Tony Karrer
AUGUST 30, 2006
Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Managing your RSS Feeds - If you are considering subscribing to this blog, you might want to read this.
Moodle Journal
AUGUST 15, 2006
I have a sense or resurgent enthusiasm again with regard to the place of games in teaching: re my posting to this blog on 3DML and Robocode, when today I read that Microsoft are to offer XNA Game Studio Express , a free consumer version of Xbox tools that will run on a PC. In fact my interest in games has taken an upward leap after discovering the Sleeper Curve in Steven Johnson’s book ‘Everything bad is good for you’ ( I can recommend it).
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The Learning Circuits
AUGUST 31, 2006
Based on my experience in visiting blogs for the first time and having a hard time deciding what the content of the blog really was, I decided that what I needed was a blog guide. So, I decided to create a Blog Guide for my own blog and put a permanent link for it on my blog up in the header. Since I just saw a post by Jim Belshaw that referenced it - Personal Reflections: Tony Karrer and eLearning Technology where Jim said: I do wish more people would follow this approach.
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Clive on Learning
AUGUST 9, 2006
Sunday August 6th saw the 15th anniversary of the World Wide Web, which was released to the world in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir Tim) when he posted the code to the WWW on the alt.hypertext discussion group for others to download and play with. Now, of course, 95% of the public regard the WWW and the Internet as synonymous (although the Internet does, of course, have much earlier origins.
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Tony Karrer
AUGUST 29, 2006
Updated 2/11/2008 - Various start-up guides/introductions to Web 2.0, Learning 2.0 and eLearning 2.0: Fast Wonder: Web 2.0 Starter Kit (previous location - Open Culture: Web 2.0 Starter Kit ) Boxes and Arrows: Web 2.0 Tour for the Enterprise eLearning Technology: Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Learning Circuits: Understanding eLearning 2.0 School Library Learning: 23 Things PLCMC Learning 2.0: 23 Things Keywords: e
Moodle Journal
AUGUST 10, 2006
I have been working on plans to encourage students to adopt the idea of virtual learning communities for the coming academic year. But to be realistic there has to be some sense of virtual value! It occurs to me, that the usual start of course ice breakers of ‘who I am, where I’ve been, going, gone wish I hadn’t and wish I had’ , type soon forgotten presentations, are evolved out by a dynamic, sustained and even organic online presence through myspace accounts, accessed from the vle.
The Learning Circuits
AUGUST 28, 2006
In preparing for a couple upcoming presentations on eLearning 2.0 and I've been forced to deal with several related problems and have come to a realization about a fundamental problem that we face. First, let me walk you through where this is coming from. Most conference attendees have done little or no preparation and have not sat down to figure out what questions they should be asking coming into the conference.
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Clive on Learning
AUGUST 2, 2006
E-learning people don't agree on much. We don't even agree on the term e-learning. But nothing gets a community together more effectively than a common enemy, and now we've got one. It's called Blackboard. I'm not going to tell you about how evil this company has become. I'll let you find out for yourself about their ridiculous patents on virtual learning environment technologies and their action annoucned a couple of days ago to sue one of their closest competitors for, you guessed it, also sel
Breakthrough eLearning
AUGUST 31, 2006
Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Thursday, August 31, 2006 Is Your Hammer Looking for a Nail? Regular readers of eLearn Campus publications will know that we spend a lot of time talking about the design and management of eLearning.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 31, 2006
The other day I ran across Guy Kawasaki's Signum sine tinnitu blog. I've always enjoyed Guy's speaking so I spent some time on his blog (really good stuff), but then I ran across The First 100 Days: Observations of a Nouveau Blogger where he says: The more a blogger uses the pronoun "I,†the less he has to say. Many bloggers apparently believe that people not only give a shiitake about everything they say, but that these people are hanging on to every word.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 31, 2006
Because my blogging experience started as an experiment into what, if anything, we can use blogs for in corporate learning, I am very interested in other's experience's and ideas on the topic. Tony has a great post today referencing a comment from Guy Kawasaki about newbie bloggers using "I" too much and not having anything to say. I also read many marketing blogs and such that discuss becoming a better blogger, etc.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 29, 2006
Top 10 Best Presentations Ever - Know HR Blog. Just to name a couple: Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984. Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech in 1963. Malcolm Gladwell's Blink presentation at SXSW 2005. Tom Peters presents A Ham Sandwich in 1990. Turn Your iPod into the Ultimate PowerPoint Accessory - Micro Persuasion. Whether you are on Windows or Mac with a few simple steps you can turn your iPod (even an older one) into the ultimate PowerPoint accessory.
