Every aspect of our lives is increasingly influenced by technology. Education is no different. Today’s students need to be able to compete in a global society. Part of that is having an understanding of the virtual world, along with having the motivation and self reliance to do things themselves, especially if they want to succeed in college. Today’s college students are reportedly taking 30 percent of all their classes online, so logically, requiring online classes for Florida high school students would be a step in the right direction.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-5303439205485732515?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:43 AM

Last month's snow storms and "calamity days" off from school didn't affect a small but growing segment of area students whose classrooms are found not in school buildings, but in their own homes. Instead of attending traditional schools - or learning via home schooling programs where parents double as teachers - these students "attend" kindergarten through 12th grade at home via state-accredited, online schools. Ohio is among the top three states in the nation for total number of students learning at home while enrolled in full-time, online schools, according to a 2009 national survey by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-5360648964700132044?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

Macmillan, one of the largest textbook publishers in the world, is introducing a new software for instructors that will allow them to change the online versions of textbooks that their students use. According to the New York Times, with DynamicBooks, "Professors will be able to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1541061767468426685?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

Working professionals can now pursue a Northwestern degree with little disruption to their daily lives. The School of Continuing Studies has developed several online programs that allow students to get both undergraduate and graduate degrees online. “The benefits are that people really can be anywhere in the world and attend Northwestern and get a Northwestern degree,” said Tracey Schroeder, manager of marketing and communications at the School of Continuing Studies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-2314842525390954062?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

U.S. News University Directory in collaboration with E-learning insiders clear up four common myths about the online learning experience and how online classes are perceived. &lt;br /&gt;Myth 1: My online class will be easier than a face-to-face one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“People are sometimes unpleasantly surprised that it’s not easier,” says Kathleen Moore, executive director of the University of South Florida’s (USF) ECampus. ECampus supports more than 84,000 enrollments in 2,000-plus distance learning sections each year, and since “regular faculty are teaching both online and face-to-face courses, there’s probably 100% comparability in terms of students’ workloads and the demands,” she adds.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-216729913717119334?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

Community colleges in particular lag in offering high-speed internet connections, the FCC said: Just 16 percent of community college campuses have high-speed broadband connections, compared with more than 90 percent of research universities. Markey’s bill would allow community colleges to benefit from the e-Rate as well. Another area of focus for the broadband plan is supporting and promoting online learning. The Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is an example of the potential that broadband offers for students who do not have access to Advanced Placement classes in their brick-and-mortar schools, or for students who want to take a specialized course not often offered.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-633439697579244904?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

For students who cannot immediately relocate to Dubuque to begin seminary studies, Wartburg Theological Seminary has a new long-distance learning program. Beginning with the fall 2010 semester, students can fulfill the first year of a degree program over a two-year period by taking classes online and studying on campus for periodic intensive sessions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-7472947271398518491?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

IE Business School in Spain has been running its distance-learning programme, the International Executive MBA, for ten years. It is aimed at executives with around seven years’ work experience—three of those managerial. The MBA lasts for 13 months and students are spread across the globe. Gamaliel Martinez, the director of the programme, gives the inside track&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1992327006257333631?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

Students spend a great deal of time online, and teachers may wonder how they can best teach students to use -- or disregard -- the information they find. Created by the Intute organization in the UK, "Encouraging Critical Thinking Online" consists of two teaching units for use in classroom settings. Visitors will note that the exercises can be used individually or consecutively. The resources "encourage students to think carefully and critically about the information sources they use," and the lessons learned are broadly applicable to range of humanities disciplines. Here visitors will find a teacher's guide and the two units that ask students to use the Internet to explore a question with multiple possible answers and also to gauge public opinion on a controversial topic. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010. &lt;a href="http://scout.wisc.edu/" target="_blank"&gt;http://scout.wisc.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-7984490857484243902?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

