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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

It conjures memories of terrible 90s thriller movies featuring Sandra Bullock in the prime of her career. Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work. And she felt this to be acceptable. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise.

Dashe & Thomson

He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. For example, I’m watching Storytellers: Kanye West on Palladia a couple nights ago (a great TV channel if you love music; and like learning, everyone loves music). During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

He showed a video where AICC announced that they will adopt TinCan. I don’t know what the adoption will actually mean but it sounded like TinCan will be the next version of IACC. John is the producer of many movies, the most famous ones are Titanic and Avatar. Yesterday it became even bigger. Keynote: John Landau.

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5 Best Practices in eBook Publishing

Kitaboo

Since content is easily available and shareable on the Internet, it becomes very difficult to police the web and nab copyright violators. DRM helps to control access to copyrighted material, such as proprietary software or hardware, or any type of content, audio, video music tracks, ebooks, games, movies, emails, documents, etc.

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The Influence of Technology on Generations

Kapp Notes

In one year, TV's formless, planless growth has caused seismic-like cracks in the foundations of such industries as radio, movies, sports and book publishing.” Instead, these youngsters were born into the world of the internet, video games and hand held gadgets.