From the Coleface
JULY 27, 2007
The amount of times my wife has been optimistically saying “lets get a new kitchen” has made me realise that my experience as a buyer of kitchens is probably not unlike that of many managers who are commissioning e-learning. Firstly it all feels like quite a lot of money, so my fear of making a wrong decision is heightened. Then there are all sorts of options for different finishes, accessories and gadgetry.
Kapp Notes
JULY 27, 2007
If you have been following the Second Life class I have been conducting this summer you know that one of the assignments is to create a Machinimia Project explaining some part of Second Life. The complete assignment can be found on the Assignment Page of the MSIT Second Life wiki. One student has already completed the assignment and created a Machinimia and posted it on YouTube (having some issues with TeacherTube , however, trouble loading) and then, in the true spirit of Web 2.0, he got an int
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Learning Visions
JULY 26, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, July 26, 2007 Updating My Blog Lately, Ive been having blog envy. Wordpress and Typepad blogs look moh bettah to me. They have tabs. Tabs seem more professional, they make a blog feel more like a "real" website. The blogs I envy are very white ( Michele Martins blog comes to mind).
Tony Karrer
JULY 25, 2007
My article - Understanding eLearning 2.0 - was just published on ASTD's Learning Circuits. I would like to thank readers of this blog for helping with contributions. As I said in the article: Thanks This article would not have been possible without considerable discussion and input from many different people who have taken part in discussion around this topic via the blogosphere.
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Moodle Journal
JULY 24, 2007
Well its that time of year again when following the upgrade of Moodle to our test server and tried out all the features that I need to star thinking about updating the Moodle course notes for the new version. This usually means I check each page of the notes with the new version and apply changes as they occur. This year however I have decided to reduce the actual Moodle training notes in their printed form and deliver the rest as a series of short video clips that can be run on demand by users
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Learning Visions
JULY 26, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, July 26, 2007 My Top Ten Tools for Jane Hart Jane Hart asked me to add my own top ten list to the mix. Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. For the most part, I like tools that are easy to use, easy to learn, look good, and create good-looking output.
Tony Karrer
JULY 24, 2007
A while ago, I created a feedburner feed for this blog so I could add lots of stuff to the feed - most importantly I publish a daily summary of my new del.icio.us links. It appears that most people still point to my Blogspot feed.
Kapp Notes
JULY 25, 2007
Here is a great article titled Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees by Greg Hammill. It does a great job of explaining the tendencies of four different groups all currently working within organizations and all required to work together even though they have different outlooks, experiences and expectations. The groups are: Veterans, Silent, Traditionalists (born between 1922 and 1945) Baby Boomers (born between 1946-1964) Generation X, Xers (born between 1965 and 1980) Generation Y,
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Learning Visions
JULY 26, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, July 26, 2007 Is Facebook the next Microsoft? Have you seen this article from TechCrunch: Could Facebook Become The Next Microsoft? Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:14 PM Labels: facebook 2comments: Davidsaid. No, Google is. They have collaborative Apps, tons of free services and they let developers/anyone run freely with their widgets.
Tony Karrer
JULY 24, 2007
AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest. It provides a widget that allows you to show your top posts for month or year. You can see what it thinks are mine in the right column of the blog. I've been creating similar information manually for a while, so it's nice to have an automated support for it.
Clive on Learning
JULY 27, 2007
As I return to my usual routine after my return from Kuala Lumpur, I noticed some jottings I made during a presentation at the Asia HRD Conference by a magnificently titled YBhg Dato' Seri Professor Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah, who is Vice Chancellor of UiTM. Now you know that learning and development professionals are always being advised to align their work to business objectives, well Malaysia is clearly a place where they apply the concept to education as well.
Kapp Notes
JULY 23, 2007
This week, we had Suzi Mazzenga as a guest speaker talking about her adventure as a male in Second Life. You can read about it in her article My Days as a Dude. She gave her presentation using text chat within the Second Life classroom we have set up on MSIT Island. The class then had a discussion about the places they visited last week and how those places could be used for education.
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Learning Visions
JULY 24, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Im Mrs. Dalloway Im just back from vacation and still trying to make the transition back into work mode. Not quite there yet. But I did learn that I am like Mrs. Dalloway. I feel a bit miffed that my life might seem utterly "bland and normal" to an outside observer, but thats probably true.
Tony Karrer
JULY 23, 2007
Great article - How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) that looks at Andrew McAfee's experiences around the " Enterprise 2.0 " article and Wikipedia 's Articles for Deletion process. It's an interesting discussion of the net impact of Wikipedia's process - which can be frustrating, especially to casual users. At the same time, I've also had some very good experiences such as when my 10-year old son updated Wikipedia.
