It's getting harder to come across people who still read their local news paper (or watch the local news for that matter). Especially in cities (like D.C.), I think reading local events is more of an exception rather than the rule. Well if your local paper doesn't have RSS feeds or anything like that, you can just wait for a few more years until " EveryBlock " makes it to your neighborhood. EveryBlock tauts itself as a one stop shop for everything related to your ... it's nice that it does all of the work for you. From the EveryBlock website... EveryBlock filters an assortment of local ...

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I've been approached quite a bit recently to do presentations at local ASTD chapters or to help find a speaker. The reality is that I can't afford to do free presentations at local events. In some cases, I am finding myself doing workshops locally that can then help fund it. I'm looking forward to doing more of these this next year. But in the cases where that's not going to work out, I would really like to help the person find a speaker who is local and who can speak to ... speaker in the Birmingham, Alabama area for a local ASTD on eLearning 2.0 or Work Literacy. What would you do if you ...

Unibroue discovered at local Cost Plus Originally uploaded by Brent Schlenker . After learning about Unibroue in Boston last week I've on a mission to find it in AZ. Mission accomplished...well, sort of. Cost Plus only carries 2 flavors. What does this have to do with Learning? EVERYTHING! A wonderful experience makes for a memorible experience. A compelling story is part of creating that experience: I don't believe that simply drinking the beer is enough...although its darn good beer. I only wish that I could share the experience with friends, but for ...

When it comes to writing interactive learning materials, I've always preferred a particular approach and have used ... how it works! The trouble is, inductive learning doesn't seem to have been what the developers had in mind when they designed the latest generation of  rapid e-learning authoring tools. Over the past few days, I've been testing out ... another option.] Create a short e-learning module [I know, this is bound to be our favourite option - after all ... .] Bring in the managers for training and then let them in turn train their direct reports locally [OK, ...

... books, presentations, white papers, research, etc. Join e-learning associations (local, national, global) Take a ... ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I ... perspective of a person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning” jobs. E-learning, of course, encompasses many areas - courseware designer, curriculum development, online trainer, ...

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First Things First: Local ASTD Groups On LinkedIn - Do It! If you're a manager or marketing/sales professional in the learning industry, it's worth doing a quick search in the groups directory on LinkedIn to see if there's an online group for your local ASTD chapter . Of course, if you're a trainer or instructional designer, this goes without saying. If you're a learning professional and aren't connected to your local ASTD chapter, it begs the ... my area (Orange County, California), our local ASTD Chapter didn't have a presence on LinkedIn for the ...

... to "see the research".) Also, see the technical writers community for learning how to write...and see your local ... STILL, "Why US?". Why do we ("learning professionals") continue to think we have the answers that are special to learning...how it should be done...who should create it...and how should others consume it? Maybe the question is "Do we still add value to the new learning equation?" Technology IS driving the changes in learning these days: Search (rip ... -T-H-I-N-G, we need to know about creating effective media for learning is being done by OTHER professions. That's ...

WHY #3 : Social Learning Discovers the Expterts. Social learning also discovers the experts ... experts out there that most people didn't know about.  If they see a need for someone to learn, they can help out, for ... - drown out the experts so they are not discovered on a larger scale.  They may be know very locally, not on that larger ... help others learn.  And even better is that they will automatically help each other - often times without prompting ... .  They use our product every day in ways we may not realize.  We learned from them, they learn from us, they learn ...

... research project) Research Finds Laptop Learning Yields Better Students and Better Teachers Through Anytime, Anywhere Access ... company) Learning With Laptops: An Urban School Shows Gains and a quote. Not everyone thinks of Internet research as a ... give laptop advocates some scientific evidence to back up their claims that the devices can bolster learning ... Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for laptop learning in Bellevue, Wash. He estimates ... laptops in schools we should try to make them work as author Pamela Livingston advocates in her book 1-to-1 Learning ...

... final week of Work Literacy Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals , hosted at Ning by Michele Martin , Harold Jarche ... most part it has been an asynchronous, social, learning workshop.  I can join in at 2 PM or 2 AM, depending on my schedule ... three-person lunch meetup to the 100-person local user group can give you the most positive effect of being at an event ... far and wide to get there.  They can be local events of a few or a few hundred, and you can still get that F2F, human ... find upcoming events for learning professionals (primarily interested in online).  If you know of one, please tell ...

... will use Freepath to present 25 Free Tools for Learning Professionals as researched and compiled by Jane Hart ... . Freepath Forums . Drawbacks: Requires a local client to be downloaded and installed.  No web client is offered at this time, so anyone wishing to view your Freepath playlists must install the local client and then download ... Hart for learning professionals into an interactive Freepath playlist.  In order to view the tools and interact with the ... fullscreen viewing on your computer.  (And there will probably be a little bit of a learning curve with the interface.) ...

