Tags: Resource Have you got your Google Wave invite yet?  Even if you haven't, you can find out more about it in these articles and postings, and what it can do for education and training. Google Wave's Best Use Cases , Lifehacker, 14 October 2009 Google Wave will revolutionise online classroom instruction , So You Want To To Teach, 30 September 2009 Google Wave: a complete guide , Mashable, 29 September 2009 Learning Waves from Google , Donald Clark, 6 June 2009 6 ways that Wave is

Tags: Resource I've been producing a number of short, introductory presentations for clients and other purposes (like conference presentations) on social learning in organisations.  This first one covers: What is Social Learning?  Social Learning platforms, and the role of Social Learning Professionals. Parts

Tags: Resource Over the last year or so I've been building a list of list of apps (including optimized sites and web apps) for the iPod Touch and the iPhone that that are useful for learning, performance support or productivity purposes. Here it is:

Tags: Resource I recently did quite a bit of updating of the C4LPT Guide to Social Learning, so thought it was worth posting about it again here. Here's the contents list: Introduction From e-learning to social learning What is social media? Examples of social media in learning Social media

The article became very popular and I created a supporting presentation, some tools tutorials and even set up a Ning community to support the resource. I have now produced a 2009 version of the list, and instead this year's 25 Tools resource contains 25 categories of learning For full information about each of the tools mentioned in the article and presentation, please go to the 25 TOOLS 2009 resource page at the main website. View more presentations from Jane Hart . ...Tags: Last year I wrote an article for e.learning magazine called 25 Tools Every Learning Professional should have in their Toolbox - and all for free! 

This is now ready and available as a "social resource" on the C4LPT Social Learning Network.  As I mentioned above this is a "social resource", and by that I mean you can engage with it in 3 different ways, as you prefer.  Contribute to it - If you want to add comments to the different pages of the resource, you can do this, but you will need to get an account on the SLN first. (This A while ago I mentioned that I was revising my Introduction to E-Learning, to produce a Guide to Social Learning.  Let me explain both of these.

Tags: Resource Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about: 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars

Tags: Resource I am often asked about mindmapping by people who have never tried it.  Why would they want to do it, etc?  I've just found come across this great article from Mind Map Inspiration, called 100 reasons to mind map , so this is a useful place to look for ideas about how it can be used. And, if you are looking for some mind mapping tools to get started, then Bubbl.us , a

Tags: Resource Last Saturday I embedded into a posting the first of 3 short presentations on Organisational Social Learning I have been preparing for clients and others.  The first presentation was entitled The Future of E-Learning is Social Learning and placed social learning in the context of current e-learning, talked about the need for an organisational social learning platform and the new role of social learning professionals.

Tags: Resource Today, I'm speaking at the CIPD Conference in London.  The session is How to make e-learning work.  Here are the slides I am using. I hope I can keep it to 25 minutes; I have a lot to say!