Big bonuses don't mean big results - CNN.com

• Big bonuses don't mean big results - CNN.com

  What really motivates us? And what motivational techniques lead us to work smarter and live better? Those are questions that behavioral scientists around the world have been exploring for the past half-century. Their answers might surprise you.

  tags: education, management

  • In particular, high performance -- especially for the complex, conceptual tasks we're increasingly doing on the job -- depends far more on intrinsic motivators than on extrinsic ones
  • For enduring motivation, the science shows, a different approach is more effective. This approach draws not on our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but on what we might think of as our third drive: Our innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

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Macmillan's DynamicBooks demo: Textbooks to the 'Wii era'? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

• Macmillan's DynamicBooks demo: Textbooks to the 'Wii era'? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

  • Macmillan, a prominent book publisher, on Monday launched DynamicBooks, interactive textbooks that are one part book and one part Wikipedia
  • • Instructors will be able to add text or media content to existing content in the textbook;
    • Profs will be able to customize and modify textbook chapters;
    • Books will get podcasts, video clips, graphing tools and other supplements;
    • The technology that enables the DynamicBooks is based on the VitalSource Bookshelf platform from Ingram Content Group;
    • And students can purchase the customized book or get a printed version

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Why Google Buzz confirmed our two worst fears about Google | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

• Why Google Buzz confirmed our two worst fears about Google | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com

  • Google’s joy ride with users could be coming to end. In fact, it may have officially happened with the introduction of Google Buzz.
  • Google is sitting on the largest collection of personal information on the planet (and very likely, the largest in the history of the planet). Google knows far more about you than the government does
  • When Google Buzz first launched, it surprised users by turning their contacts that they emailed most often in Gmail into Google Buzz friends. By default, this list of friends was exposed to the world through the person’s Google Profile and these automatic friends were also treated to access to the person’s Google Reader, exposing the stuff they were reading.
  • For many people, that Google account tied to Gmail and other private services was not one that they wanted to expose out in the wild
  • Beyond the bit about anonymizing data, Google has never divulged many details about its internal policies for protecting user privacy. Google’s promise to users has always been something like: “Trust us. We’ll always keep the needs of users as our top priority.”
  • However, in the process of trying to make users the top priority and create a better user experience, Google was extremely careless about the overall privacy implications of Buzz. That naturally makes me wonder how serious they are about privacy in general and it makes me question the policies and procedures Google has in place to protect privacy

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TodaysMeet

• TodaysMeet

  TodaysMeet Talk. Listen. TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.

  tags: twitter, web 2.0

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Data App: Texas' Struggling Schools | The Texas Tribune

Very interesting webpage. For both it's data on struggling schools in Texas and also for it's Web 2.0 creation. Easy search (with map) the "persistently lowest achieving" school in Texas.

http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-struggling-schools/

CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative Launches Phase 2 - Creative Commons

• CA Free Digital Textbook Initiative Launches Phase 2 - Creative Commons

  The future of textbooks?

  tags: opensource, digital textbooks

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