forum on how unhelpful so-called help discussion forums really are. Excerpt: "I signed up for WP AT Godaddy,com and have the same question, so I have to come here and do whatever I can understand of what i'm told. my universal experience with forums like this - here at WP and at the forums which serve as the ONLY assistance for non-paying users of third party design businesses -is that genuinely inexperienced people are not-so-subtly encourage to self-select out. people who need help make it very clear that they are really inexperienced, beg for step-by-step directions and get responses they cannot decipher or use. And if they have the temerity to say so, well, here's the first forum i clicked under this topic: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-set-up-on-wordpress-site?replies=3 the forum was simply shut down. lol? I don't understand why experienced users who know how to do things bother to make such replies. Is there some club somewhere where such things are on display for the amusement of our betters? Because unintentionally or not, it seems gratuitously mean. "

This Slideshare provides useful information for researching and improving one's online presence.

Companies such as Foursquare, Stack Overflow, and ThredUP reward customers with virtual merit badges. Pete Sucheski Courtesy Company It seems some people will do just about anything to earn a trophy, even an imaginary one. In April, Parker Liautaud, a 15-year-old from England, became the first to earn the Last Degree badge when he used Foursquare from the North Pole.

Blog post by Beth Kanter on best kinds of learning at conferences/seminars, 5.23.13 Excerpt: It cites Sharon Bowman's book on Using Brain Science to Make Science Stick. "The book offers several simple principles to incorporate: Movement is better than sitting Having participants talk is better than listening Images are better than words for instructional aids Writing is better than reading Shorter is better than longer Different delivery options are better than the same"

Short video (under 4 minutes) that stresses importance of focused attention, unplugging, focusing on one thing at a time.

Susan Silver provides lots of attractive tips in the 12 Most Magnetic Ways to Curate Awesome Content.

One person's view of using the chat box in a webinar. Also mentions audio feedback issues.

ALISON MOOC--"With more than 1.2 million unique visitors per month and 250,000 graduates worldwide, Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON), founded in 2007, is considered by some the first massive online open course (MOOC). " blog by Ellis Booker, Information Week Education, Excerpt: "Our focus is workplace skills," company CEO Mike Feerick told InformationWeek in a phone interview. Indeed, ALISON started with two globally in-demand skills: English and IT literacy, the latter in the form of ABC IT, a 15- to 20-hour training suite that remains the site's most popular course." Excerpt: "Employers don't care where you found those skills or how much you paid for them," he insists. Rather, employers want one thing: Verified competency. One service ALISON offers is tests for prospective hires that employers can administer to check the competence of job applicants who come with ALISON certificates. For a small fee, students can purchase an ALISON certificate after successfully completing a course, as a PDF, paper parchment or framed parchment."

Unbelievable assessments of how internet and web are changing our behaviors for sharing, collaborating, and making us connect with each other

Martin Weller's blog entitled: You can stop worrying about MOOCs now. Interesting in it reports the trend now that commercial MOOC providers are trending toward blended courses, and in Coursera's case, offering "MOOC-based learning on campus" which turns out to essentially be a course!

Interesting blog on the return of the f2f in the world of MOOCs

A British university guide on using Twitter in university research, 2011. Distinguishes between substantive, middle ground, and conversational tweets. Explains bit.ly and other url shortening devices, how work must be in public domain to be accessible in tweets, and when to tweet, and what it can do in terms of gathering feedback, etc. from stakeholders. Nice overview.

a learning place for wannabe online learning designers. Like the beginner, practitioner, expert, and advocate starting points for people to join at their current level of expertise and begin to develop more.

This is a chapter from a book written by the Ed Techie guy Martin Weller. What is interesting is how he detailed the new methods he used to write his most recent book. Many of the sources and practices that he engaged in for writing the second book did not even exist six years before when he finished writing his first book. These new aids include ready e-journal access, Delicious/social bookmarking, blogs, Youtube, Wikipedia, Slideshare, Scribd, Cloudwords and other sites, his own blog, social network especially twitter, Google alerts, etc. I am not sure how this relates to MOOCs and open landscape learning except he has so much more to manage, and gain from, in having a well developed dashboard of tools for seeking, sensing, and sharing.

Great TED talk on interactive design and why MoMA has acquired and is displaying video games.

Great TED talk and good thoughts about interactive design. Just to spark our thinking about online interaction

Rachel Sklar is holding networking events for women who work in the tech industry. She is about to make it a business, where women pay to be connected with other women like them. Interesting business design.

Women to women networking in a specific industry: tech

interesting website called Ventureneer by Geri Stengel. Like the paragraph: "Leading a social enterprise requires the melding of all the skills of a business owner and of a nonprofit leaders. It's another level of knowledge that teaches you how to juggle the social enterprise triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. "

Website on project in Germany, Turkey, and Poland that helps women use entrepreneurship opportunities to become involved civically, too.

Blog by Marty Smith on May 29, 2013 on Scoop.it on how social media is leading to a sharing and curation of health care information with huge positive implications for speeding up research, improving health care delivery, informing patients, etc.