I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material ... - Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? In it, he points out that a stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0 adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal 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), ...

... the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this and I'm hoping ... 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 believe ... Aggregator or other things to make this a bit better. But really, when you think about what you do at an in-person ... in-person conferences. Threaded discussions are more effective and normally you don't have these in-person. You do ...

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 ...

Personal InfoCloud « A Stale State of Tagging? | Main | Can Facebook Change Its DNA ... least that person recognized the value of social software, the next step is sorting out that most things inside the ... Solutions . October 17, 2007 in Applications , Community , Enterprise , Folksonomy , Local InfoCloud , Personal InfoCloud , Privacy , Social Software , Usability | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry ... Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal ...

The Social impact of Personal Learning Environments This may not be ... Personal Learning Environments 1. Personal Learning Environments â?? cause and effect Although the Personal ... Harmelen describes Personal Learning Environments as â??systems that help learners take control of and manage their own ... personally-managed space. The â??pedagogyâ?? behind the PLE â?? if it could be still called that â?? is that it offers a ... intertwined with judgement and exploration.â?? This paper examines the social impact of Personal Learning Environments. In ...

First Things First: Local ASTD Groups On LinkedIn - Do It! If you're a manager or marketing/sales professional ... 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 longest ... I can get a read on how many of our local chapter members contribute to any online discussion forum . Today, ...

... undergraduate degree from an in-person program first and foremost. For graduate programs, I probably have less of a bias and I would value an online graduate degree from a bigger name higher than an in-person from a local, lesser name program. That said, I still would value the in-person higher than the online for the same university. Given my passion around ... am very curious what other people think about this. I personally hire mostly folks with undergraduate degrees ...

... yourself as personal development tools.  Its up to YOU to investigate changing your daily habits and workflow.  How ... headlines of your local newspaper as a matter of habit each morning because you enjoy being informed and can handle idle ... content from your local paper but you can scan other sources of information related to your interests.  It seems like every media outlet from the smallest local rag to the largest cable channel has a feed you can subscribe too. So, ...

I had seen these physics lectures before, but I was reminded via Stephen Downes and the NY Times article about professor Lewin's lectures and was telling someone about them just the other day. Thought I should definitely point you to them. I personally am compelled by watching something like Planet Earth. Professor Lewin has managed to create something akin to that experience on a topic that can be made extremely boring by most professors. You can find his lectures ... physics at their local university at all.

Some of you know that I'm reliving my past via my middle son's backpacking trip through Europe. If you have any interest in bicycle racing you may enjoy Carl's Tour de France posting. He even has a very neat video which he personally took. My own travels through Paris via Eurail 32 years ago were not quite so exciting, but did include: Being all excited that I could serve as the "French speaking" guide for my fellow Dartmouth buddies, and upon having a long conversation in French with a "local" in order to get dinner recommendations ... discovering ultimately he was Harvard ...

... but with e-learning functionality built The commoditization of knowledge - David Weinberger The person looking up an acronym was looking up a fact, but the person skimming the Wikipedia article on the 1996 Telecommunications Act ... is passed from person to person and is either adopted for its usefulness or other purpose -- in some cases becoming a ... for a unique 3 hour company wide training effort. The following day, Elliott Masie visited the local Starbucks ...

... stem from my control-freak personality and my "stagehand past". ------------------------------------------------------------ Greg is an old high school buddy of mine and the person responsible for introducing me to the small local ... local crew so our questions reflect that bias): - What time is the truck(s) coming? What time is sound check? What ... ) - Who's here from the local crew? (Personnel resources and available skill set. If you've been around for a couple of ... . Stagehands are pretty honest about answering that question, whether they are on the road crew or the locals. They ...

Am (professional-amateur) content models will emerge. 4. Personalization Implications: Users' expectations for control over their media will increase. Abuse of personalized advertising will create a backlash. Some will ... audiences. 7. Increasing bandwidth Implications: Video on demand anywhere, anytime. Personal clouds will allow music and video collections to be accessed anywhere without local storage. The rationale for allocated ...

34; ( Wikipedia link ), you need to get with it! Earlier today I personally presented on Social Search in the ... is the phenomenal interaction among attendees. Attend a barcamp in your local area. In fact ... information can just flow in to a person. While creating this post Adam Des Autels stopped by to chat. He had attended my session ...

... little bit of stress you perform better, but varies greatly by person. Ways to improve Objective to Aligned Objective - Do ... leave enough space, not to hard to internationalize - Watch the humor - may not translate. - Resistance because ...

Tomorrow on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 I will making my first ever television appearance. I will be appearing on local CBS television station WYOU and speaking about...you guessed it..."Gadgets, Games and Gizmos." The live segment will appear at 11:00 EST.The idea of the show is to encourage interaction between the person "making the news" and the viewers so you are encouraged and welcome to call in. Actually, for this segment of WYOU Interactive , I will be talking about the "Positive Value of Video Games"...just in time for the holidays. During the piece, anchor, Eric Scheiner, ...

