“Content is King, but Context is the Kingdom.” - Tony O’Driscoll WHY ME? Thanks Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll for inviting me to participate in a Blog Book Tour to discuss their new book " Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration " and be part of a global discussion regarding learning in virtual worlds and 3D learning spaces ( Facebook Group ). How could I say no!

“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity , and formal education positively fortifies it.” - Stephen Vizinczey Actually, as you learn and acquire knowledge and skills, your ego might amplify your confidence, ignorance and pride, which again could hinder you from going beyond what you have already learned. You become stubborn to try new ideas and approaches, because you have reached a level whereby you are comfortable with what you are doing, and it works perfectly fine to you.

THINKING! So, when you prepare your curriculum, learning environment, or course content, do you develop everything yourself (Me, Myself and I)? Or are you good at using whatever you can find ? Or perhaps you combine the best of both worlds to mash-up amazing learning experiences for your students. So, what is your secret recipe to constructing effective learning content and activities?

My home town of Duluth, Minnesota is trying to win the competition to have Google install a high speed fiber network for the entire community. You may learn more about our effort via Google Twin Ports . If you happen to be a Google employee who is evaluating Duluth's application, I've created a Google Custom Search Engine which provides you a nice extract of what makes the Northland great.

by Reni Gorman Tip #2: Use the conceptual framework (you created in tip #1) to organize course material into hierarchical groups, subgroups and chunks of 7 (plus or minus 2). Cognitive Psychology: Prepare information for encoding into the propositional network by attempting to organize and chunk material into meaningful patterns of information based on a conceptual framework and limited to groups or units of 7 (plus or minus 2) to account for the standard capacity of verbal working memory.

The squeaky tweet gets the grease! After posting a message within the Tweetworks CwDev group that I intended to abolish the group due to lack of interest, I got the following response from Mark Langford, head and founder of Tweetworks : "Don't go anywhere my friend! The new Tweetworks release is happening very soon." This kind of personal interest is rare, and appreciated.