My hero in acapella music/rhythm/entertainment is Bobby McFerrin. Haven’t seen him on a stage for a long time, so when this came across my desktop I couldn’t resist. It shows how preprogrammed we are – and it also shows how many people in the audience were able to read music, because if they didn’t understand a (piano) keyboard they wouldn’t have been able to make it happen.
Demand-publishing using online services
New from Dalai Lama Foundation Press: The most popular program of The Dalai Lama Foundation has been its study guides. Originally written by a group which met over a two-year period in Los Altos (California), the English-language study guide for His Holiness’s book Ethics for the New Millennium has been downloaded from the Foundation’s web site tens of thousands of times. The download, a PDF, can be read on screen or printed. Ethics for the New Millennium can be purchased separately, from your local bookseller or from one of many online sources. The guide has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese. A Russian and a Japanese version of Ethics for the New Millennium are also available from the Foundation. [Read more…]
Hey! We already thought of that!
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| Doug Engelbart in 1968 |
Once or twice a week I’m in a meeting, someone blurts out their fantastic new idea, and I have to bite my tongue instead of saying “hey, we thought of that years ago!”
If you’re over 30 you’re probably beginning to have that thought yourself once in a while. My favorite is when someone pops up in a meeting and says “Hey, I had this great new idea that we should use the web [or phones, or whatever] for online learning.”
When I tell them that someone first did this in 1954, why do they get so bent out of shape? (And then ignore the comment and go right back to claiming the idea as their own…) [Read more…]
Doodling – or is it Visual Mapping?
Jay Cross writes about developing a reputation as the guy who was doodling in business school classes.
But what Jay shows as examples might not all be doodles. Meaning aimless drawing. Yes, Jay may have been doodling much of the time, but there’s often more to it than that. And it can be extremely useful as well. [Read more…]
TweetChat: Twitter for meetings – but it’s a tossed salad
Suddenly this afternoon at 5pm I started receiving a bunch of tweets (Twitter messages) from friends. That’s not unusual, but these tweets didn’t make much sense. Obviously a couple of my friends were chatting back and forth using Twitter, but of course all of their followers, even those who weren’t in on the conversation, were receiving the messages – which made no sense because they/I had no context for these tweets. They seemed to be random answers to some unseen question. And they weren’t exchanging direct messages, which would have been private, not public. What had I missed?
Then I noticed the hashtag #lrnchat on the tweets and I investigated. [Read more…]
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