... look at RSS today and ask if RSS is evolving into a tool for delivering complex, semantically rich information." Read the entire post if you want a brief primer into the background of why RSS is important to Learning professionals ... One of my 3 sessions at the upcoming eLearning Guild Conference in Boston is about RSS and eLearning . So, it was wonderful luck to find a great post from Alex Iskold on the Read/Write Web blog called The Future of RSS . "In short, because of RSS ubiquity it is now a very attractive delivery medium for all kinds of content. However because the ...

I've often talk about the similarities between learning and marketing. I have a handful of marketing related RSS feeds that browse periodically. One of them is RSS Marketing . The author Roy Hrastnik finally took the dive into Secondlife in search of marketing goodness in the virtual world. His posts are great lists of the corporate activities going in Secondlife: Second Life 1: Does Second Life Hold "Real" Marketing Value? Second Life 2: How Can Marketers Take Advantage?

... ton of potential related to RSS in terms of learning and I don’t think many people are harnessing it well (yet ... successful? Please chime in! Also see: Blogs in Plain English RSS in Plain English Directory of Learning Tools: Blogging Tools Directory of Learning Tools: RSS Feed Tools ... Many of us techies have been using RSS for years, and you may even run your own blog. This stuff is pretty much ... relevant information while on the job? RSS provides an excellent framework for distributing information to groups ...

502 | An Introduction to Blogs, Wikis, and RSS - New Technologies for e-Learning Brent Schlenker ... kicked off today: An Introduction to e-Learning: The A to Z for Getting Started Concurrent Session Block 4 Friday, September 21 â€" 8:30a to 9:45a 401 | E-Learning Metrics that Work Bob Dust , Gyrus Systems 402 | Getting Started with e-Learning Standards and SCORM Thomas Winterstein , HunterStone, Inc ... Keys to Successfully Implement e-Learning: Engaged Learners, Motivated Managers, Energized Organizations Lance ...

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic ... gone and you often hear - "Why didn't we get rid of them a while ago." The same is true of RSS feeds. I've ...

Learning 2.0 initiatives don’t get the traction we would expect, both at our organization and at other organizations. Several of us learning tech geeks see such great opportunities with learning 2.0, but it sometimes feels like others just don’t get it . We have fantastic tools at our disposal, like blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, RSS, etc ... take place. Instead of waiting for top-down direction, employees are installing learning 2.0 tools/technologies and experimenting with them on their own. Peggy Gartin , a friend and colleague, came up with a great simile: Learning 2.0 ...

I just read this post from Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion . xFruits looks tasty. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Now with one publishing location you can turn that RSS feed into any format for any device for any purpose. At least that's what I want to do. Now I need to sign up and see if it works. Anyone else see the learning distribution potential here?

... username to the tags.  My RSS feeds now pick up anything tagged with my username. Below is a snippet of my post ... learn and share information more easily this way.  Natually, much of my offline communication has already gone ...

... to me.  RSS has the potential to become the next learning pipeline, and OPML is just a piece of that. I will definitely be working this into my RSS presentation (session 411) at DevLearn2006 .

Wow!  Can anyone guess what I'm going to say about this bombshell ?  Yea! That's right!  Learning!  Amazing opportunity to be completely connected to, and pulling, content that you are interested in as it is evolving over time.  There are still plenty of folks that just don't participate in the Web2.0 world and all I can say is that you are missing out.  If we are to be the life-long learners we want to be, then you can't possibly have a better way of doing it than with RSS connections to the world.  If you have a better solution, I'd love to hear it.

I will be giving a session during next month's Online Forum: Implementing e-Learning 2.0 Technologies . My session is titled RSS: The New Learning Pipeline . Clear your calendar for the 18th and 19th of September. Its going to be fun!!! I believe RSS technology is the most misunderstood of all the technologies in a Web2.0 world. While many may never need to know what it is, as an e-Learning designer/developer/manager it is critical that you understand how it works ... on it instead of mixing it into a larger e-Learning 2.0 conversation. For 1 hour we can figure it all out and you ...

I saw this over the weekend but can't remember where it was. This morning my reader had a post from Beth's Blog with the videos. Don't forget to bookmark, print, email, highlight, frame, make a book, or bronze the outstanding RSS post by Michael Pick as well. Beth points to this one in her post as well. It's probably old news but I often need reminders about great content that is out there. So, I hope you'll figure out a way to use Micheal's RSS post to help drive your RSS solutions in your learning environment. Powered by ScribeFire .

I saw another post from Dave Boggs, Has The Blogging Trend Begun To Fade, Even Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately lumps together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and ... in favor of Wikis. Mashups we basically already use but in a different form. A reference hybrid embeds learning ...

