Tony Karrer
JUNE 6, 2007
I just wanted to relate something that I think shows the power of a Wiki in general and Wikipedia particularly. My son, in 4th grade here in California, was assigned a research report on the California Gold Rush and decided to focus his report on the different routes taken by the 49ers. He used a variety of different resources and particularly used the California Gold Rush Historic Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Learning Visions
JUNE 8, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, June 08, 2007 Instructional Designers Tools Theres been a good conversation going on over at Christy Tuckers Experiencing E-Learning blog about instructional design. Christy has been writing about how to get started in instructional design and what technology tools you might need.
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 8, 2007
This week at the TrainingDay blog , I posted a list of semi-learning related books you might want to pick up and read on the beach. They are all less than $10 US dollars and are great fun and good reads. Check out Summer Reading Suggestions (only semi-learning related) and leave a semi-learning related book of your own in the comments. Remember, leave a comment on the TrainingDay blog and you could win a book (those are fully learning-related.not as much fun!
Learning with e's
JUNE 7, 2007
I'm flying off to Italy (Napoli) next week to attend the 16th Annual EDEN Conference. I've never been south of Rome before, so I'm looking forward to seeing the Bay of Naples, Amalfi Coast and perhaps even making a day trip to Pompeii whilst I'm there. I will beg steal or borrow access to a networked pc during my time at the conference so that I can blog the latest news about what's being discussed and the issues of the day.
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Tony Karrer
JUNE 7, 2007
Great little video from folks at Google that shows how to create a blog on Blogger. This is both a good example of a brief eLearning piece, but also helpful if you are considering creating a blog.
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 7, 2007
This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we are supposed to consider both good and bad examples as well as give some thoughts on why the example should get some attention. I've decided to look at several different types of "e-learning." Traditional Here is some learning sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency. It is called the EPA Watershed Academy.
Clive on Learning
JUNE 3, 2007
I've just been reading a review by John-Paul Flintoff in June 3rd's Sunday Times of Andrew Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur. Here's how the review begins: Thinking is so over. The web was going to be the great educator, but the cult of the amateur is now devaluing knowledge, says net entrepreneur Andrew Keen. Before the internet it seemed like a joke: if you provide an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters one of them will eventually come up with a masterpiece.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 7, 2007
Stephen Downes commented on my recent post - Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and said - I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools. What is it about people in corporate learning that they feel the need to perpetuate the attitude of servitude it seems all learners must adopt.
Learning Visions
JUNE 2, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Saturday, June 02, 2007 Be the Node To Michele Martins most excellent post on the Psychology and Skills of Personal Learning Environments. First off, I have to say that this entire PLE conversation hasnt really sparked much for me. It just seems like a no-duh.
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 5, 2007
When I speak and consult with corporations, I often bring up the concept that the retiring boomers are going to be leaving the workforce in a few short years taking with them years of invaluable experience. Experience that cannot easily be replaced, I raise this alarm so that companies can begin to think about capturing all that lost knowledge before it disappears and using some of the tools of the gamers to do it.
The Learning Circuits
JUNE 4, 2007
One of the things that has always been somewhat surprising to me is that there seem to be relatively few examples of different kinds of eLearning available out there. So, this month I wanted to ask a slightly different kind of question that hopefully can produce something of value. The Big Question is. Where are the Examples of eLearning? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 6, 2007
For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some of my thoughts in Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging?
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JUNE 2, 2007
The Trend toward Offshoring. There seems to be a stampede of U.S. companies rushing to outsource their operations to offshore companies, dramatically expanding the economies of India and China. What is fueling the trend is the desire to gain access to lower cost, high quality labor. Top business functions for offshoring include customer service, IT.
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 4, 2007
Sometimes, things just all seem to come together at once. A number of alumni and friends of Bloomsburg University's Instructional Technology program have sent me some great links and they are all about wildly different things but all are related to the gamer generation. Check them out. Here is one titled Most-Praised Generation Craves Kudos at the Office from Alison Stone.
