Subscribe to FeedWorkshop Exercise Design - Help Needed
I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete.I'm really hoping that folks will help me out by:a. telling me what they would say if they were in the workshop andb. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself.The last time I posted something like this it was a HUGE help and I significantly redesigned the exercise which probably saved me a lot of grief. See comments in Conference Session Breakout - which convinced me ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 18, 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
... conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. But Clive's major point is that at today's conferences the mix is:His definitions are:ideas - presentations from gurus, experts and thought leaders ... from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and examples. Very little ... event through getting together at conferences. But I wasn't very successful.I've always highly encourage ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, June 6, 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 - CommentsLaptop Distraction
A comment just got me a bit worried...If I were someone not using a laptop during a live conference session, I'd just as soon not sit next to someone who was -- it seems at least for now much more distracting than sitting next to someone taking notes on paper.As a person who takes all my notes into my laptop (or sometimes into my Treo), it worries me that I could be a laptop distraction as well.I did a quick search and didn't see a whole lot on this. Are other people finding that they are distracted by someone with a laptop sitting next to them at a conference?Any suggestions on best way ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, May 16, 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 ... . 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 ... spark ideas...Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Session Hopping a Practical GuideConference ... Presentation at the ASTD Conference.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - CommentsMandatory Blogging?
... conference, I'd want them to use a blog to enhance their learning. If they were starting on some new learning activity ... . But, otherwise, I've not seen anyone making it mandatory. I'm also thinking that a conference could be a significantly better experience if blogging was essentially mandatory as part of the conference. See Reframing Conference Social Tool ... conference as well.Has anyone else felt this transition from blogging as a nice thing for a few people to something that ... that few (if any) conference organizers would actually go so far as to make it mandatory for attendees. (Although ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - CommentsTwitter Status
My twitter status just changed.Sue Waters - who I met through the posts: Reframing Conference Social Tool Participatio and Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results yesterday walked me through what she had done at a couple of conferences. See her page: mlearn2007 by others and mlearn2007 my notes.Along the way, she convinced me that Twitter was something that I should stop resisting.She did this by sending a tweet out that asked how Twitter helped people with their personal learning. She quickly got back:dmcordell @dswaters Hi, Sue. I'm the only LMS in a rural district. The world ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - CommentsMake Me Better
... through things and help make me better.Take a look at some of the comments in recent posts:Reframing Conference Social Tool ParticipationSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor ResultsBlog LearningI have really appreciated recent help through comments on this blog. There have been a few new commenters who I truly thank for helping to make me better. Thanks.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - CommentsReframing Conference Social Tool Participation
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 believe ... population, we can provide value for the rest of the conference attendees and appropriately reward the 1%ers?What can we ... 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 1,000 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results
I saw a post by David Warlick - Reaching Out With Your Conference where he suggests that conference organizers should:Consider a social network for your conference. Although I remain skeptical about social networks, social networking is essential, and a few conferences have made brilliant use of them.Give presenters a wiki page to spread out their session ... door prizes.Establish and CLEARLY advertise conference tags for bloggers and photographers.Either aggregate photos and blog entries, or set up a conference page on Hitchhikr and link to that. (I'm considering doing a major rebuild ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - CommentsBlog Learning
Group Breakout Sessions at Conferences?On the last of these, I was steered away from a particular approach to a session. This was great learning. Come to find out, people don't like those small break out sessions at most conferences either. I've seen them so often, I just assumed I should be doing them also. Blog learning!In many cases, I post my thoughts and someone comes in to correct me or redirect my thinking. Take a look at:eLearning Design and Development Training CourseBad Course on Instructional DesignI started with a kind of inquiry and found myself realizing that one of the citations I gave was an example of a badly designed course teaching about instructional design ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 21, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
... trying to:Report and discuss the results of an introductory survey that I conduct (thanks to the suggestion via Conference ... 9 22% Other 8 20% Supporting Meetings, Conference Rooms, Phone Numbers, Facilitation ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsMore on Better Conferences
Chris made me realize that I had left out a few things from some previous posts around Better Conferences and Conference ... Day LetdownChris tells us -Sadly, the event ended with more whimper than bang, with a classic final-day conference letdown. Why do half of the participants always disappear before the final day of a conference?This is classic. I always try ... conference organizers know that this happens. Not sure what you can do about this? Is there a better model?3. Breakout ... everyone for redirecting me via Conference Breakout Sessions.4. Waiting for AhaChris tells us -I'm still waiting for ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsFirst Thoughts After ASTD Sessions
... 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 ... models for this that people have seen work at different kinds of conferences? I need to go back and look at Better Conferences, Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee to see if there were suggestions.I read the evaluations ... Implications - a follow-up to the first session. I used suggestions from Conference Breakout Sessions to help me design ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 28, 2008 - CommentsMaking the Most of Attending a Conference - Ideas Needed
... you expect to get out of a conference. I have never gone to a conference with the expectation of learning anything ... , my theories/philosophies).and laterI just had two papers accepted at the AERA conference in NYC this year and am dreading it. Last year's experience was horrible when it came to the conference itself, because I felt no sense of connection ... . Unfortunately, at this point in my career, I must attend these types of conferences. So I will suffer through a trip to NYC (I'm a small town girl) and give me 10 minutes of presentation.Sadly, I've felt the same way about going to conferences ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - CommentsDeath of Magazines - Broader Deeper Coverage
... most of the activities at conferences (see Better Conferences). In fact, my limited attention has made me into a ... Magazines and Conferences continually must aim at introductory, novice, overview level content. That appeals to the 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 ... and offline.The conference sessions I present on eLearning 2.0 and the articles I write on various topics (e.g., ...
