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RocketBoom - Daily VLOG...
Where's our daily learning moments?
Hop over to rocketboom.com and experience a vlog (video blog). Rocket Boom offers a daily 2-minute news/spoof show. Think of a cross between The Daily Show and BoingBoing.com. It’s well written, funny, and maybe most importantly, short.

They launched in October and already get 200,000 viewers a week. Their "ratings" are already better than many cable shows and as they continue to grow -- all word of mouth thus far -- they’ll give many mainstream shows a run for their money. It takes two people, Amanda Congdon and Andrew Baron, to write, record, and edit each segment. They’ve said in interviews it takes a total of 4 hours of time for the 2-min episode.

So what’s this got to do with e-learning? Heck, I’d love to see a weekly leadership minute from Marshall Goldsmith or Stephen Covey, or managment moment from Tom Peters, or marketing minute with Seth Godin. For that matter, how about a daily Windows tip from Rob my IT guy, or daily sales tactic from the VP of sales.

One minute of training, every day, delivered to the desktop/laptop/phone.

Free White Paper -- Visions 2020.2
More than 55,000 students were asked, "What would you like to see invented that you think will help kids learn in the future?"

The U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education (who co-chair the NSTC Working Group) and NetDay formed a partnership aimed at analyzing K-12 student views about technology for learning. These views are analyzed in this second report, Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies.

Educational Software Market Collapses
This NYTimes article is making the blog rounds. I’m not quite sure what to make of it -- definitely depressing. Details how the market for K-12 PC ed software has gone from $500 million to $150 million in 4 years. Software collapsing, but Leapster booming. Ed games crashing, but broadband and PC prices dropping to almost free. Again, not really sure what it all means.

White Paper: Workforce Effectiveness
"...Think of it this way. If you need to find the top five candidates in your organization to fill a particular position, enter a leadership development program, or serve on a crucial project team, how long would it take you to find them?" Free white paper from TEDS.

MindPalace -- A Unique Online Memory Tool
Well I’ve definitely never seen anything like this before. Taking classic memorization techniques (hooks and mnemonics) and applying them in a virtual environment. "Location-based memory techniques date back thousands of years and derive their power from your natural ability to tell creative stories and your everyday ability to move about in a 3-D environment. The Mind Palace memory system builds on and greatly amplifies these natural strengths of your visual and spatial memory." Free 7 day eval copy.

Free Project Management Tool
Got this tip from Clark Aldrich. If you use MS-Project, or want a free project management tool, check out Open Workbench.

Filling the Library of Congress... a 100 Times a Day!
"It took two centuries to fill the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with more than 29 million books and periodicals, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. Today it takes about 15 minutes for the world to churn out an equivalent amount of new digital information. It does so about 100 times every day, for a grand total of five exabytes annually." -Eternal Bits by MacKenzie Smith.

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Here's to rocketing with e-learning,

-- Kevin

Kevin Kruse is an author, columnist, speaker and consultant. He can be reached at kkruse@e-learningguru.com.