After public demonstrations of two online learning management systems—Desire2Learn and Remote-Learner—in January, the Office of Information Technologies has elected to replace Blackboard with Desire2Learn. The switch to Desire2Learn is not yet official. OIT is working on a contract to establish the amount of support they can expect from Desire2Learn, when to begin implementation of the product on campus and the price—OIT Chief Information Officer Sharon Blanton estimated $200,000.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-6459960586754985581?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

When the University announced it was switching from its long-standing online learning management system WebCT to eLearning Commons, Kelly Wright was a bit concerned. “I’ve been used to dealing with WebCT and it took me a while to get comfortable with it,” said Wright. “Now I’m having to re-teach myself on another system that some of my professors are new to too. It’s a bit confusing.” Wright, a pre-Business major from Peachtree City, has started to figure out eLC’s features, however, and now prefers it over the old WebCT system she called “clunky.” It is a description students and professors agree on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-389480525682148507?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:42 AM

If the contents of a course are the same, it doesn’t make sense to differentiate between online classes and regular classes. Online courses cost less, can be completed in a time frame the student chooses and sometimes have almost open book tests. Why wouldn’t students want to take courses this way? Online courses are going to continue to grow. Whatever the decision — to denote or not to denote — it will make little difference.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-2468627591427596709?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

YouTube said Thursday that it will start automatically captioning videos on its site, opening up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired, and a first step in creating a network of videos that could be subtitled between many languages. For now, YouTube can only transcribe videos uploaded in English into text, which can then be translated into text captions in other languages. But given the 20 hours of video content that YouTube uploads each minute, the San Bruno unit of Google said this is the largest effort ever tried on the Internet to harness evolving speech recognition technology to caption video content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor Note: Imagine the impact on online learning! Open captioning of video - automatically upon upload! Auto-Translation available to all viewers!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1441245086056832575?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

Hybrid foreign language courses introduced for summer - Amanda Munger, UW Oshkosh TodayUniversity of Wisconsin Oshkosh students can now work on part of their foreign language requirements from home. Hybrid courses, a mix of online learning and in-the-classroom instruction, are being introduced as part of the foreign language department’s 2010 Summer Session offerings.&lt;br /&gt;Catherine Bryan, co-chair of the foreign language department, said hybrid classes combine the convenience of online courses and the personal learning of regular classes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-2839137298061349997?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

Ohio students who may be used to sledding or playing video games on snow days could instead be given schoolwork via computer, under a proposal from state lawmakers. A bill offered by a bipartisan group of legislators would let schools use online lessons so as many as five school days called off for bad weather or other calamities would not have to be made up. Districts could immediately post assignments on their Web sites for students to complete within two weeks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1866663085687462912?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

Under the bipartisan bill, when a district cancels school, it could immediately post lessons to its Web site for each grade level or class, allowing students to download the material and turn in the work within two weeks. The bill would let schools use the e-lessons to replace up to five days missed because of snow, ice or other unscheduled closures. Supporters say the bill also could have an extra benefit: pushing districts to blend technology with classroom work to expand student learning beyond the traditional school day or year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1539335685935935725?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

In Berkshire County, where online courses weren't available even 10 years ago, more than 1,000 high school and college students are enrolled today in online courses -- ranging from bio-ethics symposiums to Mandarin Chinese."This is the technology generation," said Carol Arnold, a Virtual High School spokeswoman. "They live on instant messaging and email and Facebook, so this is really tapping into that."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-7853704643947933251?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

The stage for redemption, it turns out, can be a dingy, florescent-lit room tucked down a long hall at Sharpstown High School. Here, on mismatched chairs and a second-hand sofa, teens toil on laptops for hours on end — trying to atone for bad decisions and reclaim their dreams of earning high school diplomas. The Grad Lab — as it's being called at Sharpstown and the Houston Independent School District's 26 other comprehensive high schools — has become a focal point for would-be dropouts since opening in January. More than 100 students come each day, even Saturdays, trying to make good on their second chance.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-5830812315830822616?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

