Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2018

Every year of late, Jane Hart has polled about people’s top 10 learning tools. From this, she creates a list of the top 100 learning tools. this blog): is the other way I write and make sense of the world. Keynote is the presentation tool I use, and I create the stories I present at conferences in Keynote.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 19, 2017

Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year. LinkedIn is another tool I use to see what’s happening (and occasionally engage in). Skype let’s me stay in touch with my ITA colleagues, hence it’s definitely a learning tool.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. Here are my tools, in no particular order: WordPress is how I host and write this Learnlets blog, thinking out loud. Google is my search tool.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

I woke up this morning thinking about the tools we use at various levels. Seriously, this is important, as the tools we use and provide through the organization impact the effectiveness with which people can work. What we’re talking about here, starting at the bottom, are the tools you personally use for learning.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 14, 2008

for Learning Professionals Free Online Course (you can jump in at any time) is all about Blogs for Learning. There's a bit in there on blogging strategies, but the reality is that when I go back and look at my previous posts on what your personal strategy should be around blogging, I'm not finding that much.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Learning poll. All of mine fall in the latter category, because my performance support tools are productivity tools! So here’re my votes, FWIW: Google Search is, of course, still my top tool. Word is my go-to writing tool, and while I use Pages at times too (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A few months back, the esteemed Dr. Will Thalheimer encouraged me to join him in a blog dialog, and we posted the first one on who L&D had responsibility to. I’ll suggest it’s not massive consumption of heinous chemicals, but instead think that we might want to look to our tools and methods. What is the root cause of our suffering?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2015

Jane Hart has been widely and wisely known for her top 100 Tools for Learning (you too can register your vote ). As a public service announcement, I list my top 10 tools for learning as well: Google search: I regularly look up things I hear of and don’t know.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2010

My ITA colleague Jane Hart regularly collects the top 100 learning tools via contributions from lots of folks. There are several categories of tools here. In the capture and share category, major tools include: WordPress – I blog as a way to reflect and get feedback on my developing thoughts.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2008

The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. The key is for the charts is: Darkest blue - daily Medium blue - weekly Light blue - monthly Gray - never Tool Use in Corporations Some things that jumped out at me: Much more blog reading that I expected. I guess they must be using a lot of tools other than delicious.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

This enabled some companies to make tools that could handle the backend, and so individuals could create. this blog!). I note that this blog was contributing to Google C5 (according to a tool I can no longer find), for instance. I’m erring on the side of not using such tools, for now.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2008

I came across your blog and thought you might be able to offer some suggestions. However, I'm going to guess based on the list of tools that you are really talking about creating self-paced (asynchronous) eLearning experiences. Download a free trial of one of the more common authoring tools.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

I have a number of blogs I’m subscribed to. To share, I do things like blog, do presentations and workshop, and write books. Of course, in general if I pass things on I do try to make a note, such as when sharing someone else’s blog that I thought particularly valuable. Then I review them until I’m happy.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2023

I blog (like this), for the same reason. I also don’t work a regular job, and have gotten reasonably effective at using tools to get things done. I’m cheap, so I’ve used fancier tools, but have found these suffice.) Basically, it looks like I’m spending a lot of time not working.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Usually, human intelligence, as a cognitive science tool, but occasionally just to do smart things in any means possible. For instance, this blog has been used for training a sold product, yet I haven’t received a scintilla of return.) Then, as a faculty member in computer science, I had a fair affiliation with the AI group.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been blogging now for over a decade, and one thing has changed. When I started, people would comment right on the blog. When I started, people would comment right on the blog. The phenomena is that we’re seeing a cultural comment shift; comments are now coming from shared platforms, not directly on the site.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s a different cut through the top 10 tools. A number of news and curation tools : I use Google News and the ABC (Oz, not US) in my browser, and the BBC and News apps on my iDevices. A blogging or website tool : I use WordPress for Learnlets (i.e. So I thought I’d share mine, and my reflections.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0 approaches.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This is my blog, after all! See, one of the other recommendations was to be more closely tied to Google’s tools for tracking sites, specifically Search Console. BTW, I am also getting advice on readability, but I’m less likely to change. One other change was to move from posts by number (e.g. ?p=#),

