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fundamental moral good, because people should be
A "mash-up" of postings from nine engaging educational able to learn about anything that affects their lives.
and e-learning bloggers.
Imitating what others do is not the way to make progress,
or as Marshall McLuhan said, “We look at the present
Practice to be best through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the
future.” Individuals and organizations need to chart their own
Source: http://www.jarche.com/2010/07/practice-to-be-best/
courses but “Best Practice” thinking is still widespread. I have
By Harold Jarche on July 29th, 2010
found that decision-makers in organizations can be too lazy
We may think we should adopt best practices, but to be really to extrapolate and figure out how to apply practices in their
effective and innovative we need to practice to be best. own context. They want easy, clear answers and hence have
First, we have to do the hard thinking about how to do things the tendency to hire cookie-cutter solutions from big name
better. Jay Deragon talks about how important it is to think consultancies. But there are no easy answers. As my colleague
about what we do and not just emulate others: Jon Husband says of his wirearchy framework, it enables
the mass customization of business, and that is what we
Social Doo Doo’s are those that practice and copy, need to replace best practices. Individuals and organizations
what others do expecting to get the same or better continuously practicing to be best, on a large scale.
results. Social Doo Doo’s are a dime a dozen and
the market seems to think hiring the Doo Doo’s will No technology or process improvement will save an unraveling
help their business do something different. Doing industry or organization. What is needed is better thinking
something different and getting more than you’ve and learning while practicing to be the best. This starts with
gotten in the past requires you to know how to think transparency in sharing our knowledge and doing our work.
which isn’t what others are doing.
Gaining new knowledge or creating new knowledge In Tough Times Number
and knowing what to do with it is more productive
than doing what others do. To gain or create new of Homeless And Hungry
knowledge requires thinking which is a lot deeper
than doing.
Students Increases
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Another example of advancing practice in a field is provided number-of-homeless-and-hungry-students-increases.html
in The New Yorker’s The Bell Curve: What happens when By StevenB on July 29th, 2010
patients find out how good their doctors really are? In this For many college students and their families, rising tuition
article, a doctor explains how radically new thinking saved the costs and a tough economy are presenting new challenges
life of a fire fighter but his mates refused to try something as college bills come in.This has led to a little-known but
different and they perished. growing population of financially stressed students, who are
As Berwick explained, the organization had facing hunger and sometimes even homelessness.UCLA has
unravelled. The men had lost their ability to think created an Economic Crisis Response Team to try to identify
coherently, to act together, to recognize that a financially strapped students and help keep them in school.
lifesaving idea might be possible. This is what There's a definite increase in the number of homeless students
happens to all flawed organizations in a disaster, and, nationwide, according to the National Association for the
he argued, that’s what is happening in modern health Education of Homeless Children and Youth. But nobody has
care. To fix medicine, Berwick maintained, we need firm numbers. Read more at:
to do two things: measure ourselves and be more http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
open about what we are doing. This meant routinely storyId=128778321&ft=1&f=1001
comparing the performance of doctors and hospitals,
looking at everything from complication rates to
how often a drug ordered for a patient is delivered Jessica Koepfler Named 2010
correctly and on time. And, he insisted, hospitals
should give patients total access to the information. “
Winner of Paul Evan Peters
‘No secrets’ is the new rule in my escape fire,” he said. Fellowship
He argued that openness would drive improvement, Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/210579
if simply through embarrassment. It would make it By jberg on July 29th, 2010
clear that the well-being and convenience of patients,
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased
not doctors, were paramount. It would also serve a
to announce the selection of Jessica A. Koepfler, a doctoral
student in the College of Information Studies at the
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University of Maryland, College Park, as the 2010 recipient By StevenB on July 29th, 2010
of the Paul Evan Peters Fellowship for graduate study in For Garza, 26, joining the first group of students at the
the information sciences or librarianship. The fellowship, University of Houston-Clear Lake's new Pearland campus next
which was established to honor the memory of CNI month was an easy decision. After all, driving to the Clear Lake
founding Executive Director Paul Evan Peters, recognizes campus could have taken twice that long. The University of
outstanding scholarship and intellectual rigor, as well as civic Houston and most other universities are even farther away.
responsibility, democratic values, and imagination. In a world where funding is tied to enrollment, universities
The Coalition, which is sponsored by the Association of no longer wait for students to come to them. "In this instant
Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, is headquartered gratification society, nobody goes any distance to do much
in Washington DC. CNI is on the Web at http://www.cni.org/. of anything," said James Douglas, executive vice president at
TSU. "People are saying, just as we have department stores and
grocery stores all over the city, maybe we ought to have higher
Apple's Controlling Instincts education all over the city." Read more at:
Hit Time and SI http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/
metropolitan/7122678.html
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If you want to sell your magazine through iPad, you have to sell Birth to Maturity: Cycles in
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will not allow you to sell subscriptions on your own website.
Partnerships
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Ryan Chittum writes, "Apple justifies its controlling instincts
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"Drag On Video" Lets You the BTOP Money -- What to Do
Easily Splice Together After the Grant Arrives
Portions Of Different YouTube Source: http://www.educause.edu/node/210550
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Videos The federal government is in the process of awarding nearly
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$5 Billion in BTOP grants to foster broadband deployment
July 29th, 2010
nationwide. Join us to hear how two grant recipients are
Larry Ferlazzo introduces us to Drag On Video , which lets spending their money, including real-world tales of wetlands,
us splice YouTube videos in a web page and display them as subcontractors, and fiber. Learn more in this free, hour-long
a single unit. Warning ! This will eat time if you let it! Still, web seminar, " Following the BTOP Money: What to Do After
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Microsoft Corp., a worldwide leader in software, services
and solutions, has become an InCommon Affiliate . The Skillsoft surveyed workers in medium and large European
Affiliate program connects higher education institutions companies asking how they like to learn. "They like freedom
and their federating partners with commercial or non- and flexibilty yes – but also ... they want learning on demand,
profit organizations that provide software, content, guidance, when it's needed. They can then carry out what they have
support, and implementation and integration services related learnt straight away – with the ability to go back over
to participating in the federation. Read the details here . something again if they haven't quite comprehended the first
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Congratulations! You've just been awarded that multimillion-

dollar Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
grant you sweated over for weeks and weeks, and
now you can start building. Welcome to the world of
subcontractors, environmental impact studies, historical
preservation committees, wetlands remediation, and more
arcane regulations than you ever imagined (and, yes, a few
hundred miles of fiber). In this session, we'll discuss the
nuts-and-bolts (and conduit and backhoe) details of deploying
broadband networks from two perspectives: starting from
scratch and adding to an existing statewide network.