Pam Ice, online support director for the Colorado Department of Education, said recently, “Students in Colorado continue to see the value of online learning. The 2008-09 school year brought improvements in student success in many of Colorado’s online programs. Graduation rates and completion rates increased, more programs employ guidance counselors and credentialed staff for special education and English Language Learners. These efforts are paying off for the programs.” The Colorado Department of Education monitors 18 online programs around the state, ranging in size from the six-student Crowley County Online Academy to the Colorado Virtual Academy with more than 5,000 students.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-7104030059082470800?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

Any residual doubt regarding the explosive growth potential of distance education may have been dispelled last month, when the AFL-CIO announced it was teaming up with the National Labor College and the Princeton Review to launch an online college for the labor federation's 11.5 million members and their families. With projected courses in allied health sciences, business and other disciplines at an estimated $200 per credit, you could almost hear the whir of file servers straining under the anticipated load.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-190907044541803367?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh students can now work on part of their foreign language requirements from home. Hybrid courses, a mix of online learning and in-the-classroom instruction, are being introduced as part of the foreign language department’s 2010 Summer Session offerings.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-8057612932257109375?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:41 AM

A task force to expand the state's online programs at colleges and universities could boost growing programs at local schools, officials say. Online classes are a way for students to gain college credit without entering the classroom. Lectures, homework, discussions and sometimes testing are all handled through the Internet. Bruce Chaloux, an online-learning expert who works at the Southern Educational Regional Board, said national enrollment in online courses is growing at about 17 percent per year compared to 1.2 percent annual growth for traditional college classes. But Chaloux said there is still a lot of room to improve.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-2969806990779339990?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:40 AM

For working adults, juggling the demands of college is considerably tougher. It can be so tough for working parents that many find they can’t pull it off. But if you’re in that group and think a college degree is beyond the realm of possibility, think again. Online education has made it easier than ever to earn a degree while you hold a job.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-1683245454851598006?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:40 AM

Students turn to their laptops for free online courses from Ivy League scholars. Last year, I was obliged to take a course as part of my undergraduate political science degree. It was described as political game theory. I needed to make it through the course, so I did what many others have done: I turned to the Internet. There, on a site called Academic Earth, I learned everything I was later tested on from Benjamin Polak, a professor of economics teaching at Yale, whose full course on game theory was videotaped and posted online, complete with worksheets and exams. I used only Polak’s material for all my assignments and exams. And so I wondered: why was I paying for this class when I got a better education online and for free?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-4306375016556648372?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:40 AM

Tufts students may no longer have to turn to Tufts Reviews for course evaluations. Students may in the next two years be able to fill out and access course evaluations online, thanks to a collaborative project by Tufts Community Union (TCU) senators and administrators. According to senior Emily Maretsky, TCU Senate trustee representative for academic affairs, senators are working with the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) and the Academic Affairs Committee to work out the details of the plan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3058503-647258800837934965?l=people.uis.edu%2Frschr1%2Fonlinelearning%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>

by Ray at March 12, 2010 04:40 AM

I started a tradition last year to try to spend Spring break coding somewhere. This year thanks to gracious support from JISC to participate in the JISC Dev8D Developer Days in London, I had airfare to Europe. I decided to...

by Charles Severance at March 11, 2010 10:00 PM

As son as I saw the first web application building 'mistake' I knew I should link to this post. The mistake? "Not thinking about character encoding right from the start." All I can say is, ack! ack! ack! (I hate character encoding issues). Another good one is number 10: "Underestimating the problem of spam." Juliette Culver, Weblog, March 11, 2010 [Tags: Spam] [Link] [Comment]

March 11, 2010 05:36 PM

Antonio (no last name on this blog) offers a responds and reframing of recent criticisms of Moodle. He's concerned abut the critics implicitly helping competitors, like Blackboard. And the criticisms, he says, miss the point. "It's not Moodle which cost 6 million British Pounds. Moodle was free, had they deemed to stick just with it. Then, I have no clear info that the OU has repented its decision." Antonio, Skate of the Web, March 11, 2010 [Tags: Great Britain, Blackboard Inc., Web Logs] [Link] [Comment]