Clive on Learning
JULY 26, 2007
The phrase of the moment at the Asia HRD Convention is 'human capital'. 'Human Resource Development' obviously hasn't succeeded in providing the learning and development department with the gravitas it so obviously craves, so it's time for another try. I must admit to more than a little cynicism. As someone who, in his early career, must own up to a spell in management accounting, I do know what capital is, and it isn't people.
Learning with e's
JULY 23, 2007
We've been concerned for some time about the quality of essay writing here at the University of Plymouth. Last week my colleague Mark Townsend and I got together to talk, and we came up with the idea to combine blogs and wikis as an experiment to explore essay writing, and hopefully raise skill levels amongst our students. Here's the plan: Mark and I are going to create a blogalogue (blog dialogue, get it?
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 21, 2007
We have always regarded the term “learning outsourcing” as a misnomer. The very nature of a training function requires that many of the topics, programs, and solutions are outsourced – after all, training managers are expected to be able to train and support every function in the company. How can they possibly do this without. Read more» The post Learning Outsourcing Marches Ahead: New Economics appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 27, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Pageflakes.I want to switch but did you actually try to make it hard? | Main | "With Tools on Web, Amateurs Reshape Mapmaking" and in related news Andrew Keen Goes Apoplectic » July 27, 2007 "I.B.M. Plan Ties Training and Accounts" (NY Times) ( link ) "I.B.M., at a conference in Washington today, is announcing that itwill begin offering its employees in the United States specializedsavings accounts
Clive on Learning
JULY 25, 2007
This was the headline in today's New Straits Times, delivered to my hotel room in Kuala Lumpur this morning: ACTION AGAINST 'FLAMING' BLOGS 'This is not to destroy freedom of speech in the blogosphere. It is to put a stop to the freedom to lie, to abuse and slander people.' Some extracts from the article: The government will act against bloggers who belittle Islam or the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (monarchy).
Big Dog, Little Dog
JULY 26, 2007
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life - Wired. Ever since BusinessWeek ran a breathless cover story titled "My Virtual Life" more than a year ago, reporters have been heralding Second Life as the here-and-now incarnation of the fictional Metaverse that Neal Stephenson conjured up 15 years ago in Snow Crash. Mobile Learning - The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 21, 2007
We have always regarded the term “learning outsourcing” as a misnomer. The very nature of a training function requires that many of the topics, programs, and solutions are outsourced – after all, training managers are expected to be able to train and support every function in the company. How can they possibly do this without. Read more» The post Learning Outsourcing Marches Ahead: New Economics appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 27, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « More Truthiness from Will Thalheimer - Check the Truthiness of Your Slides | Main | "Ultimate GMail Collection: over 80 Tools and Tips" (makeuseof.com) » July 27, 2007 The Argument for Casual Games in the Corporate World When I have talked about using game-based learning, I have always tried to help people understand that even very short games, what wed refer to a casual games - can carry the same impact
Clive on Learning
JULY 25, 2007
Don Kirkpatrick that is. I was chuffed to find a Kirkpatrick on the bill here at the Asian HRD Conference talking about evaluation. A chance to put a face to the name. Only this wasn't the Kirkpatrick - Don, of four levels fame - but his son, Jim, who by soem strange coincidence also talks about evaluation. Jim looks older than me, so I knew Don must be really ancient, and he was.
Breakthrough eLearning
JULY 24, 2007
Elliott Masie is constantly polling readers of his Learning Trends online newsletter on interesting questions related to workplace learning. His latest asked "Can workers really e-Learn at their desks?" In other words, can they fit eLearning into their daily tasks at their workstations without having to do it at home, or before or after the workday, or in some quiet designated eLearning space in the workplace?
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JULY 21, 2007
The role of chief learning officer has been hard to define for years. While it is becoming more prevalent (our research shows that approximately 30% of large organizations have a named CLO), the definition of what a CLO does is changing. Typically the CLO is defined as the “business leader of corporate learning.” At organizations. Read more» The post The New Chief Learning Officer: 2008 and Beyond appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 24, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Optimal Length of Copyright Term Solved: Now Watch the RIAA, MPAA, Disney, et al Squirm as they confront real numbers | Main | Beautiful Visual Search Engine: searchCrystal » July 24, 2007 "Online Gaming Web sites Average Nine Visits per Visitor Each Month" (ComScore) ( link ) “With onein four Internet users visiting a gaming site, playing games online isextremely popular.
Clive on Learning
JULY 22, 2007
It's one in the morning, I'm in Dubai airport and it's another two hours until my connecting flight to Malaysia. In spite of the hour I've just had a curry, because I'm losing track of meal times. Needless to say the locals were eating Macdonalds. I daren't go to sleep in case I miss the call for my flight, so I thought I'd better connect up. Anyway, on the way over I was reflecting, as you do, that there's something not quite complete about the communications process as applied to blogs.
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