Harry Stout, our CEO, recently said that one of the most important things you can do for your career is spend at least an hour a day on personal development. He personally listens to up to 60 podcasts a week ! Awesome stuff – wouldn’t it be great if he could create at least 1 podcast a week to share what he is learning !!

ll write a few short posts on some of the projects I have been working on, some lessons learnt and a bit of a look into the future ! So they say time flies when you’re having fun and it’s true – especially in Amsterdam ! I have been here 6 months already and a lot has happened.

In April business trainers approached us to let us know that there was going to be a big software rollout in the Dutch retail organisation and that they needed e-learning lessons – in English AND Dutch ! The solution consisted of a suite of support documents and e-learning lessons (4 main components: Pre work e-Learning, Trainings, Practical Labs and After Care Support) to support the immediate rollout and future trainings by the business trainers and by the champions out in the business. The first project i handled was quite a complex one – supporting the rollout of a new system to users across The Netherlands. 

The article, Games Lessons , describes how Katie Salen, a games designer and professor of design and technology at Parsons The New School for Design, in New York, has taken the initiative in setting up Quest to Learn , "a new, taxpayer-funded school which is about to open its doors to pupils who will never suffer the indignity of snoring through double French but will, rather, spend their entire days playing games." This week's Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school. quot; Not any old games of course, but 'serious games' which encourage

Here are some lessons that I've learned concerning the building of a Web 2.0 Lessons learned...please please take a moment to add your own lessons or idea about building and maintaining a Web 2.0 community around wikis and blogs. My learning occured as I taught my class "Learning in 3D" this summer. 1.

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As I clicked through each of them up came a quick 2-3 minute video about the Alien Plant, when it arrived in the UK, and the damage it was causing being alien to the UK environment. The topic might not intrigue everyone, but the simplicity of the way the lectures were delivered would probably draw your students into any lesson you might want to share. I just wanted to make note of this simple interactive bit of learning that was on the BBC News Science & Environment page from Friday. The title first caught my eye " Alien species are a problem in the UK - and invasive plants

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