Clive on Learning
JUNE 3, 2007
A while back, someone (I think it was Jay Cross ) posted about Ambient Findability by Peter Morville. A combination of Jay's recommendation and an intriguing title motivated me enough to give it a go. I'm glad I did. Peter describes himself as an information architect, which cynics (heaven forbid) might describe as a highly impressive rebranding for those formerly known as librarians.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 4, 2007
Found via Donald Clark's Images, Crowds, Cognitive Bias, eLearning 2.0, & Networks - E-learning 2.0: Fact, Fad or Fiction? I've not had time to read through this nor give any thought to it. But what I found ironic was the suggestion at the bottom of the article to send an email with your thoughts. How 1.0? I hope the rest of the article is better than that.
Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
JUNE 2, 2007
The Trend toward Offshoring. There seems to be a stampede of U.S. companies rushing to outsource their operations to offshore companies, dramatically expanding the economies of India and China. What is fueling the trend is the desire to gain access to lower cost, high quality labor. Top business functions for offshoring include customer service, IT.
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Kapp Notes
JUNE 4, 2007
This week over at the TrainingDay blog , my post is called Surgery Anyone? Virtual Surgery That Is. Stop by the site and leave a comment, you could win a free book.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JUNE 7, 2007
Your Design Here - Print. The more amateurs do things themselves, the more they develop a refined taste for good professional work - whether in the kitchen or at the design station. To fear that shoddy DIY work will replace good professional design is to suggest that the two are indistinguishable to the untrained eye. 10 Predictions To Help Define the Social Media Revolution - Social Computing.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 4, 2007
I did my eLearning 2.0 presentation at ASTD 2007. There were over 200 people and it was standing room only. Someone told me that lots of folks couldn't get in. Lots of good energy in the room. The audience was about half very new people to training and eLearning and the rest had varying levels of experience. Most of the audience wasn't familiar with social bookmarking.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JUNE 6, 2007
I just saw a post from Design of Knowledge titled Simulations in Training: New T+D Article. I just had a quick thought that I wanted to comment on but wordpress wanted me to register.no thanks. So I'll post here. You can read the post and/or the T+D article, but here's the part that caught my attention. "And if the simulation is not supported by reflective activities and orientation activities, the benefits will not be realized.
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The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
Breakthrough eLearning
JUNE 5, 2007
Two weeks ago, in a moment of weakness, I almost submitted a response to a request for proposals (RFP). It was for an eLearning development project for which I knew our firm could have done a terrific job. However, I remembered an earlier vow that I had made to myself never to put myself and my colleagues through "RFP hell" again, was resolute, and I ignored the invitation.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JUNE 4, 2007
Thinking is so over - Times Online. The idea that content on the web is "free" is mistaken: the hidden cost may be the demise of old media and entire art forms on which the free content depends. Another web idea dismantled by Keen is the concept of the "long tail" - the slow but gradual accumulation of sales by niche products such as books that could never have commanded shelf space in shops but can wait for buyers to find them on Amazon.
Tony Karrer
JUNE 4, 2007
Found via Stephen Downes - Tips On Developing A Wiki Community.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
JUNE 7, 2007
In the spirit of full disclosure, and if you haven't already heard, I'm an employee of The eLearning Guild. With that said, I'll use the kid in a candy store analogy.like you have no idea. The research data is beautiful and might I add VERY web2.0. (more on that later) If you didn't get the email on the latest Direct Data Access tools then you should hit the web site and check it out.
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Mark Oehlert
JUNE 4, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « When did McDs stop giving a crap? | Main | If Jim Collins cant get you fired up, you may need to check for a pulse (ASTD Keynote session) » June 04, 2007 @#$&!! Comment Spam So I am getting hammered with comment spam and am playing around with a couple of solutions before I just have to turn them off all together.
Big Dog, Little Dog
JUNE 3, 2007
Smart image and video search - KM World. Although the brain isn't fast in comparison to computer hardware systems we have today, it has several key abilities that computers don't currently have. The brain supports heavy parallel processing capabilities, which means we (unlike current computer systems) can, in mere seconds, recognize complex patterns within images.
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