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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

When I signed up for Spaces for Interaction: An Online Conversation about Improving the Traditional Conference , I didn’t appreciate how timely the topic would become. Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. Is it a Conference?

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2014

OpenSesame

Google Hangouts - The video conference phone we were promised in the 90''s, but better. Campfire - 37Signals group-messaging application that includes features like live image previews and conference calling. Bitcoin - For those seeking financial options beyond traditional banks, BitCoin is an open-source, virtual currency.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Dissertation: The Effective Integration of Digital Games and Learning Content by M.P.J. Habgood

Mark Oehlert

"This thesis provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of game designs that follow a more integrated approach, broadly known as intrinsic integration (Kafai, 2001). Habgood ( link ) Just getting into this but it looks promising. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2014

OpenSesame

Google Hangouts – The video conference phone we were promised in the 90’s, but better. Campfire – 37Signals group-messaging application that includes features like live image previews and conference calling. touristeye – Guidebooks are so 2001. Quip – Edit and discuss documents in one place.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (ed. Katie Salen)

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « The Onion Nailed the "Starbucks Training Day" in 2001 | Main | Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) (by stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): September 11

Mark Oehlert

I will say this; the morning of Sept 11 2001 I was at the USMC base in Quantico Virginia and I was unable to see any of the images of the attacks until I got home about 5.5 hours later. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us headings, although you might be better served just following the latest things Ive found here. books futures Web 2.0

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Two Huge Losses: Gary Gygax and Arthur C. Clarke

Mark Oehlert

Little-known books such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama (a personal fav) and Songs of Distant Earth. All that being said, Arthur C. Clarke has also passed away (Gygax was 67 and Clarke was 90). Author of something like 100 fiction and nonfiction works. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0