... story link ) **As an aside, I love the new editing UI in Typepad...good job guys! So IBM is releasing something called OpusUna (which means something like "work as one"); "OpusUna enables participants to collaborate and ... screen. IBM envisions, for example, collaboration on patient care via sharing of medical images. Financial traders also could collaborate from around the world." Right now I guess its only working in Safari...?? Anybody know any good change management or org dev conferences? I think I really need to hit some of those to see if our thinking ...

Live blogging this session from the Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference with Robin Good. The end of the content God. The teacher now serves as mentor to help us create the best thing together. So now we're going to edit a mind map together using mindmeister . Login issues -- Robin says, "when you're trying something new ... tools (although that's a bonus) -- but seeing how everyone's collaborating. Very cool. Robin really goes with the ... Summary: Learning collaboration is all about trying new things, making mistakes, experimenting. When we come together ...

If I attend a conference, I blog, so I am a conference blogger . This enables me to rethink what is said (content ... to have a conference report ready in less then 15 minutes ones I return to my professional base camp . There are a ... swiftly go through a few guidelines that will make your life easier as you broadcast almost instantly from a conference ... , be transparent about your mistakes, collaborate whenever possible, make it stick. If you are (or planning to be) a conference blogger look at there quick PDF book ( only 6 pages or the booklet version only 3 pages ). If ...

This year we will start vodcasting (video on demand) at the institute. We were already dabbling with it, but ... it is coming along now and we will soon start with informative movies for our new students. In a later stage these students will be motivated to publish their material. In this quest for easy access and information I came across the amazing ustream.tv . This was send around and a couple of organisations I am in (mainly gender empowering ones) will be using this to get their conferences live online. The Web surely works amazingly quick. in house our aim is to: - ...

... ordinary people. It's information collaboration - Newsday Research firm Gartner Inc., based in Stamford, Conn ... . 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 ... For all the mind-numbing buzz about Web. 2.0, most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired in endless e-mail strings and scheduled conference calls. More than half of business technology pros surveyed by ...

... collaborative editing during a conference session (or workshop, seminar, course, etc.). My main requirements were: Easy to use ... . Google Docs are much harder to share with other people. Trying to share it at a conference would be a lot harder. And ... really made for real-time editing. While I'm on the subject of real-time collaborative editing, I just had a fantastic ... still think the most powerful work example for this has been real-time collaborative editing of Google Spreadsheets ... real-time collaboration (something I worked on 15 years ago while I was a Ph.D. student) finally taking off in the ...

Rapid Intake collaborative eLearning development platform, Unisonâ„¢ is a web-based solution that lets designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) collaboratively capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based ... great experience for the entire development team and supporting the collaborative development process. This is not an ... ;-) The eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 Conference & Expo - April 14-17 - Orlando, ...

... committee and the conference and speakers looks promising. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2009 Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009 * Keynote Speakers ... Hiroaki Ogata , Dept. of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, Japan * Conference ... the development of user-created content and providing opportunities to meet and collaborate, offers immense potential ... learning opportunity. The IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion ...

Some thoughts: Brain drain is affecting research in Africa . (There are more African researchers in the USA then in Africa itself). Passing information: For Maxime: the central website of EuroAfrica will post more information on the open corporation meeting between Europe and South African companies on ICT. Speakers roughly (with the ones I liked on top) (this is a very new media focussed person, really into it - contact him for collaboration) Beza Belayneh - Botswana (director of ICT4Dev in Botswana ) Key foundations for eCommerce are not ...

Better Conferences - Response Needed : eLearning Technology Im pretty sure its not just me... I believe we can build better conferences. And, I need you to help by ... suggestions for what youd like to see in future conferences (add comment). If you dont vote, then well assume you either will never go to a conference or think that every conference is just great as it is. I am talking to conference organizers ... conferences I regularly attend - and no offense to the eLearningGuild, ASTD, etc. - because most conferences have these ...

... this week. I was at a conference, 2 of the other members (including the Director) were at a local training, and one was ... - learning solutions Any conference - do a presentation. Awards - LINGOs - Volunteer of the Year: Rose Jorgenson, Outstart. Donated training authoring tool. Help with implementation support. Now trainer guru. Maintain collaboration ...

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 ... slamming the use of small group breakouts during conference sessions. It's a tired old fossil of a format.

... studies of a dozen organisations that are accelerating informal learning with wikis, social networks, collaboration, podcasts ... ; reinvent learning as active, collaborative, need-driven adaptation to change. Each participant will receive a ...

... greater participation among the entire conference audience. One warning about this ... I'm not sure I can count every conference attendee as even a 90%er. Are they even going to enroll in the collaborative system? So, for a conference with ... Through my recent post: Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results I've received a bit of feedback on being such a ... , most of the tools provided are aimed at trying to get everyone in the conference to use the tools. Instead, if we ... the population, we can provide value for the rest of the conference attendees and appropriately reward the 1%ers?

Workshop D - Collaboration in a Virtual World Rena M. Palloff, Ph.D., LCSW, Managing Partner, Crossroads Consulting ... College Preliminaries - it's a full house! Wasn't expecting that for pre-conference workshops. Curious to see how this ... How do you "sell" collaboration? Esp to "adult learners" (the docs) How do you deal with the â ... sure online learning way to go and getting bang for buck (Level 4) Why collaborate online? Assist w/ deeper levels of ... create the goals together. (More context for the group?) Collaboration reduces learner isolation online. Small ...

