Tony Karrer
JANUARY 2, 2009
Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. His notes on the list. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, check the specific conference website.
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 28, 2008
Recently, I read a blog article about connectivism by Debora Gallo. Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. This got me thinking… I don’t know anything about connectivism! So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.
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Experiencing eLearning
JANUARY 1, 2009
Cammy Bean tagged me the 7 things meme that has hit so many of the bloggers I regularly read that I’m not sure who I’ll be able to tag. She tagged me when we did the 8 Random Facts meme over a year ago too. I’m not motivated to do any serious blogging today though, so it seems like a good time for this. Red Dragon. 1. Like Michele Martin , I have played Dungeons & Dragons recently.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 31, 2008
I’ve pointed out the problems with learning styles in the past, but I want to rethink them with you, as we took quite a positive out of them in a unique way. This was back in 99-2000, when I led a project developing an intelligently adaptive learning system (Intellectricity ™; inspired by Joe Miller ’s vision of a system that respected who you were as a learner).
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eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 2, 2009
My predictions for 2009: With the continued economic difficulties, e-learning will grow due to its cost efficiency, or at least its perceived cost efficiency. And because of its low environmental impact it will become very attractive to companies wishing to become "green." Blogs and social media will grow as a knowledge management tool. It has already begun, but we will see it become more common place.
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Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 31, 2008
I’m going to squeak in at the last minute and answer the Learning Circuits Big Question for December 2008. I can pretend that I’m just being nice and keeping Clive Shepherd company with his procrastinating, but it’s really that I had forgotten about this myself until just a few days ago. This month’s Big Question asks us to reflect on our learning about learning in the last year.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 31, 2008
For over six years, the great folks over at the Edublog awards have done a great job of collating the best of the edublogosphere and handing out awards to some of the outstanding folks writing and posting in this space. If you are interested in participating, here are the categories and some awards that you can vote on in the near future. The nominations end on December 8th so hurry and get your nominations in.
eLearning Cyclops
JANUARY 1, 2009
The MinuteBio blog is now featured in the eLearning Learning community, which aggregates e-learning blogs. As described at eLearningLearning.com, "eLearning Learning is a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning." Take a look at eLearningLearning or view the featured MinuteBio posts.
Learning Visions
DECEMBER 31, 2008
As eLearning designers, your goal is (hopefully) to make the learning experience engaging. (Realistically, sometimes all you can do is build the sucker in order to meet some crazy deadline.) It's easy to equate engaging with fun. (Fun is a funny word.) So then it's really easy to think that the best way to make a course more engaging is to make it fun.
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Experiencing eLearning
DECEMBER 28, 2008
Our team has spent over a year preparing for the conversion from Blackboard to Sakai (something I haven’t talked about here too much because we hadn’t told Blackboard we were leaving until recently). We’ve seen a significant amount of resistance to the conversion from several of our long-time facilitators, and it’s been a struggle to figure out how to ease them through this transition.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Once again, the Meme has arrived. This time the request is to share seven facts about myself. Thanks to Rachel and Jane and Rupa who tagged me for this meme. I've been a little slow in blog entries so I got tagged multiple times and thanks to Janet and Cammy for passing the meme around (as per Jane's email.) Not sure just where or when this meme started.
eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 30, 2008
[caption id="attachment_279" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Free e-Learning Courses"] [/caption] I have started collecting links to free e-learning courses. Please feel free to access these via the link in the blog's menu bar. As I come across courses I will add their links to the page. FYI: I will only add courses that are free and have open access.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Over at eLearn Magazine , Lisa Neal Gualtieri gets elearning predictions for 2009, and they’re reliably interesting. Here’re mine: The ordinary: Mobile will emerge, not as a major upheaval, but quietly infiltrating our learning experiences. We’ll see more use of games (er, Immersive Learning Simulations) as a powerful learning opportunity, and tools to make it easier to develop.
