Nick Leffler

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Generation Mobile

Nick Leffler

Don’t make me go into isolation away from my family because you think I wouldn’t want to do that activity from a mobile phone. I wrote about this desire of the modern web to be free from the notion that only certain activities are preferred on a mobile phone: Stop Trying To Predict Mobile Users Needs.

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The (1) Thing(s) Successful People Do First Thing In The Morning

Nick Leffler

They usually consist of overly broad activities that don’t tell you much about the person or how they became successful. Every other day if you look around social media and follow any professionals, you’re going to see an article about XX things successful people do (first thing) in the morning.

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Learned Helplessness of Learning #chat2lrn

Nick Leffler

Tweet chats are a wonderful activity to take part in. I was too busy at times to even see what was going on in the Skype chat so the chat2lrn crew had to take some liberties with the adjustments on the go, but it turned out great. They’re a whirlwind of discussion, ideas, and inspiration. For a not so great multitasked (is anybody?)

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The Things We Can Do With Crowdsourcing Are Limitless (But Hard)

Nick Leffler

I don’t feel like I’m the best participant because I haven’t joined into the co-authored document (an example of crowdsourcing I suppose) defining all these objects or other activities that I should be doing.I’ve ’ve more flowed in and out of.

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Learning From Others

Nick Leffler

Sharing and reflecting on what’s been learned recently is a daily activity, if not hourly. Twitter chats occur weekly or every other week though and learning never stops. If you only reflect on what you learned weekly, it’ll either be lost or melt into the rest. Reflection & Research.

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Join Me And Keep Ideas From Fading Away

Nick Leffler

I mention that because with all the fun activities and delicious smells of food baking, it reminded me I had left this article sitting after writing a few notes a few days ago. The idea came to me after hearing from others that they suffer from the same fate as I often do.

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Increasing Social Awareness in Higher Education

Nick Leffler

There was also some talk in the program of having students write a few posts which would have the added benefit of forcing them to become active in the community and increasing the chances they’ll continue writing after graduation. Growing an Instructional Design program at a major university is not an easy task.

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