... for effective collaborative learning Seung-hee Lee, Richard Magjuka, Xiaojing Liu, Curt J. Bonk Abstract Selecting ... (i.e., communication, cooperation, and collaboration), this study reviewed an online MBA program as a representative ... for better usage of collaborative technologies were discussed in the study.   I. Introduction Teamwork is one of ... study classifies three different modes of technologies (i.e., communication, cooperation, and collaboration), based on two ... , collaborative work processes through electronic media without regard to geographic location? (Chinowsky & Rojas, ...

... getting increasingly important. Libraries are great places to collaborate, learn new digital learning. So the ...

... this next interactive question) Ruth mentions virtual agents to guide you through simulations, collaboration, ...

This weekend, I spent my time in Hilton Head Island at a conference evaluating a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called Plastics Resources for Educator's Project. The PREP project , as it is called, was started over 10 years ago to develop Reusable Learning Objectives (RLOs) in the area of plastics education. The project has since spurred a book, additional web site and great collaboration among plastics educators across the country. Here is Rick Wilson presenting on a plastics certification program. At the conference, the topics of for credit plastics education, ...

Background Over the past six weeks, I've been leading a course: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 / eLearning ... collaborative learning by participating in collaborative learning. This course is designed to teach how to design and build collaborative learning experiences using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 approaches. You can find out more about the course itself ... , each week had a one-hour virtual classroom session First two weeks were introductions to the tools and to collaborative learning Middle three weeks were the design (as a team) of collaborative learning projects, facilitation/participation ...

At this moment I am attending a formal (very formal) meeting of the EuroAfrican & ICT group that focusses on possible collaboration for FP7 programs. No idea of the real knowledge that is in the room. The attendees are all experienced and bring a lot of expertise, but the meeting is not constructed in such a way that all this expertise is ... could easily be done by putting some tables with major topics around which one could collaborate (human health ... , but stand (if physically possible of course) and start discussing, brainstorming, building on collaboration ...

... culture, 3 parts fun (including what the suits call execution). Distance Learning Conference - My notes August 9, 2007 Filed under: Collaboration , Collaboration Tools , Creativity , Culture ... ’m currently attending the Distance Learning Conference in Madison, WI (when I have time I will post the conference ... .   Suggestion : Provide a collaborative lab project. Provide something thatâ??s broken and get people ... task oriented solution Whatâ?¦about using blogging to facilitate discussion/collaboration on the process. Creation ...

STUDENTS MORE ENGAGED IN ON-LINE CONFERENCES W. R. (Bill) Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D. Professor ... allow students to lurk in on-line conferences. Nor is it necessary. Presented here are eight tactics that teachers can employ to make students more active learners in on-line conferences. Anybody who has ever ... a given conference, the students can differ enormously in academic background, skills, and life experience. Some ... their own classes. On-line conferences create opportunities for teachers ...

In this session, we will conclude with a look at new trends in technology such as Web 2.0, social collaboration ...

Online: Critical Collaborations and Dialogues among Anthropological Approaches to Video Games As video games are ... ) collaborations with, and investigations of, the global video game industryâ€"its publishers and developers ... disciplines teach us? In addition, we seek to explore what forms of useful collaborations with industry experts and users ... conference deadline of April 1st. Conference Eligibility Please note that an individual cannot have more than two roles ... . Abstracts due March 21st Conference registration by April 1st http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/ Thank ...

Social is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: Do Off-task Interactions Exist? By Stephen Downes September 2 ... interactions having to do with content. This is a summary of Paul Kirschners keynote address at the ITI conference in ... as interactions having to do with content. This is a summary of Paul Kirschners keynote address at the ITI conference in ... . CSCL is a powerful treasure chect for learning. It allows us to create collaboration. But its only a possibility - no more ... ? Its learning, with others, supported by a computer network. The first thing is learning, in collaboration, ...

... elements: Rapid Mobile Immersive Collaborative Non-formal (rather than informal) I’m trying to get ...

George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand people from all over the world take part in the week-long conference. This year the conference has an incredible set ... Strategy Nancy White - Online Social Architectures - Networks and Communities Robin Good - Best Online Collaboration ... : Corporate Learning Ecology The conference runs November 17-2008. It's online. And it's free. If you want to ...

... enhance any face-to-face workshop or conference. Provide targeted, technical presentations. There is a group of attendees who ... €� through the conference/workshop. Maybe an LMS Administrator Track, an online learning track and a stand up teaching track ... for possible collaborative partnerships. See if two or more organizations can discuss issues and then team up to collaborate as a result of the discussions. Maybe have certain topics available around which schools can collaborate ... . Create, before the conference, a way of knowing who was attending in order to form special interest groups and ...

... before the conference starts I will meet with Microsoft on collaboration tools for Outlook. It's hard to believe that my ... Tomorrow I head for DeFrag 2008 . I'm using my personal funds and some of my remaining vacation to attend this conference. While you might find the fact that a corporate kind of guy is using personal time and money to attend this kind of conference ... consider this fact. Where do social media / networking tools start and stop? My wife and I often comment to each other that the boundary between work and leisure for someone like myself gets very fuzzy. I do ...