This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and ... the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ASTD ... someone who might be able to answer the question. Then you had to call that person, reference the discussion with your friend and launch into an explanation of the question you wanted to have answered. That person would, possibly, answer your question for free, offer to help for a fee, or refer you to another person. If they referred you to another person, ...

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? What would your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to ...

This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have strong opinions on the topic due to the fact that I've written about it many times and I spend all day with digital natives at Bloomsburg University. I'm having trouble deciding if I should rant on this topic or try to build a rational ... 1994 was born the same year that Newsweek Magazine named the Internet "Person of the Year." This means such a person ...

... burden of knowing from the person to the object or process. Just like fast food establishments with cash registers ...

Lance Dublin mentioned a couple of handouts today from sessions I was not able to attend. It took me a little while to find this link to the ASTD 2008 Session Handouts. My session (yesterday) can be found: M313 - E-Learning 2.0 for Personal and Group Learning (PDF).

ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 is coming to Las Vegas in January. I'm doing two sessions including a keynote / general session - descriptions below. If you are planning to go to the conference and read this, please drop me a comment because Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters . Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional ... Learning 2.0 - a shift in the way that knowledge workers work and learn. Personal, collaborative, and informal learning ... these Learning 2.0 tools and their implications on personal and formal learning. We will look at adoption trends ...

I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009. I have never attended either. I have been designing and developing elearning for about a year. Any suggestions? This person works in health care in ...

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 San Antonio is over. After having had a little time to think and reflect, here’s my ... better, the frequent meals provided by ASTD were a nice bonus, and the sessions seemed better organized and of higher ... . Well done, ASTD. The sessions were, as they always are at events like these, hit or miss, but I generally enjoyed ... personal rant. You’d think as adult professionals we’d have moved beyond the “sit on the back row like ... us to teach ourselves? Note (plea) to ASTD: if presenters plan to include significant group breakout activities ...

I'm at the opening session at ASTD TechKnowledge ( http://tk07.astd.org ). I'll soon be doing a session on Blogging and Social Bookmarking for Personal and Group Learning. Tony Bingham, President of ASTD, is doing his introduction, and his content is: Web 2.0, personal learning, easy distribution of software (software as a service), video is here now, push to pull, teaching Gen Y (what he calls the netGeneration). What a great setup for my presentation. Thanks Tony. And, it's somewhat surprising to see a relatively slow moving organization, ASTD, driving this discussion. One thing ...

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 is coming soon in San Antonio. Now that it's less than a month away, I thought I'd sit down and try to do some conference planning. To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics... In looking back, I first found a lot of posts that really suggested the key was having a good set of questions to provide a ... make contact. It somewhat presupposes you have a purpose. It also supposes you can get into and use ASTD CONNECT for ... person), very early (7AM) sessions that were a moderated group discussion on a particular topic. For some ...

I'm on the flight back from ASTD TechKnowledge and thought I should try to capture some initial thoughts from the conference and sessions while it was still fresh and before life clouds my memory... I did two sessions and face time at the conference. I also had some really good lunch conversations. I found that one-on-one and small group is a ... bloggers - likely on personal topics - one was politics. Only 2 people said they read my blog. Yikes ... That was a big challenge. I'm going to do a similar presentation in June at ASTD ICE in San Diego .

I'm trying Slideshare for the first time. I've embedded the presentation from last week that I mentioned before . SlideShare Link A few posts that go along with the content: Delicious Upgrade Have Work and Learning Changed or the Way We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) What is eLearning 2.0? eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & ...

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 ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Here is my presentation on eLearning that was presented at the Orange County ASTD. Im trying ... Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Shift in ... willing to make those available, as well? Best regards, Mel ASTD-OC Technology SIG Member ...

... 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 will be at ASTD TechKnowledge in a couple of weeks in Las Vegas. If you will be attending (and are reading this blog entry), then a couple of things: It would be interesting to me and likely to other readers of this blog to see who is attending who also reads this blog (and presumably others). Please drop a comment if you are going . On the 31st or 1st we will be having a dinner with some interesting folks to ramble on about topics that are discussed in this blog. If you are interested in going, include that in your comment. My sessions are on "Personal and Collaborative ...

First - want to thank Jay Cross for taking pictures at various ASTD events. He took a picture of me while I was presenting one of my sessions without me knowing (on the left). What you probably didn't know is that I'm a giant and that the room was too short. At ASTD TechKnowledge , I did three sessions around Blogging and Social Bookmarking. One ... personal and group learning. My hope would be that the following might occur: Some attendees will try out reading/writing blogs, using an RSS reader (like bloglines), and/or use social bookmarking tools to support their personal ...

