Subscribe to FeedGood Questions Identify eLearning 2.0 Opportunities
I'm a big fan of questions (see Better Questions for Learning Professionals) and as I'm preparing a workshop (Revolution in Workplace Learning) one of the things I stumbled upon is what seems to be a great new question:Given that eLearning 2.0 (web 2.0, wikis, blogs, social networking, etc.) represents new ways of supporting learning and work ... as a learning professional, what are the new questions that I need to ask as part of analysis?There must be new questions that we need to ask in order to figure out if and how eLearning 2.0 approaches apply to given performance improvement ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 3, 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 - CommentsBlogging Advice - It's Good for You
Just saw this article - Blogging -- It's Good for You. I've added that link to one of the most bookmarked pages on this site: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to BlogThanks to Donald Clark for pointing to this.Reminder that Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Are we sure we don't want Mandatory Blogging?
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 22, 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 ... my network with Twitter! Gregory Thompson @dswaters I use Twitter+YahooTubes+RSS Aggregator and it brings me ... quickly. Not sure how I'll think about using LinkedIn Questions vs. Twitter, but it's still good stuff.So, I broke down ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 8, 2008 - Comments100 eLearning Articles and White Papers
Instructional design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 43. Podcast on Social Networking in Project-Based Learning ... 13. Managing the Complexity of Forming an Online Networking Community: 14. Innovate: Moving from Theory to Real ... campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17. We Learning, Part II Second part of an interesting article - We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II. 18. E-Performance Essentials: ELearning and Social Software An interesting article - Early ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, April 28, 2008 - CommentsSocial Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results
Consider a social network for your conference. Although I remain skeptical about social networks, social networking is ... Hitchhikr.)Generate a tag cloud that represents the conversation that is the conference.If you have a social network or are ... problem - lack of skills and experience. I've questioned before Conference Networking Tools - Do They Work?and the answer ... . It's not going to help me connect with people. I feel I'm relatively adept at networking via online tools, and have talked about how I use tools ahead of events Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking it's still ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - CommentseLearning Design and Development Training Course
Someone on LinkedIn asked: Can anyone recommend a really good e-learning design/development training course?This is for a colleague who is new to instructional design & development so something that covers the basics at an introductory level would be best. Thanks!The responses pointed me to a couple of resources I hadn't seen before:MyUdutuA simple course that describes some basic principles of online training course design, and will serve as a template for a simple course if you copy it and substitute your own content.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 17, 2008 - CommentsBlogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life
Just saw this report - Blogging Boosts Your Social Life - a rather limited study, but interesting reporting:Bloggers reported a greater sense of belonging to a group of like-minded people and feeling more confident they could rely on others for help. All respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking.I can honestly say that the bloggers and social networkers I know who make a real effort with identify with these statements.Time to go back and update - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsWeb 2.0 Applications in Learning
... places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools ... organizations are adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - social networking at IBM26,000 registered blogs.20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users.No anonymous users.DogEar ⬠Social BookmarkingBluePages ... ¬¢ Connectbeam ⬢ IBM Lotus Connections - Dogear ⬢ Scuttle ⬠Open Source Social Network Systems ⬢ Awareness ... ¬¢ Lithium ⬢ Microsoft SharePoint ⬢ Ning ⬢ Ramius CommunityZero ⬢ Select Minds ⬢ Sparta Social Networks ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 3, 2008 - CommentsPWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning
... some actual system. There will be Social Network Operating Systems that will allow us to pull together our highly personal environment. But, too much structure is not going to work.I mentioned quite a while ago (in Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments) that:Knowledge work is not separate from learning.Yes, there are times that Knowledge Workers will step away from day-to-day activities to go do developmental learning activities that may not be directly related to their day-to-day knowledge work ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - CommentsSocial Network Operating System
... the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or address book ... face right now that I described in Social Networking Entrepreneurial Opportunities on my SoCal CTO Blog.Certainly, what ... statement that:The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is that they will base the organization of the network around people, rather than around content.First, I don't necessarily consider the social operating system to be "next generation social networking" ⬠rather it's a layer that allows us to have ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, February 4, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
... weren't focused. We need a targeted discussion. For example, I just had someone ask about using Facebook in a corporate context as part of on-boarding. I'll likely schedule a call with this person to discuss what they are trying to do. Why not have several people involved in the discussion? Why not record it? Is the barrier the lack of free access to the tools? The overhead of pulling it together? My guess is that it doesn't take much more to get it to happen with a small group than getting it to happen with two or three people ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
Communities / Social Networking and LMS Mergerannouncement around Mzinga. There's also more community platforms and other ... diminished. Instead, I now need to get smart on things like community, networks, personal knowledge management and other ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Enterprise Application
If you've not seen this, there's a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something I've been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network.WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with existing enterprise ... authorized colleagues, update on status change and get general company news. Employees can freely use Facebook, with ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 20, 2007 - CommentsConference Session Breakout
Update: 12/19/2007. There has been great discussion in the comments. I wanted to provide a bit more context for this.The session will be workforce learning professionals (an ASTD audience). They will range greatly in terms of the kinds of organizations, their experience.I'm trying to get them to think about the question "How might you use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Collaboration Tools in your organization?"I have a list of about 30 ideas, but I think it's useful to think about your organization, your specific context and come up with ideas for where these ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentsBlogs as a Basis for Social Networks
... implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it: "to build a social network with its skin ... starting within the walls of Facebook).Of course, this is early, but the general trend of seeing distributed, open social ... well with my experience of Learning and Networking with a Blog. It appears to be heading in a good direction where you can have a distributed understanding of the social graph. While that sounds somewhat like OpenSocial, I'm still not sure that I believe that OpenSocial gets me what I really want/need - interacting with the social graph across ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - CommentsCommunities / Social Networking and LMS Merger
... tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company.From what I can gather from ... certification.This merger points to another direction - combination of LMS capability + community / social networking. I'm ... repository...He also pointed me to a Gartner quote:Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 6, 2007 - Commentsitalki - Social Network for Language Learning
... italki is an interesting website in the language learning space - which seems to be very busy these days. They provide the ability to connect with other learners who are trying to learn a language. People find each other using the site and then connect via chat, IM, voice/Skype, etc.There are other resources, but the use of a social network to find people who can help each other learn the language is a great idea.Not sure if it can work in practice given the many other barriers that will come up.I'd be curious what people think about this as a learning mechanism.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, December 6, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
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 ... tools. Getting Value from LinkedIn, Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong!, Spending or Wasting Time on Web 2.0 Tools?,But the good news is that it appears that more and more people are getting it (More eLearning Bloggers, Facebook ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsGetting Value from LinkedIn
... productivity, not increased it. ...He misses the value proposition of Blogging as a Learning and Networking tool.Now Davenport is at it again with a post (on his blog no less - I guess he doesn't want to be productive himself) - LinkedIn Is Not a Social Network. In this post, he says:I've been on LinkedIn for several years. I never initiate a "connection," but I ... something like "social networking" to find some expertise on the topic as he's thinking about the possible value ... state that I don't think I'm alone in this feeling. At a conference a while back on social network issues, a ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, November 30, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Alfresco Platform
Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook -Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users.This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects. However, the open aspect of OpenSocial likely will win out in the long run. Especially with some of the pain of developing Facebook apps.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 29, 2007 - CommentsTop eLearning Posts
Defined 57 9 9 Facebook Platform 51 2 5 Risk of Identity Theft Due to Social Networking and ... Innovations 814 8 5 Facebook as a Learning Platform 754 3 40 Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, 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 5 ... 972 1 6 Risk of Identity Theft Due to Social Networking and Blogging 46 4 6 Time Spent ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, November 26, 2007 - CommentseLearning 2.0 Random Thoughts based on Chat
... during the presentation. My wife thinks that's "hilarious."Social Bookmarking and Wikis and Blogs are a form of social networking I never said this, but several people pointed it out in the chat. Very good point. I should absolutely make sure I mention it explicitly. I certainly talk about a big part of the value of blogs being building a network. The same thing can be true with social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc. Any shared content leads to meeting people interested ... hard to do right now. Co.comment works okay for across blogs. Using social bookmarking or meme tracking works okay.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 15, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Fridays
... have a CEO say things like:"Social networking tools like Facebook can bring us back together, help us get to know each ... embrace social networking are making a huge mistake." ... A mistitled article - found via Bill Ives on the FastForward blog - Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet.The real focus of the article is how Serena Software has adopted a practice called Facebook Fridays:Each Friday, employees are granted one hour of personal time to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - CommentsNew Hire Onboarding Blog or Social Network
Just wanted to through an idea at everyone that came up during several discussions today at DevLearn ...How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company?orIf they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches?Is this already being done all the time? If not, why not? This seems painfully obvious.
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - CommentsOpenSocial Platform
... connections that exist across the network of different applications (e.g., del.icio.us, flickr, MyBlogLog, Facebook, LinkedIn ... extensions of existing sites/software solutions that will leverage social aspects. The questions are:Do you leverage Facebook ... Well, we finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated response to the fact that Facebook Platform and Facebook as a Learning Platform. The real beauty of Google's approach is in the word "open." With Facebook you are somewhat forced to make a hard choice about rewiring your application to live seamlessly within the Facebook environment ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - CommentsT+D Webcast - Social Networking and Learning
... associated links:Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article)Today's PowerPoint PresentationASTD homepageWebcast ArchivesT+D magazine websiteLearning Circuits BlogYou might also want to look at my eLearning 2.0 Presentation post.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - CommentsFacebook Platform
Something like the social network operating system, maybe. These are nicely captured by this article as Tony Karrer pulls ... feel like Facebook is a bit creaky and as Thomas Vanderwal's recent post Facebook for Business or LinkedIn Gets More ... this stuff out. Luis Suarez - How to Boost Your Social Capital with Facebook mentions MyBlogLog. Great example, Luis ... same issue that's been discussed before in terms of currently having Too Many Social Networks?and Multiple Social Networks ... Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented:To be clear, I do not think ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - CommentsFacebook as a Learning Platform
... is Facebook?Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. At the core ... within your social network.What I've found interesting is that I now commonly use LinkedIn to find interesting people, but ... any social networking software is overcoming the hurdle of getting users to start using yet another social networking platform. This is something that I've lamented before (see Too Many Social Networks?and Multiple Social Networks).I was ... social networking rolled out in the organization and had limited adoption. Then they realized that about half of ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 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 BookmarkingSocial ...
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