Jay Cross

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Informal learning hot list for February 2009

Jay Cross

The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. on the eLearning Learning. Hot List on Informal Learning. A Guide to Social Learning. Communities and Networks Connection and RSS. eLearning Learning and RSS. Informal Learning Flow and RSS and.

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Google’s soft underbelly

Jay Cross

I’ve been using Feedburner, an online service that’s now part of Google, to offer RSS subscriptions to my blogs. Four months ago, the RSS feed associated with the Informal Learning Blog started to go haywire. I clicked Edit Feed Details and entered my RSS feed. I went to Feedburner to investigate.

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Looking for patterns in clouds

Jay Cross

Wordle creates beautiful word clouds from text, tags, or RSS feeds. This morning I pasted the URLs of fifteen blogs I frequent into Wordle just for the hell of it. Here's the result. Here's a larger pdf of the same image.

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Making Sense of the World

Jay Cross

Learning leaders must deal with situations that aren’t in the rule book. Learning and work are converging. Let’s engage in a little over-the-shoulder learning. Blogs, via Google Reader for sifting through RSS feeds or suggestions from friends. Work-life was much simpler in the last century. Results are asymmetric.

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Map to the Internet Time Ecosystem

Jay Cross

Time after time in my recent workshops on web-enabled informal learning, I found myself using my own sites as examples of learning technologies. For example, we’d walk through the Informal Learning blog to look at an RSS feed, an internal search engine, scanning the 100 most recent posts, a Creative Commons license, and so on.

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Different ways of looking at it

Jay Cross

Don’t tell anybody, because some people see me as a champion of this stuff, but the standard formats for reading RSS feeds bore me silly. One of my favorites, especially if I’m in a hurry is a cloud view of learning sites. For me, and I really need the exercise, the opportunity to learn motivates me to get out and walk.

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Strength of weak knowledge sources

Jay Cross

Novices learn lots; that’s who most of the conferences are for. I’m assembling the un-book sequel to Informal Learning. I know, or know of, everyone there, but most of them aren’t among my incoming RSS feeds. The same principle holds true for information. It’s nothing if not multi-disciplinary.