... mostly because I'm much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions I'm handling there. If I were to blog it ... who don't interject their personal lives into their blogs (ala Cathy Moore as reported to Michelle Martin ), then I don't think I'll make that list. Which is fine. Really. Blogging's not a contest... But personally, I like the ... of like Second Life in how open the environment is, but there are challenges and a bit of a story woven into that keep it a game. Plus, swimming around with whales is really cool. So. This is me trying to get my blogging energy back.

... requirement of the class is to set up a blog account and keep a biweekly reflection jounal to discuss the week's readings and ... for a couple reasons... 1) There are courses out there that are actually encouraging grad students to blog...very cool! 2) I'm working in Nursing education creating learning environments for nurses working at Hospice of the Valley. So ... learning professionals that read my blog to check out the blogs from Shelley's class, and comment. Encourage them.

Clark Quinn from Learnlets welcomes Tony O'Driscoll to the learning bloggosphere. And so do I...in a BIG way!!! I'll have to agree with Clark on the long post concern, but what the heck...we're just glad your hear Tony! I actually like the long thoughtful posts...its inspiring to read what I'm thinking, clearly. His blog titled Learning Matters! at wadatripp.wordpress.com Tony's answer to the February BIG QUESTION is right on the money. You gotta read this one ... fancier 3D page-turning environments." "The outcome is clear though....we are investing more in the place ...

Day 4 and I am on the verge on actually having the number of tabs I am closing by blogging them, surpass the number of new tabs I am openning because evidently I have some sort of OCD that compels me to right-click on every interesting link (and Oh the time sink that the Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes widgets for Netvibes are!). Thanks to everyone (*and I mean you Mark Friedman*) who has remembered that the Tip Jar is also part of this experiment! :-) Now for ... environment seem clear. "The companies that will prosper," he declares, "will be those that switch out ...

... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... : Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells Online ... seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and ... blogging applications. Posted by David Shoemaker at 10:22 PM in Corporate Training , Higher ... , and blogs? Yet for all the emphasis on how content can be created and disseminated, there has been too little focus ...

I just saw this post: Blogs as community killers? and the white paper B logs in the CoP ecosystem . Both are quite interesting in that they point to the fact that Blogs form a network that is loosely coupled and thus lack the cohesive, singular environment that many communities desire (think listservs). This is something I've discussed before in lots ... via Blogging than via listservs and what we really need is a way to create community on top of Blogging. See: Blogs, Community and Discussion Tracking - What's Really Needed Types of Blog Discussions Other related posts: ...

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 community for a potential audience of many thousands of course graduates. Starting as a complete beginner, I have found ... survey/questionnaire tool and a facility for learner blogs, both of which are in the pipeline. My question is, what am ...

... mission to use collaborative environments, like blogs, to help you learn like you've never learned before. ... One of the unfortunate effects of the traditional Post-Comments format of a blog is that topics tend to be focused upon only as long as they stay in the #1 position on the blog's front page. This is tough enough for some individually written blogs to manage. But it is a far greater issue with a team blog like Learning Circuits Blog . The ... away from the Post-Comments format with a feature entitled " Beyond the Blog . " Beyond the Blog ...

Edublogs just announced they are hosting 100,000 Edublogs . In fact we've currently got more like 103,000 blogs, separated over four sites (63K on edublogs.org and 39K spread across the student sites). In September at edublogs.org alone we racked up 268,638 unique visitors, who dropped by 904,053 times enjoying 13,701,840 page views while sucking up almost 500Gig bandwidth. And that's just that one site's blogs. I guess this is probably enough to say that blogging has taken off as a tool for learning in educational environments.

In the past year it seems the world discovered blogs. We're proud that LCB was one of the first team authored blogs on the net but the attention received by blogs have brought tremendous changes in capability and expectations for content and design. To stay at the forefront, Learning Circuits Blog has to evolve. In addition to the obvious changes to format ... environments. We hope that through new voices from various areas, LCB can be a place to share best practices and learn from each other. Collaborative Practices. Much has been said about how blogs are a powerful learning tool We think so ...