March 11, 2010 04:58 PM

Keeping you up to date: there are now 135 million Creative Commons licensed images in Flickr. Of these, the large majority (73 percent) have a Creative Commons 'non-commercial' license (CC-NC). Interestingly, there's a clear bias in this post for non-CC-NC licenses - a so-called "freedom score" increases the fgewer CC-NC licenses there are. I'll say it again: a resource is MORE FREE if it is NOT sold commercially, because the owners of these resources won't let you have them unless you pay them money. It is an Orwellian turn of phrase that allows you to portray as "more free" resources that you have to pay for. Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons, March 11, 2010 [Tags: Flickr] [Link] [Comment]

March 11, 2010 02:55 PM

One would think that organizations and companies that support vouchers would use them themselves, instead of relying, as they all do, on directed or in-house training. Until now, looking for a company that actually did this would be futile. But according to this article, Microsoft is offering free online learning to customers in the form of vouchers. This program, offering 18,500 vouchers, is a very small-scale experiment in the system. But it will be interesting to see how the pilot works. If so, it could then be scaled to serve the corporate community generally. It would be good to have a working example of such a program before converting the entire public education system to it, as voucher advocates urge.
Tom Abate, San Francisco Chonicle, March 11, 2010 [Tags: Online Learning, Microsoft] [Link] [Comment]

March 11, 2010 10:04 AM

The CodePlex Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities, has announced the appointment of four members to its permanent Board of Directors. New appointees include Jim Jagielski, Chief Architect at SpringSource, a division of VMware, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Apache Software Foundation and an Advisory Board Member at Open Source Software Institute, and Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of External Research for Microsoft Corporation.

March 11, 2010 10:03 AM

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March 11, 2010 01:13 AM

Can people educate themselves? The jury's still out, I think, on this. But these five autodidact sites suggest that, maybe, they can. Jeff Cobb, Mission to Learn, March 10, 2010 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment]

March 10, 2010 03:22 PM

The emphasis we place on a single word in a sentence can change the whole meaning of the sentence. This is because the meaning is based, in part, on the alternatives excluded by the sentence, snd these are contextually bound and indicated by emphasis. That's (one reason) why we say meaning is not contained solely in the sentence itself, but is distributed across an environment. This post is intended to be a cautionary note abut social media, but extends to the use of text generally. That's why I'll often indicate emphasis in posts, with either italics or *stars*. Steve Borsch, Connecting the Dots, March 10, 2010 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment]

March 10, 2010 03:18 PM

Just for fun, I have posted a bunch of screenshots from one of my earliest web sites, from 1995. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, March 10, 2010 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment]

March 10, 2010 02:34 PM

In this article, a forward for a forthcoming book, I look at the relation between control and software. Web and learning applications, I write, look like language, with all its attendant expressiveness and freedom, but functions like architecture, which can be cold and inflexible. Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, March 10, 2010 [Tags: none] [Link] [Comment]

March 10, 2010 02:29 PM

Online publishing is in many respects the new frontier for those who have a voice, a business, a desire to communicate or change things for the better. It potentially enables any individual connected to the net to be a two-way communication hub capable of sending out information and equipped with technologies to listen and respond. But to transform such revolutionary opportunity into a truly effective marketing vehicle, or into a sustainable online business resource, takes a lot more than what we are told on blogs or on the many sites promoting how easy and fast it is to become a successful online publisher. Photo credit: Robin Good In reality, transforming the online publishing opportunity into something that one can leverage to reach and realize his own dreams, it is much more complex and hard than we are told. It takes lots of efforts, time, resources, expertise and skills which are not part, for the most, of our typical background and scholastic preparation. It requires the use of approaches and methods which sometimes counter what we have unconsciously learned through traditional media and that command lots of dedicated work to produce any significant results. But even the most fundamental, basic concepts of effective communication, sometimes seem to escape even those that command so well technology and new trends. It may be because some of us really never got to stop and study the mechanisms behind it, or simply because what we have been often seeing reported as professional communication has been nothing but the wrong approach to getting a message across and starting a true conversation. In these two short excerpts from my Dicole OZ show, recorded in Helsinki, this past December, you can grasp a little more of what I think is really essential to know to become a great and effective web publisher.

