• Obama Unveils His National Security Team - NYTimes.com - Annotated

  tags: obama, nytimes.com

  • the country’s top diplomat
    • Where exactly has she gotten diplomatic experience? I am not being snarky, I just want to know. - post by tellio

• Google Tips

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• Dig Deeper with Diigo - SlideShare

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• Diigo Educator Account - FAQ - Diigo Help Center

  tags: diigo, educator

• How to Use a Genius Tool for Writers: Mind Maps | Write to Done

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• workflow management Resources | BNET

  tags: bnet

• The Wealth of Networks

  tags: no_tag

• Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit || kuro5hin.org

  tags: productivity, gtd, lifehacks, personalmastery

• SpringerLink - Journal Article

  tags: keywords

  • 
    • Reminds me of C.Alexander’s A Pattern Language. Any thing like that been done for workflow discipline? - post by tellio
  • Differences in features supported by the various contemporary commercial workflow management systems point to different insights of suitability and different levels of expressive power.
    • Suitability and expressive power are interesting ways to describe how we do our job of work. - post by tellio
  • workflow patterns.
    • C. Alexander’s A Pattern Language? - post by tellio
  • workflow - pattern - control flow - suitability - expressive power
    • potential keywords for future research - post by tellio

• Workflow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  tags: wikipedia, workflow, general_research

• YouTube - wdrexler’s Channel

  tags: wdrexler

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• YouTube - How NOT to use PowerPoint!

  tags: powerpoint

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17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda

17 Ways to Get Free Books

You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

1. Bibliomania - Bibliomania is a simple and fast-loading site that offers over 2000 classic books, short stories, plays and poems online. From Mark Twain to William Shakespeare, some of the world’s greatest writers are included on the site. All you have to do is browse the site’s genre sections or search for a specific text, then you are presented with it directly on the site’s page. Users can seamlessly stroll through each page with this site, as it isn’t bogged down with flashy graphics.

Bibliomania is an invaluable tool for book lovers, as well as students and teachers. Teachers for the classroom could print off excerpts from classic texts. Also, study guides are available on the site, should you need to cram for a big test. Should you wish to purchase a physical copy of a featured text, you can be directed to a store where you will can order the text online with a credit card.

• Books | EDUCAUSE

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• Fifth Discipline

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• Organization Development and Knowledge Management, GMU/School of Public Policy

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• NAIS - Annual Conference -

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• The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education

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• The International Studies Schools Association at the University of Denver

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• Presentation Materials

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• TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.

  tags: community, TakingITGlobal, activism, education, global, teaching

• About Systems Thinking

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Calendar

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Syllabus

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• The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah

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  • The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah

    By Mike Mitchell
    

    On my way to the basement to do some laundry, I noticed a package on my porch. It was in the usual spot where I ask delivery people to put things if there’s no answer to the doorbell. Strange, though. I wasn’t expecting anything; everything I’d ordered recently had been delivered.

    When I came back upstairs I picked it up. It was for me, not my tenants, and it was from Hong Kong. There was no return address and the customs declaration on the side simply read “camera part.” Very strange.

• Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society

  tags: paradoxical

• Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History| The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty

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• Charles H. Smith’s Home Page

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• Links from all over the place (I) « eme ká eme

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• 17 Ways to Get Free Books | Frugal Panda

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  • 17 Ways to Get Free Books

    You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

    1. Bibliomania - Bibliomania is a simple and fast-loading site that offers over 2000 classic books, short stories, plays and poems online. From Mark Twain to William Shakespeare, some of the world’s greatest writers are included on the site. All you have to do is browse the site’s genre sections or search for a specific text, then you are presented with it directly on the site’s page. Users can seamlessly stroll through each page with this site, as it isn’t bogged down with flashy graphics.

    Bibliomania is an invaluable tool for book lovers, as well as students and teachers. Teachers for the classroom could print off excerpts from classic texts. Also, study guides are available on the site, should you need to cram for a big test. Should you wish to purchase a physical copy of a featured text, you can be directed to a store where you will can order the text online with a credit card.

• HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free

  Easy poetry readings/ lectures/ audio diary.

  tags: podcast, itunes, tools

• Our Tea

  tags: no_tag

• Twitter for Dummies: Home

  tags: twitter

• 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive - Download Squad

  tags: usb, portable, tools, usbDrive, freeware

• Daddy, Where’s Your Phone? - O’Reilly Radar

  tags: mobilelearning, digital_natives, educational_leadership

  • But I plead guilty to Kamla’s charge: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we’re trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on.
    • Because I work in a computer lab classroom (I am indeed a lucky dude to have such a teaching assistant) I do not tend to notice this until I see a student texting in the back of the classroom. For him the computer keyboard within arm’s reach is nowhere near as compelling as the one in his hand. I feel like I am standing on stone in the middle of the creek as the rain pelts down and it has just occurred to me that I can’t stay where I am for long. Swim, rat, swim! - post by tellio

• tinytags - make a little text tag graphic

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• Will Electric Professors Dream of Virtual Tenure? - Chronicle.com

  tags: futureversity, singularity, x-prize

  • Singularity University
    • How far are we going to allow computers to advise us? Perhaps they would make better learning brokers or at least be better in bringing the multiplicity of the net and aggregat it into a “program of study”. - post by tellio
  • 
    • Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and International - post by tellio

  • how thinking machines would reshape campus life.

    • This is the meat of the article. I want to know how this singularity university affects me. Will I be out of a job? Will it make my job easier, faster, better? Where will I need to go to accomodate? Do I need to check out of higher ed and move into another form of ed? Worldwide effects? - post by tellio
  • I’m one or two orders of magnitude more productive today because of the global knowledge system the Internet has enabled.”
    • I would have to agree with this. Google as second brain (some seem to think that it is their only brain) is a metaphor I use with my students in class all the time. I can only imagine the connectivity online search represents to get tighter and more profound at the same time just as it already has. - post by tellio
  • Perhaps we’ll soon have machines recording everything we say, see, and hear, allowing us to retrieve experiences we now lose to forgetfulness.
    • Reminds me of Kevin Kelly’s website, The quantified self–http://www.quantifiedself.com/

      Good info is inevitably customized to small “t” truths that make your life meaningful. - post by tellio

  • Computerized research assistants
    • What kind of topology is being suggested here? Would these research assistants be experts on top or on tap? As it exists now humans are still at the hub of any system, but perhaps we need to move to a heliocentric system where the research bots are at the center and we orbit them. Personally, I prefer a jungle ecology system, a learning society of mind like MInsky writes about. - post by tellio
    • They already exist–google alerts for example. What we need are researchbots–oops they already exist, too. - post by tellio
  • The whole fabric
    • Interesting metaphor, our strength derives from the interlocking thread elements. - post by tellio
  • let’s face it, the human brain isn’t getting any zippier.
    • What a great motto or signature or bumper sticker!

      I certainly wish I could tag this comment. - post by tellio

  • These new computer teachers will have more patience than any human lecturer, and they will be able to offer every student individual attention — which sure beats a 500-person lecture course.
    • All hail the Comptutor! This frees up teachers to do…..? Creative work. Designing even wiser and better comptutors? - post by tellio
  • Virtual professors probably won’t ask for tenure. And Mr. Goertzel sees them as key to expanding educational opportunities, by greatly reducing the price of a high-quality education.
    • I think that we are already well past the fork in the road and some of us are dead teachers walking. Take a look at David Wiley’s slideshare on this and then rub that thought together with the idea of the comptutor as learning broker and you will know what I mean.
      Openness and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

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  • International Space University
  • For example, if the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could aid terrorists or repressive dictators.
    • I could see an educational panopticon with the ultimate evil high school counselor sitting like a giant hypnotoad in the center of it all directing us toward the greater good. - post by tellio

• Diigo for education | Education IT | ZDNet.com

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• Your Personal Online Brand - It Begins with your Facebook Profile | The Digital Student Blog

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• » Thinking Thru the Syllabus Networked Knowledge: ATEC 6V81 (University Texas at Dallas)

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  • Interresting idea: getting feedback on your syllabus on the internet . - post by theron_d
  • 
    • A truly clean class design. - post by tellio

• CiteULike: academicdave’s library [65 articles]

