Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 19, 2008

ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! Huge directory of links to free educational resources–open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources. Mostly higher ed. tags: openaccess , education , highered , e-learning , creativecommons , free. Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation? Principles for assessing online discussions and other conversations (blogs, chat, etc.) by coherence, awareness of audience, and diction.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

Just wanted to announce that I'll be doing a full-day workshop in Cincinnati (actually in nearby Kentucky) for the Greater Cincinnati ASTD on July 15. I think this is going to be an interesting and fun workshop. I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go. You can go to their site: [link] to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

If you want to get a sense of what Second Life is like and particularly what it is like as part of learning, here are some videos that help describe this. | View | Upload your own What videos did I miss?

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 15, 2008

Here is this Month's ASTD Big Question: Second Life Training? More specifically: In what situations, do you believe it makes sense to develop a learning experience that will be delivered within Second Life? If you were to develop a training island in Second Life, what kind of environment and artifacts would you consider essential for teaching? Just as there are considerable differences in blended learning and virtual classroom training, what are some of the major differences (surprises) in train

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2008

Half an Hour: Finding Time. Stephen Downes, on finding the time to write online by focusing on using content from a closed environment and bringing it into the open. tags: writing , lifelonglearning , productivity. The whole point isn’t to *add* online writing on top of everything else you do. Nobody has time for that.Rather, what you want to be thinking of doing is to gradually migrate to writing online *instead* of writing for those other purposes.That doesn’t mean you become a blo

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

Just wanted to announce that I'll be doing a full-day workshop in Cincinnati (actually in nearby Kentucky) for the Greater Cincinnati ASTD on July 15. I think this is going to be an interesting and fun workshop. I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go. You can go to their site: [link] to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 20, 2008

Not only can 3D worlds be used for the recreation of physcial spaces (not the best use) but they can also be used for "other worldly" interfaces.one such example is the visualization of information in ways not prevously possible. Visualizing 3D data Check out this article Visualization of Statistics in Virtual Reality As the article states: Visualization of statistics in virtual reality offers new possibilities for the representation of statistics.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 17, 2008

Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Passion and Professional Development… Online. Mark Wagner on different philosophies for teaching, both face-to-face and online. From one of the assignments in PLS’ Facilitator Skills Training. tags: FST , teaching , profdev , passion , e-learning , education , learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2008

If you want to get a sense of what Second Life is like and particularly what it is like as part of learning, here are some videos that help describe this. | View | Upload your own What videos did I miss?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2008

At lunch today, I had a funny experience that I just had to share. The person I met for lunch (a CEO at a client company) today is his birthday. And, it's my birthday. And it's today. So, if I'm right, then it's a 1 in 365.25 chance that we share a birthday. And maybe a 20 in 365.25 chance that it would be on our birthdays that we get together. So, that's roughly a: 1 in 6,700 chance and even the chance of that happening in a lifetime is pretty remote.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 16, 2008

Here’s a shameless plug for the new Academy Internet website. I trust you’ll find that it demonstrates the creativity and wow factor that we can bring to your learning projects, and failing that, that you’ll enjoy some of the mini games and puzzles. If you’re feeling more serious there’s also some diagnostics and case study material e.g. the Insiders Guides.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 16, 2008

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. Create tag clouds from plain text or delicious bookmark tags. Includes options to change the font, layout, and colors so you can make more interesting tag clouds than the typical options. tags: visualization , web2.0 , tagging.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2008

Rachel just posted a question via a comment on the post Background Reading - Use of PowerPoint : I need help with a Powerpoint possible use. I teach freshman composition at a university to non-native speakers of English. They often come to me for extra help in their other classes. However, they ALWAYS need help creating PowerPoint presentations for their other classes of subjects such as economics, nutrition, statistics, travel & Tourism.etc.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2008

Rachel just posted a question via a comment on the post Background Reading - Use of PowerPoint : I need help with a Powerpoint possible use. I teach freshman composition at a university to non-native speakers of English. They often come to me for extra help in their other classes. However, they ALWAYS need help creating PowerPoint presentations for their other classes of subjects such as economics, nutrition, statistics, travel & Tourism.etc.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 15, 2008

