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... about wikis until wikipedia came along. Nobody cared about RSS readers until information overload made them a necessity. I think the thing we have to be careful of is teaching the tools outside of the benefits.Clark Quinn - Learnlets: Lead the Charge? talks about how learning organizations must transition fromthe perspective from a training group being an expendable cost-center to a learning capability that's central to organizational effectiveness and performance ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsRevolution in Workplace Learning
... in Workplace Learning Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, social bookmarking, and RSS readers are revolutionizing formal and informal workplace learning. GCASTD is bringing nationally-known expert Dr. Tony Karrer to Greater Cincinnati to present a fun, engaging, fast-paced workshop that will allow you to use these "eLearning 2.0" methods and tools for yourself and your organization ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsWork Literacy Launch
... over time, but there are some very interesting people involved already.Some ways to Participate:Subscribe RSS Feed for the Work Literacy BlogRSS Feed for an aggregation of related content.You can subscribe by email using the entries in the sidebar to either of these feeds. Answer a poll on work skills opportunities. Point us to resources using the Del.icio.us tag: WorkLiteracy Comment Blog your thoughts. When you blog, include the term workliteracy or better yet a link to www ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, June 1, 2008 - CommentsTwitter Status
... my network with Twitter! Gregory Thompson @dswaters I use Twitter+YahooTubes+RSS Aggregator and it brings me wonderful content via links every day, a place for inspirational sparks barbs1 @dswaters love the community of sharing and support for our celebrations frustrations sorrows Huge impact on learning new stuffonlineteacher @dswaters Twitter is critical app 4 me b/c shared brilliance n human connections brighten everyone's world n I can share n do same (teach)Sunshinetalia @dswaters because i can stay current with what other educators/ elearning peeps are up too! I get great links to resources & readings 2 ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
11. eLearn: Case Studies - The Reluctant Online Professor 12. Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader 13. Managing the Complexity of Forming an Online Networking Community: 14. Innovate: Moving from Theory to Real-World Experiences in an e-Learning Community 15. Building community in an online learning environment: communication, cooperation and collaboration 16. Storyboards & eLearning (Pt ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsPWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning
Mohamed Amine Chatti (a fellow Eddie eLearning nominee) last two posts The LaaN Perspective, and Requirements of a PLE Framework are both interesting posts and worth reading.His requirements for a PLE Framework include:PersonalizationSocial featuresSocial filteringIncorporate various Web 2.0 concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.)Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platformAggregation/MashupsEase of useSeveral thoughts jumped out at me:The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - CommentsWiki Course Authoring
In my Ten Predictions for eLearning for 2008, I said -Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more common for easy authoring.Not sure if he saw my post, but I was just reminded by Tim Seager from Xerceo about their Prescribe tool that provides:Full Wiki, RSS functionality that is SCORM conformant for tracking and managing competencies.He also pointed me to a video that shows the tool in action. However, this video may be the worst video I've ever seen in terms of making me want to use something. It's horribly cryptic, you can't tell what's happening and it defeats the whole point that I see ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - Comments2007 Traffic Stats - Hopefully a Meme
I've seen a couple of posts (Matt Cutts, Dave Taylor) talking about their relative web statistics for 2007. While my stats are very low in comparison to theirs, I was hoping that I could entice fellow bloggers to post some stats about their traffic in 2007. I thought it might be interesting to share with each other and I'm guessing there will be a few surprises.Some thoughts / comments...You can get more detail on my Top eLearning Posts.You can see that Search Engines generate more than half the traffic. Referral traffic is generally from other blogs. Direct traffic is generally from RSS ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, January 14, 2008 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 5 25 Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash ... Summary 1,147 2 28 Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS 702 ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... to the network, which then allows us to connect to othersIf you have never used an RSS feeder, that is a MUST to keep learningwhen I went to the BrandonHall conference, I added everyone I met to my Facebook and I find I've stayed in touch with people more then I have in the past after a conferenceLong lost colleagues have 'found me' through Facebook but other than that, it seems 'fun' rather than 'serious'good use of wikis will cut your meeting times dramaticallyIf IT departments get in the way, bloggers will just go outside the enterprise!To be more specific on the IT is Evil comment, it's the security surrounding many of the Web 2 ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Presentation - ISPI Los Angeles
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eLearning Technology - Sunday, November 11, 2007 - CommentsIntroduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS
As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs?Social B ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - CommentsLearning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes)
... sign up with an RSS Reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader. Then subscribe to blogs. Two good lists of related blogs can be found at: http://www.articulate.com/blog/the-19-best-elearning-blogs/ http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/02/top-ten-elearning-blogs.html Then you will want to sign up on a blogging system such as Blogger, and begin to write blog posts. To help you get connected with other bloggers, it's good practice to link your posts to their posts and leave comments on their blog ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - CommentsFeed Filters
I had previously discussed the Aide RSS Filtering Tool -AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest.I really like the concept of using different clues about what posts are generating interest to help sort through large ... RSS feeds (like the 3,000 or so edublogs). Instead, AideRSS sends me a bunch of lower rated items along with the top ... soon. It would be fairly easy for them to provide a view of a set of RSS feeds sorted by "interestingness" based on ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, August 27, 2007 - CommentsAide RSS Filtering Tool
AideRSS looks at a variety of sources of information including comments, technorati, bloglines, icerocket and del.icio.us to determine what posts are generating the most interest. It provides a widget that allows you to show your top posts for month or year. You can see what it thinks are mine in the right column of the blog ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - CommentsChange Your RSS Feed?
