Moodle Journal
MAY 31, 2005
The first meeting of the Virtual Learning was held and went extremely well. We agreed on some dates for awareness sessions and training. The newsletter was circulated to the group and in the absence of any objections was sent around to all mailboxes in the first instance, though it did prove necessary to also include a reminder for booking via email.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 28, 2005
What do a fantastic meal and the iPod have to teach us about learning? I believe they both have valuable lessons to teach us about scoping our work. The meal was a relaxed evening at Manresa , where the chef served up some two dozen exquisite small tastes. Chef David Kinch has created one of the top 50 restaurants in the world via a simple mantra: "A dish isn't complete when I can't add anything else to itâ€"but when I can take nothing else away".
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Vignettes Learning
MAY 28, 2005
Special Issue, 120-Page Article This article presents a series of strategies and tactics which help you answer these questions: How do I respond to rapid business needs for e-Learning? How do I decide which approach can dramatically increase the speed of development and how do I calculate the returns? How do I work effectively with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to obtain content?
Big Dog, Little Dog
MAY 31, 2005
Concept Maps Go to School. Cmaps can be used to assess student knowledge, encourage thinking and problem solving instead of rote learning, organize information for writing projects and help teachers write new curricula. Free download (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Solaris). A Conversation with James Surowiecki: The Promise and Perils of Collaborative Tools.
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Moodle Journal
MAY 17, 2005
The conference was held at a venue close to Milton Keynes. Not a bad journey though I still have difficulty with the M25, how can you end up stationary in the fast lane of a motorway that runs in a circle? Anyway the event was very good and not just the wide variety of food. A particularly interesting (worrying) presentation on e-portfolios!! and I discovered some really good resources in the form of pathe news clips.
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The Learning Circuits
MAY 25, 2005
Some people are criticizing the US Army's involvement with the computer game Full Spectrum Warrior. Although I was not involved in any way in the project other than doing a case study for LBD, I take the attacks very personally as attacks on necessary innovation. The US military had always been good at building accurate simulations around pieces of equipment.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 24, 2005
I wrote a book called Learning By Doing , all about the use of computer simulations in formal learning programs. But in many ways, it should have been called "Learning By Doing Part I." Other, critical "learning by doing" techniques includes Microcosms , Apprenticeships , and Skunk Works. Microcosms are small, controlled, comparable, but "real" worlds or projects, such as growing a garden, planning a party, running a meeting, baking a cake.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 23, 2005
For years, I have had a pretty significant fear of public speaking. Thankfully, through blood, sweat, and tears, I have been moderately successful at resolving that. For the last several years, I have had the honor and, yes, pleasure of speaking with groups ranging from two people to many thousand. Here is a curious observation from that. I like speaking with three people, because I can customize my material to the very specific needs of the individuals.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 22, 2005
I was up in St. John's, Newfoundland at the end of last week. There is a lot to love about that part of the world, including the people, the architecture, and the rugged beauty of the land. What I did not expect to find, however, was a state of the art simulator. But at The Center for Marine Simulation, they have one of the best in in the world. It is for training people who will run a ship, including the captain.
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The Learning Circuits
MAY 21, 2005
I don't know why, but I have been getting a tremendous amount of interest recently in a concept I first put forth a few years ago called Learning Accord. It suggests that you can rank many aspects of a Formal Learning Program (FLP) from tactical to strategic, including: Type of learning material; Types of results needed; and Processes used. With this organization, you can accurately predict how well a program will work.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 17, 2005
Every now and again, I get an email asking me what were some of the seminal articles or books I have read. One of the most important comes from Scientific American about how the brain learns on the molecular level. It's a critically important piece that exposes the process of learning - what happens when the brain encodes a short term piece of information into long term information.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 17, 2005
Since I have been covering the area of eCollaboration (which includes some forms of eLearning) for the last 15 years, I talk to lots of vendors about their plans for collaboration and their future. A few months ago I talked about Adobe's strategy for moving into collaboration through PDF. With the acquistion of MacroMedia it looks like Adobe will be leaping into the collaboration space even more quickly.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 16, 2005
Well after finally getting my wireless to work I am able to upload some blogging from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) conference in Fredericton (links in this post are to my summaries). Clark Aldrich led off with a talk called Simulations, Computer Games and Pedagogy. It took a long time to get to the point, so he really didn't get inot a lot of detail.
