IMPORTANT NOTICE This post will be continuously updated until after the 2 workshops ( Male and Female ) at the National Center for E-learning and Distance Learning (NCeL ) are completed. INTRODUCTION Today more than 900 million people use Facebook, and more than 300 million use Twitter to connect, share and interact with one another. In this workshop, we will explore how we can use these two tools to facilitate learning and teaching. Then we will explore and discuss with the participants how they can use Facebook for learning and teaching. Empowering Personal Learning Environments at NCeL! MORE >>

I saw this earlier, the new Google Search Education, posted on the The Next Web website, and is flagged as a “new search education tool aimed at helping teachers pass on the necessary skills to young learners researching online”: This passage resonated with me, in the video from time-stamp 2:06; “The new digital divide is that those who are able to search, and those that aren’t able to search. ” Is this another side to the digital native/immigrant or digital resident/visitor discussion (argument)? What do you think? Digital Native vs Digital Immigrant. MORE >>

Continuous professional development is a critical part of a trainer’s work. We often think of it from the perspective of our learners, but need to think of it from our personal perspective as well.I think of this now as I prepare to attend the ASTD International Conference and Exposition next week in Denver. Conferences are one of the best professional development opportunities for trainers, as it allows you to step outside of your day-to-day duties and focus exclusively on your development for a few days.The problem is, they can be expensive. Viewing the Live Tweet Stream. MORE >>

The discovery of fire sparked [.sorry] sorry] the first social learning moment and the true application of learning. Two knuckleheads, Igg Nyte and Puut Emowt, made the discovery on a Thursday many years ago. Back in those days there was not a lot of dialog exchanged, and as such, there were not a lot of labels to confuse or skew what something might be. What mattered about learning was reduced to its simplest form - what could you DO with whatever you learned. Maybe we need a little more simplicity in our search for effectiveness. Igg and Puut figured it out, and they were both knuckleheads. MORE >>

I first heard about SCORM when I was working for a software company that created collaborative learning tools for higher education. We were using Microsoft Word to create SCORM compatible content. This was back in 2006 and I remember a lot of folks did not understand the value of converting content to SCORM because it seemed so outdated and there were much more current development projects that needed to get done. It wasn't until I got a job in corporate learning that I realized just how important SCORM was. SCORM itself is outdated. It is pretty boring and uncreative. LMS SCORM MORE >>