I stumbled across Owen's Thesis (actually its a request to contribute to his thesis) and blog via a Technorati search on eLearning . His Thesis is titled Mimi: A Key Tool for ePedagogy. He has some great thoughts, ideas, and structure around creating a tool that is a combination of a wiki and blog. Before you roll your eyes and say, "hey, there's a ton of people already working on that." I would encourage us, the learning community, to participate and help by adding our thoughts to his thesis. Why? Because its exactly what this whole new paradigm in learning is all ...

It's obvious that a Wiki would be a great help in my organization. A few years ago we started using SharePoint and now ... we need a quicker way to get an answer in a pinch. I believe a Wiki would be a great addition to our systems so that it ... the manual to the appropriate chapter to find their answer. So, we know we need a Wiki. Now, how do we make it happen? Here is what I have identified as our options: SharePoint Wiki - SharePoint 07 offers some basic Wiki options that ... overwhelming. There are quite a few hosted solutions that specialize in Media Wiki and I have also been referred to ...

Jay Cross cracks me up (in a good way). When he’s not sharing gorgeous travel photos (including pictures of some of the most unique food you’ll ever see), he comes up with gems related to informal learning and educational technology. One of his latest offerings is a chart that outlines a variety of Web 2.0 tools, including a brief description of their business value. This is great! I appreciate that Jay is able to succinctly articulate their business value, especially because many people still don’t take these tools seriously. Click below to view the ...

Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready or not, as ... Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize with their peers. At Xerox, Chief Technology Officer Sophie VanDebroek turned the process inside out by setting up a wiki that ...

... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning Technology ... uses it for Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready or ... comments links to eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More Permalink: eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More ... eLearning Course Authoring Tool Satisfaction - Mor... Types of Blog Discussions ... ? Web 2.0 Tools in the Enterprise eLearning Technology Archives Blog ...

... just don’t get it . We have fantastic tools at our disposal, like blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, RSS, etc. - and many of these tools are free. However, it feels like we’re pulling teeth when we try to make a business case to show the value and possibilities for these tools. To get around this, we’re seeing more grassroots movements take place. Instead of waiting for top-down direction, employees are installing learning 2.0 tools/technologies and ... effect. If you force people to use social bookmarking, they’ll ignore it. If you force them to blog, ...

Here are the handouts and the slides for the presentation that I did on Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks. It was a fun, hands on presentation where many of the attendees had a chance to create a blog and a wiki. This session esd conducted at the Training 2007 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. I enjoyed the audience and had a lot of really great questions and ideas from the audience members themselves. Thanks for contributing to a great session. Click on the ... presentation on Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Tools for Tranferring Knowledge from the Boomers to the Gamers. __ ...

... blog posts in my reader this morning: Adobe Share Adobe Media Player Adobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity - Enters Web ... year. Seeing big product announcements makes me wonder what fabulous new tools, and/or upgrades, are being prepared for the learning industry. Adobe Labs - And on a side note read/write web pointed to the Adobe Labs wiki . You can ... of a useful corporate wiki.

... are either skeptical about tools such as blogs, wikis, and online social networks, or they're willing but wary of ... ., is predicting that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis, employers ranging from investment banks to ... . Does Wikinomics Have The Write Stuff? - Internet News Wikis are all about collaboration, so it perhaps is no surprise that the authors of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , have set up a wiki, Wikinomics wiki , to go with the best-selling book. In keeping with the wiki tradition, the Wikinomics wiki, hosted by Socialtext, ...

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis ...

... it is text, a blog is good In chat, Alan Selig pointed out that using tools outside the LMS is important b/c they’ ... prepare for work Teams are goal-directed Wikis as classic example of collaborative tool Gave an example of faculty ... Technorati Tags: tcc08 , tcc2008 , wiki , blog , diigo , privacy , education , writing ... -Steen, Colorado Community College System, Denver, Colorado, USA Starting with an intro to Web 2.0 New tools pop up ... Collaboration Categories overlap & aren’t clean distinctions Information & Presentation Blogs ...

What's the fastest, coolest wiki to set up and start using?   Oh, yeah the graphic is right there... pbwiki.com . I spend a solid 30 seconds getting the elearndev wiki running without even breaking a sweat and so can you. I will start using the Corporate eLearning Development Wiki at pbwiki as a compliment to this blog.  Feel free to help me populate it with great stuff.  Go ahead and post a link to your own blog, or just say hi! If you are attending Learning2006 , we will be looking more closely at this tool as well as others.  Let me know if you are going ...

... collaboration tools and wikis. Read more . Posted by David Shoemaker at 09:50 AM in Higher ... seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and ... logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis. Link: Blogging Clicks With Colleges ... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... : Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells ...

... has 3,900 active blogs, 3,300 separate wikis, 3,600 "project workspaces" More than half of companies don't use blogs at all, and 41% don't use wikis, our research finds. More than 20% make these tools available, but they're not widely used ... Found via Big Dog Little Dog - It's information collaboration - discusses the use of Wikis within organizations. Some of the points it makes: Gartner predicts that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis Examples of ... finding that Wikis are a really great replacement for stuff that we've previously done as web pages or using Robo ...

Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together ... being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create ... ; 0 comments links to Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Permalink: Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? Bookmark this page ...

... conclusion that my experience on Wikipedia suggests that Wikis have problems as a tool to use in learning... Nothing could be farther from the truth. I actually think that Wikis are a fantastic tool for putting up reference materials and ... content. In a controlled environment, Wikis are a fantastic tool. After my presentations at DevLearn - I'll have more ... below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts. First, let me say that I really like getting questions. But, has anyone noticed that blogs don't provide a means ...