A group of avatars in a corporate virtual world wondering what is going on? Organizations seem to rush into virtual worlds with little planning or forethought and then wonder why their virtual world experience was a failure. In fact, according to the technology analyst firm Gartner , nine out of 10 virtual world projects fail within 18 months. I am not surprised.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 16, 2008

I’m easing back into the swing of things after being offline since Thursday. (My grandparents just celebrated their 60th anniversary, so we had a big family get together.) I’m following Alan Levine & Will Richardson’s lead in creating a tag cloud with Wordle , which gives you some fun options for layout and color. (My apologies to anyone else who posted about this too.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete. I'm really hoping that folks will help me out by: a. telling me what they would say if they were in the workshop and b. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete. I'm really hoping that folks will help me out by: a. telling me what they would say if they were in the workshop and b. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JUNE 16, 2008

I often get the question how much time it takes to blog. Since I'm a meticulous time-writer, I know this blog takes me less time than I'd imagine myself- 4-6 hours per month with 2-3 blogposts per week - but then I measure only the writing of blogposts. If you'd include reading other blogs and thinking through topics for blogposts it'd be much higher.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 14, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Godspeed Tim Russert. | Main | "So" - A Whole Article on So.Awesome. » June 14, 2008 OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!! OK at least now we have an explanation for what has been going on in all of organizations. We have thoroughly been infiltrated by spies who have read and are following this manual.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2008

Well, it's all over bar the shouting (which will happen during the post luch Annual General Meeting of EDEN - look, I'm only joking,OK??) The foyer downstairs is bare and few people remain. It's a little like Second Life (Now I am being serious) The social web has had a huge impact on the way we see the world of education, and business. In his keynote today, David White from the EU commission used the analogy of Amazon.Com which encourages online book reviews.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 17, 2008

Don’t ask how my thoughts got here, but I was reflecting on the fact that the western economy is largely predicated on a free market (whether we truly achieve that is a different rant). Which, to work properly, needs consumers to be ‘optimizing’ That is, for the free market to drive improvements and fair prices, people have to vote effectively with their dollars.

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Vignettes Learning

JUNE 19, 2008

Gary VanAntwerp called my attention to this New York Times article At Social Site, Only the Businesslike Need Apply. The article caught my interest because it calls the attention to what LinkedIn plans to do to increase usage or interaction in their site. "Soon, LinkedIn plans to add additional features, like a group calendar, and let independent developers contribute their own programs that will allow employees to collaborate on projects. " "The idea is to let firms exploit their employees' soc

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eLearning Blender

JUNE 18, 2008

The web design class I am taking is really getting my feet wet with Dreamweaver and photoshop. I am currently working on my portfolio site which will eventually contain a gallery of my work along with some information about me. Something that is confusing me about Dreamweaver is the need for multiple site definitions. Our teacher had us set up 3 different site definitions which makes it hard to know which one I should be working out of.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 20, 2008

The city of Warsaw has a reputation for being a beautiful place, and indeed it is, but the part of town I am staying in seems stern and forbidding. Some of the architecture is a stark remnant of the Soviet era, and the ghost of Uncle Joe seems to leer at you from the solid buildings, and from across the vast, open squares (Yeah, I know, hit the link for Uncle Joe - and it's one big joke.I just couldn't resist).

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E-Learning Acupuncture

JUNE 17, 2008

Have you ever had that ‘eureka’ moment when you’ve stumbled upon a piece of technology that is so interesting and useful to you that you can’t believe it’s real or free? I experienced this feeling today when I tried Jott. I first learned about it this morning as I managed to catch a few minutes of a presentation by Michael Wesch entitled ‘A Portal to the Future of Education” where he showcased several Web 2.0 applications that together can serve as tools for education today and int

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Vignettes Learning

JUNE 18, 2008

I just read The Kaizen Way by Robery Maurer , PhD. It talks about making change happen in small steps. Behavior change only happens in small ways. This is how to deal with the natural tendencies of people to resist change. Maurer has done a lot of research in this area. What struck me is the explanation that biologically, human beings do change in comfortable small steps.

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Janet Clarey

JUNE 20, 2008

A quandary. A fork in the road. A spoon in the road. An insanity check. Whatev… To return to school or not. That is the question. I’m sitting here with a reminder to register for the fall semester and I just dread the thought of returning to class so I made a pro/con list using SnagIt! That, it seemed at the time, was a better thing to do than actually make a decision.

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