Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Infographie de l’Enquête nationale sur le télétravail | Zevillage : télétravail, coworking et nouvelles formes de travail | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Pendant le Tour de France du télétravail et des tiers-lieux, nous avons organisé la plus grande enquête menée en France sur le télétravail depuis 2006. See on http://www.zevillage.net Filed…

• Italian tradition of ‘suspended coffee’ takes hold elsewhere in tough economic times | The Raw Story | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT plerudulier‘s insight: Can’t afford coffee? No matter. In Bulgaria, an old Italian tradition that sees good souls buying hot drinks for those who struggle to make ends meet has taken …

• Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Cory Doctorow: Those pushing for ‘solutions’ to piracy risk eroding the net’s integrity and freedom from surveillance, censorship and control plerudulier‘s insight:  back in 1939, th…

• When Email Is Part of the Doctor’s Treatment – WSJ.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  The questions come at all hours, popping up on Dr. Mark Seigel’s personal email account: Can I dye my hair? Is it safe to drink red raspberry leaf tea? When will the nausea stop? Dr. Seigel, an OB-GYN with offices in the Maryland suburbs of Was…

• 8 Reasons Why you should Create A Blog for your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  Why would I start educational blogging with my students ? what is its benefits on their overall learning ? These are two legitimate questions you need to ponder on before embarking on a blogging journey with your class. In fact asking critical q…

• Follow / Unfollow – Making Relationships Work | Things I grab, motley collection

  Since the beginning of time, individuals have been in relationships. From good to bad, and everything in between, relationships have lifted people up as well as held them down. Relationships are a tricky thing. We want them badly. We discard the…

• The Perils of Perfection | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The dominant ideology of Silicon Valley today is: what could be disrupted should be disrupted — even death. plerudulier‘s insight: “WHEN your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweetin…

• Business à la française – FT.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT In a British work meeting, the aim is usually to make decisions. Nobody will expound a philosophy of, say, the toiletries market. If they do, they are joking. plerudulier‘s insight: …

• Open Access: ‘we no longer need expensive publishing networks’ | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional | Things I grab, motley collection

  Academics as a rule do not write their books to make money – in fact most receive only token royalties for their work. They do it to satisfy research assessments, to get hired and promoted and, most of all, to inform readers, spark debate, and c…

• What Happens in An Internet Minute ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  What Happens in An Internet Minute ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.

  Filed under: curation Tagged: internet, minute

• Students and depression: the struggle to survive | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The parents of two young men who took their own lives call for greater support for students who are struggling to cope Toby Thorn left a few words on the back of a letter he had recent…

• HBS Cases: LEGO — HBS Working Knowledge | Things I grab, motley collection

  Although it isn’t part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he gives students eight-studded LEGO buildin…

• How Huddle replaced spreadsheets at Sega of America | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Collaborationweb Sega of America’s new video game development processes were way too slow using emailed spreadsheets, so the company moved to Huddle, a cloud-based mobile service that’s much more efficient. Here’s how they did …

• Bilan semaine 1 du mooc GDP | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – ABC de la gestion de projet Ce schéma montre comment s’est déroulée ma semaine et combien de temps j’ai passé sur les points du programme. Premiers ressentis, quelques infos de l’intérieur… Plus de 3500 inscrits, 90 cartes … p…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Harvard Develops Micro-Drones Based On Origami | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Scientists are printing tiny robotic bees en masse with a technology used to print circuit boards. plerudulier‘s insight: The RoboBee project began in 2009, when a group of researche…

• Shanghai’s Spectacular Growth, in One Photo – Matt Schiavenza – The Atlantic Cities | Things I grab, motley collection

  Yesterday, Olga Khazan directed our attention to a fascinating satellite image, produced by scientists at ETH Zurich, showing the startling difference in Shanghai’s light intensity in the past 20 years. Whereas in 1992 the map revealed just a fe…

