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

Dashe & Thomson

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). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. 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

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). He mentions that he loves movies and often uses movie quotes in songs. During the performance Kanye starts freestyling about how he creates lyrics.

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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. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music. By the way, “Surfing the Net” is a great phrase that fell by the wayside far too early.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Soapbox for the Day: Academic Journals like Field Methods, that dont support things like access to their content

Mark Oehlert

previous rants on this topic ) Until I get some explanations though, Im pretty well amazed at the academics involved in this scheme. Im feeling stupid here because I just dont freaking get it! We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Kindle: Tom Crawford Executes a Perfect Double Rebuttal with a Twist

Mark Oehlert

While Tom again, makes some cogent points, Im compelled to point out a couple of my own. While at the airport I can read reviews online, [link] download the books and have entertainment in flight, besides the movie. First, he describes my original post as "overly-ambitious praise of Amazons new e-book reader."

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Big Basket of Stuff #2.in which even amnesiacs can remember games.students get connected and wikis get adopted.

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Big Basket of Stuff #1: Wikis, IMs, and 3D | Main | Big Basket of Stuff #3.the Connected: The Movie : "What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision.

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