Online Publishing Skills: Communicate Better By Learning How To Listen

Robin Good: Skills required. People always ask me "What kind of skills do I need to be like you? Do I need to study..." No, do not study. Do things. The skills are really be able to communicate. "I thought it was something more. What about the computer?" "Yes, the computer..." "Only communication?" "Yes, communication." People think that communication is something ephemeral. Something like "You need to know how to talk". "I know how to talk". But they do not realize how little each one of us has developed the skills to really communicate. You go to meetings, you go to parties, you meet somebody on the street they introduced to you. 85% of the times it goes like this: "Bkladsghkajdnvkamdnflkjflakjnadsmfn!" Your turn: "Attatatatatatatatata!" "Ah! mnmtbamnamnbnmt!" It is kind of a competition on who has got the worst story, or the more interesting one. We call that a conversation, but we are not really picking up anything from the other. We are not really putting ourselves in their shoes or empathizing with them or trying to find out why. I am exaggerating - I know - but look how many time when you talk is just noise filling the air in turns. My turn, your turn. Some people take long turns and that makes it more difficult... That communication is something else. It is about understanding something that does not have to do with words and communicating. It has to do with reality. "What?". Yes, reality. Communication is all about - in my little humble view - understanding that reality is an ephemeral thing. And that there are millions different realities. There is no one single, tangible final thing that is there unmovable, everything moves, that you can count on. This, for example, escapes many people. Sometimes because they got too much into school, into Church or into something else, and they think that there is one ultimate way to look at things. My belief is that, if you are going to be a communicator - even if you work for CBS or some other bad companies like that - still, you need to know that there are multiple realities, multiple viewpoints. What are those great journalists and reporters doing - the ones that are acclaimed for something - they look at the news from different viewpoints. They do not sell themselves to one viewpoint. They do not stand only on one side, even if it looks like the good side. They always have the courage to go and look at the other side of things. That ability to have empathy for who is in front of you and trying to understand what they are trying to communicate, or if they are going for a monologue because they just want feel great inside themselves - you need to develop those skills by listening. listening, listening, and really listening. It is all about listening.

Online Publishing Skills: Think Strategy Before Technology

Robin Good: The direction I think is really valuable for you to take as a reference - if you are going to have the courage to move out of the traditional business job - is to consider that the future is all about learning. That means that most people in the future, increasingly, will want to learn something new, and they are going to go less and less inside traditional institutions to do that, because if you can teach me how to cook that sausage like you showed me before with a particular smell that I have never heard before, I would rather take a course with you online - if I can talk to you, if I can see you, if you show me all your secrets - than go in some nice cooking school in Rome that is maybe much closer. Because we do not trust anymore the brands, the companies. We trust individual people. Whether or not they are part of companies. It is the person, specifically, that we go to. The Internet has a tremendous failing item that makes people makes mistakes and that it is too easy to do stuff. You just click and it goes out. You blog, you type, you publish and it goes out. You make a video - YouTube - and it goes out. People think that communicating and publishing is easy. By making that unconscious bridge in their head, they forget to ever stop and think how they want to use this technology. They stop and they do not reflect on building a strategy, a plan, having a road. They start doing stuff, "let's put this... and this other plug-in... the layout... let's change this... another category of content... what the analytics say... let's change this..." It is a busy life, you are a publisher, you are putting stuff all the time. It is like if music could be better by adding more notes, more instruments. "Let's all play." It does not get better, it gets noisy. To make a good piece of music you need to orchestrate it and arrange it, and know the different instruments, and got your hands very dirty with it. The same happens with publishing and communicating online. Unless you have built an appropriate strategy, you cannot really get anywhere. Thinking and developing a plan, by questioning all that it is being told to you outside is the last point of my recipe - the so-called "Sharewood formula".

