689 - Happy 5,772nd New Year, Neoprene Bag, Amazon Tablet Announced
September 28, 2011 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - September 28, 2011.
#689 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. Happy 5,772nd New Year - Rosh Hashanah Wishes!
2. Neoprene Laptop/Tablet Bag Selected!
3. Amazon Tablet Implications.
1. Happy 5,772nd New Year - Rosh Hashanah Wishes! If I saw you tonight, I would say “L’Shanah Tovah”, wishing you and your family a healthy and excellent New Year, which starts in the Jewish calendar today. As I start year 5,772, thoughts turn to the need for us, across religions, nationalities, cultures, races, economics, identities and generations, to look towards our shared challenges and missed opportunities.
The world is clearly a rapidly changing place. As shared residents of this world, we must develop new models of collaboration, learning, governance and solution finding. Our economic and media models may not be up to the challenges that we face - but as citizens, we have to look to our communities, ourselves, our faiths and into the eyes and hearts of fellow humans, to find a way to make 5,772, 2012 or whatever your next year’s calendar count is, a successful solution finding year.
As a young child, growing up in a Jewish family, I associated our New Year with storytelling, singing, learning and a sense of importance about the coming year. So, to my TRENDS readers of all faiths, “L’Shanah Tovah”.
2. Neoprene Laptop/Tablet Bag Selected! Design sometimes involves things other than modules or objectives. We have just selected a very cool Neoprene Laptop/Tablet BAG for attendees at Learning 2011. The choice involved many elements, from a shift in technology to a decrease in the papers distributed to a desire to avoid extra luggage fees on the way home. Check out the design process and see a picture of the bag at http://www.learning2011.com/475-bag-blog.htm
3. Amazon Tablet Implications: It is intriguing to follow the announcement this morning by Amazon of their new entry into the tablet marketplace - the Kindle Fire, with a 7-inch touch screen, weighing 14.6 ounces and priced at $199. As a major user of the iPad, I have been hoping for one or two other successful entrants into the tablet marketplace to provide options, competition and also multiple tracks of innovation that can only help move this segment ahead. Amazon, with their role in book distribution, could add some interesting App affordances that would take the eBook from a digital equivalent to more robust form factor. The MASIE Center LAB is slated to get the new tablets in November and we will take it through our User Experience tests. Stay tuned.
Yours in Learning,
Elliott Masie.
email: emasie@masie.com
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