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• Fifth Discipline

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• Organization Development and Knowledge Management, GMU/School of Public Policy

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• NAIS - Annual Conference -

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• The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education

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• The International Studies Schools Association at the University of Denver

  tags: no_tag

• Presentation Materials

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• TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.

  tags: community, TakingITGlobal, activism, education, global, teaching

• About Systems Thinking

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Calendar

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• MIT OpenCourseWare | Sloan School of Management | 15.963 Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change, Fall 2002 | Syllabus

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• The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah

  tags: no_tag

  • The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah

    By Mike Mitchell
    

    On my way to the basement to do some laundry, I noticed a package on my porch. It was in the usual spot where I ask delivery people to put things if there’s no answer to the doorbell. Strange, though. I wasn’t expecting anything; everything I’d ordered recently had been delivered.

    When I came back upstairs I picked it up. It was for me, not my tenants, and it was from Hong Kong. There was no return address and the customs declaration on the side simply read “camera part.” Very strange.

• Interacting and paradoxical forces in neuroscience and society

  tags: paradoxical

• Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History| The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty

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artkleiner.com

I am heretical and my doctoral work will be heretical.  But what does that mean?  Art Kleiner helps me figure this out below.

That was the beginning of the age of heretics. Slowly, tentatively,
and with a variety of sources, new ideas began to emerge. They were
simple ideas that ran against the grain of conventional management
wisdom–for example:

• People
  are basically good at heart; they are fundamentally trustworthy. Only
  workplaces that give their members the chance to learn and add value
  through their work will succeed in the long run.
• Aim for quality of work, and money will follow.
• Industrial growth is not always desirable. Sometimes it can be destructive.
• Predictions and forecasts are mechanistic substitutes for awareness, and substitutes for awareness lead to bad decisions.
• There
  is no such thing as “just business, nothing personal.” Business is
  always personal, even if it isn’t supposed to be. And we are better off
  recognizing that.
• Everything in business is connected to
  everything else. Business is a complex living system with many
  interconnections. No one can control the system; one can only learn to
  influence it.

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This description of a leader’s actions doesn’t necessarily reveal the leadership behaviors that allow some people to execute well while others have great difficulty. During the spring and summer of 2004, we conducted an informal survey of CIOs at a group of leading higher education institutions in order to build a list of those competencies needed to fulfill the leadership and management roles particular to university-based IT environments in the coming years. Through these conversations we identified 10 competencies that IT leaders need:

• Strategic thinking from a systems perspective. The leader contributes to the organization’s development of a vision and priorities, anticipates the future, and builds scenarios based on explicit assumptions.
• Shared leadership. The leader builds working relationships with co-workers and external parties, negotiates and handles problems without alienating people, obtains cooperation through influence, and delegates both responsibility and authority appropriately.
• Communication and persuasion. The leader distills ideas into focused messages that inspire support or action from others and effectively communicates through presentations, recommendations, or writing. The leader uses appropriate interpersonal styles to guide and persuade individuals and groups.
• Change management. The leader acts as a catalyst for the needed changes, develops plans, and follows through on change initiatives.
• Decision making. The leader gathers and uses data and analysis to make decisions, including evaluating the long-term consequences, and makes decisions judged to be right for the university.
• Financial and business acumen. The leader possesses financial savvy and demonstrates the ability to lead cost-efficient initiatives without sacrificing quality. He or she successfully leads projects and programs that produce favorable results (business and financial outcomes) and demonstrates understanding of the changing financial constructs supporting IT.
• Working across the organization, developing strategic partnerships. The leader develops networks and alliances, collaborates across boundaries, and finds common ground with a wide range of stakeholders. He or she can maneuver through political situations effectively to get things done.
• Managing complex projects. The leader maps and manages complex initiatives, continually adjusts plans and strategies based on new information, and identifies and coordinates appropriate resources to support objectives.
• Building agreement. The leader recognizes different points of view, brings them out into the open, and builds on areas of agreement, exercising influence in ways that enhance the support needed to advance initiatives and building consensus when appropriate.
• Self-knowledge. The leader knows his or her own personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits; seeks feedback; and gains insight from mistakes.