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I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make a difference’

Posted on April 1, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Fig. 1. Testing ahead of an MBA Webinar I keep getting this crazy panic that I can’t know enough soon enough to ‘make a difference’ – the learning bug has set off a tempest in my brain Just as well…

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Could blogging be seen as a scholarly activity?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by mymindbursts — 3 Comments ↓

Blogging developed alongside the web in the mid 1990s and has its routes in keeping a diary, or a writer’s journal, even notes kept by students.

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Posted in Blogging, Collaboration, Creativity, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Grainne Conole, L&D, Learning, Martin Weller, Reading, Tertiary Education, The Open University, Words, Writing

Working with dreams : e-learning and the unconscious

Posted on February 5, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Working with dreams : e-learning and the unconscious

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Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Diary, E-Learning, Innovations, Learning, Metaphor, Mind Bursts, Mistakes, Team Building, Tertiary Education, The Open University, Visualization, Words

“Skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been.”

Posted on February 2, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Fig.1. Steve Jobs in Isaacson (2011). ‘If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever…

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Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Innovations, Learning, Memory, Mistakes, Neuroscience, Retention, Visualization, Words

Digital content, like its liquid equivalent in a digital ocean, has an extraordinary ability to leak out.

Posted on February 2, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Digital content, like its liquid equivalent in a digital ocean, has an extraordinary ability to leak out.

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Posted in Blogging, Communications, Creativity, Curation, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Forum Threads, Innovations, L&D, Learning, Learning Design, MA in Open & Distance Education, Memory, Mind Bursts, Neuroscience, Writing

The idea of a ‘world brain’ that acts as a perfect memory prosthesis to humans is not new.

Posted on February 2, 2013 by mymindbursts — 1 Comment ↓

The idea of a ‘world brain’ that acts as a perfect memory prosthesis to humans is not new.

Tagged with: Bell, Gemmel, h G Wells, Information Age, Mayer-Schönberger, memory, Semiconductor memory, total recall
Posted in Creativity, Curation, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Innovations, Learning, Learning Design, Memory, Mobile learning, Retention

Is lifelogging a solution on the lookout for a problem?

Posted on February 2, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Is lifelogging a solution on the lookout for a problem?

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Posted in Creativity, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Innovations, L&D, Learning, MA in Open & Distance Education, Memory, Scaffolding, Tertiary Education, The Open University

The memory is the mind process happening in your brain, it can never be the artefact that plays back footage of an experience.

Posted on January 31, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Fig. 1. Bill Gates featured in a 1985 copy of a regional computer magazine In the introduction to ‘Total Recall’ Bill Gates wonders when he and Gordon Bell first met. Was in 1983 or 1982. What was the context? Can…

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The power to remember and the need to forget

Posted on January 30, 2013 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

The power to remember and the need to forget

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Posted in Blogging, Curation, Diary, E-Learning, Innovations, L&D, Learning, Life, M-learning, MA in Open & Distance Education, Memory, Mind Bursts, Mobile learning, Reading, Samuel Pepys, Scrapbook, Writing

On finding a thermal … that creative lift … that moment of inspiration that motivates …

Posted on November 17, 2012 by mymindbursts — Leave a comment ↓

Fig. 1 Riding the thermal of personal and intellectual development. Vernon (2011) My sketch – my view of an end of module assignment. (H800 – Postgraduate – Masters in Open and Distance Education – a year ago). Used as a…

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Posted in Collaboration, Creativity, Diary, Dream Bursts, E-Learning, Learning, Visualization, Words

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