Author: Paul R. Pival
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Study: Distractions Impede Learning
Followup on my post about continuous partial attention – In Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences there was a report about how distractions impede learning (Modulation of competing memory systems by distraction). Relevant quote: “What’s new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it…
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A fancier way to say that
One of the first and still best reasons I blog is to keep an outboard brain – a place to jot down ideas, in this case related to my job. I’m about a third of the way through Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (recommeded on some other blog I read), and have…
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Comprehensive overview of Screencasts and Screencasting in Education
Courtesy of a pointer from Stephen’s Web comes a wonderful overview of Screencasts and Screencasting from Graeme Daniel of wwwtools for teachers. Not sure why I hadn’t heard of this site before, but I’m definitely watching it now. Graeme goes way beyond the cursory compilation of links to provide a look at the history of…
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Rice University Relaunches University Press – Online Only
Tim O’Reilly reports on a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rich University Press. An excerpt: Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won’t produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full…
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A distraction-free desktop
Uh-oh, it’s going to be one of those days! One of those neat days where one idea leads to another, and lots of thoughts fire in my brain. As soon as I finished that post about continuous partial attention, I switched over to my aggregator and saw that Jon Udell is thinking about the exact…
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Email is an attention chipper/shredder
I’ve got another audio recommendation for you. Linda Stone, former VP at Microsoft, speaks about continuous partial attention, the state many of us are in where we’re constantly scanning for new opportunities. Email, cell phone, BlackBerry, IM. When was the last time you were in a conversation with someone at work and you gave that…
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…
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36,000,000 IMs per day
Yeah, it’s a big number, but it’s just the drop in the bucket that Meebo processes every day – imagine how many more Instant Messages are sent in the native interfaces! The number comes from an interesting writeup of a meeting he had with Meebo by Tim O’Reilly. Lots of little interesting “new ways of…
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Wiki Webcast Week
In addition to Meredith’s wiki webcast this Thursday, the authors of Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom, S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder, will be participating in a free webcast for Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. This is a neat idea in that Innovate invites people to interact with the authors of…
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An introduction to Screencasting – SirsiDynix Institute
Just posted on the SirsiDynix Institute future seminars page is notice of my Wed, Nov 8 session entitled Show and Tell the Easy Way – an Introduction to Screencasting. It runs from 11am-12 EST (8-9am PST) and should also be available after the fact as a recorded session and audio-only podcast, though I do plan…