Last week at ASTD TechKnowledge , I did a keynote on Work Literacy and eLearning 2.0, Links Wikis - Wikipedia - [link] Class - [link] Conference - www.complexive.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page WikiPatterns – [link] Social Bookmarking Wlning - [link] Work Literacy - [link] Social Networking LinkedIn - www.LinkedIn.com Ning - [link] RSS Readers Google Reader - [link] Bloglines - [link] Blogging - [link] top-ten.html

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ASTD Blog posting Network Feedback . The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How

They are creating a NING page for discussions and  to post pre & post-conference materials.  semi-aside) A few months ago Christine Martell , the president of the local chapter of ASTD , and I talked about doing a follow up to the one day conference we put on late last year on Social Learning.  Tags: americorps astd Social Learning SIG nin Last year I did a 1/2 day session at the NW Network Conference and had a fabulous time and learned some great things from eachother .   This conference caters to AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Vista - volunteer organizations

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. Assessment, benchmarking, competencies, content development, course development, e-learning, EPSS (electronic performance support systems), evaluation, instructional systems design (ISD), job aids, knowledge management, learning characteristics, learning outcomes, learning styles, needs assessment, objectives, performance improvement, return on investment (ROI), strategic analysis, task analysis, tools for training and learning,

I think there were more posts on Twitter from this conference in an hour than there were at ALL of ASTD. You can also check out the Ning community for the conference. Good stuff.... The real time twitter feed has been invaluable during this conference. Innovations in eLearning only has a couple hundred people attending.

Ning really makes it easy to do one of these. If several people were interested in a topic, they can easily pull together a few speakers, create a ning group and set up a quick conference. ASTD Los Angeles' special interest groups (SIGs) are trying to figure out what it means when they start doing online sessions that are potentially available worldwide. Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this

Tell a story with your slides. meet Jessica View more presentations from bengardner135 . Wiki resources: Wikispaces PB Wiki Social Networking Links Ning Facebook LinkedIn __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guid Here are links and resources mentioned during the presentation: Find out what level of "Gamer" you are with Gamer Rater . Avoiding Death by PowerPoint .

Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. I discussed a bit of these issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions. Push Back from Workforce - Adoption Again, I'm curious about additional thoughts on these items and/or places I can point people. Resources The following are resources that I provided as links in my presentation. Corporate Blogging Guidelines • Feedster Corporate It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Applications in Learning.

Presentation: The Social Web and Learning - A Case Study Presenter: Robert Jordan, Penn State U ASTD State of the Industry - learner control Learner controlling own learning key Social Web - how people socialize, interact with each other through the Web - Shared interest 2 types of social web - People focus (Facebook, myspace) - Hobby focus (Flikr, photobucket for photography) How do I harness this to promote learning? Learning Environment Affordances - Constructivist knowledge building - learning by creating - Collaboration - Learning communities - Virtual "practice space" - Ongoing

My guess is that most everyone who saw it prior to the session had taken my advice from long ago Stop Reading - Skim Dive Skim and really just skimmed it. Social Learning Communities It was interesting that ASTD DC / Todd Slater has created a Ning community. our LearnTrends site that’s hosted by Ning, is an issue. I recently posted my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 and did a presentation on the topic. You can access a WebEx recording of the presentation here: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=58772167&rKey=9ac6286700094e6f