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... at ASTD recently was that most people were completely unaware of all of this. They have their head in the sand.Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0:Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0 world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge.Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do Knowledge Workers Need?How can you design with these new tools if you don't understand them? How can you apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? So, yes, learning professionals must learn and use these tools, and then apply the tools to there existing framework ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsRevolution in Workplace Learning
Just wanted to announce that I'll be doing a full-day workshop in Cincinnati (actually in nearby Kentucky) for the Greater Cincinnati ASTD on July 15. I think this is going to be an interesting and fun workshop. I'm hoping that a few folks who read this blog will go.You can go to their site: http://gcastd.org to find out more about specific place, time, cost, etc.Likely I (and others in Work Literacy) will be doing similar workshops over the next few months. If you are interested, but can't attend this workshop, then you might want to go to Work Literacy and go to Services to state ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsTopic Diversity
Through the post on Conference Balance an in thinking about the keynotes at ASTD that I attended (ASTD Keynote - Malcolm Gladwell, Dysfunctional Teams), I realized that one of the reasons that I like going to conferences is it forces me (sometimes slowly and painfully) to get exposed to a diversity of topics. Through my PWLE methods (reading blogs, etc.) I would not have run across the concepts in Dysfunctional Teams. This was a good topic to go through and think about - and to have captured in my blog.But, if I'm suggesting that conferences should head towards participation and ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - CommentsConference Balance
... from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and examples. Very little participation. But in fairness to ASTD - it seems like it's hard to get participation when 70% of attendees are relatively new to the industry and are first time attendees.I personally tried (a little) to create my own participation ahead of the event through getting together at conferences. But I wasn't very successful.I've always highly encourage participation, but my general sense is that people aren't really that interested in doing the Conference Preparation that might be required to Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee or using Social Conference ToolsSo while I agree, my basic question:When can you get effective participation at conferences?It seems like the eLearningGuild is doing a better job at this recently ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, June 6, 2008 - CommentsASTD Handouts
Lance Dublin mentioned a couple of handouts today from sessions I was not able to attend. It took me a little while to find this link to the ASTD 2008 Session Handouts. My session (yesterday) can be found: M313 - E-Learning 2.0 for Personal and Group Learning (PDF).
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - CommentsDysfunctional Teams
At the ASTD keynote by Patrick Lencioni - Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Quick search and I found some good notes on different web sites so I don't have to type so much. Here's a good one. He used an interesting thing in order to get questions - gave free copies of his book to people with questions. He got a lot of questions right away - not sure it works all that well with an audience of 5,000.The Five Dysfunctions of Teams are: Absence of Trust: Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. However, in most teams members will not be "vulnerable" with each other (air dirty laundry, ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - CommentsFrank Nguyen - EPSS - at ASTD
Frank Nguyen is presenting at ASTD on EPSS. You can find his presentation on his site. His major points were:Search is not an effective method for performers to find information.Integrating information closer to the work flow and work interface can improve performance.Novices cannot effectively use the same support systems as experts.Providing learners with more on-the-job performance support does not eliminate the need for training and there are cases where training is preferredWhen in learning mode - people want minimal information. When in performance mode - they want more detail.
