Google Maps Mash-Ups (create maps which link to other web content you select). Google Search Wiki (annotate your results. or Wiki on a Stick! then check our my Google Co-op eLearning Search Engines Please also visit my engineering learning wiki ! NorthStarNerd.Org Dedicated to open access sharing of knowledge - Your host: Rich Hoeg Blog Engineering Learning Nerd TV Nerd Tweets Nordic Skiing Site Map Tutorials « Wouldnt It Be Neat. Innovation! As I create new screencasts, I will always add a link on this page. Thus if you like what you see. Great work. MORE >>

Silly me; I thought I would bring up a blank page on my computer, write and format something, click a button, and be up and running. Even with the advent of user-friendly HTML editors, you still required some IT support and guidance to get something up on a web site that worked and looked half-decent. From blogs and wikis, to social networking software, to online messaging, to voice-over-Internet applications, to web widgets and mash up software, it is becoming increasingly easy to publish and interact with others online. title="Atom feed">Site Feed MORE >>

Eugene Kim announced that Ward Cunningham was our opening keynote speaker for the West Coast WIki Conference. Only after the talk did he mention that Ward invented the wiki (1995) and is a prime mover in both the Agile Software Movement and Software Patterns. The wiki was born in an age when the people who were writing software knew a whole lot more about writing software than the academics. Ward began playing with a Hypercard stack at Tektronix in 1987 that foreshadowed the capability build into wikis. Wiki Design Principles describe how wikis work. MORE >>

LESSONS LEARNED Since, I was his personal assistant and camera man during the 2-day workshop, I really got to zoom in on Stephen Downes and discover more about him (I am not sure if the video recordings I took are up to mark, though! technologies like blogs, wikis, social networking sites, virtual worlds, etc. appropriately, and getting participants involved in creating, remixing, mashing-up and sharing knowledge, we are probably moving forward. At last I got to meet Stephen Downes in person and attend one of his workshops. In this e-Learning 2.0 NEW DISCOVERIES? MORE >>

Contrary to what we’d like to believe, social learning doesn’t always start at the training department and work its way up, quite the opposite. The Icodeon Common Cartridge Platform has an interesting approach here – by providing an API so that Common Cartridge content hosted on the LMS can easily be “mashed-up&# with blogs, wikis, social networking sites and so on. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. According to a McKinsey executive survey , a whopping 71% of enterprises are using Web 2.0 tools for training purposes and this figure is rising fast. MORE >>