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Freshminds Friday with Alan Watts

By Jeff Cobb
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Here is some groovy content for your learning mix. Today I came across Freshminds and the Alan Watts Theater where South Park animators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have applied their animation skills to

Connections and Comparisons: The Wealth of Blogs

By Jeff Cobb
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A couple of Comments and Corrections before getting to the main portion of today’s posting: First, thanks to Tom Kuhlman from Articulate Global for commenting on my last posting, Rapid E-Learning, Blogs,

Web 2.0-In Plain English

I’m going to let most of what follows speak for itself because, well, it does. These are four videos produced by Common Craft that provide brief introductions to four common Web 2.0 technologies: social

TechSoup, Learning, and Web 2.0

I had the pleasure of getting to know the folks at TechSoup several years ago in the beginning stages of work on WebJunction, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project that was to (and does) include

iPod, I Learn?

Like many others who keep track of developments in online learning and learning technology in general, I have been watching with interest as podcasting has assumed its place in the educational landscape.

Online Learning: What Can It Deliver

I recently became familiar with a report issued in March by dgCommunities, a project of the Development Gateway Foundation, titled Online Education: What Can It Deliver. The “report” is primarily a

PowerPoint Again: Sex and the Grimm Facts

By Jeff Cobb
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While I am resisting the urge to establish a PowerPoint category for this blog or even to focus to any great degree on tools for online learning development and delivery, the cognitive train wrecks—many

Influence and Online Learning

Several years ago while attending the annual conference of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute), I had the good fortune to hear psychologist Robert Cialdini speak about