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

App use is one of the tools we have to accessorize our brains. So, yes, I can use the built-in camera to record hotel room numbers or parking spots, but more importantly I can get a train app to let me plan a trip, or a diagramming tool to let me capture some thoughts, or… Another habit we can get into is thinking.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2014

So, for example, a chat tool typically lets you ping a particular person, or a set list. The limitations mean that more lengthy discussions typically are conveyed via… Formats supporting unlimited text, including thoughtful reflections, updates on thinking, and more tend to be conveyed via email or blog posts.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2017

I write tasks for projects into a project management tool. But… I didn’t document the blog post idea before I did something else, and got distracted by one of my open projects. And we have evolved powerful tools to support those gaps, including those mentioned above. I don’t know which, but I lost the post.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 2, 2015

As I’ve reported before , I started mind mapping keynotes not as a function of filling the blog, but for listening better. You’ve seen them here in my blog (or will if you browse around a bit), and in my presentations. I only posted it because I thought I should do something with it! I use them to communicate, too.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So, for instance, I blogged about a representation of social process. Diagrams are cognitive tools, offloading conceptual complexity to graphic relationships and visual processing. And with the complex problems we increasingly face, I reckon the more tools the better. I got some feedback that it wasn’t very clear.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

One is the rise of social networking tools: blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, and more. In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. The technology wasn’t advanced enough. But that’s changed. What has changed are several things.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2012

How about ensuring the availability of tools like blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, discussion forums, media file creating/sharing, and profiles, and helping communities learn to use them? So, the L&D group has to start facilitating the sharing of information between folks. If you don’t know, find out and disseminate it!

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2015

And, of course, this is my blog, for deeper reflections. I believe that if you find someone interesting, and follow both their blogs and their tweets, you can see what they’re tracking and then their reflections, and use them as a mentor. And I use IFTTT to send blog announcements to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

blog or podcast or…). my goal is 2 blog posts per week). Firms could also put in place tools and practices around Working out Loud (aka Show Your Work). The point is to set aside a time and stick to it. Along the same lines, you could make a personal promise to publicly reflect (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 4, 2012

You want to be getting closer and closer to workers having tools to hand, the resources they need to get the job done. You want to be building the infrastructure for working smarter, and every move should be developing that capability.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

While my other sites (Quinnovation and the book sites) are all done in a WYSIWIG tool called RapidWeaver, Learnlets is a WordPress site. While I could do a blog in Rapidweaver, I’m afraid I’d lose my decade+ of posts! So, I’ve kept it in WordPress. for mindmaps). And easier to tweak!

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Consequently, we need to ensure that we have the tools to support conversations, and a culture that promotes them. We have had tools for interaction before, from talking, through phone and email, but now we have the opportunity to look at, and support, a richer suite of interaction. The important work is done in conversations.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 19, 2011

While implicitly it could support tracking a group’s progress, separate thoughts as recorded through blogs and tweets aren’t a natural feature. Yes, there’s integration with wikis and blogging tools, but it’s not quite the same. What if we could make it lower overhead for higher impact?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2015

And you can use search engines and reference tools just the same. And you can use those social media tools as before, but you can also use them because of where or when you are. Of course, you can snap pictures or films for later recollection and reflection, and contribute them to a blog post for reflection. Is there more?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

It succinctly introduces why you would want to think about social media to augment training, introduces several of the major social media tools that represent categorical differences, and, for each, focuses on practical explanations about the tools, pluses and minuses, and classic ways to use them before, during, and after learning events.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 10, 2010

It should provide access to courses when those are relevant, resources/job aids, and eCommunity tools too. And it should be performer- and performance-centric, so I come in and find my tools ‘to hand’ And I ‘get’ the need for compliance, and the role of courses. LMSs are a tool, social networks are a tool.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2017

If you follow this blog (and you should :), it was pretty obvious that I was at the FocusOn Learning conference in San Diego last week (previous 2 posts were mindmaps of the keynotes). As a consequence the advent of tools that make it easier is to be lauded. And it was fun as always. So we’re not at an easily accessible place.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 8, 2015

No ‘we need a course on this’, but instead: “what business goal are we trying to impact” Note : the solution can just be a tool, it doesn’t have to always be learning. And the impact is what the Kirkpatrick model properly is about, as I opined in the blog debate.

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