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 2, 2008 - CommentsASTD Keynote - Malcolm Gladwell
Next up at ASTD - Malcolm Gladwell - new book in November - Outliers - how people get to be successful. Talks about two kinds of creative styles:Experimental innovator - never has a big bold idea, works slowly, trial-and-error, empirical, approach masterConceptual innovator - big idea, can execute it themselvesHe draws this distinction in artists, writers and the point is that it applies to any kind of field.We have a tendency to value the conceptual innovator more than the experimental innovator. He spends about 10 minutes to show this through discussion of Fleetwood Mac vs. the ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 2, 2008 - CommentsASTD Keynote - Talent Managment
I'm at the ASTD Conference in San Diego at the general session. It looks like there are about 5,000 people in the room. A complete guess at the number, but pretty good size.Tony Bingham, ASTD CEO, is talking about and showing videos around talent management. It's interesting to see the message be around talent management when often that's fairly separate from the learning function. My experience is that talent management is more focused on performance review, succession planning, recruitment, retention, and other HR processes - less on specific learning / development. I've got to ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 2, 2008 - CommentsePerformance
I just listened to Clark Quinn's presentation at ASTD LA (eLearning Strategy Presentation)which is available online. Clark and I have discussed before the challenges with naming in our world and I was happy to see that he adopted the terminology of eLearning -> ePerformance.I've talked about ePerformance before in EPSS and ePerformance as well as in a series of articles in Learning Circuits:ePerformance EssentialsePerformance at Work: Self-Service Action and Development PlanningePerformance at Work: eFollowUpClark's take on ePerformance looks to have a similar definition. I like the way ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 29, 2008 - CommentsASTD Conference
Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences. If you are going - please drop a comment below.Even better if you might be interested in blogging about sessions, thoughts, notes, etc. from your experience at the conference. I won't even say it's Mandatory Blogging. :)Likely this is a better way to have success with networking ahead of the conference (Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results). ASTD's site still ... Presentation at the ASTD Conference.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - CommentsSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results
... is that most of these tools are not very good. I've recently tried to use the one associated with the ASTD conference. It's not going to help me connect with people. I feel I'm relatively adept at networking via online tools, and have talked about how I use tools ahead of events Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking it's still really tough.Based on what I've seen, I question whether it makes much sense for organizers to spend time on these things ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - CommentsLife is an Open Book Test
I just typed "Life is an Open Book Test" when I was working on part of my ASTD 2008 presentation. I did a quick search on this phrase and found only 52 occurrences. There doesn't appear to be a well known initial quote source. Or am I missing it?By the way, have I mentioned that I'm feeling really good about this presentation? I have 90 minutes and I think I'm going to blow some minds, change a few lives, its going to be fun. If I can figure out how to shorten it, I think I have a presentation that's going to be a great keynote.Anyhow, back to Life is an Open Book Test ...I start ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 21, 2008 - CommentsInfovore - Need for Information Filtering and Selection
... something is abundant.I was just talking about the importance of filtering skills for my ASTD 2008 presentation. Of course, it's a balance. We can't just shut off the flow of information. We have to get better at selection and filtering.
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 21, 2008 - CommentsWhere to Find Old Comic?
I'm excited about the presentation I'm creating for ASTD 2008 in San Diego. However, as part of putting it together, I was searching for a comic that I know I saw years ago where people were making fun of an executive that had his assistant print out his emails and dictated his responses.Does anyone know where I would find such a comic or something like that?Or any ideas on searching for such a thing?I've tried various things on Google Images with little luck.BTW, the point I'm highlighting is how changes in technologies and/or methods can cause previous methods to become out of date.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, March 13, 2008 - CommentsTechKnowledge 2008 Blog Coverage
My experience has been that ASTD audiences do not blog as much as other audiences such as the eLearning Guild and I commented about that in More eLearning Bloggers. However, I've noticed that there have been quite a few posts discussing experiences at ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. Here are a few: First Thoughts After ASTD TechKnowledge Sessions.ASTD ... -Learning Courses...Rapidly!@ ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 (Wednesday)Questions from the audiencetechknowledge ... TechKnowledge 2008 (Tuesday)ASTD's TechKnowledge '08, Day 1 (And a Little Royce)@ ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Applications in Learning.It was designed to be a small to medium size group discussion, but because the room was large it was very challenging to do that successfully. I discussed a bit of these issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions.I'm writing this post for both attendees of the session to have some notes and for people who were not at the session to hopefully get value from the discussion that happened there. As such, ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsMore on Better Conferences
I just saw a post by Chris - ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 Postmortem. I still need to do my more detailed session review, but I definitely left out a few thoughts in my posts Move to Front?and First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions.And really, Chris made me realize that I had left out a few things from some previous posts around Better Conferences and Conference Breakout Sessions.1. Entertaining Keynote vs. Content Rich KeynoteChris tells us -The opening keynote by David Pogue (I'm a big fan!), while not specifically related to eLearning, was energizing and highly entertaining.I would ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsMove to Front?
As a comment on my last post First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions, Chris from eQuixotic reminded me that I could have asked the audience to move towards the front of the room to fill empty spots in order for them to hear. I thought about it, but decided not to. It certainly hurt the session to have a large room. But I also know that I hate having to move myself. And, often, it makes it harder to Session Hop.I'm curious what other people think about the issue:Do you ask people to move to the front of the room?