... started my blog in February 2006. I started using del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved ... wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution. I lost ... find out how people are using Web 2.0 tools inside organizations. Adoption is going to be personal/consumer first ... problem trying to handle this: More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments. Signs of the times: End of an Era - Authorware Dies , InfoWorld Folds Print Magazine When you name your kids, consider personal search - Personal ...

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Tony Karrer has tagged me to continue the chain and inform you of five things you may not know about me. so here goes: I am a twin, although non-identical. My twin lives near Paris and is a sort of new age personal development guru - see Tools for Transformation . A bit wierd for me. When I was 19, I recorded a rock album with a band called Five Day Rain. At the time this was not released, but earlier this year I found out that something like 100,000 pirated copies of ... ticket holders for Brighton and Hove Albion, the local professional football (soccer) team. Following the 'Seagulls' ...

... helping local, national and   international non-profit organisations make better use of information and   ... Web viewers to send text messages back to the person capturing the video. Then there is Ushahidi - set up during the ... exteremely personal and getting at the truth of how people regard and use them could help us better target learning ...

... meeting. (Guys, I'm tellin' ya, if you're in ASTD and don't take advantage of your local/monthly ... opportunities to help train members of my local chapter about the ins/outs of social networks. To hear one of my ... divide and conquer.) Along those lines, I'm also considering hosting a workshop early in the new year for my local ... got me thinking: Is that what I'm doing? I'm incurring personal cost and effort to create things to give to my ... from our personal network? All this so I can be respected and accepted by my peers? Gosh, how pathetic is that? Or, ...

I was with the head of e-learning of a multinational enterprise a few weeks ago and he was describing how he intended to develop a series of e-learning programmes to implement a core curriculum across Europe. First of all this person did not like Word-based scripts or storyboards - he wanted each programme to start life as a PowerPoint that approximated the ... programmes in a further five languages and that he wanted local offices to carry out this localisation themselves ... replacing. Testing : Don't assume you've got it right - test it locally. Not everybody can afford an online ...

... and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited now. I had a real "aha experience ... about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I ... base seems diminished. Instead, I now need to get smart on things like community, networks, personal knowledge ... financial services). These are the most powerful and best solutions that I can personally be involved in. Yet the projects ... be harder and harder to find any software getting installed locally We will start to see Wikis and tools ...

... campaign to change hearts and minds at my local Orange County ASTD chapter . My hope is to extend our local ASTD membership ... Local ASTD Chapter .") Yesterday, I issued an open challenge in the ASTD-OC forum on LinkedIn (note: free group membership may be required to read it) that I hope will get some of my local colleagues to branch out beyond their virtual ... 's local chapter in Orange County, CA. If you're not a member of ASTD, don't worry. Welcome! Please read on ... where the main action is and waiting for something to happen. You should follow at least one person or ...

... help me clarify my personal vision of what I want to accomplish over the next 5-10+ years. The aspect of professional ... opportunity to focus and talk. Fantastic for introducing new material, implementing new processes, the personal touch of change ... becoming a valuable resource. I personally have 2 projects where I am trying to implement this model. - A classroom ... upgrade project - larger classes will be created and team-taught with the local experts / managers. The managers can ... the Captivate project, I am looking at cohorts. For the upgrade project, I am going to be working with the local ...

... three-person lunch meetup to the 100-person local user group can give you the most positive effect of being at an event ... This post was spurred by Tony Karrer’s comparison of Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences . Obviously, there are pros and cons to both types of events.  However, in my opinion, online events are heavy in pros, and F2F ... home and work. Personally, I’m more inspired by my familiar surroundings and the less hectic schedule of an ... 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, ...

... a close third on both bulletins. In a desperate attempt to redress my initial personal issue with Internet news, I ... the billboards of the world post local corruption issues and political rhetoric. Such as it is, it looks as if ...

I didn't get much of a chance to reflect after Clark Quinn's session. Found a bunch of troublemakers (you know who you are) and stayed out (much) later than I intended. Made getting up 4 hours later to catch a Red Eye back to DC painful. What happens at DevLearn....... BEFORE the trouble started, I meandered around DemoFest. My personal favorite was a collection of training courses for factory workers produced by Oxygen Education. A few things that impressed me about ... education, family and not only does not have the TIME for going to the local community college god knows how many ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... past and seem to have lost out to emergent knowledge capture solutions. In-person tutoring/mentoring shows a drop in ... would see a drop in education both for in-person and online tutoring and mentoring. That seems like a really bad trend ... both online and in-person tutoring / mentoring dropping in Education? And why is Government trending up in both and ... , In-person mentoring/tutoring, Online References, Online Assessments and Testing, KMS, Learning Content ...

I liked on top) (this is a very new media focussed person, really into it - contact him for collaboration ... communication needs: institutional framework, Emphasizes need for African local actors in this field. Major topics to tackle ... through local actors (point of presence in villages), large pilot projects localised on up to 3 countries could be possible ... put the money in to get them alive. Awareness on local level will improve and breach barriers for users. It is ...