Wow!! Pinnacle Studio 9 IGNITE!, which was written by me [:-)] made it as the optional recommended text for a Digital Video course back in 2006.

Christian Bale stars as John Connor in Terminator 4. Christian Bale is the ideal actor to play the son of Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese). Terminator is one of my all time fav movies, so I can’t wait till it hits the cinema.

Um - the NG stands for Next Generation, a new way to say BB 2.0 but as we can’t because BB NG is actually BB 9.

Ok so I just watched the Blackboard NG videos. Phil Chatterton does a great job presenting the new BB NG features.

What I liked:

• The iGoogle like drag ‘n drop portal
• Drag ‘n drop content reordering
• Mashup — well just embed Social stuff (eg Flickr, YouTube) anywhere in a course

What I’d like to know more about:

• The BB API changes
• Are there new content building block types?

My blog topics are diverse! Am I the only elearning, programming, Madonna blogger? Probably. I’m not sure about my readership, but I hope as a subscriber that you don’t mind. It is all in keeping with my decision to blog so I hope you stay along for the journey.

"Empowering Online Learning - 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying and Doing" is set to be an amazing resource for Academics, Tutors, Teachers, Students and Learning Designers. I have not read this book yet, but really like the approach taken. The learning design model (reading, reflecting, displaying and doing) just makes sense at a very practical level and rather than just remaining theoretical sample activities are listed (100+ to be exact). The activities seem like ideas to me, ideas that could inspire….

…Now would it not be great if the LD model (reading, reflecting, displaying and doing) was available as an idea explorer within an LMS or something more social like Facebook, where activities could be selected, customized and then deployed.

May the force be with those who use it

We are only a few minutes into the career of Lady Gaga and already we have so many memorable moments.

1. The video for Just Dance. So many mirror balls of all sizes. Was that a Mirror ball bra???

2. Best quote from a songwriter ever - “When I write music I think about the clothes I will have on when singing it”. Now that is multi-tasking to the extreme. Yeah - doing it for The Fame…

3. Lady Gaga will dance (as a shout out) so long as she has Hairspray - they type that was banned in school apparently.

4. Guess who was not a Miss Universe contestant but kinda won anyway…

5. Has anybody seen her “Disco Stick“? Apparently she makes devices and more are planned. Engineering skills toooooo.

Obviously there are important lessons to be learnt in life - best to be learnt at school in preparation for the real world (um I mean, workplace):

Christopher Ciccone, who was once Madonna’s closest sibling has written a tell all over exaggerated book called "Life With My Sister Madonna". How could he do this to his sister???? I definitely won’t be buying the book.

I like to eat friut, but sometimes worry about bacteria, dirt and chemicals that may be present of the skin. An Australian product has been developed to ensure that your friut and veggies are clean - its called SafeGaurd Friut and Vegetable Wash.

I just bought “Just Dance (Remixes) - EP” from iTunes. Yes folks - REMIXES. Thats 4 remixes for me to listen to. I say yay to the return of the Remix - you may recall my post on the Death of the Remix or it may be a forgotten unread faded rss memory (hehe). Way to go Lady Gaga and Remixers!