have embedded them into some slides now up … Digital Habitats Community Orientation Spidergram Activity. Another way to do it is to ignore the “context&# spoke from an internal/external perspective and then do one layer on the spidergram around your internally focused activities. Here is a hint I should have shared earlier. MORE >>

I was given a reminder of the promises I made regarding my talk next week, which has to do with the pedagogical underpinning for personal learning. Probably others have a much greater base of knowledge regarding pedagogy particularly, so I hesitate to offer models for specific situations. would imagine people in the field have those well in hand. MORE >>

A few weeks ago, the Brookings Institution released a study that looks in detail at patenting activity in the US from 1980 to 2012 - Patenting Prosperity: Invention and Economic Performance in the United States and its Metropolitan Areas.  This is a timely report given recent concerns that the US might be losing its innovation edge.  MORE >>

One of the interesting issues I have been looking at is how varying fear of failure impacts entrepreneurial activity, as shown in the table below. The strong social support system in these countries seem to cut both ways, in reducing fear of failure but perhaps also not motivating entrepreneurial activities. MORE >>

After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic. Instead, I’ll offer some 5 minute conversation starter questions for each element. minute questions? Asking Good Questions. MORE >>