From ZDNet is the article RSS: The new intranet protocol? RSS is the LMS killer! Why? Because it looks like LMS providers have been wanting to become all things to all people by trying to add KM, eLearning, ILT management, learning2.0, etc. all into one package. It's not necessary when IT departments are deploying the informal learning tools behind the firewall. An LMS should simply track usage stats for the small amount of remaining courses and then somehow try to get a data collection point around the informal learning that is occuring. I don't know that answer to that one but ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology ... Before It Ever Got Started In Corporate Training / e-Learning Environments? In this post, Dave unfortunately ...

From his posting , Stephen Downes sounds like he didn't really enjoy giving his talk on personal learning environments here in Boston yesterday, what with all that having to connect with "corporate e-learning industry types". I can ... -based learning and there's a great deal of good thinking and practice that has arisen from a more educational context ... with what a personalised learning environment might be over and above what I already have now. Donald Clark makes the ... personal learning? Perhaps Stephen was suggesting something much more, but I didn't quite understand what it was.

Join us for the Social Learning SIG ’s October Webinar Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century ... to podcasts on their Ipods, and every day we hear about blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and the like. We know the online world is changing. We know that an interactive web will have profound implications for us as learning professionals - but what ... technologies are changing the face of the web, and how learning organizations are leveraging these technologies to better serve their customers. Host: Cascadia Chapter of ASTD Presenter: Bill Bruck of Q2 Learning When: Friday ...

So Monitter looks pretty slick. You enter three keywords and then Monitter tracks those words in twitter and pushes the results into three columns. Each column has its own RSS feed ( e-Learning , Oehlert , eLearning ) and you can restrict the search by distance if you want. Nicely done....I could see this and/or its accompanying widget being a sort of dashboard for tracking twitter feeds relevant to or from within your organization. Could we get Monitter for Yammer?

Thanks to a tweet from Tony Karrer , I came across a fascinating blog post by Teemu Arina on information overload.  It’s was certainly a learning journey . I have been consciously battling information overload by trying to reduce my blog subscriptions and staying away from too many social networking tools.  I practically restrained myself ... arrive at an interesting conclusion regarding Subliminal pattern recognition and RSS readers .  It is a worthy read.  It has me rethinking my information management strategy…    Tagged: learning, overload, ...

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 neighborhood in order to enable you to keep track of what is happening. Really, it's just an extension of RSS feeds, ...

Donald Clark left the following comment on my posting about personal learning environments: "The term PLE is, in itself, suspect. Personalised - OK but stating the obvious. Learning - well no, it's more about a two-way, working window - learning is at best a small part of it, a by product, not it's sole purpose. Environment - the PLE isn't the ... window onto the web, for all sorts of interesting purposes, only one of which is learning. I really can't conceive of anyone wanting a tool like this just for learning, except perhaps a full-time student, and even then it seems ...

Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, and RSS .

Over the past two months I've been working extensively with the open source virtual learning environment (VLE) Moodle . I've been using it in three ways: To provide support for a predominantly classroom-based course (pre and post course activities, forums, wiki, etc.). To support a predominantly online course in the usual way. To build an online ... Moodle extremely easy to learn (in spite of pretty awful online help) and I have been able to create what I want in ... following: Forums Real-time chat Delivery and tracking of SCORM-compliant materials RSS news feeds Wikis ...

At the eLearning Network showcase event in July, I attended an interesting presentation on the use of learning communities made by Carole Bower of Futuremedia . Two aspects of the 'Performance Zone' site that Futuremedia created for private health care provider BUPA particularly caught my attention: LMS widgets : The site provides each user with a personalised home page that can be customised with all sorts of widgets, including RSS feeds, etc. These widgets draw heavily from the learning management system, but do not require the user to log into the LMS. The widgets allow ...

I've been catching up on my Google Reader and noticed the conversation about Personal Learning Environments. I'm sure I'm misunderstanding the conversation - but it seems to me that a Personal Learning Environment should encompass more than just the blogs, wikis, rss feeds, and other tools we use to gather and process information. Clive Shepherd notes that his personal learning environment also includes people and alternate media. I know it would be neater if ... strategic locations... I learned more about Gettysburg through that field trip than I ever did in a book, movie, ...

... their use in learning will be severely limited. Feeding your Inner Power Learner! Learning to Leverage RSS I ended the ... Career in Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Ray E. Jiménez, Ph.D. started by saying as of today, the LMS is obsolete. He also gave us several new job titles like Collaborative Learning Anthropologist. His point was that ... and tools become obsolete, but people are always going to be social animals. Learning 2.0: Harnessing the Potential of Contextual Informal Learning I attended this session because informal learning is the most obvious buzzword ...

... ll store your media and automatically generate the “RSS feed” that enables listeners to “tune ...

Here is a whitepaper I wrote about informal learning. It explains some thoughts I have about informal learning as it relates to wikis, blogs, IM and RSS. You can read it here . __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

If you want to stay up to date without going through the hassle of searching multiple web sites, blogging, networking, reading journals/magazines/books, taking classes, attending conferences...basically everything you should be doing, then here is a great web site. eLearning Learning is "a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning." It's particularly great for people who don't have an RSS reader.