Free Music for Videos: Remember How it Started? by Dano

Saw this tweet today about Dan-O Royalty Free Music. There is a wide selection to draw from.

View it here:
Free Music for Videos: Remember How it Started? by Dano

Here's how to credit use of his files: http://www.danosongs.com/

Thanks, Dan O'Connor.

Request for L and D Learning Professionals as Guest Discussants

I am planning a grad level course to be offered this summer for Learning and Development professionals, titled 21st Century Training Technologies. The course emphases are the use of social media and social learning as complements to formal training and performance support. If you are a L and D person in the field helping companies move to such practices and would be willing to be an online or real-time discussant during the week of August 8th, would you please contact me?

There is no budget for guest discussants--thought I should share that up front. I do know there are many generous people out there...

Thanks so much,


Alice Bedard-Voorhees, PhD
The Constant Learning Organization
Twitter: ConstantLearn

The History of Jazz - a Media-Rich App on a Timeline

I've been wanting to know more about jazz and found some enthusiastic posts about the History of Jazz app on Ipad. Here it is. I bought it and as an informal learner, I'm loving it. If you were teaching a course in the history of jazz, how would you use it?



On the more analytical side, I hope these companies consider other ways to offer such wonderful resources. We are back to digital divide issues, if they don't, and that is a potential learning barrier.

TED ED Invites You to the Revolution

At a workplace in the nineties, I used to have a tagline that said "Here for the revolution." Somewhere I drifted over to the thought that change in education would be evolutionary, that people had to move along a continuum to really change the model. Well, it just has not been happening at the pace we need.

And beyond the political news, there is once again talk of the revolution with TED's creation of an educational community. So, I'm back. Watch the video and consider the opportunity to contribute to the TED ED BrainTrust: http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/01/join-the-ted-ed-brain-trust/

2011 Horizon-Report Video

NMC and Educause's Horizon Report is out. This 3:26 minute video presents the major tech trends for Higher Ed within a 1 - 5 year adoption timeline:

0-1: Mobile Devices and E-Books
2-3: Game Based Learning and Augmented Reality
4-5: Gesture-Based Computing and Learning Analytics



You can also download the pdf version here: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report.pdf

The Why and How-To of Twitter Lists

I'm trying to become more familiar with the capacities of various tools.

Here's a good post on why use Twitter lists. This post not only provides some good reasons for creating lists, but adds detail for use once the list is established (like how to add additional Twitter Users after you've established the list: http://slymarketing.com/how-create-twitter-list

Here's a four minute video tutorial as well:

Great Timeline of Social Media from Online Schools

Via: Online Schools