At the end of November, I flew over to Houston for a two-day internal conference organised by Nick Shackleton-Jones called ‘Future of Learning’ I tweeted a lot throughout the event, using the #BPFOL12 hashtag, and I’ll be writing up some of the key sessions and takeaways in subsequent posts. In the meantime, though, I wanted to try and pull together some of the really useful links and resources from the backchannel: even though we were a relatively small group tweeting, there were a lot of websites, videos, infographics and tools shared. Codecademy – via Aisha Taylor. MORE >>

Last week I set out the benefits of QA. But what does ‘QA’ actually mean? To many people, it is synonymous with ‘proof-reading’, but that’s a very simplistic view. QA stands for quality assurance, and that means quality in every respect. If you were QA-ing a newspaper article, the review would of course cover spelling and grammar. But it would also cover factual accuracy, tone of voice, sources for quotations and so on. If you were QA-ing a dining table, however, there’s no proof-reading required. Is the writing consistently UK or US English spelling? MORE >>

Does presenting come naturally to you? It definitely doesn’t to me. I’m a bit of a wallflower by nature and don’t usually enjoy being centre of attention. think that’s why I enjoy writing: I can put a bit of me across without actually having anyone look at me. The thought of speaking to a large group of people for any prolonged period of time (whether in a real or virtual venue) used to terrify me and still makes me nervous. But I kind of love the challenge at the same time. And do you know what? So I thought today I’d share some of the best. The Eloquent Woman. MORE >>

I came away from last week’s eLearning Network event on rich media with a long list of takeaway lessons, things to try and topics to explore further. I wasn’t the only one, as the Twitter backchannel shows.) One of these is the enduring question of how to use text and audio within e-learning, which prompted some debate and some interesting experiment results. We also had to identify the other element that it is most compatible with (simultaneously, as opposed to sequentially throughout an e-learning course). This opened up the discussion about the relationship between text and audio. MORE >>

Every so often I come across something I wish I'd written or been involved in. Don't be tone deaf! Creating tone of voice in eLearning', a webinar run by Cammy Bean and Kirstie Greany of Kineo, is one such thing MORE >>