reading about the "new ideas" to grow my e-learning muscle 23/02/14

Hearing the 19 million Facebook paid for whatsapp is mindblowing - if the news are to be believed than they took 11 days only to decide to purchase. "The answer is that CEO Mark Zuckerberg probably felt he had little choice. WhatsApp processes 27 billion messages a day, and has 400 million active users a month. Facebook, by comparison, has 1.2 billion monthly users — which means that WhatsApp is already, on its own, a sizeable threat to Facebook in terms of peeling off its users and siphoning them into a messaging environment that until today, Facebook had no access to." It seems with creating any E - learning there is the temptation to feel overwhelmed by just what is every present everywhere and what can genuinely help a newbie like me. I'm so glad I am working through a course with others to control the collie wobbles I get when thinking about what's next in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/03/magazine/innovations-issue.html?_r=0 personally ths is the one I am waiting for! A team of Dutch and Italian researchers has found that the way you move your phone to your ear while answering a call is as distinct as a fingerprint. You take it up at a speed and angle that’s almost impossible for others to replicate. Which makes it a more reliable password than anything you’d come up with yourself. (The most common iPhone password is “1234.”) Down the line, simple movements, like the way you shift in your chair, might also replace passwords on your computer. It could also be the master key to the seven million passwords you set up all over the Internet but keep forgetting. Chris Wilson Tim you will like no 13! enjoy this week