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The Learning Circuits
MAY 14, 2005
Per Mindy B's request, here's my version of our future. I can elaborate a little now. As to a longer focus on workflow learning, we have several members of the LCB Blog Squad who are very involved in such efforts. I'll encourage them to post some of their thoughts. Jay Cross and Tony O'Driscoll laid out a more detailed vision of workflow learning in the February Training.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 12, 2005
On my long-term and short-term projects, I am around motivated and talented people. But a theme has come up when talking to colleagues. A lot of people these days, according to a lot of good sources, are just "showing up. " They are just showing up to meetings, unprepared. They are showing up to league basketball games without having done much practice.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 8, 2005
I remember my Dad's buddy Tony who - aside from a stint as my Father's shipmate in the Pacific during the Big One - had spent most of his working life in a Pittsburgh steel mill before he was laid off forever. He kept telling my Dad he was too old to change and ".felt like one of them Dine-oh-saurs" I feel like that sometimes lately. I feel like that when I talk to people who develop 'learning' programs or even when I read some of these blogs.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 8, 2005
When talking and writing about simulations, one fun technique is to take a famous quote and change it just a bit. Here are some: I made a perfect simulation about growing a company. The only problem is that it takes twenty-five years to play. â€"With apologies to Steven Wright An inexperienced learner is thrown by frustration, but a good learner uses it. â€"With apologies to the late actor Carroll O'Conner High production values that restrict immersion I wouldn't give a fig for.
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The Learning Circuits
MAY 8, 2005
I remember the first time I was aware of reading a professionally published book and finding a typo. It was a Stephen King novel and I was at summer camp. I found the misspelled word, and even though I knew it was wrong, I reread it again and again, and finally looked it up in a dictionary just to confirm what I already knew. Today, I almost wish that more words in some of the things I read were misspelled.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 8, 2005
I installed a wireless home network this weekend, and it was a lot harder than I thought it should have been (three XP computers and a TiVo with new Linksys wireless stuff). I spent over an hour going online, Googling user groups, until I got what I needed to configure everything. The experience was similar to when I got a wide screen television, and had to change not just the user settings, but the accessed-only-by-secret-code factory settings.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 5, 2005
Stephen Downes points to this fascinating article on learning, Change or Die from Fast Company. Make it past the rather long beginning, and you'll get new perspectives on what we need to do to achieve meaningful and lasting change. I'm pleased to see it echoing the importance of emotion in learning, a topic I'm keen on (see also Chapnick & Meloy's book on using drama in learning).
The Learning Circuits
MAY 1, 2005
Jay Cross, an inveterate reader of varying and sundry tastes, always said that interesting and new ideas about learning can come from almost anywhere. He was right. I just finished reading FutureWealth by Francis McInerney and Sean White. The premise of the book is simple. We are in the Information Age and the cost of information is always falling e.g.
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The Learning Circuits
MAY 1, 2005
While I have a vested interest (disclaimer below :), I think the announcement's worth noting: InSync Center , "an online community of practice focused on fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing between synchronous and eLearning training professionals" will be hosting free online learning sessions featuring "The eLearning Soapbox" and "The eLearning Author's Forum".
The Learning Circuits
MAY 26, 2005
I will be speaking at the Second Life Future Salon tonight. If you don't know about what I am talking, you owe it to yourself to at least check it out by clicking here.
The Learning Circuits
MAY 4, 2005
I hope to see some of you at ASTD's famed New York chapter for a presentation and book signing tonight. Here's the link: [link] Clark.
Big Dog, Little Dog
MAY 30, 2005
Brain Region Linked to Metaphor Comprehension. Metaphors make for colorful sayings, but can be confusing when taken literally. A study of people who are unable to make sense of figures of speech has helped scientists identify a brain region they believe plays a key role in grasping metaphors. Thwarted innovation: what happened to e-learning and why.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
MAY 29, 2005
How to be a Good Learner. PowerPoint Slides and MP3 Audio on Stephen Downes' survey of the three major characteristics of good learning behavior. Innovation: Core Competency for the 21st Century. Despite the growing recognition that innovation is the only sustainable source of growth, competitive advantage, and new wealth, fewer than 25 percent of companies believe innovation performance is where it needs to be if they are to be successful in the competitive marketplace.
Big Dog, Little Dog
MAY 26, 2005
Make Mine a Grande Frappuccino. Landed.fm Executive Producer Dawn Fotopulus reports from the recent Human Resource Institute's Issue Management Conference titlted "Next Practices in People Management." Presenters at the HRI conference included HR executives from Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and Shell. (With Podcast ) 11 steps to a better brain. It doesn't matter how brainy you are or how much education you've had - you can still improve and expand your mind.
Big Dog, Little Dog
MAY 24, 2005
Learning from Google. Should humanity survive the next few hundred years, we'll look back at the early decades of 21st Century and think of that time as the learning revolution, much as we now think of the turning decades of the 19th century as the industrial revolution. BusinessWeek's Special Report on PodCasting. Includes a podcast on podcasting. Several interesting features.
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