Along with basic art training, educational programming resources pictographs can be individually studied and critiqued. “We look at the work of others not because we want to copy it, ” reports Christin Struckhoff, “but because we want to take away the best aspects of each educational programming resources design and apply them to our own work. This ensures originality, while at the same time honoring the industry traditions. Patria Jahns, CEO and lead partner of the Villacorta Ammann educational programming resources Design firm Carolin Palowoda & Partners, had this to say about digital design in the new millenium: “The use of computers in our firm has accounted for a five-fold increase in productivity, quality, and sales volume. Computers allow our educational programming resources design specialists a much a higher degree of efficieny and output. Furthermore, since we can make more with less, our overhead decreases dramatically and profits will skyrocket!” Many educational programming resources artists, especially those under the age of 30, have never known any other medium except for digital design. Hunkele Stetzel, fellow of the Brincks Paynter Institute, remarks: “The fact that most of today’s up and coming designers have never used charcoal and a pad of paper doesn’t bother me in the least. Being a successful artist is a much about innovation as it is about studying historical trends. If charcoal and paper doesn’t fit the bill anymore, why should we expect educational programming resources design professionals to use such antequated techniques’” And, with this unprecedented growth in the private sector, demand for higher educational programming resources education will increase. This will allow for broader funding of top educational programming resources design schools, like the local Polo Bring College of Art, and also decrease smaller school’s need of public funding. “We’re really psyched about the coming years,” says Soder Wolinski, an artist and teacher, “because as interest and corporate demand for educational programming resources art grows, so will the talent base. We’re going to see some great work from some of the top up and coming names in the business!” Overall, the educational programming resources industry has not reached its maturity, which continues to boost the enthusiasm of most digital artists, like Roseann Heeg. Roseann Heeg believes that in time, demand will greatly outstrip supply producing a huge opportunity for good artists to get in and make some fast cash. “I know there is no such thing as a quick buck, but in 5 years, when this educational programming resources industry blossoms, we’re going to see a lot of new rich people. I hope to be one of them myself, which is why I work at the prestigious Voltin Riggans Firm, located next to the Fidelia Farguharson Memorial Design Museum. “I’ve been a student of educational programming resources design for almost 20 years now, ” said Steffanie Burkland, and employee and share holder of Kamaka Brumbalow INC, “and I can’t say I’ve ever been more excited than now. Our new director, Wooley Sprinzl, promises to bring things to a much higher level and increase our output. I realize this will mean more educational programming resources design hours, but this also means more money for all of us.” If you want to find out more about starting your own educational programming resources career, try contacting the Delphia Summerson Fellowship for educational programming resources Arts and Design, located by the Sang Tichenor Memorial Library. Simply show up in person or call 1-800-Sang Tichenor to enroll in any of the beginner classes which operate on a rolling schedule, with matriculation opening every 2 months. Intermediate and advance educational programming resources level classes begin every six months, with matriculation for each respective group on Jan. 5 and July 11. Members of the Lauretta Hubiak Partnership LLC, a educational programming resources graphic arts firm, were recently over joyed when they won several major national level contracts that could bring as much as $2 Million in profits this year. “WOW…,” proclaimed Woolum Bouthillette, chief designer and a member of educational programming resources sales team, “This means a lot to me personally. We’ve worked so hard in this industry for years, and finally, it is starting to pay off big!” “The key to working on good educational programming resources design pieces is patience and rote talent, ” says Morgen Cartland. “Like many of our employees, I started with classical art training and drawing, and slowly moved into the post modern area. This succession greatly improved my educational programming resources art and drawing skills.”

March 10, 2010 08:00 AM

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March 10, 2010 03:42 AM

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