Insights

Martin Bean

The new Vice Chancellor of the OU gives a 15 minute YouTube interview about his first few weeks in the job.
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A Great Ad

I love this Intel Ad.  It shows Ajay Bhatt the inventer of the USB port being feted as a Rockstar inside Intel. ‘Our Rockstars are not your Rockstars’ it says. Tongue in cheek it may be but it hides a significant truth But just how many companies celebrate their Rockstars?  And every company has them: 
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Linkedin Poll

The Question: What do you look for when deciding upon a first class graduate career? The overwheming answer is here:  50% voted for a good training and developement proposition.
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Virtual Worlds

Ron Edwards from Ambient Performance talks for a minute on the importance of virtual worlds for learning. Click here
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Two Obnoxious Ads

Can you believe that Microsoft is inviting people to host ‘launch parties’ in their homes for Windows 7. Here is the link to Microsoft’s website. It is ‘our launch guys’. There are YouTube videos to help you set up your party, with 4 demographically chosen presenters: young, old, female, ethnic minority all enthusing about how
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Dave Carroll’s United Breaks Guitars

I know this has been posted everywhere for a few months but it is still worth sharing for those that have not seen it yet. The story is simple, a band travelling from to Nabraska from Halifax Nova Scotia via Chicago on United Aiirlines. Dave Carroll the leader of the band had one much loved
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As Seen in the 90s

AT&T ran a series of Ads in the early 1990s predicting our technological future, with the tag like:  “One company will bring this to you:  AT&T”. The predictions are spookily accurate:  Sat Navs, mobile computing, eTags for tolls, video phones, medical records on a chip etc.  What is surprising, is that the one piece of
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Come on Ivy

Ivy Bean is 104 years old and an avid Twitterer.  She has over 29,000 Followers and tweets from her Care Home in Bradford which encourges the residents to take up interests including computing. The comments on her site are always encouraging and sympathetic,  and genuinely affectionate. She is now communicating with more people than she
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100 Essential Web 2.0 Tools

Online Degree portal site is listing the 100 Essential Web 2.0 tools.  A brief description and a link for each one.  Many will be familiar but some will be new and maybe interesting. Check out the page here. The main site lists about 100 Universities offering online degrees at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Some are
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99 Best Workplace Learning Blogs

Well those selected by the excellent blogger himself: Tony Karrer.  I defy anyone else to be familiar with all 99, so there is much to explore.  I have set myself the target of reading all 98 listed (apart from my own humble contribution) over the course of this week. i will post my top ten
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