I will be presenting a 90 minute online session to the Calgary eLearning Network on April 18th. The theme will be Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). Barb Krell, an alumna of one of our informal learning unworkshops, is the chief organiser of this session.
I thought it would be best to put my session info online so [...]
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I’ve pretty well given up responding to RFP’s. In most cases they are are so poorly worded that you don’t really know what the client wants. Unless you have inside knowledge, responding to an RFP is a crap shoot. I am referring here to RFP’s for consulting services, especially performance improvement, and not those requesting [...]
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With the release of version 3.0, it’s time to check out Creative Commons if you don’t already know about this great organization. I would call CC the lubricant of the Creative Age. It makes the wheels go round
As the CC site says:
Creative Commons helps you publish your work online while letting [...]
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If someone asks me what’s the best learning management system, my initial response is - Google. Donald Clark describes the top five global brands (Google, Apple, YouTube, Wikipedia, Starbucks) from the perspective of learning, with this comment:
Could it be that powerful, everyday ‘e-learning’ has crept up on the world, separate from all the academic [...]
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The Guardian has an article on a zero-carbon emission development in Penryn, Cornwall, England. The fact that this happened in a small town makes it worth investigating for our Commons initiative (gaining momentum).
… the brand new Jubilee Wharf, a creek-side development comprising flats for local people to rent, 12 craft workshops, a public hall, a [...]
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My ISP is Bell Aliant and I subscribe to their high speed Ultra service, which has a download speed of around 600 kbps from the Aliant server. A recent speed check on SpeakEasy showed the following:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 5163 kbps (645.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 543 kbps (67.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
My problem over the past [...]
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I presented an overview of the Commons at the Renaissance Sackville AGM last night to a very attentive and interested crowd. It was a great experience to see the reaction of such a diverse audience and understand what aspects of the Commons resonate with different people.
For the record, here is my presentation, complete with links:
Our [...]
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Dell has created a “sort-of” open user community site (Dell insists on owning all of the suggestions) to generate ideas on how to improve Dell products & services. The most popular suggestion on Dell Idea Storm is to provide computers with pre-installed Linux; followed by a suggestion to have Windows boxes with pre-installed OpenOffice.org [...]
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This note was recently sent to me and I thought it would be worth passing on. It looks like a fun project for students. I’m told that either individual students or schools can enter:
River Valley Middle School proudly presents the 4th Annual River Valley International Student Film and Photography Festival. This year the festival is [...]
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We’ve been talking about free-range learning, but another powerful metaphor is coyote teaching. Eric Hoefler writes a thought-provoking article on the creative and destructive power of coyote, the trickster:
Tricksters live “in between,†answering “yes†and “no†at the same time and sincerely meaning both–thus, they are frustrating figures who offer no real answers, only more [...]
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