Experiencing eLearning
MAY 14, 2008
The Many Hats of an Instructional Designer. Matching game about skills for instructional designers. tags: flash , game , instructionaldesign. Sage Advice on Wiki Adoption: Keys to Success. Best practices for wiki adoption in organizations: Start with what you already do. Don’t mandate–let it grow naturally. Invite Senior Leadership. Find the Champions.
Tony Karrer
MAY 14, 2008
Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences. If you are going - please drop a comment below. Even better if you might be interested in blogging about sessions, thoughts, notes, etc. from your experience at the conference. I won't even say it's Mandatory Blogging. :) Likely this is a better way to have success with networking ahead of the conference ( Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results ).
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Kapp Notes
MAY 16, 2008
Karl asks Stephen Denning about the power of storytelling. Last week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the 5th Annual Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit (more about my speaking with Nadira Hira in another post.) I really enjoy these knowledge summits. I meet some wonderful speakers and great Kaplan-EduNeering clients. The entire event is about sharing knowledge and sharing innovative ideas about learning from the well-known speakers to the stories and examples of Kaplan-EduNeering
From the Coleface
MAY 15, 2008
There’s an increasing amount being written about Web 2.0 (the idea that the web increasingly allowing 2 way communication, rather than being a 1 way publishing of information). Technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites and YouTube allow us to re-examine the way people learn in organisations. Is this the next big thing? Or is it a load of reheated ideas under a fine pastry crust of hype?
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Experiencing eLearning
MAY 12, 2008
Top News - Online insight: Challenges beat cheerleading. Network analysis in online discussions in two classes shows, not surprisingly, that asking probing questions and challenging posts results in more learner engagement than simple “cheerleading&# posts like “Great job!&#. tags: e-learning , discussion , networks , education , research , teaching , engagement.
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Moodle Journal
MAY 15, 2008
I was invited to present at an ‘e-Book and Content’ event the other day, which unlike so many of the venues I had been invited to before, was attended predominantly by non-academic staff. In the main the audience was made up from by library / information professionals, administrators and publishers. Much of the theme for the event naturally centred on the subject of e-Books, which many appeared to agree, was the next natural stage in publication and distribution for learning materials.
Lars is Learning
MAY 15, 2008
It's SATs time in the UK for primary school kids and I'm sitting writing this post while Question Time is discussing the value of testing kids at the age of 11 in this way (my own daughter being one of them). The emphasis on testing in artificial environments that are abstracted from a real world context seems to create a lot of heated debate. The issue of stress and pressure placed on kids to.
Experiencing eLearning
MAY 10, 2008
FactCheckED: Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy. Lesson plan for teaching logical fallacies using political and commercial advertising, plus Monty Python. Aligned to National Social Studies standards and NETS info literacy. tags: logic , lessonplans , politics , k-12 , informationliteracy. Let Your Online Learning Community Grow (pdf). 3 Design Principles for Growing Successful Email Listservs and Online Forums in Educational Settings.
Tony Karrer
MAY 16, 2008
A comment just got me a bit worried. If I were someone not using a laptop during a live conference session, I'd just as soon not sit next to someone who was -- it seems at least for now much more distracting than sitting next to someone taking notes on paper. As a person who takes all my notes into my laptop (or sometimes into my Treo), it worries me that I could be a laptop distraction as well.
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Kapp Notes
MAY 12, 2008
For this diagram to really be helpful, it should explain why my plane is delayed over 2 hours. Yes, I am sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to take off.which doesn't seem to be any time soon. With all this great distant learning technology and software, I find myself traveling to more conferences and face-to-face venues this year than I have in the past.
Clive on Learning
MAY 13, 2008
I've been dipping into The art of changing the brain by James E Zull (Stylus, 2002) for some time now. The subtitle of the book, 'Enriching the practice of teaching by exploring the biology of learning,' pretty well sums it up - this is neuroscience for teachers, written by a Professor of Biology and Director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve University.
