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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Tilde Effect What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. We are struggling to keep up.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way. went mainstream and likely this will continue to grow in 2009.

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Hot List - Second Half of January

Tony Karrer

Hot List - 1/17/2009 - 1/31/2009 Posts Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course Building a Learning Portal YouTube videos inside Slideshare Learning 2.0 As I was at ASTD last week, I missed doing my Hot List for the week.

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Search

Tony Karrer

Other Than Google My first recommendation is not to always default to Google. Yes, I personally use Google 95%+ for searching. It also helps you refine your search before you go into Google. According to Search Engines / UC Berkeley - Less than half the searchable Web is fully searchable in Google.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

130) Work Skills (26) PWLE (16) Flash Quiz (8) Knowledge Work (40) That's a pretty fair representation of topics that I talk about. Topics by Year By selecting 2009 , I've selected a subset of the content, but in this case it's basically content associated with this year. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

I'm particularly drawing on both personal experience and on experience with the work skills workshops we are offering. At the start of these workshops, we put people into remote work teams. You could see where people are working. For some (inexplicable) reason, Google Docs does not. Flickr : Share and find photos.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Scenarios Preparing Workers for Web 2.0 eLearning 2.0 Examples - [link] Web 2.0 please let me know via comments.