A while ago, I created a feedburner feed for this blog so I could add lots of stuff to the feed - most importantly I publish a daily summary of my new del.icio.us links. It appears that most people still point to my Blogspot feed.I would suggest that readers of this blog might want to change over to the FeedBurner feed to get this added functionality: http://feeds ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - CommentsBetter Conferences - Response Needed
I'm pretty sure it's not just me... I believe we can build better conferences. And, I need you to help by doing one or more of the following:provide a response to the poll below (won't show in an RSS feed - sorry)provide suggestions for what you'd like to see in future conferences (add comment).If you don't vote, then we'll 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 fairly often and I'm sure they'd love to hear your frank opinions.If you've been a reader of my blog for a while, you may ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 18, 2007 - CommentsPLE - PWLE Discussion Contiunes - Corporate vs Personal and IP Rights
... do is keep a copy of all RSS feeds, social bookmarks, wiki pages, etc. under the control of the corporation. I would guess that this will start to happen as corporations deal with the proliferation of web services.The more likely scenario in the near-term is that corporations (and their learning departments) will provide tools to employees (a blogging tool for example) and will encourage their employees to use those tools (as opposed to using tools that the individual controls) ...
eLearning Technology - Sunday, June 10, 2007 - CommentsPersonal Learning Knowledge Work Environment
... used an RSS reader and wrote a blog. It's also different since I adopted the practice of taking notes only on my laptop and heavy use of desktop search instead of trying organize things as much.I'm not sure how to make sense of all of this yet, but I know things have changed and I'm not sure that discussing Personal Learning Environments separate from the rest of these changes is helping me.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - CommentsCorporate Training
Posts on topics related to Corporate Training:April Big Question - Content Vendor ValueHot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) AnalysisOpen Source Business Model for Corporate TrainingWill Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate Training?Blog Topics vs. Hot Topics in Training - The ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsFeedYes Now Spamming with Ads
Over a year ago I had set up two FeedYes feeds (see eLearning Technology: RSS Feeds from Static Magazines) for eLearn Magazine and LearningCircuits. Unfortunately, FeedYes has started sending lots of ads down the feed. The good news is that eLearn Magazine now has it's own feed at:http://www.elearnmag.org/elearn.xmlLearningCircuits doesn't and I've not yet looked for a replacement tool. Any suggestions on a good replacement for FeedYes to automatically send RSS feeds based on updates to the LearningCircuits home page?
eLearning Technology - Sunday, May 6, 2007 - CommentsUpdate to the 1% Rule
... upload video)Critics (comment on blogs, post ratings and reviews)Collectors (use RSS, tag web pages)Joiners (use social networking sites)Spectators (read blogs, watch videos, listen to podcasts)The percentages reported are much higher than the 1% rule, but they are looking at the question differently - across all possible sites for interaction - not looking at a single site.The categories are interesting to think about ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 30, 2007 - CommentsTop Ten Subliminal Searches
As I mentioned before more than half of the traffic to my blog comes from search engines. Of course, that doesn't count folks who read content in their RSS reader, but still its a significant number. What's sometimes fun to do is take a look at various search terms that people use to find my blog. This morning I had a really good chuckle because I saw that the search:top 10 reasons not to do your homeworkPut me in position number 2 on Google (at least on the servers in the US that I used). I'm sure glad my kids don't read my blog and to find out that somehow I support not doing ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, April 27, 2007 - CommentsJumping into my Blog Roll
I normally use a system for Managing RSS Feeds where I keep new blogs in the quarantine for a few months to see if they are going to pan out. However, I've already cited this blog in New Blog - and a Great Post Conference Practice and now another great post conference practice in the post:SME vs. Customer - With Me in the MiddleShowing how different sessions apply to particular projects within the organization.Good stuff!
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 26, 2007 - CommentsPersonal Learning Environments and personal learning environments
New in eLearning session (on blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, rss readers, etc.) my final point was that we each ... environment includes many aspects of my knowledge network, including my browser favourites, my RSS feeds, my ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 16, 2007 - CommentsCorporate eLearning
Corporate eLearningBlog posts related to Corporate eLearning:eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More in Corporate eLearningNew Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the EnterpriseOpen Source Business ModelKnowledge Management Core IssuesUse of iPods and other Mobile LearningIBM Taps Employees for Innovation Using Blog Like ToolsCorporate Learning Laggards?Why Wikis Are Conquering the EnterpriseWikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning WikiWill Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning?Search - Implications on Knowledge WorkCorporate ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - CommentsQuick Wins in Knowledge Management
Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Valuethe second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as:Managing your RSS Feeds PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ...I'm hopefully that as a community we'll all begin ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 2, 2007 - CommentsMore on Blogger Meta Tag Issue
A couple of comments came in on my post Important Notice to Blogger Blog Owners that made me realize I hadn't included a full description of what I ended up doing.As a reminder the problem is that Blogger had inserted:<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"$gtThis tells the Google spider not to index this page.To get rid of it, you can remove:However, this also removes a few other lines from your file that includes your autodiscovery of RSS feeds. So, what you really want to do is:Go to your blogView Source - OriginalSee if you have the NOINDEX, NOFOLLOWIf you do, then keep that ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, March 8, 2007 - CommentsTop Ten eLearning Blogs
... would highly recommend that you don't evaluate by only looking at these blogs periodically, rather - sign up for an RSS ... RSS Feeds And suggest that you do this on your own, over time. I'll continue to keep my blog roll updated in my ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - CommentsActivity in Last Six Months
... search engines rather than from RSS readers or from links on other blogs. One of the surprise sources of traffic was ... there are quite a few repeat visitors. I would have thought that most repeat visitors would come from an RSS reader and ...
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