Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Four Seasons Pictures

Bliss and more Bliss
But if you dont like James Blunt, turn off the music

Monday, April 11, 2011

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist | Video on TED.com

Ideas keep on coming...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sktdq5z1N-4

The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist -- and gives others in his circumstance -- the means to make art again.

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist | Video on TED.com

Friday, March 25, 2011

Rapid elearning tools and techniques

What works currently is speed and quality in e-learing. Rapid e-learning is trendy, cheaper in costs and time for everyone(supplier and customer). So why not? There is no reason for why not.

How to save the world with elearning scenarios

e-learning is all about changed learning. Learning must have an experience and this experiences must be memorable.

How To Make E Learning Work

When i think about it, Learning is the most simple thing to learn. This is only so when the learners has the right amount and type of perception. What do I mean? If a learner lacks the drive or motivation (or whatever you may call it as long as it makes the learner want to take up learning), there is no learning that takes place. Remember, learning is all about transferring skills and knowledge. You know if learning is compared to a tap with running water (assume we are in someplace in Africa too without water shortage at the time) and there is no bucket to contain/hold the water. Then the water goes to waste and you'd rather think about conserving that water for another time or day. But if the bucket was present, its usually great and we fill it to the brim or somewhat level we deem comfortable with ourselves. This is how then I think that learning should be treated. Do we know that right amount? And what if there is a leak?

8 Reasons to Focus on Informal & Social Learning

Give the learners what they want now and what they will want then, thereafter, otherwise if not done this way, its a waste of time = money.

Learning to learn

When think about it, learning is everywhere. The classroom has been erased and new learning platforms chosen by learners have been suggested. Its about time that we used this great change-driven-learning-greatly-beneficial learning platform. Everywhere and at anytime. Just-in-time rather than Just-in-case.

Mobile Trends 2020

Mobile Trends 2020

the past, present and future

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Selling to Tough Customers - Ace of Sales

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Wearable COmputer

MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video.
..For a great cause on this project. Cellphone makers soon plan to release cellphones with projectors integrated in them, which will simplify their system even more.

Gates releases “more bugs” into the world.

Bill Gates spoke at TED on Tuesday about his philanthropy work and while discussing the prevalence of malaria in some developing nations, he cheekily opened a container and released some mosquitoes into the air, telling the audience of millionaires and billionaires that it shouldn’t just be the poor who experience the disease.

It was a bizarre way to get the audience’s attention. But some bloggers and news agencies that aren’t at the conference are calling the mosquitoes a “swarm” and raising health concerns about the act. There were only a handful of mosquitoes (TED organizers say the exact number was seven) and, as Gates said onstage, none of them carried malaria.

When Gates finished his talk, TED curator and host Chris Anderson quipped that Gates would now be known for releasing “more bugs” into the world.

Monday, February 7, 2011

SCRUM Framework (Project Management)

SCRUM TERMINOLOGY

We've introduced some new terms in describing the Scrum framework. Let's look at them in more detail. Scrum is made up of three roles, four ceremonies, and three artifacts.

Three roles

· Product owner: responsible for the business value of the project

· ScrumMaster: ensures that the team is functional and productive

· Team: self-organizes to get the work done

Four ceremonies

· Sprint planning: the team meets with the product owner to choose a set of work to deliver during a sprint

· Daily scrum: the team meets each day to share struggles and progress

· Sprint reviews: the team demonstrates to the product owner what it has completed during the sprint

· Sprint retrospectives: the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process.

Three artifacts

· Product backlog: prioritized list of desired project outcomes/features

· Sprint backlog: set of work from the product backlog that the team agrees to complete in a sprint, broken into tasks

· Burndown chart: at-a-glance look at the work remaining (can have two charts: one for the sprint and one for the overall project)


http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum

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EGYPT : "Departure Day" February 4, 2010

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Developer vs. Designer

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Brief Insights into Rapid e-learning

Here’s a brief summary on Rapid e-learning:

  • Focus on the basics like organizing the content and some simple graphic design concepts you find in books like the Non-Designer’s Design Book. Couple this with learning how to use the software.
  • Once you feel comfortable using the software, shift to creating the right type of look for your course. This isn’t about eye-candy. It’s a combination of aesthetic, context, and visual communication.
  • As you develop expertise building courses and get things to look the way you want, focus on what makes the course most meaningful. And that’s crafting a good learning experience.

Of course these steps aren’t necessarily linear or exclusive of each other. It’s just a simple way to look at the evolution of building a course.

It’s a lot easier to deliver an elearning course today than it was a few years ago. But it also puts a lot more pressure on individuals to do more with less. If you pick the right tools, get access to some low cost assets, and predetermine some of your course structure, you’ll be on your way to success.

Im a student of Tom Kuhlmann

How Do You Design For Creativity?

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