I received a great set of questions via email over the weekend roughly coming out of a two articles: Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 , By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking . The questions: Do you feel that Gartner's prediction will apply to educators in general? By end of 2007, will those educators who would ever dabble in blogging have dabbled? And if so, where will that leave blogging as a tool for education? Will it only be used by educators that have kept up ... importantly, there will be incredible growth in tools that are not purely blogs. So, if you change the question to, will ...

... the most effective. But finally, I ended up using wiki as pumped-up PowerPoint. It turns out I changed the tool, but ... anyhow. Iâ??m now using wiki as a tool for building a website (no, still no knowledge construction and negotiating meaning ... wiki so much, and learning so much at the same time. I would like to be able to apply the tool, as well as the practice ... posted a long blog about wikis and didnt even mention my extensive work with using wikis in the classroom . Argghghgh.. Oh ... /register My Brilliant Failure: Wikis In ...

Welcome to the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course support wiki. Conference tags: CCK08 This page is ... enroll for credit). 2 Course blog is available here 3 Course Details 4 Weekly Activities 5 ... credit). [ edit ] Course blog is available here Connectivism Research [ edit ] Course Details ... " participants will use a variety of technologies. For example, participants will use blogs, Second Life, Page Flakes, attend UStream ... blog, or any other open forum. [ edit ] Learner Assignments and Evaluation Learners will be asked ...

I can tell that Skylar Van Kruistum is maintaining a high quality blog. He even has a link to a tool he created ... of these blogs to my Engineering Learning Wiki blogs section . ... In my continuing quest to find good engineering blogs which are run by individuals ... as oppsoed to companies, I ... also recommend Urban Workbench . . Urban Workbench  - This blog describes itself as the intersection ... . The final new blog for Engineering Blog Quest 2008 ( see blogs already reviewed ) focuses upon LabView. As a ...

... we tend to assume that a certain level of review has taken place. Obviously thats not the case with blog posts, wikis ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... , 2007 Time Spent on Blogging : eLearning ...

... said - I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools ... to own the blog, i.e., it's a Sun Computer owned blogging system, therefore when you leave Sun you leave your content ... eLearning 2.0 , I suggested in my examples for what this looks like in a corporate environment that people use a tool like ... the content be somewhat generic since it's public. I did suggest that they would either use a Wiki behind the firewall or use a password protected Wiki - because that's where the work product goes. I didn't really consider in ...

Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media A place to capture and share ideas ... Kanter: About Beth Kanter: Hire Me Beth Kanter: Wiki Portfolio ... WWW beth.typepad.com I also blog at ... Blog Vidlicious Im a Nonprofit Guru at .. Beths Blog: Channels ... Blogging blogher ...

... this send out a manual, a great use for a wiki, then I have static copies of a wiki...I guess it'd be good for organically growing a collection of information but it really does pull out the collaboration aspect of wiki-dom doesn't it? Clipmarks : I'm starting to feel the outlines of this class of tools that includes Zotero , Evernote and Clipmarks among others. I do like the clip-to-blog feature in that it seems to allow some more overt attribution for sources and ... training. We thought "we know ISD and we can use this authoring tool, therefore we can make good ...

... collaborative networks, using wiki softwareâ??a basket of technologies that include wikis, blogs and other toolsâ??to ... desktop software for accessing e-mail and other applications. Its most advanced tool, the Quickr 8, combines blogs ... Newsweek: International Editions How Wiki Software is Changing Communication How wiki software ... trend. Wiki softwareâ??easy-to-use programs that let anyone with Internet access create, remove and edit content on a ... the mainstream, being adopted by workplaces, corporations and even governments. In whats been dubbed the "wiki ...

As much as I hate to admit it, I learned a lot from that class. We used tools like Diigo, wikis, Google Docs, and concept maps to collaboratively construct a class. Although some of these tools wouldn’t work in a corporate ... The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give to someone new to the field (of E-Learning). Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore ... . Understand how to use tools (work) We use Saba, Centra, Articulate, image capturing software, image creating ...

... www.usask.ca/its/services/webpage_hosting/blogs/ . Wiki: A wiki is an interactive document that allows a group of ... Medical Education Blog For University of ... thinking about how we teach medical students called Application Oriented Curriculum. Readers of my Blog know that I ... learning preference. Sophisticated computer users might want to use online tools such as Mind Meister or NovaMind ... , nor will it look like what you draw on the board. This is also a developmental tool which will improve over time ...

Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- It's Good for You . Update on Nov 21, 2007 - There's been a lot of discussion recently around using blogs for learning and I wanted to point to a few newer thoughts on this: Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) Blogging - I'm Pushing Harder Now New Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the Enterprise More eLearning Bloggers ... Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? has ...

Blog (Deleted Scenes) Blogging - Im Pushing Harder Now New Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the Enterprise ... ... Hi Tony, I found your blog when I was googling reasons to blog or not to blog for an online tool review on blogging ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and ...

... text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs ... You See is What You Getâ?? which refers to formatting tools in word processors, wikis and weblog creation tools that allow ... Full Circle Online Interaction Blog A place to capture and share ideas and ... . For example, Blogger offers blog software and hosting. This is useful when you dont have your own server or want to ... , structured pace study and self-paced study, tutorial and coaching.â?? - Wikipedia Blog or Weblog - "A weblog, also ...