FastestTube is a browser extension that currently works with Chrome, Firefox and Safari (IE version on the way). It sits in YouTube and allows you to download any video in a number of formats: This is a really useful facility.
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When YouTube really does have to be offline
Today I sat down, just as I did ten years ago, to write a set of checklists and standards for digital learning content as applied to the workplace. While this was, for me at least, a worthwhile and rewarding experience, and will hopefully be of value when released sometime soon to content developers and purchasers of off-the-shelf content, the process was enormously complicated by the changes that have taken place in the scope and application of digital learning content.
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So what actually is learning content?
Today I sat down, just as I did ten years ago, to write a set of checklists and standards for digital learning content as applied to the workplace. While this was, for me at least, a worthwhile and rewarding experience, and will hopefully be of value when released sometime soon to content developers and purchasers of off-the-shelf content, the process was enormously complicated by the changes that have taken place in the scope and application of digital learning content. Ten years ago, all we had, at least as far as workplace e-learning was concerned, was interactive tutorials, very closely resembling the computer-based training materials that we had previously experienced on CD-ROM and videodisc.
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So what actually is learning content?
Jul 28
This great little video from SimplyZesty , an agency specialising in Online PR and Social Media based in Dublin, contains some fascinating stats about social media usage in the UK. Check the website out because they have a free e-book too.
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Social media in the UK 2010
A recent posting on Mashable reports some interesting data from Resolve Market Research based on an online survey of potential purchasers and active users of iPads, smart phones, e-readers and portable video game devices in the USA. It provides some insights into the uses early adopters are finding for their iPads and the effect this is having on competitive devices: The iPad was initially positioned as a device for reading, watching videos and web browsing
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So how are people really using the iPad?
Jul 19
Recently I got an email from ‘Sean, a fellow learning theory/tool fiend… I’m also a first year student at Harvard Medical School but I just launched my own tech-heavy learning project on the side
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Excel Everest
In a fascinating Economist article, The Lazy Medium: How people really watch television , we discover once again how rapid changes in technology are only slowly reflected in meaningful changes in behaviour. The following three extracts from the article demonstrate quite clearly how what we thought the impact of technology might be doesn’t necessarily match up to current reality: Myth 1: Viewers disregard the programme schedule But a change in expectations is not quite the same as a change in behaviour.
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How people really watch television
This month’s Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog asks what software tools, as learning and development professionals, we should set out to learn. On careful reflection, I’d have to say none. I’ve witnessed terrible examples of the training friends of mine have received when they decided to become more tech-savvy.
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The Big Question: What tools should we learn?
Don’t Shoot the Messenger , in a recent issue of The Economist, emphasised just how much new media have been resisted over the ages. The stimulus was Obama’s recent seemingly technophobic pronouncement that “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment.” As the article points out, Obama “joined a long tradition of grumbling about new technologies and new forms of media.” Apparently – and you’ll never believe this – Socrates objected to the spread of writing because it would cause people to rely on written texts rather than their memory
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Before we criticise the next new medium …
May 26
Connie Malamed’s posting First iPad University Course drew my attention to the mini MBA course being put together by Rutgers University and Apple’s higher education team. Connie describes how “Rather than placing all the course content online, the program will take place in the classroom, but will provide students with iPads loaded with all required reading material, videos and custom applications.” First thoughts are, at least for me, a sense of excitement at such a bold new use of new technology
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Ready-loaded iPad educator