• Google Docs Collaboration In Hangouts Is Now Available To All Users [Updates] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Google Docs integration has graduated from extras, and is now a regular Hangouts feature available for everyone. For smaller teams of ten members or less, Google Hangouts is a wonderful collaboration tool in real time, and with Google Docs colla…

• What better bookmarking site than… your email? | Quel meilleur site de favoris que votre … Email? | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I remember reading somewhere, in some article about photography, that the best camera … is the one you have with you at the time you want to shoot a picture. I guess this is no strange…

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  Reblogged from MAKE: Engadget Expand, a two-day event of presentations, consumer electronics, and innovation, kicked off today at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The first panel discussion was “3D Printing Goes Mainstream” and it featured Ari Reic…

• Where does managed learning stop and self-managed learning begin? | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT I was recently asked this question: Where does “managed learning” stop and “self-managed” learning begin? So I created a chart ,which I am sharing below, to visualise my tho… See on w…

• Gnossienne No.5, Piano Works, Erik Satie | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Piano Music / Gnossienne No.5 plerudulier‘s insight: It appears that, when Erik Satie died, were found tens of umbrellas in the modest apartment he was residing in. See on http://www.youtu…

• 3 Great Posters for Teaching Writing ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  As a teacher, you can use these graphics with your students to teach them about the craft of writing. You can also use them as visual aids in your lessons or simply hang them on your class board to constantly remind students of what they need to …

• Internet of things: How machine-to-machine technology is making inroads into our lives – Economic Times | Things I grab, motley collection

  Imagine a situation where you are driving down the highway at night and your car hits a divider. It’s not a major accident but you need help and there is virtually no network on your mobile phone. Wouldn’t it be perfect if your car could send ou…

• How to inspire interdisciplinarity: lessons from the collegiate system | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Taking the interdisciplinary path is not easy, but universities can boost interaction between researchers and departments through social spaces that foster collegiality, says Elizabeth…

• The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio – Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman – Harvard Business Review | Things I grab, motley collection

  The research, conducted by academic Emily Heaphy and consultant Marcial Losada, examined the effectiveness of 60 strategic-business-unit leadership teams at a large information-processing company. “Effectiveness” was measured according to financ…

• How WordPress Thrives with a 100% Remote Workforce | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT WordPress.com is the 15th most trafficked website in the world. It is run by Automattic Inc, a company that is 100% distributed. That means everyone works from home, or more precisely,…

• Hierarchy & Social Networks Both #FAIL. Now What? : HRVoice.org | Things I grab, motley collection

  The advent of social platforms and communication tools is rapidly changing how information flows inside of organizations. This is challenging how decisions get made and how work gets done. There is even talk that management is no longer required…

• Asynchronous E-Learning Vs. Synchronous E-Learning | Mindflash | Things I grab, motley collection

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  Visually see the differences between asynchronous e-learning and synchronous e-learning practices.

  See on http://www.mindflash.com

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• Chomsky: The Corporate Assault on Public Education | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Our kids are being prepared for passive obedience, not creative, independent lives.   Let’s turn to the assault on education, one element of the general elite reaction to the civiliz…

• SimCity Is Smarter Than You (Even If You’re an Urban Planner) | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Josh Dzieza plays the latest version with Stone Librande, its lead designer, and Jeff Speck, the author of ‘Walkable City.’ plerudulier‘s insight: You’ll notice the difference right …

• Could learning analytics lead to the ‘Wal-Martification’ of Higher Education? | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from ICT Enhanced Learning and Teaching’s Blog: As a self-professed skeptic of learning analytics (I’m still not totally convinced they are great for the learner…even if they might be a great tool for education institutions), I was …

• Peer Grading: A Student Perspective in an Open and Online Course | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from online learning insights: In this post I share my peer grading experience as a student in the e-learning and digital cultures course offered through Coursera. I’ll provide readers a window into the student experience —how it work…

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