Preparing a presentation on mobile learning for a conference 2, 3 October 2007 in New Brunswick, Canada. Getting all ITM's mobile learning projects into a creative, informative presentation takes a bit of time and thought.

What a wonderful conference it was in Fredericton, New Brunswick on mobile learning . Government, universities and research centers were represented and attended. It was a real treed to be able to speak in front of such an enlightened audience. The speakers were the cream of the crop on mobile learning: John Traxler, Steve Wexler, Stella Lee, Kevin Harvey and me (me not being cream, just soje). My presentation focused on mobile learning projects and social media to support the participants in those mobile projects. The audience engaged in the presentation making it an extra ...

Don't forget the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations online conference begins on Monday.  The conference is hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross and George Siemens. I'm on first (Monday at 4pm GMT - that's 8 am Pacific) with my presentation of the 25 FREE Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox and then participating in a Tools discussion (on Tuesday at 4 pm GMT) with Tony and Robin Good. Join us! Find out more at the website - and also join the community where you can have discussions with all the hosts and presenters.

I just saw a blog that appears to have been created solely as a means to interact, capture thoughts and ideas during the Brandon Hall Innovations conference. It's a great way for folks not at the conference to have a sense of what's going on there. And, I bet it is a fantastic learning and networking experience for the blogger. Kudos to the BH folks for encouraging this even if there were issues .

... emerging opportunities, network with other learning pioneers, and deal with topics you don't find at the conferences you have to travel to. Come online the week of November 17 for a different kind of conference experience. Mark your ... international visionaries to gain insight into what's going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of learning." I shall be presenting my 25 Tools every learning professional should have in their Toolbox - and all for free on Monday 17 October in a joint session with Robin Good, and a discussion on tools on Tuesday 18 October. Corporate Learning Trends ...

The Learning Technologies Conference in Portland, Oregon is happening as I type.  Christine Martell , Michele Martin and I are hosting.  There are a few things I wanted to point out as we are going through this: Learning and working are not exclusive.  They can happen at the same time.  We have such a tendency to separate them. Social Learning ... using Web 2.0 tools for learning.  They fit very nicely together, but are not synonyms. Training = Delivery.  Social Learning = Creating the learning with others.  Training = 1:many.  Social Learning = many:many or many:1 where the one is ...

... 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 ... learning opportunity. The IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and ... Sánchez , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Mobile Learning 2009 Conference Chair Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta ... the Mobile Learning' conference may attend e-Society and Information Systems conferences' sessions free of charge.

George Siemens is organizing an online conference on corporate learning. The conference will begin on 15 November and last untill the 20 November 2007. Looking forward to it. The conference wiki is already in progress.

... streaming live from Fredericton, want to watch it? Go to ...

... concepts to people who may not know about them instead of hyping ourselves up by continuing to brief ourselves in the learning community. I'm not saying that learning conferences are bad...far from it. It's just that sometimes we suffer from ... My colleagues and I recently submitted a paper/presentation for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference. This was their annual training and technology conference. We presented on some of the training programs we are working on, and we also gave a primer on trends in the learning field. One of the ...

December 2008 Jay Cross will be guiding all the participants through a whole day workshop on informal learning ( 10.00h ... learning, Web 2.0, and Learnscape Architecture. The metaphor for the workshop: a high-speed journey over the ... -based learning; the explosive convergence of informal learning, the read/write web, internet culture, and new business models; how network effects impact organisations, changing the nature of learning and human performance; case studies of a dozen organisations that are accelerating informal learning with wikis, social networks, collaboration, ...

... be speaking on the subject of social media and how they are impacting the learning capacity in low resource areas. It is ... ; and their knowledge adds to e-Learning information on a global scale. The impact of social media for low-resource settings is phenomenal. In the last couple of years, schools in low resource areas have set up e-Learning courses that provide ... community. This session will examine the impact social media in low-resource areas has on the global e-Learning program. Participants will learn of the emerging cultures that are getting into e-Learning, and how they can cross-benefit ...

Arriving right on the heels of DevLearn , the free (and 100% online) Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 conference begins this week! The conference, which runs November 17-21, features some of the sharpest people in the learning and technology world. A quick glance at the agenda shows Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Tony Karrer, Clark Quinn, George Siemens, and many more. Very cool. The goal of this conference is to "…explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, network with other learning pioneers, and deal with topics you don't find at ...

The last two days EMC held its 2nd annual Innovation Conference, right in the Education Services building. I was lucky enough to be given a last-minute invite to the conference. I attended last year’s conference (as a judge, not ... idea. Next year I’ll try to geek it up more and hide my education side. After the conference, we had a meet ... . Here’s a quick concept map: I’ll try to break it down: 4 of us had Innovation Conferences ... critical. If one of the biggest competitive advantages right now is how fast your workforce can learn, educators need ...

... yesterday a new scope seminar started on personal learning environments . and an online conference on the future of education started at the University of Manitoba. all this accessable knowledge... viva Web.

... to going to spark ideas... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Session Hopping a Practical Guide Conference Preparation Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions Oh, I'm ... Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences . If you are ... , 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 ...

