Harold Jarche

Some links and references that I promised during yesterday’s workshop in Ottawa are here.
The discussion on networked learning, with Leigh Blackall
Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users
Presentation Zen Blog
Judy Brown’s Web 2.0 Tools
Robert Paterson’s interview about blogging with PBS. Follow the link that Rob provides and look on the right box called Extended Interviews.
The Five Minute University [...]

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The CSTD Ottawa Informal Learning Workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday January 30th.
I’ll be discussing informal learning in general, personal knowledge management, various tools and analysis & implementation techniques.
If you would like share your views or say how you’ve implemented some type of workplace informal learning then Skype me between Noon and 4:00 PM EST (GMT-5) for [...]

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (aka the SFLC)
Slashdot reports today that:
“Groklaw is reporting that the US Patent and Trademark Office has just ordered a re-examination of the e-learning patent owned by Blackboard Inc, thanks to a filing by the Software Freedom Law Center. SFLC’s press release states, ‘The Patent Office found [...]

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This past year I used Elgg as my blogging platform for the Informl Learning Unworkshops, as I wanted to keep my posts separate from my main website. As many readers already know, I am a real fan of Elgg, which is a social networking, blogging, aggregating and e-portfolio system all in one. It’s also available [...]

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This is a continuation of my posts on informal learning in advance of the CSTD Ottawa workshop on 30 January.

You can learn a lot through blogging and reading blogs, but it’s usually not what you were expecting. Many times you can go through a series of posts looking for something specific and then wind up [...]

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Once again, Inukshuk Wireless is calling for proposals for its learning plan, part of its licensing agreement with Industry Canada. Project proposals, by province, can be submitted in two categories:
EITHER
An innovative and creative project to develop multimedia and feature rich learning content, applications or learning environments for Canada’s learning communities;
OR
A Connectivity Project which results in [...]

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There are about 15 people signed up for the Ottawa informal learning workshop. This post is for anyone who is keen and wants to get in some early reading. Of course it’s not required, but these could spark some ideas for interesting conversations.
Jay Cross has just posted Internet Culture & the Evolution of Learning. This [...]

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I’m conducting a workshop on informal learning on Tuesday, January 30th. In preparation for the workshop and hopefully to foster some early conversations, I’ll be posting my thoughts on informal learning here for the next week.
My initial reaction, when asked to present a full day workshop on informal learning, was to ensure that what I [...]

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Nine Shift (required reading in my opinion) explains in “Schools depend on drop outs”, that the education monopoly is not primarily responsible for innovation in our society. Bill and Julie show how young men (yes, it’s usually boys who quit) who drop out of school are often the ones who go on to achieve great [...]

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Will Richardson commented on my recent post where I referred to the book, How Computer Games Help Children Learn:
The thing I find so much more effective about the network learning I do is that it’s asynchronous and done on my time. And yet IM and Skype and others make synchronous discussion imminently possible when needed [...]

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