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28, 2007 Emerging Technologies in e-Learning I sat in on a lunchtime WebEx presentation with Gary Woodill -- Director, Research and Analysis, Brandon Hall Research . The topic: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning ... 70s. 1984 doctorate in applied psychology. Developed over 60 e-learning programs. Lives in Ontario, Canada. Started with Brandon Hall in November. "Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. A big explosion in the last 2 years. In the 90s there were one or two ways to do e-Learning: ...

A couple of weeks ago I noted that I was beginning to learn Mandarin Chinese via ChinesePod . Based in Shanghai ... can share experiences, ask questions, and learn from each other as well as the experts at ChinesePod. I generally go ... previous efforts that involved taking a course at a local community college and supplementing this with language programs on CD. My previous experiences at learning Chinese followed the old drill and practice memorization approaches that tend to suck all the fun out of learning. This is not the case with ChinesePod, and here are the three main reasons why I ...

April 2005 Index Home Page A Tutorial Paper   Creative Online Learning ... programs to unserved and underserved learner populations. Potential advantages to the learner and provider of learning hinge on changes in pedagogy and ability to provide quality support for distance learning. The online experience is not ... approaches to teaching and learning. It follows the design of an undergraduate business course at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) for online learning. This model is easily generalized or adapted for other online ...

... circumstances. Students identify the college environment and learning engagement among challenges they face in college ... (Tinto, 1993). Helping students achieve learning and success during their early college enrollment improves their chances ... ). FYE is an excellent example of a collegewide collaborative effort that has improved and expanded the collegeâ??s learning-centered environment. The program enhances the learning of students, faculty, and staff across the college community. Through their participation in FYE, students develop a better understanding of their responsibilities for learning ...

8217;t know about! Here are the sessions I attended today… 406 - Managing Learning in a Web 2.0 - and ... Learning 2.0 has caused us to re-examine how we learn, but has it really changed  us? Lance argued that learning hasn’t changed, only technology has changed. If we look at how humans learn - how we acquire, absorb, encode, and use ... information, but we are still learning the same. Lance believes there should be an area of learning called ‘non-formal’ learning. This is when people intentionally learn information in an informal way. (He states that ...

... e-Learning Blogroll Articulate Blog Tata Blog Jay Cross ... LearningCircuits EduResources Weblog The Learned Man! eLearnopedia e-Literate e-Learning Centre XplanaZine Seth Godin Tim Oren - Due Diligence ... director of learning at the Depository Trust & Clearning Corporation. Kaliym makes the compelling argument that if ... learning professionals, consultants. Go sign up here: http://www.brandonhallnetwork.com/ Myspace ...

... tools to effectively break down the walls of the classroom, integrating teaching and learning with local and ... top top ole s / vle s: ONLINE / VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS   ... and Learning Online     ... ;) Learning Environments - James Farmer (2004) Blogging Across the Curriculum ("... a growing and ... Assisted Language Learning (BALL): Push button publishing for the pupils ("This paper ...

Fueling Online Learning Rising gas prices are "fueling" increased interest in online/blended learning among commuting students. Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Impact of Fuel Prices on Online/Blended Learning This blog is to chronicle a linkage between the rising cost of transportation - notably cars and public mass transit - and the rising interest in online and blended learning. The title of each ... thought a "blended" learning class with half the work in a classroom and half on the computer would be a way to try ...

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material ... knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my ... . Learning-Knowledge-Work - they really are the same and I need to do them all at once. As I compose this blog post, which am I doing? All. Maybe there are some distinctions between personal knowledge management, personal learning ...

... top top ole s / vle s: ONLINE / VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS   ... Related articles Teaching and Learning Online   ... ("a series on a variety of emerging learning practices and technologies"; ELI, Aug. 2005 ... Setubal, 27 Set. 2004) A Learning Blogosphere (1): Into the Deep ("In Fall 2004, I developed a distributed learning blogosphere for non-technical students at the University of ...

Learning Networks - The New Framework Stephen Downes presented a work in progress in Palermo this week, Learning Networks - Theory & Practice. Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces The convergence of technology, pedagogy, and space can lead to exciting new models of campus interaction. Developing Self-Directed Learners According to Abdullah, self-directed learners are "responsible owners and managers of their own learning process" Telling Tales with Technology As it gains popularity in classrooms around the country, digital storytelling takes on local ...

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... but also learning to enhance the game experience. Dealing with multiple languages: Localize the text, but use ... Help, I Can't Stop Learning! Presenter: Sid Meier So they managed to find the appropriate cable so they can display ... don't want to be educated. Want to learn. - Won't advertise that they learn - They keep coming back because they feel ... available - how to play the game, control. Available early and an option. - People don't want to be in a separate learning ... places that you wouldn't go to or be in real life. Choices within the tutorial. Learn about food? Learn ...