... 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, primarily abstract in nature. examples - case studies from users, sharing successes and lessons learned ... me having just returned from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas ...

As I'm thinking about going to the eLearningGuild Annual Gathering in Boston next month and ASTD in Atlanta in June, I went back to look at some notes I had created before around getting ready for conferences ... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee And the net of it was that you really needed to be prepared with good questions, which I had talked about in: Better Questions for Learning Professionals Then, I realized that the LCB Big Question from ... ? http://learningcircuitblog.pbwiki.com/bigquestions I also ran across this good post: Conference Survival ...

Since I'll be liveblogging, I figured I'd share my goals for this particular conference: - I'm seeing a series of sessions on XML and one session on ActionScript in eLearning. Silke Fleicher is also doing a session on Captivate 3. Anything that will help improve my technical chops is a good thing. - Learn more about adding a games approach to our ... eLearning Guild conference and have not seen him speak yet - You GOTTA go to this one!!!!! - Liveblog as much as possible ... eLearning Guild Pageflakes to see all of the other takes on this conference.

This happens to me every few months: I’ll hear about a great conference that took place for learning and technology professionals just a few days after it occurred. Bummer. So I wanted to open up this week’s post to get your input (please!). What learning and technology conferences have you attended, and would you recommend them? I’ll go first: I made it to the Training Magazine 2006 conference and thought it was great. They had fantastic keynote ... conferences (Annual Gathering 2007 and 2008 and DevLearn 2007). These have been my favorites, especially in terms ...

If you’ll be at DevLearn in San Jose in a few weeks, let’s meet up! I’m always anxious to meet other people involved with learning, technology, and performance improvement - and events like DevLearn provide a great venue for this. Get a hold of me any time at the conference if you want to chat. I will be floating around from session to session, and I will be pretty active on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/bjschone ). In fact, see my next post…        ...

... building a game in real time during the conference to deal with the issues of teleworking. Finally, being the king of last ... looking forward to soaking it all in and leaving with more questions than I came…that way I know I have learned ...

If there isn’t, should we start one?    Tagged: conferences, events, F2F, learning, online, web2.0 ... This post was spurred by Tony Karrer’s comparison of Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences ... 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 ... :  “The most underrated benefit of the face-to-face effect of conferences is INSPIRATION. “  This is ...

Innovation in e-learning Conference , originally uploaded by professorkapp . Having fun at the conference. Here is a list of bloggers attending the Innovation in e-Learning Conference. From left to right are Wendy Wickham , Mark Oelhert , Stephen Downes , and Karl Kapp.

... schedule. If any of you are planning to blog on this conference, let me know your schedule, we could link to one another. The tag I use for this conference is AG08. Thursday 15 April: Session 103 at 10.45 am: The ... : Evidence-based e-Learning Methods to Build Creative Thinking Skills by Ruth Clark. Session 302 at 02.30pm: Mobile Learning Today and Tomorrow by Judy Brown. Session 408 at 04.00 pm: Storyboarding for e-Learning ... €� these ‘breakfast bytes' are free for all and it is meant to be an informal discussion/learning moment. If ...

... friendly. I also met chief learning officer of the Fort Hill Company and co-author of the paradigm-changing book Six Disciplines of breakthrough learning and Will from the Thalheimer association, they gave a pre-conference research ... -conference sessions, but I limited myself to taking a swim (enthusiastic: there is a heated, big, outdoor swimming pool, hooray ... new the most about technology and learning probably. Why? because he was just human, talking about casual things, he did ... still have to learn a lot). A couple of people I have met f-2-f in the past were there ( Silke Fleischer from ...

... requesting mobile capabilities for learning. How does the growing mobile environment fit into your learning landscape? Have you implemented a mobile learning project, or are you planning one? Or you just don't see the need? Wherever you are in this continuum, this session will update you on the state of the mobile environment, in relationship to learning and performance support. In this session, you will learn: Who is doing what in the mobile space (lots of examples ... some way is the definition of Judy Brown. Judy is painting the bigger picture: we are learning everywhere and on ...

... getting a bit tired so might be a bit limited). by jan cannon-bowers clint bowers peter smith alan levine game requirements how might we do this consult literature teams and team training learning science game based learning collect best practices organizational human what does research tell us shared knoledge /mental models interpositional knowledge cross training back up behavior closed loop communication !implicit coordination! looks at different cultures to go into gaming. ... suddenly realizing that Wendy Wickham is live blogging as well.... mmm, I ...

Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this and I'm hoping that folks will chime in. First let me start with a couple of predictions: Prediction 1 - Online only conferences will rapidly increase and will slow down in-person conferences Prediction 2 - Smaller, targeted, short-burst, rapidly planned conferences will emerge. Now, don't get me wrong, I still very much like to do in-person conferences. I ...

I hear Boston is beautiful in April. Better than that, the greatest collection of learning professionals will be at The eLearning Guild 2007 Annual Gathering . If you haven't heard, the Guild recently released an absolutely amazing report titled: Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS) The demand for, and demands of, simulations, scenarios, and serious games Don't forget the long list of other reports including Future Directions in eLearning and many, many more. The Guild is a community of practice putting incredible resources behind the members it serves.