Twitter FavesJanet Clarey and I will be facilitating a Bootcamp on Learning Technologies at the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference on 24 September. If you’re planning on attending the conference in Santa Clara (24-26 Sept), there’s still some room for this pre-conference session. On a more social note, I haven’t heard about any beer tastings [...]
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Social Networks have become quite popular on the Web, with services such as MySpace and Facebook commanding billions of investment dollars. Social Networks are the new public spaces, though they’re no longer owned by the government. We’re moving from the town square to the online community. What makes online public spaces different from physical ones [...]
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Now that we’re inundated with information, e-mail and invitations to the next great Web 2.0 thing, pull is looking a lot better than push. Pull means that the individual decides what to read or who to talk to. I wrote about this earlier, in Please don’t push my learning. One reason that I have been [...]
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This is my first turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. I tried to focus on environmental themes, and I got a couple, but most importantly, all of these blogs come to you from Canada. First off is Robert Paterson of Prince Edward Island. Rob has been involved in many nonprofit organisations, from helping [...]
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Earlier this year I ran a workshop on informal learning in the workplace for about 25 people. This followed a year of web-based sessions with Jay Cross & Judy Brown, in which we used various technologies to connect with people around the world. As much as I enjoyed the face-to-face session, I found it rather [...]
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School is on in some parts of the world, like Texas, where Christian Long is returning to teaching. Our kids don’t go back to school until September 4th, but I was going through some saved RSS feeds and I came across these guideline on a post from last year titled Why we still need teachers, [...]
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Is it a trend when more US citizens move to Canada, hitting a 30 year high last year? I like to think that as we all become interconnected that it will be easier to choose where we live and how we do our work, making obligatory daily commutes a thing of the past. Much as [...]
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I’ll be hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants next week (27 Aug) . This will be an open call but special consideration will be given to environmental themes (due to my work with AWI) as well as any fellow Canadian bloggers. Drop me a note if you have something of interest and want to be [...]
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The learning management system has become the de facto delivery vehicle in the online training and education world. It is popular because it tracks learner activities, manages classes, controls testing activities and allows instructors some level of control. One of the primary limitations of the LMS/LCMS is that learners only use it when they are [...]
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I’ve decided to stop at Step 3 for the series of small steps for knowledge resilience this week, but if there was a fourth, I would say that it should be to reflect. As I mentioned on Monday’s post, many organisational workers are so busy running around that they don’t have a chance to ask [...]
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