eLearning Technology - Sunday, March 2, 2008 - CommentsFirst Thoughts After ASTD Sessions
I'm on the flight back from ASTD TechKnowledge and thought I should try to capture some initial thoughts from the conference and sessions while it was still fresh and before life clouds my memory...I did two sessions and face time at the conference. I also had some really good lunch conversations. I found that one-on-one and small group is a fantastic way to have meaningful discussions. It's too bad that there aren't ways to do more of this at a conference.Are there ... June at ASTD ICE in San Diego. I'm going to try to work on improving the flow a bit. Otherwise, I'm not sure what ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - CommentsDeath of Magazines - Broader Deeper Coverage
... broadest audience. And somehow, ASTD conferences attract 50-75% newbies to ever conference. If you look at it, there is a relationship here:Introductory / Novice Sources:Conference SessionsTrainingWikipediaMagazinesWhat's common about these is that they are higher level coverage from a more trusted source, but they only go to a certain depth. And, yes, after you've gone through these for a while, they tend to be fairly repetitive ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 11, 2008 - CommentsChallenges 2008
At the end of 2006, I spent some time thinking about 2007 and wrote a post challenges and predictions for 2007. This was a great exercise and the fact that I had not considered my big challenges for 2008 made it harder to do my Conference Planning for ASTD TechKnowledge 2008. When I was writing that post, I told myself that I really needed to sit down and define what I see as some of my bigger challenges right now. So, here they are ...Well, actually before I dive in, I should provide some background to give context...At any one point, I'm actively working with about 5 clients helping ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - CommentsASTD TechKnowledge 2008 - Conference Planning
ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 is coming soon in San Antonio. Now that it's less than a month away, I thought I'd sit down and try to do some conference planning.To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics...In looking back, I first found a lot of posts that really suggested the key was having a good set of questions to provide a lens onto the conference:Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference AttendeeConference PreparationBetter Questions for ... have a purpose. It also supposes you can get into and use ASTD CONNECT for the conference. I don't think I have a ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, January 28, 2008 - CommentsSession Hopping ⬠A Practical Guide
I just saw a link by Christy Tucker to a wonderfully funny, but a little too true: On the High Art of Getting Grades Without Learning Anything.It caused me to remember that last year while attending a session at ASTD 2007, a few random people and I were discussing session hopping (prior to a session). I think the term is probably self-explanatory ⬠but ... a session hopper. Interestingly, at ASTD 2007, I found several other kindred session hoppers. And, here are three ... must be good stuff." Of course, at ASTD 2007, there were a bunch of sessions that were overfull at the same time ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... around this. I've basically limited myself to eLearningGuild and ASTD conferences. My expectation is that I'll be doing more speaking in 2009 based on some new work. But, I've increased my blogging and writing and decreased my speaking. Still not sure.Retooling my knowledgeI've been paid to be a CTO type consultant on a broad range of topics. And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management, etc ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsSmall Group Breakout Sessions at Conferences
There's a great discussion in the comments on my post around small group discussions at conferences. I've updated the original post a bit and would welcome additional thoughts over the next two days in order to help me figure out what I'm going to do in my session at ASTD TechKnowledge.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - CommentsConference Session Breakout
Update: 12/19/2007. There has been great discussion in the comments. I wanted to provide a bit more context for this.The session will be workforce learning professionals (an ASTD audience). They will range greatly in terms of the kinds of organizations, their experience.I'm trying to get them to think about the question "How might you use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Collaboration Tools in your organization?"I have a list of about 30 ideas, but I ... for action.You're generally left feeling short-changed.Uh oh ...I was pulling together my slides for ASTD ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools 1,140 9 43 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD OC 972 ... Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction 1,155 8 6 eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ASTD ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... much more sophisticated that audiences at ASTD, ISPI and even the eLearningGuild. The general sense was that because of how it was advertised it attracted folks already more familiar with these technologies.Back Chat or Not to Back ChatSomeone mentioned that their boss had wanted to close off Back Chat. I just put this in a separate blog post.How do you find out about this stuff?You learn about this using these tools and scanning sources like blogs, trying things out, forcing yourself to make time to learn ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentseLearning Examples
I just saw Cathy Moore's great post - Elearning samples. She points to quite a fewWhere was this when we were doing the Big Question - What are the examples of eLearning?Which gave us links to the following:e-Learning DemosExamples of E-LearningWhere are Examples of eLearning? Lots Right Here!exemplary elearning solutionswhat is a "good example"?LCB Big Q for June: Eg of e-LearningThe Power of ThreeWhere are the Examples of eLearning?Example of eLearningDesigning e-learningShow Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for JuneTwo examples of elearningCreating a Blog in BloggerBest Examples ...
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