Anyone who blogs regularly will have discovered several truths. Many people struggle to maintain a regular blog that is consistently good, or at least meaningful. Although you are only as good as your last blog, all your previously blogs are also out there, archived, published for people to read (and for you to revisit, if you wish). So be careful what you blog - the affordance of persistency is quite a powerful one, and can work either way. quote: To blog is to teach yourself what you think. Also, because the blog is public, I write for an audience. MORE >>

What sticks with me is not the content of the week (I have books by the speakers, contact information, notes on Twitter, reflective blog posts, speaker notes, slides for all of the content). In short, the revolution is here, and (by the way) it will be tweeted, friended, followed, bumped, linked, blogged, commented, checked-in and liked. Learning Personal SCORM Social Learning #dl10 conferences devlearn 2010 e-learning guild reflection summary writeupIt took me a week to let the excitement settle from DevLearn and reflect. Can it be done with other ways that scale more? MORE >>

Your collage might show a book from Amazon, a YouTube video and a page from a blog or web site. You can also use word clouds as the basis for writing a poem, for studying another language and for comparing two pages of information. Post from: The eLearning Coach 10 Ways To Learn In 2010. There are so many cool ways to learn online now. The whole world is a school. This list is meant for continuous learners and for procrastinators looking for distractions in the coming year. Learn through Visual Search Engines. Spezify does just that. Learn from Word Clouds. Ask a Question. MORE >>

  A punctuation rule that is under contention is the comma after the year in a three-part date, and similarly, the comma after the state when a city is named:   On June 10, 2010, an event occurred that changed his life. One recent commenter on our blog stated, "Rules were meant to be broken." She is a publishing professional with more than 20 years of experience in writing, editing and desktop publishing. Writing & Grammarby Jennie Ruby. The rules of grammar are not forever. But which ones should we allow to change? MORE >>

So with this in mind, it seems appropriate to take a look at the articles posted to this blog over the past year and organize them according to how they jive with ADDIE. After organizing training content and identifying instructional activities during the design phase, we’re ready to put fingers on keyboard to write the instructional materials that learners touch. few articles from this year addressed writing: Writing to Educate and Entertain: What Would Stephen King Do? Instructional Design ADDIE eLearning eLearning Project Management BlogBy Shelley A. Gable. MORE >>