2009 was a continuation of my journey of online self-learning. share with you the top learning resources from my PLE (personal learning environment) for the year 2009. Here are my top learning resources for the year 2009 (in no particular order): Twitter has been one of the most valuable learning tool for me this year. Jane Bozarth's Bozarthzone has thoughts about the training and development field. For updates about technology, I rely on my Twitter network. have found these valuable in my learning during the year. Great writing on leadership. MORE >>

Now that I am using Twitter more frequently, I am bookmarking links on Twitter as favorites. Here are some of my Twitter favorites. Top 10 Most Painfully Funny Company URLs [link] rnarchana Ruth Clark's Give your training a Visual Boost [link] very precise, to the point, and effective. Tags: Lists Social bookmarking Twitter Links Bookmarks don’t save all the links on del.icio.us. cammybean RT @ eduify The Top 100 Education Blogs  [link] (via @ GarinKilpatrick ) hjarche Gloria Gery: Why don't we weigh them? Is your social media strategy helping your business? MORE >>

In fact I can bet that most of us learnt how to do our jobs more as a consequence of such informal activities than as a consequence of some heavyweight training. Add to that the plethora of other social media; Wikipedia , Twitter , Yahoo! say this for both instructor led training and elearning. Twitter Hashtags Its amazing how much information you can find through Twitter. Here are some of the hashtags I tend to follow on Twitter. lrnchat is an online chat that happens every Thursday night 8:30-10pm EST over the social messaging service Twitter. MORE >>

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Read on for notes from a webinar today, April 9, 2009: Building Better Learning Games: Leveraging Game Design and User Testing for Results Our hosts today: Enspire Learning (Ben Katz) Doorways to Dreams D2D -- financial entertainment. Work with and for consumers how to better manage their money. Focus on casual video games. Poll: Do you play any of these? Assessment. MORE >>

The session was titled ‘Collaborative learning using Captivate and Twitter’- and showcases a new idea around how we believe Captivate courses of the future can help bridge the gap between 'Classroom based training' and eLearning. captivate , twitter , collaborative learning , adobe learning summit , devlearn. I’ve finally managed make a decent recording of my session at the Adobe Learning Summit. Follow this link to view the demo (runs 18 mins). This makes use of a Captivate widget that we will be sharing with you in the near future. MORE >>