Tony Karrer

JUNE 24, 2009

I recently had a great experience working with Abhijit Kadle one of the authors of the Upside Learning Blog ( disclosure ). As part of writing an eLearning Games White Paper he had collected a wonderful list of articles, posts, white papers, etc. as part of his research.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 30, 2006

Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. eLearning 2.0

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Social Networks Instructional Design Authoring Tools Guide 102

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

In particular, I say that since I've begun to shift my scanning behavior to blogs (scanning is how you stay up-to-speed on a topic) - my rapid fire skimming of blogs via a Skim Dive Skim approach has meant that magazines have mostly become pretty irrelevant to me. and the articles I write on various topics (e.g.,

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Scanning Long Tail eLearning 2.0 Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 11, 2008

Fantastic article by Nicholas Carr in Atlantic Monthly - Is Google Making Us Stupid? Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. They typically read no more than one or two pages of an article or book before they would "bounce" out to another site. I'm reflecting on his article as I write.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Read this great article in the Monitor on Psychology by Rebecca A. Ray Jimenez - Over-rated - The Myth of Multitasking Christine Rosen writes on The Myth of Multitasking, , on the different studies debunking the idea that we learn best by multi-tasking. " Will Thalheimer - Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either!

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 13, 2007

What they've done is recruit authors who are going to publish (via a blog) something between a blog post, interview and an article every other week on a particular topic - in this case Open Source. The publishing model is something we might want to consider at LCB. Each post will have comments, questions, etc. from readers.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

As I describe on this page, the challenge that it tries to address is: It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 13, 2009

Which newspapers, magazines, journals, news sources, blogs should you look at, how often, how high a priority is this? It allows me to gather information from all kinds of sources (blogs, publications, wikis, calendars, etc.) If you are new to the world of RSS readers and subscribing to blogs, here are some good starting points.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Interesting article from EDUCAUSE Review, vol. New graduate students in physics can be taught to begin research with review articles such as those in the highly respected Reviews of Modern Physics. Of course sometimes, both things happen such as in the case of Stephen Downes' article on eLearning 2.0

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Tony Karrer

JULY 16, 2007

In a comment on Podcasting has No Inherent Pedagogical Value - which has some interesting comments in it around technology and value - I was pointed to an interesting article in the Chronicle - Pimp My Course and Stephen Downes summary of some of the responses. I'd also have students use blogs for collaborative learning assignments.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I received a great set of questions via email over the weekend roughly coming out of a two articles: Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 , By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking. By end of 2007, will those educators who would ever dabble in blogging have dabbled? The form of it may or may not be a blog.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 23, 2006

which I have done already in co-authoring an article. and he 75,900,000 hits with the famous O’Reilly article at the top of the list - which is a pretty dang good result and makes sense given Google's in-bound link based algorithm. Interesting, Bill points to a search on Google for "Web 2.0"

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I've had a brief blog conversation with Quintus Joubert - eLearning Blog: Blogs: Engaging the reader. It started when he questioned the blogs cited on Gabe's list of top 19 eLearning blogs as ( eLearning Blog: Top 19 eLearning blogs ). What I look to get from blogs is lots of perspectives.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My blog is really the hub of my thinking and activity, so by going back through posts for the 2008, it gives me a pretty good perspective on what's been happening inside my head during 2008. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. John Seely Brown and Richard P. talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 8, 2006

Dave Boggs recent post No eLearning Tectonic Plate Shift Here had some interesting comments about my article Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids. I continue to write, speak and sometimes teach, but I'm much more of a hands on developer of eLearning solutions than "an academic." Dave, just as a heads up.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 31, 2007

I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning Professionals generally, and maybe I'll come back and do that, but for now, let me just write what I see as some of my bigger challenges in 2007. In the meantime, I'm spending more time blogging and in virtual sessions. Biggest challenges for 2007? Still not sure.

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Wiki eLearning 2.0 Courseware Social Networks 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2006

Fundamentals Okay, But Change Needed When I look at what people are writing, there is a growing chorus that proclaims while the foundation of these models remain relevant, change is needed. Heck, do any of them even have blogs? Do they communicate outside of the slow mechanisms of presentations, articles, books?

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Instructional Design Change ADDIE Enterprise 2.0 100

Tony Karrer

APRIL 13, 2009

In my previous post on this topic, I outlined five change factors: The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Working With Online Learning Communities - Blogger in Middle-earth , April 1, 2009 This article was first published on Futurelab in January 2008.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

For example, five years ago I presented and wrote articles ( 1 , 2 ) on the design choices in creating software simulation eLearning. If you read my blog, you know that I was just lamenting Is the Big Question Half-Full or Half-Empty? Now I could probably write a much better Big Question that asked this question. :).

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Scanning Simulations Software Simulation Big Question 100

Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2006

I'm slowly beginning to prepare for some future presentations and slowly writing a couple of articles that discuss the impact of relatively newer developments in eLearning such as: Rapid eLearning , the Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids , eLearning 2.0 , Podcasts, Wikis, Content Management, etc.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid. tysg EmmaWho : @ tonykarrer facebook groups cammybean : @ tonykarrer Blogging. Tools for quickly getting the question out there. This is a really challenging issue!

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Social Networks Social Ning LinkedIn 102

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I was planning to try to write up a summary at some point (similar to last month's eLearning Technology: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog ), but I must say this month it was a lot harder. As a Forbes article stated - One thing is clear: In two decades, your job probably won't exist, at least not in the same form.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction ADDIE 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 29, 2009

Long Live – is actually an important issue being raised through this discussion that I'll get to below… Let me start with the fact that Saul and his article made no attempt to directly engage with any of the "bloggers" who he so quickly lumps together and dismisses. Blogs and Informal Learning Are Unreliable?

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Social Networks Blended Learning Compliance Training Write Blog 100

Tony Karrer

MARCH 5, 2009

Great article in Wall Street Journal - Information Wants to Be Expensive (found via Big Dog Little Dog ) suggests that more people should be charging for content online. Many of the people who write the blogs who are included in Topic Hubs are the same people who are being interviewed by Journalists for articles.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 Bryan Chapman’s research, which is quoted in many of these articles, yours included, points this out. eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0 At 9/11/2009 08:19:00 AM , Dawn Poulos said.

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