The Learning Circuits
AUGUST 23, 2006
Harold Jarche provides a concise yet powerful defense of the Elgg learning environment against the 44 provisions of the Blackboard LMS Patent in his post Elgg and the LMS Patent. His analysis from a learning professional's viewpoint is critical. This post is a call to action to any learning professional who wants to preserve open and complete competition amongst vendors (for profit or open source) seeking to assist in the learning process. Please write a post on your blog (feel free to copy
Breakthrough eLearning
AUGUST 25, 2006
Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Friday, August 25, 2006 Getting Opt-in for Your eLearning My colleagues Mike Grant and Jon-Anthony Lui led an interesting webinar session yesterday focused on improving adoption rates for participation in eLearning initiatives.
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Tony Karrer
AUGUST 30, 2006
Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload. Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic strategy is: Quarantine Folders I create a "T
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 29, 2006
So, when I was in college I took a course in photography.well before digital cameras. The most interesting project we did was putting ourselves in completely dark room, opening the camera shutter and painting images with a flashlight on the wall. Sure, that's old hat to most photographers, but it's really what got me excited about alternative possibilities in photography.
Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 27, 2006
Warren Buffett - a video trilogy - Life 2.0. A three part video series give fascinating insights into the life and work of Warren Buffett. Web 2.0's Real Secret Sauce: Network Effects - Dion Hinchcliffe. The Web is the fabric upon which an ever increasing amount of our lives is woven into. This is now most media including newspapers, TV, radio, entertainment, music, arts, etc. as well as what I call lifestyle logistics; e-mailing, IMs, calendaring, travel planning, time/task management, and more
The Learning Circuits
AUGUST 16, 2006
It's taken a bit longer to get to this post, but maybe I was waiting to read Jim Ware's post on The Dark Side of Collaborative Technology. There is a very dark side to web 2.0 that will send a chill up your spine if you think about it too long. Jim only talks about Stephen Colbert's punk on Wikipedia in which he suggested that his audience go change the entry for elephants to show that elephants aren't headed for extinction.
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Breakthrough eLearning
AUGUST 17, 2006
Breakthrough eLearning Reflections on how to break through some of the barriers that prevent the achievement of excellence in eLearning.The 5-E Framework: Establish Value / Effect Change / Engage Stakeholders & Learners / Experiment / Evaluate Results Thursday, August 17, 2006 Where is Everyone? Michael Grant Co-Founder and Director of Research eLearn Campus What would you do if you held a course and nobody came?
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 29, 2006
Interesting post by Harold Jarche on PKM and Informal Learning. His sentiments echo much of what I've been saying around Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning and Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals. I'm looking forward to seeing more and more help emerge in how we can become better at our own learning so we can turn that around and help people in our organizations become better learners.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 28, 2006
Over the weekend I posted a link to Brainbasedbusiness about how researches had discovered a way actually see the effects of experience on the brain. There was no mention of how learning played in all of this, however the BBB blog followed with this post about MIT research showing that Learning Changes Your Brain's Neuron Connections. "It's quite a breakthrough because it reminds us that when we learn -- we rewire our brain.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 26, 2006
August 26, 2006. A Taxonomy of Knowledge - The Atlantic. Not all books are created equal. To a librarian, at least, this truth is self-evident: some books are too important to lend out at all. Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise. The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.
The Learning Circuits
AUGUST 10, 2006
Three bits of housekeeping detail to make everyone aware of. A NEW VOICE As you've probably noticed due to his very popular first post, Tony Karrer, Ph.D., has joined the LCB Blog Squad. Tony is the founder and President of TechEmpower - a firm dedicated to providing innovative learning solutions to its clients. His blog eLearning Technology has quickly become a must include for eLearning professionals' RSS aggregators.
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