At the end of November, I flew over to Houston for a two-day internal conference organised by Nick Shackleton-Jones called ‘Future of Learning’. I tweeted a lot throughout the event, using the #BPFOL12 hashtag, and I’ll be writing up some of the key sessions and takeaways in subsequent posts.

In the meantime, though, I wanted to try and pull together some of the really useful links and resources from the backchannel: even though we were a relatively small group tweeting, there were a lot of websites, videos, infographics and tools shared.

I should say that this is almost certainly not a complete list. In my backchannel curation naivety, I didn’t realise that you need to get in there very quickly before Twitter erases all evidence of the hashtag stream! I did manage to find the majority of tweets on Topsy, but I’m fairly sure it was an incomplete record. If you tweeted a link or resource which isn’t mentioned below, let me know and I’ll add it in.

Conference summaries and overviews:

• Future of Learning tweetdoc (mostly Day 2, incomplete record) – via Aisha Taylor

Resources shared or mentioned by Nick Shackleton-Jones

• Sight – a futuristic short film on YouTube
• We have a wheel, we built a cart – a blog post by Nick 
• How to seal a bag of chips without a clip – YouTube clip

Resources related to Nigel Paine‘s session:

• 2012 Towards Maturity Benchmark Report
• Clouds, big data and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch – from McKinsey Global Institute

Resources and websites mentioned in or related to Greg Williams‘ session:

• mylearningworx (the UK’s first crowd-sourced hub for learning)
• StackOverflow (a collaboratively edited Q&A site for programmers)
• WhipCar.com (an example of collaborative consumption)
• Kiva (a micro-finance and social performance site)
• The Eight Kinds of Fun – by Marc LeBlanc, via Ben Betts
• The Flipped Classroom (infographic) – via Aisha Taylor
• Gamification by Design by Gabe Zichermann and Christopher Cunningham – via Aisha Taylor
• Codecademy – via Aisha Taylor
• Open Badges (for gamification implementation) – via Aisha Taylor
• MIT App Inventor (open source Android app developer) – via Aisha Taylor
• Waze (real-time, community-based traffic and navigation app) – via Aisha Taylor

Resources and websites mentioned in or related to NeuroSky’s session:

• NeuroSky website
• Necomimi concept video (‘cat ears’ product using NeuroSky technology)
• Bill Nye’s video game AERO lets you fly like a bird while learning about physics (TED blog and video) – via Aisha Taylor

Miscellaneous tools, resources and websites:

• Wordle, for creating word cloud graphics – via Aisha Taylor
• Tagxedo, also for creating word clouds
• Tool Tuesday: Twitter curation tools – blog by Tara Coomans via Aisha Taylor
• Twitter for Trainers by Jane Bozarth – via Aisha Taylor
• A who’s who of social media for 2012 (infographic) – via Aisha Taylor
• Manager Tools search results for podcasts on using LinkedIn effectively – via Aisha Taylor