Amp your productivity with Vocaroo, a dead easy online voice recorder
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Have space in your brain for a cool, easy tool? Need to send a message but too tired or busy to type it out?
Try Vocaroo– an online voice recording tool & amp up your productivity. It couldn’t be any easier to use. Just click the button & start talking, then hit save & send the url to your audience.
I recorded a sample for you to try- simply click here.
I first heard about Vocaroo when my kid’s highschool Spanish teacher sent home feedback using it. Now if that’s not spiffy I don’t know what is.
Since then I’ve used it to send messages to friends, feedback to a guest speaker, edits on written documents etc. The ways to use it are endless.
The great thing about Vocaroo, other than being dead simple to use, is that the audio file is accessible via a url which means you’re not taking up valuable space with huge files.
Go ahead. Try it. You know you wanna.
Tags: productivity, vocaroo, voice recorder
A tool for accessing, expanding, stretching & sharing your knowledge
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
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How do you curate knowledge? How do you access it, expand it, stretch it, use it, share it?
It’s tough in these days of volume overload where news headlines flash faster than my friend’s toddler can go from happy & calm to the world-is-ending-now.
That’s why I was drawn to this article about a 6 step guide to mastering your area of interest. And that led me to a tool it mentions called Feedly – a single place to read your favorite newspaper, magazines and blogs.
Feedly take a couple of minutes to set up & essentially you can have your interests come to you via your smart phone, tablet or laptop. Easy peasy. Check it out.
Tags: feedly, knowledge, productivity
Watch how these skeletons bring out biases
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Photo Credit: James Nash (aka Cirrus) via Compfight cc
Love love love this.
Tags: access, diversity, inclusion, skeleton
An Open Letter to Feminist Trolls – perspective busting thanks to Melissa A. Fabello
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy
Warning; the video below is incisive, perspective busting & funny.
Oh & it has some strong language.
‘Funny how I’m only a bitch when I’m mis-behaving.’
It’s by Melissa A. Fabello ‘a sex educator with a specialty in body image, as well as a fierce feminist activist.’
Enjoy.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: feminism, melissa a fabello, perspective
HabitRPG- an app that combines productivity with gaming
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
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Digital literacy. Digital divide. ICTs (Information Communication Technologies), MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Social Media, it’s enough to make your head spin.
I’ve gleefully just dived into reading ‘Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out – Kids living & learning with new media’, which is why this Habit app caught my attention.
HabitRPG is a habit-improvement web and mobile app which uses game mechanics – such as leveling and hit points, competition amongst friends, and rewards – to motivate players to live healthy and productive lives.
In other words it helps you create healthy habits using gaming. I’ve downloaded it to my Iphone & have it in my ‘try this now’ folder. Check it out.
Tags: digital divide, digitial literacy, gaming, habits, productivity
Thomas Jefferson’s ‘vrs’ Elizabeth Gilbert’s view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Love the view enhancing, through the looking glass mirror gender perspective.
You?
Regarding credit for the image: I tried to find conscious harvest (as it’s inscribed on the right of the image) but the link doesn’t work. I came to the image through A Beautiful Mess’ facebook feed.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: beautiful mess, elizabeth gilbert, gender, perspective, thomas jefferson
Register now for March 9th launch- learn how to enrich your teaching & learning using ICTs for free
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Yep, that’s me
- Interested in exploring ICTs (Information Communication Technologies)?
- Overwhelmed at the number of tools available & not sure where to start?
- Think ICTs consist only of people watching cat videos on Facebook?
Check out this brand new, free, online course ~Using ICTs to enrich teaching and learning~ offered by the African Virtual University and the Commonwealth of Learning. Click on the link for more information &/or to register.
Registration is now open. Course starts March 9th.
Yours truly will be supporting your learning in the first of 4 modules. Hope to see you there.
‘Using ICTs to enrich teaching and learning’ will guide your learning in an interactive, applied manner to answer 3 questions: what are ICT’s (module 1), why use ICTs in teaching and learning (module 2) and how to use ICTs to support teaching and learning (module 3 and 4). Based on your unique learning expectations and needs, you’ll choose from a wide variety of learning expectations and needs, you’ll chose from a wide variety of learning activities designed to help you extend, apply and use your learning from this MOOC.
Tags: African VIrtual University, Commonwealth of Learning, ICTs, mooc
The Paradox of our Time (not by George Carlin or the Dalai Lama)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
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The following is by George Carlin, Jeff Dickson, the Dalai Lama, anonymous Dr. Bob Moorehead, former pastor of Seattle’s Overlake Christian Church. What follows below has been attributed to most everyone but him. Read more about the credit issue at Snopes.
It’s an interesting perspective don’t you think? ….
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.
We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: dalai lama, george carlin, paradox, snopes
Disappearing desks? Now that’s a commitment to wellness
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
Does your company stress the importance of wellness (pun intended)? Does it put its money, errr desks where its yoga matts are?
Take a look. That’s some serious commitment to wellness (& to community development with allowing groups to use the space for free).
Tags: creativity, Wellness, yoga
Dustin Hoffman’s perspective on women altered because of Tootsie
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
If you’re, ahem, of a certain age, you’ll likely recall Dustin Hoffman’s famous role in the Oscar-winning, movie Tootsie. He plays an out-of-work actor who dresses up as a woman to land a job.
The movie was a landmark for him. It radically altered his perspective, saying in the interview below “There are too many interesting women I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed [regarding the importance of physical appearance].“
How’s that for shaking up a guy’s perspective?
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: dustin hoffman, gender