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 ... , small group networking, speaking at virtual conferences, speaking at conferences and writing?My goals for all of this ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - CommentsSocial Network Operating System
In the 2008 Horizon Report, they discuss various technology trends including. Their comments around Social Operating Systems is interesting:The issue, and what social operating systems will resolve, is that today's tools do not recognize the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or address book; the people one actually knows, is related to, or works with. At the same time, credible information about your social graph is embedded all over the web: in the carbon-copy fields of your emails; in attendee lists from conferences ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 4, 2008 - CommentsASTD TechKnowledge 2008 - Conference Planning
... and try to do some conference planning.To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics...In ... lens onto the conference:Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference AttendeeConference PreparationBetter Questions for ... out what questions I really have for this conference. I'm going to have to think a bit about that and come back to it.I also found a few posts around practical attendee ideas:David Warlick - Conference 2.0 - Ten Tips for Extending your ... suggestions in the comments of Conference Networking Tools that suggest how to make contact. It somewhat presupposes ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, January 28, 2008 - CommentsSession Hopping ⬠A Practical Guide
... in case you don't know what this is ⬠A session hopper moves between sessions at a conference that are scheduled at the same time in order to find the session that they feel provides the most value. At any large conference, there generally ... flight or meet someone or do a conference call, that I'm not quite as worried about it. Of course, they may be using my ... was in November 2001 at the LA Convention Center. I was a featured speaker on Trends in eLearning. The conference almost didn't happen because of the terrorist attacks a month and a half earlier. The conference was very much under ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
... a series of events (success of small group discussions at eLearningGuild in the Fall, success of the virtual conference with George Siemens, discussion with Jay Cross and others about a conference for people with more experience, and discussion by Luis Suarez about a targeted virtual conference), I'm starting to think that the way to go is to have frequent, more targeted online, virtual discussions on particular topics. The format of the virtual conference that George and ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... at conferences?I love going to conferences when there's energy and I meet interesting people with interesting problems. I hate hearing the same presentations over and over. The last couple conferences have been interesting again, but I'm not ... to have been a good replacement for my conference time. I'm still unsure how I should spend my time.I'm still debating around this. I've basically limited myself to eLearningGuild and ASTD conferences. My expectation is that I'll be ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsYale Spam
Yale recently released their Open Yale Courses. Tom Conroy, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Yale University, invited me to an announcement session (sent 20 November 2007):I'd like to invite you to attend a bloggers-only press conference we're hosting on December 11th at 7:00 PM EDT to announce a new online initiative here at Yale. We came across your blog, eLearning Technology and we thought you'd be interested in joining.I sent Tom a nice note thanking him for the invitation, but declining. Then I got a note from Tom today (21 December 2007):I recently came across your site and ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, December 21, 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
... the use of small group breakouts during conference sessions.It's a tired old fossil of a format.The topic for discussion is usually some ill-defined, banal question, so the group spend a further ten minutes clarifying what's expected. The time left is usually far too short to get anything meaningfully debated and agreed. Even then it's often a random selection of thoughts, rants and personal beefs.Feedback to the group consists of a series of disjointed thoughts, often weighted towards the thoughts of the facilitator ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentsVisual Thinking - Do You Have Questions?
I've been having a bit of dialog with various folks from the VizThink conference about whether and how much Visual Thinking relates to eLearning. See:Crash Course in Visual ThinkingVizThink and Visual Thinking and Learning - Still Not Surefor background. These discussions have diverged into a discussion of whether I'd get value personally from the conference given my past challenges with being able to figure out how to create diagrams.Well Dave Gray has decided to take this on in an online session. You can see more information and sign up by clicking this link: How is Visual ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - CommentsVizThink and Visual Thinking and Learning - Still Not Sure
... crystalize the important issues, simplify, picture them and then render. I'm sure that Tom's conference will talk a lot about ... more powerful marketing tools, communication tools, etc.So, again, I highly respect Tom and the conference. And ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, December 7, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
... you are going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups.A purely virtual conference (Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and a wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better.Social networks through my blog or LinkedIn are great ways to get specific help for yourself and for others... Making Learning with an LMS Fun? Help Needed!, Help - Pace in Industry, LMS Selection Presentation, Writing, Learning, Knowing - Help Needed ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsGetting Value from LinkedIn
... state that I don't think I'm alone in this feeling. At a conference a while back on social network issues, a speaker asked the audience, "How many of you are on LinkedIn?" Virtually all of the 100 or so attendees raised their hands. Then he asked, "How many of you have gotten anything valuable from LinkedIn?" Only one person had his hand raised. I didn't know him, but I'm guessing he had used it to look for a job ...
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