Tony Karrer
MAY 15, 2008
Dave Ferguson just raised the issue of blog discussion that has come up before when I talk about Learning and Networking with a Blog. The issue he raises in Mandatory Blogging is: Here at your own blog, you often have extended discussions. Of the 15 comments here before I started this one, 12 were from 10 people other than yourself. That's a terrific exchange, though I doubt that's the norm.
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Learning with e's
MAY 13, 2008
I'm very pleased to announce that Graham Attwell has confirmed that he will present a keynote speech at next year's Plymouth e-Learning Conference, here at the University of Plymouth. Graham shares his time between the University of Bremen , Germany and Pontydysgu (Bridge to Learning: An independent Welsh Research Institute - where he is director) as well as his many travels around Europe.
Clive on Learning
MAY 12, 2008
I don't know where this appeared from or why but it seems that Microsoft has a rapid e-learning development tool. It's available for free download and there don't seem to be any strings attached. I'm not completely convinced because there's very little information about this product and it certainly isn't being marketed heavily. My best guess is that this is a tool used by Microsoft itself or by one of its contracted developers, and someone suggested making it more widely available.
Tony Karrer
MAY 13, 2008
Over the past two years, my thoughts around blogging as a learning and networking tool have been slowly evolving. In Oct 2007, the LCB asked - Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? I summarized the responses in: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog At the time, while I felt that blogging was something good to do, I didn't push all that hard.
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Janet Clarey
MAY 16, 2008
Dr. Brandon Hall has a column in this month’s CLO Magazine on Building Exceptional Virtual Learning Teams. He’s got some great tips from leaders in the field. Coming off a graduate-level online course in Project Management I found these timely and valuable because, like most people, I work as part of a virtual team (working virtually from different locations, including corporate offices).
Jay Cross
MAY 13, 2008
Early responders to a survey on learning practices in enterprise 2.0 say their people are falling behind. What’s the feeling in your organization? Take three minutes to complete the survey yourself. I’ll send you the results when we have them. We will release the initial results at LearnX in Melbourne next month. Our one-day un workshops in Sydney and Melbourne the following week will dig deeper into these and other findings about adoption of social network software, enterprise 2.
Tony Karrer
MAY 12, 2008
I often suggest learning blogs (see Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) and Personal Learning Strategies ). In other words, blogs are a fantastic tool for Personal Learning. I often suggest during presentations that starting a blog at the beginning of any learning endeavor is a great move. I just saw this : I have decided to take the plunge into the world of National Teacher Board Certification.
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Janet Clarey
MAY 15, 2008
Continuing on a theme… I’ve botched some projects. Not badly but enough to slow something down. Under the big umbrella of ‘culture’ the missteps were the result of the failure to recognize (or the denial of the existence of) the little components. Little things that make projects fail… Failure to address the “we don’t do it that way&# issue.
Jay Cross
MAY 11, 2008
Internet Time Group celebrates its tenth birthday this month. Artifacts from the early days of eLearning keep appearing as I reflect on the long, strange trip it’s been. At the turn of the century, investors agreed that for eLearning, the sky was the limit. Or maybe it was more: shoot for the moon. As a reminder to never drink the Kool-Aid without sober reflection, here is the advice investment houses were putting out before the dot-bomb implosion: Corporate eLearning: Exploring A New Fron
eLearning Weekly
MAY 15, 2008
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation from the eLearning Guild’s Online Forums , titled "Working Harmoniously with Your IT Department (Yes, It Can Be Done!)." I think we had around 27 participants and good discussion was shared. Here are the handouts from the session. (PDF). Good luck working with your IT department!!
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Janet Clarey
MAY 14, 2008
It wasn’t so long ago when I gave an underwhelming response to a question at the end of a web conference. The question went something like, “what kind of problems [implementing these new things] are companies running into and what are they doing to overcome barriers?&#. My lame-o response went something like, “I don’t really have a lot of specific instances of failure for you.
Mark Oehlert
MAY 14, 2008
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « How will ISD handle "Neural Buddhism"? | Main | HHS and Federal Government Blogs » May 14, 2008 "U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED) ( WIRED link ) excerpt: "In the wake of the intelligence bungles that propelled the United States into the Iraq war, its no secret that the nations spies have been working to improve the quality of their analysis.
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