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Learning Visions
DECEMBER 29, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, December 29, 2008 7 More Things You Dont Need to Know About Me. I did the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme a ways back. Check it out. Its all still true. Does this cover me for the 7 Things You Dont Need to Know About Me Meme that Sue Hickton just tagged me to do?
E-Learning Provocateur
JANUARY 1, 2009
Tags: cartoon participatory culture wikis.
Take an e-Learning Break
JANUARY 2, 2009
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Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 31, 2008
The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for December is 'what did you learn about learning in 2008?' Keeping true to my new belief in the benefits of procrastination , I have managed to leave this until the very last day of the month; and, because I have not yet posted any retrospectives for 2008, I thought I'd combine the two. So, here goes, a selection of postings I've made this year, which might throw some insight into how we all learn: January Communicate with gamers using the tools and meth
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Learning Visions
DECEMBER 29, 2008
I did the 8 Random Facts About Me Meme a ways back. Check it out. It's all still true. Does this cover me for the 7 Things You Don't Need to Know About Me Meme that Sue Hickton just tagged me to do? If not, here's 7 more tidbits: 1. I think I'm an inherently lazy person. To put a positive spin on this, I call it being extremely efficient. I try to get the best work done with the least amount of effort.
Learning with e's
DECEMBER 28, 2008
What is so fascinating about avatars? How is it that our digital identity can be so fluid and flexible, and yet it can become something that is so vitally important to us when we venture into a digital environment? For the uninitiated, The word Avatar comes from the ancient Hindu (Sanskrit) word 'avatara', of which the original meaning is 'incarnation'.
Rapid eLearning
DECEMBER 29, 2008
What happened to 2008? It just flew by. When I was a child each year took an eternity. Now it seems like everything is kind of blurred together. And here we are, about 50 posts later reflecting on a year gone by. Some Quick Thoughts About 2008. Thank you for all of the kind comments that I get each week after I post. I also appreciate the great feedback and suggestions.
The Learning Circuits
JANUARY 1, 2009
Happy New Year! We had great response to last month's question - What Did You Learn about Learning in 2008? This was a great opportunity to look back at 2008. This month we are going to look forward. Thus, for January the question is: What are your Challenges, Plans and Predictions for 2009? The goal here is again to be a bit reflective. What are your biggest challenges for this upcoming year?
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bozarthzone
JANUARY 2, 2009
Thanks to Techpower's Tony Karrer for including the Bozarthzone blog on his list of sources for eLearning Learning It's "a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning." Be sure to check it out, and while you're at it be sure to also take a look at Tony's elearning tech blog.
Learning Developments
JANUARY 2, 2009
After about three months of active blog reading I've finally caught up on my RSS feeds. When I first started subscribing to blogs I found so many interesting topics that I wanted to read everything. Time quickly became a frustrating factor. Now I want to share a couple of ways I've been able to manage the information overload that is common when subscribing to many blogs.
Take an e-Learning Break
JANUARY 2, 2009
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Learning with e's
JANUARY 1, 2009
If I was a politician or a head of state I would have made a New Year's speech by now. (How can you tell if a politician is lying? You can see their lips moving). Thankfully I'm not a politician or a head of state, but that won't stop me. Here's my New Year speech: On the first day of a new year, my thoughts are already turning to a very busy term of teaching which starts next week.
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Clive on Learning
DECEMBER 30, 2008
I've already decided on my new year's resolution for 2009 - it is to gain a much greater understanding of economics, particularly of the macro variety. I studied economics before at school level and did quite well; it's just that I can't remember enough of it to make any sense of what's going on at the moment. Of course it's quite possible that many economists can't either, but that itself would be interesting to find out.
Learning Developments
JANUARY 2, 2009
As I mentioned in my last post I've been using Google Reader for three months now to manage and read many blog postings. I thought I'd share some of the lessons I've learned. Following blogs in the eLearning industry is useful.to get up to date on new technologies.to learn how technologies are applied.to learn industry terminology.to network with others in industry.to find people with similar backgrounds as me I have also learned more about how learners (employees) might use RSS in the workpla
Take an e-Learning Break
JANUARY 1, 2009
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