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Mathieu Plourde

Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education - 2 views

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    The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. This book is a road map for any educator thinking about using the web for learning. Build your own learning network, and use learning networks in the classroom and schoolwide to improve student outcomes.
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    One of the books I was talking about.
Mathieu Plourde

School Should Reflect Real Life - 0 views

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    Our students want to be creative, collaborate, utilize technology for learning, connect with their peers in other countries, understand the messages that media convey, and solve real-world problems.  Schools and systems of education that do not embrace digital learning and place a high emphasis on standardization will always fail to resonate with our students
Mathieu Plourde

10 Executives Who Lied On Their Resumes - And 2 Who Got Away With It - 1 views

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    We learned today that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume boasts a computer science degree he never got. This news is likely to have a ripple effect as we learn who else in the Valley has tried to pull a stunt like this. Here's what happened to 10 other executives who fibbed on their resumes.
Mathieu Plourde

Big data facilitates new era of knowledge, education, and thinking - 0 views

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    These free or low-cost education services confer the direct benefit of their programs, and advantages by using the large numbers and real-time aspects of the internet to obtain and incorporate immediate feedback from growing student populations. This is leading to a better education product, and a mechanism for learning about learning.
Mathieu Plourde

Entrepreneurs: 5 Things to Un-Learn From School - 0 views

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    "To be above average, or to achieve better than average results, you must do two things: Do what others are willing to do, and do it better, and Do what others aren't willing to do Otherwise, you're just average."
Brenda Shaffer

Phishing Scams Seen at UD - Educating the UD community about phishing scams - 0 views

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    The website I bookmarked (weavespace) that came to me via e-mail was a phishing scam. I will blog about my learning experience on our wordpress blog.
Mathieu Plourde

What Your Klout Score Really Means - 0 views

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    "The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com-a service that purports to measure users' online influence on a scale from 1 to 100-and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. "He cut the interview short pretty soon after that," Fiorella says. Later he learned that he'd been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. "They hired a guy whose score was 67.""
Mathieu Plourde

10 Reasons Why Google Plus is Better than Facebook - 1 views

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    Facebook = People. Facebook is the way to learn what's going on in the lives of people you already know. Google+ = Passions. Google+ enables you to pursue your passions with people you don't know.
Mathieu Plourde

Twitter: A Tool For All - 2 views

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     I am constantly advocating for other school leaders and educators to embrace this powerful tool to improve communications, enhance public relations, establish a positive brand presence, grow professionally through the formation of a Personal Learning Network (PLN), increase student engagement, and discover a world of opportunity.
Mathieu Plourde

The Educator's Guide to Instagram and Other Photo Apps - 1 views

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    "Why? It's fun! Easy! I can quickly share photos taken on my iPhone when I'm out and about! Or have fun editing photos and sharing from my camera on my iPad! And in the process I'm learning more about photography, photo editing and other Instagram users. Here's my advice to help you get started or get more out of using Instagram. "
Mathieu Plourde

How to Make Your Distance Learning Classroom PINTERESTing? 10 Ideas for Using PINTEREST - 1 views

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    " Today's "Hot Topics Wednesdays" episode is devoted to Pinterest. We have already talked about this social network (see below) that allows you to visually organize anything by pinning images on various boards. Now, how can you use this popular tool in your classroom?"
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    Great ideas! I see a lot of possibilities...with others courses, not mine :(
Mathieu Plourde

Information Overload? YOUR Blueprint for Turning Information into Action - 0 views

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    "It's the cornerstone of any successful Internet business. We all need information to learn what techniques are currently working. Without it; you'll get left behind."
Mathieu Plourde

Digital Skills Can Be Quickly Acquired - 0 views

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    "They are essential skills that are needed to operate in the world and in the workplace," she said. "And people will either need to learn through formal training or through their networks or they will feel increasingly left out."
Mathieu Plourde

10 Steps To Designing An Amazing Infographic - 0 views

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    Infographics are visual designs that help to explain complicated data in a simple way (mental-health emergencies at Burning Man, anyone?). But how are they created? What can we learn from the designer's process? And what does an infographic designer know about storks delivering babies?
Mathieu Plourde

If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Pushing Hard Enough - 0 views

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    Patti Hart, CEO of International Game Technology, says that all too often, executives try to avoid making mistakes. That is a mistake.
Mathieu Plourde

Social media coaching for faculty - 2 views

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    For the last two weeks, I've been engaged in a very interesting experiment. Five faculty members from the Fashion and Apparel department have agreed to explore social media for personal productivity, professional development, curriculum redesign, and program promotion.
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    Thanks Mathieu for sharing the presentation with me so I can catch up with the rest of the class. It's going to be a very useful learning process. I also think your presentation to FASH 325 would be good to give to students earlier in their UD career. I was thinking about FASH 210, a course on FASH sustainability and business ethics in the Fashion Industry. These sessions will make us more sustainable!
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    Thanks Martha. I think you're right that students need to be exposed earlier to this, but I also think that we could chunk the session up in little parts, where I wouldn't necessarily need to be directly involved.
Brenda Shaffer

Welcome to Collaborative Networks - Log In, Sign Up or Learn More - 1 views

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    I just received this e-mail regarding this social media network.
Mathieu Plourde

How Companies Learn Your Secrets - 3 views

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    "Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a "predictive analytics" department devoted to understanding not just consumers' shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them."
Mathieu Plourde

Beyond Competence: It's the Journey to Mastery That Counts - 0 views

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    "The fact is that competence is not really the ultimate goal; it is simply one stop on a four-stop road to mastery. "
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