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These are my live blogged notes from Harold Jarche’s LearnTrends session on Personal Knowledge Management. My side comments are in italics. Sense-making with PKM. When he moved to consulting and didn’t have an IT department and those resources, he realized he had to do something different. What do you do with that system? PKM Method.
Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This also focuses exclusively on the “why&# of wikis. Posted in Wikis.
These are my notes from the webinar on the Sakai 3 development process by Michael Korcuska about Sakai 3 Participation. This is about the changes coming for Sakai and what needs to be done in the community right now to move development forward. This is liveblogged, so please excuse any typos or awkward wording. Why Build Sakai 3? New technologies.
Kylemore Abbey Garden. One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. admit some significant improvements in usability are possible in this tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. So how do you use a blog effectively when it’s housed within a walled garden?
Lots of people have written about Google Wave, but I haven’t really had time to watch the full 80-minute demo. If you’re looking for a shorter version, this 10-minute video shows the highlights and some of the possibilities without requiring the full time commitment of the full preview. Posted in Tools.
The Storyteller Tree. Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My comments in italics. Presenters: Chareen Snelson, Boise State University. Annie Sheffield, Boise State University. Abstract: Digital storytelling has arisen as a form of narrative expression that is crafted into a media production. Agenda. Background on Digital Storytelling.
These are my live blogged notes from Janet Clarey’s LearnTrends session on Microlearning. My side comments are in italics. Official description: Microlearning: Beyond Learning Objects and Just-in-time Performance Support. Let’s discuss how microlearning might address the realities of learning in a digital age. What is microlearning? reusable.
OK, apparently I have been oblivious in the last few months, because I didn’t even realize that Google had added a whole new set of search options. Click “Show options&# on any Google search results page to see what’s there. Google Wonder Wheel. The “Wonder Wheel&# is an interactive map with related searches. Posted in Tools.
I’m updating my Top Ten Tools for Learning for Jane Hart’s Top 100 list. decided this year that I wouldn’t look at my 2007 or 2008 lists first and would just start fresh. I’m also organizing my list into tools for personal learning and for developing courses. Personal Learning. Developing Courses. Image: Number 10.
Podcast logo. Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My comments in italics. Presenters: Dr. John R. Kallis, California University of Pennsylvania. Chris Patti, California University of Pennsylvania. Method of delivery will be a hybrid podcast via the web with interaction either via email or a forum. million (2007). million (2008).
Magnetix. This was written as a comment on April Hayman’s post comparing Legos and Magnetix as metaphors for constructivism and connectivism. One of her readers, Plain_Gillian, said she was struggling to verbalize the difference between the two learning theories. Does that help at all? Image Credit: Magnetix by Guapolo.
These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post 2 of 3.
These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. This isn’t my usual comprehensive live blogging, just snippets of things that caught my interest. wanted to actually participate in the chat and watch Twitter too, and I couldn’t juggle all of it at the same time. This is post 3 of 3. context.
Office Legos. Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My notes in italics. Presenters: Lyndon Godsall, Kaplan University School of Criminal Justice. Amy Hilbelink, Kaplan University School of Nursing. Nursing course. Patient assessments weren’t done properly. Wanted to change it to be more holistic, looking at all the context.
Liveblogged from the TCC online conference. My notes in italics. Presenter: Ellen Hoffman, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Summary: “Debates rage about the appropriateness of using social networking in teaching, with arguments ranging from waste of time and distraction from academic goals to needed to reach net generation student. Example.
Live blogged notes from Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations with Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern. My side comments are in italics. The firm has recently deployed learning solutions using 2.0 Charles Jennings. 70-20-10 model–not original to them, others have adopted it since. 70% learn and develop thru experience. Experience.
I’d like some help answering the following question I received this morning: May i know the demand for instructional designers increase in the near future? similar question came up on the eLearning Guild discussion board a few months ago. At that point, the best anyone came up with from the U.S. But neither of these is really quite right.
Atlas, it's time for your bath. Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My notes in italics. Presenter: Sue Waters. Summary: Web 2.0 technologies now provide extraordinary opportunities for enhancing student learning. In traditional education, teacher is in the center and interactions are mostly between student and teacher. With Web 2.0
Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My notes in italics. Presenter(s): Cynthia Calongne , Colorado Technical University. Summary: “Ready to teach with Second Life, but not sure how to begin? Using it already, but need to migrate your course content for virtual world delivery? Still, it’s fun to see what Cynthia is doing.
Ying Yang. Liveblogged from the TCC 2009 conference. My comments in italics. Presenter: Scott Robinson, Kaplan University. Posted summary: This presentation uses principles of Taoism to emphasize the role of the facilitator. This is definitely a different topic than the typical conference fare. Tao = Way. Ying & Yang: What does it mean? pompous.