Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

In my own words: LDA Press, an imprint of the Learning & Development Accelerator, is a boutique publisher focusing on evidence-informed titles that fill needed gaps in the literature while offering authors the relationship they deserve. (Note: as Editor-In-Chief, I’m biased.)

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

My blog posts are pretty regular (my aim is 2/week), but tend to have ideas that are embryonic or a bit ‘evangelical’ First, I’ve written four books; you can check them out and get sample chapters at their respective sites: Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games. So, my writing has shown up in: eLearnMag.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

Donald Clark raises an issue on his blog about confounding informal with Web 2.0, However, how much have we invested in the informal? My take, at least, is that there needs to be some up-front investment in the informal, but then it (should) become self-perpetuating (with the usual maintenance/upgrade/review costs).

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This is my blog, after all! I’d put it in, and then my ISP changed the settings on my blog so I couldn’t use the built-in editor to edit the header and footer of the site pages (for security). Which I will probably do more, but not ubiquitously (e.g. this post ;). The other things I’ll work on.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

internal processes on wiki starting to use wikis internally Moving faculty bookmarks to Delicious use wiki for learners to craft definition of 'seamless service' after searching orgs that proclaim to provide seamless service We hope to build wikis that our students can use to share information. approaches.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2012

When someone is thinking and learning ‘out loud’, e.g. putting their deeper reflections on line via, say, a blog (er, like this one, recursively), they’re allowing you to look at where and how their thinking is going. When they also are leaving a trail of what they think is interesting (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

One is the rise of social networking tools: blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, and more. For the 70, we can first of all start providing rich job aids wherever and whenever, including a suite of troubleshooting information and even interactive wizards. We can look up information as well, if our portals are well-designed.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We were talking about how to lift the game of Modern Workplace Learning , and each had staked out a position, from human performance consulting to social/informal. It could be papers, articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, webinars, what have you. Mine (of course :) was at the far end, innovation.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

You can also search for information, using DuckDuckGo or Google, or going straight to Wikipedia or other appropriate information resources you know. To make sense of the information, you can do either or both of representing your understanding and experimenting. And there’re are different details in each.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2010

Harold Jarche talks about our personal knowledge management task, and in that, there are the tools I use to capture and share my own thinking (like this), and tools I use to go out and find or follow information. On the information finding/sharing path, some tools I use include: Google – like everyone else, I’m all over searching.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 8, 2015

Having people able to access the information ‘in the head’ is an exercise in futility, and you’re better off putting the information ‘in the world’ (Which is why I want to change from Learning & Development to Performance & Development, it’s not about learning, it’s about doing!).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A personal information system : I use both Notability and Notes to take notes. A blogging or website tool : I use WordPress for Learnlets (i.e. Reflection: this overlaps with the personal information system. I stay in touch with my ITA colleagues via Skype. Facebook is largely personal. one from each suite).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

I referred to supporting the activities that we find in natural learning, for both formal and informal learning. With this list of things we do, we need to find ways to support them, across both formal and informal learning. Yesterday I talked about the seeding, feeding, and weeding necessary to develop a self-sustaining network.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2015

While your systems may vary, your results should be sources for you to find information, present yourself in your various communities, and to share your thoughts. And, of course, this is my blog, for deeper reflections. And I use IFTTT to send blog announcements to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Clark Quinn, not Quinnovation.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

You need information: photos, events. Your Twitter strategy should be aligned with your Facebook strategy, so your tweets point to new information on Facebook, your Facebook account reflects your tweets, etc. There need to be discussions supported (and interacted with). There need to be updates. Use apps to create polls.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A recent Ross Dawson blog post included a mention of building flexibility: “the more flexible the organization, the more able it is to succeed&#. develop ‘wise’ information technology: use technology more strategically to complement our capabilities. strategic community-building: facilitating information flows.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go. The workshop description is: A Revolution in Workplace Learning Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, social bookmarking, and RSS readers are revolutionizing formal and informal workplace learning. He is author of the award-winning eLearning Technology blog.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Then, systematically looking at tools like blogs, wikis, profiles, feeds, and more for both formal and informal learning. From there, I segued off to talk about social: the power of the additional processing you get from social learning. This includes sharing ideas, and collaborative work.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

