My posting last Thursday explained how I was in Athlone, Ireland to deliver a keynote to the Irish Learning Technology Association's EdTech10 conference.  As my presentation was to be about social learning, I didn't want to present in the traditional way, but to try and make the experience as social and collaborative as possible, so I blogged and tweeted about the event and invited others to participate. All in all it worked out very well, and afterwards, Juanita @JFJ24 tweeted: "will you be blogging your reflections on the. experience. Think it woud be interesting". Preparing for the keynote. MORE >>

finally made it to this one. Had a busy afternoon till now, but now it's webinar time. Today's LSG webinar is by Jane Hart , one of the world’s leading experts in social and collaborative learning. In today's webinar she's promised to examine three platforms explin what they can and cannot offer. I'm kinda interested in what could be a low-cost Ning replacement. I've also got a blogpost planned on this topic - keep your eyes peeled if my blog interests you. She blogs at [link] , btw and if you aren't following her already, please start following her @c4lpt. Will it be for a PLN/. site here. MORE >>

I received the email newsletter from eLearn Magazine earlier this week and was interested in the lead article: “ Finding a Place for Twitter in Higher Education “ The article makes some interesting points so please read the original on the link above, but I want to comment on just a couple of them; “Twitter has various educational uses in both developing countries and more developed ones. But the real tipping point for Twitter in education will only come if teachers can manage to add Twitter to their arsenal of teaching tools. The question is can they do it?&#. Web 2.0 MORE >>

By Shelley A. Gable. If you’re designing a one-week course, or even a partial day course, how do you divide its content into lessons? Intuitively, I used to define lessons by topic. Some lessons I’ve designed are as short as 15 minutes, while others are up to four hours. The topic would drive the length. Conversely, an instructional designer I used to work with felt strongly that a lesson should be an hour, and he would look for ways to logically organize content into one-hour chunks. Why does lesson size matter? the end of a lesson). 2- Reusability. Do you aim for a certain lesson length? MORE >>

There have been two important blog posts today that are must-reads in my opinion - both of which contain references to the work of Dr Hermann Ebbinghaus , who pioneered the experimental study of memory. The first is by Charles Jennings -. ID - Instructional design or interactivity design in an interconnected world.  Charles starts his post in a very powerful way: Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for. learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional. learning content. Most fixed. MORE >>