675 - will.i.am and Learning 2011 Keynoter on TV, Open Content for Learning
August 11, 2011 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - August 11, 2011.
#675 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. will.i.am and Learning 2011 Keynoter on ABC Sunday!
2. Comfortable/Sensible Shoes for Trainers?
3. Cathy Casserly from Creative Commons on Open Content.
1. will.i.am and Learning 2011 Keynoter on ABC Sunday! If you share my hope that the next generation will embrace science and technology as a field of interest, please watch or tape a very cool television program on ABC this Sunday. will.i.am, along with the Black Eyed Peas, has produced a 1 hour program focused on FIRST Robotics and how to make science cool to kids. As you may know, I serve on the Board of FIRST, founded by Dean Kamen, one of our keynoters at Learning 2011. will.i.am came to the FIRST Championship in St. Louis earlier this year, brought along the Black Eyed Peas and gave the students a live rock concert they will never forget. This show, which also features spots from Bono, Miley Cyrus and Justin Timberlake, will give you a sense of the excitement that science, robots and challenges can bring to the lives of our students. Check out the preview video at http://iamfirst.dipdive.com/ and watch or tape the show this coming Sunday at 8 PM Eastern on ABC. And, you will get a chance to meet Dean Kamen at Learning 2011.
2. Comfortable/Sensible Shoes for Trainers? A simple question for my Learning TRENDS readers who do stand-up training. What shoes do you wear to be comfortable in class all day long? Formal shoes, heels, sneakers? Please send me a short note to emasie@masie.com with your shoe wearing choices and I will do a summary in a future TRENDS. (Personally, I wear Tubes Sneakers, but I am my own boss.)
3. Open Learning Content! Cathy Casserly, Creative Commons CEO: We are honored to announce that the CEO of Creative Commons, Cathy Casserly, will be one of our keynoters at Learning 2011 (Nov 6 to 9). She will be addressing the opportunity and challenges of bringing more learning and organizational content into the “open” space and how our field can leverage the standards and efforts of Creative Commons. For example, as corporations create more content that can be used internally and externally, how do we clearly label the intellectual property rights that travel with the content? And, as our designers or users build content from external sources, what are the permissions that flow with that content? We are very excited to have Cathy Casserly, one of the most influential thought leaders in the content field, as a keynoter at Learning 2011. Details at http://tinyurl.com/435crj7
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
email: emasie@masie.com
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* Learning 2011 - Nov 6 to 9, 2011 - Orlando, Florida.
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