Twitter has become a pretty great tool to help with socializing at conferences. Here are a few of the things we've been doing Twitter as Social Chat At both DevLearn and TechKnowledge , we created a hashtag and created a specific Twitter account that was the hub. Using TweetLater and GroupTweet anyone who sent a direct message to the hub account then broadcast to everyone following that account.

Please feel free to share your ideas and suggestions. Tags: Ideas measurement social learning socialnetworkin I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations.

It wasn’t tested, it was just an idea. One of the core ideas was the law of the few , or the notion that a few key types of people help to speed social communication. They are the people who dedicate a great deal of their lives to selling people on their ideas. I’ve noticed that this is what has happened with some of the ideas that I’ve I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations.

It is more about why people hang on to ideas that ample evidence indicates are not true. It is really the very essence of education and learning as isn't just about all learning a matter of processing new ideas to replace older less well-formed ideas. It's what my 4 year old boy is doing all the time (and he's very happy and ready to throw away his 3 year old ideas for the more up to date 4 year old version). Where am I coming from? Over the last few months I've read a number of blog posts about learning styles (see references at end of post).

Today I’d like to share a few ideas to whet your appetite. However before I share some tips, it’s probably a good idea to explain some Twitter basics. Werner’s brilliant insights, here are some additional ideas about how to use Twitter. Here’s another idea for those in the education world. Twitter’s all the rage. Some people love it.

Here is a list of online games and related items that I presented at the Fall 2009 Business Teacher Seminar in Grantville, PA. Hotshot Business Game (Created by Disney) Design Considerations for a Cell Phone (at Edheads.org) Explore environmental and business impact with Energyville (by Cheveron) Download educational objects on topics of Business, Accounting, Entrepreneurship and many related topics at WISC-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center) For up to sixth grade check out Planet Orange for financial information and advice (sponsored by ING Direct) Brainpop is also

Great article from Harvard Business.org - (via Big Dog, Little Dog ) ... Overcome Objections Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results One key idea is when rolling something out ... : Halfway through each training, after describing the process, I always asked the same question: Why won't this work for you? Then he overcomes the objections one by one by allowing modification of what is planned. Clearly, we can't always do this in our role, but certainly asking the question is a great idea. In fact, when I do presentations, this is often the question that really gets audiences going.

When writing blog posts I draw ideas from a pretty wide range of areas and my reading over the last year has been equally wide. Cliff's book provides great ideas on how to accentuate the positive and minimise the less desirable aspects of the backchannel. 40 creative ideas bundled up together, quick to read, and it gets your mind thinking (and we all need to get our minds thinking!) 10 Pow! After my longest break away from the stickylearning blog I thought a good place to begin was by reviewing the 10 books that I got the most from during 2009. If you haven't

Tags: Ideas learnin One of my colleagures approached me yesterday and said “your Super Learner podcast was brilliant!”  8221;  I had forgotten that I made the podcast then decided to post it on my blog to see if other people find it useful and thought provoking. The podcast describes skill sets of a super learner and what you can do to identify, develop, and enable them.

I'm also interested in how design thinking impacts upon learning and the use of visuals to communicate ideas and knowledge.  In the few months that I've been active on Twitter I have been exposed to more ideas from more sources than in whole years previously. Twitter is free, always available and keeps you up to date with the very latest ideas. Why wouldn't you use Twitter?! I've only been actively participating on Twitter for 4-5 months now.