As I mentioned before , the key to deep learning is processing the information in a variety of ways, and social interaction around the content is a valuable form of processing. This book provides just the concise information needed. On the other hand, I can point to principle about why this book is so needed.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2015

WordPress: my blogging tool, that provides regular reflection opportunities for me in generating them, and from the feedback others provide via comments. Facebook: there’s another group that I use like the Skype channel, and of course just what comes in from friends postings is a great source of lateral input.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2015

When we learn on our own, we need to address what information we want coming in and how we process it. I see too often that people aren’t critical enough in looking at purveyed information. Then, you also want to set up a stream of information that comes to you. What streams of information? What do you do with it?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Blogging lets you put out more formed thoughts and look for feedback. One of the coming roles for learning designers is facilitating the informal learning as well as the formal, I suggest. You need mechanisms to ask questions, find people, share thoughts. Microblogging (e.g. Forums provide opportunities for open and ongoing dialogs.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2015

First, if you haven’t seen it, you should check out the debate I had with the good Dr. Will Thalheimer over at his blog about the Kirkpatrick model. In particular, for informal learning when we’ve got folks successfully developed as effective self-learners and a good culture, we don’t need to measure.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Look at my list of blog posts, and you’ll see that these were my four most recent posts. I work hard to put worthwhile information out. The posts may no longer be there by the time you read this, but they were when I was notified, as the screenshot shows. And, apparently, for a while in the past. attribution).

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

So this is how you represent your own understandings, and manipulate information, for your own purposes. These are to manage communication and information sharing between teams. For many people in organizations, this is likely to include the MS Office Suite, e.g. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Maybe OneNote?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 7, 2008

Through my PWLE methods (reading blogs, etc.) This was a good topic to go through and think about - and to have captured in my blog. Should I be seeking new information sources that will bring in random but related topics? Where do you get this kind of information? Am I just being an Infovore and shouldn't worry about it?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information. However, do it in conjunction with the experts and users.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The audience can be doing things related to the presentation, like live-blogging it, tweeting it, or taking notes (I’ve been known to mindmap a keynote a time or two). Blogging is, effectively, note-taking so should be valuable too, and tweeting may also be valuable (any studies? Research topic!). It’s for your benefit!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

If you go from just having an idea (first line) to trying to capture it as a product (next), whether a diagram or a screed, to communicate to some hypothetical reader, you find out that you might not have thought it out fully (the first benefit to having a personal journal, e.g. blogging). And you do some processing to generate that product.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 24, 2011

This, of course, also is what happens in informal learning, if we end up discussing a problem to solve, or even just blog our thoughts and get comments. As Jay Cross says , the most powerful learning technology is conversation.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

As I commented on Jay’s blog: I’m reminded of an interview I heard (wish I knew where; time for Evernote?) That sort of open process can be quick, informative, and how Web 2.0 That sort of open process can be quick, informative, and how Web 2.0 Blogs provide some insight, tweets another. Very interesting.Â

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 20, 2010

It’s almost unknown, however, for me to actually win, but that’s actually the case a month or so ago when I put a comment on a blog prior to the MacWorld show, and won a copy of Navigon turn-by-turn navigation software for my iPhone. The conference will both interfere with blogging and provide fodder as well.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 4, 2012

To empower workers, you want to have the tools for communication, e.g. video sharing, blogging micro- and macro-, discussion forums, etc as well as the tools for collaboration, e.g. shared documents and expertise finding, arranged around tasks and interests, not around silos.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

In preparation for an event, he makes a blog post to organize his thoughts. Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. The additional benefit is the connection between formal and informal. Social Formal Learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Rather its an informal, ever changing list. Instead I make progress based on allocating time for blog reading, posting, commenting. These activities are drivers for the information I to take on board in my attempts to enhance my skills, abilities, and expertise. The results this far have been really interesting to me.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's what he said: I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. RSS, Blog, Wikis, etc. So, why are they coming up in talks, blog posts, etc. But when you come out and essentially say that there's nothing that interesting about Wikis, Blogs and RSS when it comes to learning or Learning.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2015

Of course, you can snap pictures or films for later recollection and reflection, and contribute them to a blog post for reflection. You’d have to have rich tagging around your calendar to signal what it is you’re doing for a system to be able to leverage that information, but I reckon we can get there if and when we want.

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