I left a comment on Tony Karrer's blog about creating a "Design Day" so that everyone in the blogosphere adds a comment about the importance of instructional design as opposed to focusing on technology. And then Dennis Coxe over at Sailing by Sound picked up on my comment and posted an entry called "I Declare 'Design Day'" . It is a great entry outlining 3 elements of good design. Around the same time, the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog had the July "Big Question ... the person's lips...do you really need video or would audio work just as well. Let's move the argument from ...

... this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting instruction on how to build in the world of ...

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 question, "why not?"  But all this preamble isn't the main thing. Another ASTD Forum Is Formed. In my area (Orange County, California), our local ASTD Chapter didn't have a presence on LinkedIn for the ...

Administrivia The Chapter's President Elect shared some initiatives I'm personally looking forward to for next year. Here's a great opportunity for local ASTD Chapter members: The board's looking to conduct many affordable workshops next year. To pull this off, the chapter will naturally be looking for membership support to host meeting venues and speakers to host workshops next year. The upside: there will be plenty of opportunities to gain visibility next year if you're willing to share a bit of yourself and your expertise. Authors and writer's ...

Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Build Tiny Prims in Second Life . I view this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting instruction ... Blogs ASTDs Learning Circuits Blog Barts Virtual Learning Worlds Blog Ben Hamiltons Learning Design ...

... personal bias, shortcoming, style, or whatever you want to call it that has a big impact on how I decide to spend my time ... through my presentation on What's Next in eLearning for ASTD Los Angeles even though you likely would need to have Interwise to be able to go through it. Now don't get me wrong, I do like in-person exchanges on particular topics so that through Q&A you can find out what you want. Of course, I tend to be a person who is happy asking questions so that I drill ... to people reading my blog? Do others share my bias about PPT + Audio value vs. written word? Should I personally ...

Yesterday, at my presentation Introduction to eLearning 2.0 - ASTD OC , I mentioned that Yahoo MyWeb had a few features that del.icio.us was sorely missing. And that had made me previously conclude: Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal / Group Learning However, I told everyone that del.icio.us had been acquired by Yahoo and it was likely that slowly these features would get integrated. And today, I just saw - Delicious Preview - Next Gen Search For Yahoo? and Delicious 2.0. It looks like search across content of bookmarked pages has been ...

... that, for I left my Latin studies behind long ago. If you work for a business, be a business person. T+D (formerly called Training & Development) is the magazine of ASTD (formerly known as the American Society for Training & ... like a business person, why not become one? "Earning a seat at the table" is not enough; you need to be invited back ... looks like a business person, walks like a business person, and talks like a business person, why shouldn't she join a business community of practice and become a business person? Am I being too subtle? You are paid to help create ...

... virtual conversations, it still isn't quite the same thing as being there. As an aside, I personally question that view. In the long run - 25 years - we will all be walking around with devices that attempt to make in-person as good as ... - add 3D - presence based audio - first person shooters). And because you are online, you will have access to all ... electronic-only contact. In Las Vegas (at ASTD TechKnowledge), I met up with bloggers who I really only knew online. In ... don't have as deep a personal relationship. Kathy then tells us: The most underrated benefit of the ...

... 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 ... hopefully we each get a new friend. The First Two Things So, this post is for you. Mr./Ms. New-Twitter-friend in the ASTD's local chapter in Orange County, CA. If you're not a member of ASTD, don't worry. Welcome! Please read on ... Twitter Account " window: type in a short username for yourself. (Note for ASTD-OC members: It's ...

Great question posed by Mark Oehlert - I will say that it is interesting that in addition to the slides you can also rate each session and leave comments about each. Total transparency. As we look for ways to improve conferences , this is a point we should ponder on. How would you feel if the ratings for a session you presented say at ASTD or the eLearning Guild were instantly available for public consumption? I know how I feel about this but I'd like to hear from some people - instant, visible ratings...boon or bane? I personally would love to see this happen. I often find myself ...

For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some of my thoughts in Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? while I suggested that YOU should, I didn't push ... evidence is mounting that it's an incredible personal learning practice. Take a look at what Janet Clarey had to ...

... me having just returned from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and examples. Very little participation. But in fairness to ASTD - it seems like it's hard to get participation when 70% of attendees are relatively new to the industry and are first time attendees. I personally tried (a little) to create my ...