Tidbits, titbits or tipbits?

Go ahead and try it! This short TED video can be considered to be inspiring!
Via Barb Jemmott

"It is probably true that personalized learning might not be possible without those very things required for ubiquity but in the end it is the notion of personalized learning that is profound. Personalized Learning centers on the individual and captures so much of what we now know makes a great learning experience."

Via Grant Montgomery, Kathleen McClaskey

"A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession.

Over the last year or so, the term communities of practice has entered the social media buzzword lexicon along with virtual collaboration, engagement, platforms, and Enterprise 2.0. Senior leaders want to establish them, new employees are being told to join them, and middle managers are being told to support them, but what, exactly are they?" Steve Radick

Via k3hamilton, Gust MEES

Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers...

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Via Ana Cristina Pratas

By observing these systems in nature, scientists have theorized that such systems harness a sort of leaderless, collective intelligence. By leveraging these kinds of consensus-based systems, groups of independently-acting ...
Via Howard Rheingold

By Lucas Whitefieldhixson Bioaccumulation:  Why Fukushima Matters What is Bioaccumulation?Simply Stated - All living organisms are connected to each other through a food chain.
Via Britt Gow

The sketchbook is an artist's BFF. It's a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, practice, maintain a visual history, and keep unpolished sketches that will eventually lead to amazing work.

If you haven't heard of Marshall McLuhan, well you're simply missing out on one of Canada's most innovative minds.

“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” John A Simone

 

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Not all days start off well. And sometimes you just wind up having a bad day.

 

But there are ways to turn it around.

 

Now, days can turn out bad in different ways. And have different solutions.

 

In this article I’d just like to share 5 general steps I often use to change my thoughts and emotions during a bad day. Going through these steps often allows me to change what is inside of me and so that allows me change the day for the better too...

Via Martin Gysler

If you start implementing these seven habits today, you will see a positive change in your life within a week’s time, guaranteed.

1. Choose happiness with words.
Happiness is simply a state of mind. No, I’m not implying that we can instantly heal the pain of a severe or unexpected personal tragedy just by thinking about being happy. Rather, I am referring to our levels of happiness on routine days when things in our lives are close to normal. In these neutral times, when we are neither ecstatic nor extremely sad, the slightest change in attitude can swing our happiness balance drastically in either a positive or negative direction. One of the primary factors that affect our attitude is our choice of words...

Via Martin Gysler

Via Barb Jemmott

 

 Slightly off topic..but interesting from an online identity point of view

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/fashion/online-dating-as-scientific-research.html

 

"They have observed, for instance, that many daters would rather admit to being fat than liberal or conservative" Stephanie Rsoenbloom

 

“As more and more of life happens online, it’s less and less the case that online is a vacuum,” he added. “It is life.” (Andrew Fiore)

On Truthiness- people tell small lies since they won't meet

- women say they are 8.5 pound thinner, men only 2 but said they were a half inch taller

 

-liars tend to use fewer first-person pronouns.

-"Liars use more negative words like “not” and “never,” yet another way of putting up a buffer. Liars use fewer negative emotion words like “sad” and “upset,” and they write shorter online personal essays. (It’s easier not to get caught if you say less.)"

 

-people date their own race

 

-women want men who are tall and weathy (Shocking)

-women prefer men slightly overweight

-men prefer women slightly underweight

 

 

 

Well I declare, I'm Liberal and not fat. ..there I said it...but was it a secret?- kh

 

Via k3hamilton