Within the blogs, I am starting to see discussion on why people don't use collaboration tools (or LMSs for that matter). The big question is WHY? Dave Pollard did a little experiment in August 2006 trying to get people to help him edit ... me when I started blogging - fear. How many of us have risked answering a question at school (elementary --> grad ... extension, you) are? Is it any wonder that we all hesitate to collaborate? Particularly in a corporate environment? We ... potential downsizing? I had to fight through ALL of these emotions when I started blogging. - Will I be accepted ...

Blogging about Colombian Education A little space to ... Hello there, After six months of my last post, I finally have online my own website. So, this blog is moving ... local educational blogs, for example. The use of blogs as a tool to build electronic portfolios has been already ... initiatives we propose on the communities area should have a strong blogging component. Having massive online presence (this ... could get online references to their interests while writing a report, and article, or a blog post. Promoting ...

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... co-workers have proven to be willing and candid guides in this new environment. Of course, this time, I've also made ... first full day - I asked my co-workers about my blogging. You're not going to say anything bad about us, are you? Only anonymously - and I will talk to you first. I don't want you being surprised by anything I say in the blog. It ... co-workers read this blog (Hi Guys!), so that makes these discussions important. The main reason why I got the job was because of this blog. They are fully aware of my usual subject matter and I wanted to make sure that I ...

... thing I did this morning was create a blog post and let everyone know what I am doing, and why.  One thing I have added in ... ’ up GTSX (the name of our internal environment) with extra information that is not needed. But, again, if I have ...

Note: 9/17/2007 - fixed link to correct instructor's blog. Some good comments coming in. I've received several good questions from Kirsten Morton that I'll be answering over the next few blog posts. She is a graduate student in adult ... trends in eLearning and requires that each student start a blog. It was interesting to visit her blog, the instructor's blog and some fellow student blogs: Instructor's eLearning Blog Betsy's Blog Erin's Blog Keith's Blog Note ... blogs as the primary writing tool for assignments. Further, they were required to provide feedback via comments or blog ...

... of blogging argue that there are many potential business applications of the technology (and they discuss these applications in their blogs!). But I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category ... at the moment it's a tool for individuals to express their somewhat random musings. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. Perhaps the biggest problem for blogging is the time it takes to read and write blogs. If anything this tool has detracted from productivity, not increased it. ... Bill Ives argues that his own blog is really a vehicle ...

... between the LMS and the virtual learning environment (VLE). LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.) are for corporates who ... release), even includes blogging and wiki tools. It seems that the LMS/VLE distinction is either dead or UK-specific. In ... all this. Firstly because, if Moodle is being used in all these different environments, then there's a good chance ...

Environments - DARnet Tony Karrer tracks the blog posts on PLEs and work. Then he wonders. . . if people will adopt these ... - about 10 minutes. The Workplace: Can blogs become a big source of jobs? - Herald Tribune Search "blog," "blogger" or "blogging" on the Indeed.com job board and more than 13,000 jobs come up. But narrow the search to job titles ... , especially blog content. . . then shouldn't you make sure you provide these tools now rather than having tools ...

Stephen Downes commented on my recent post - Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and ... we call them personal learning environments is that they are indended to serve our needs, not someone else's. It ... to own the blog, i.e., it's a Sun Computer owned blogging system, therefore when you leave Sun you leave your content ... eLearning 2.0 , I suggested in my examples for what this looks like in a corporate environment that people use a tool like ... many corporate environments. Stephen's very much correct about a PLE being for the person. It is going to be a ...

... raised the issue of The Power of Blogging isn't Just in Reading Them , in a few of her posts. She has stuck to the idea that the power of blogging is in writing comments, rather than in lurking . I admire her. She is committed to what she ... reading a post and learning from it? What is so special to learning about writing a comment on a blog post? If learners want to learn, they will learn. The same desire may well tempt learners to put comments on blog posts. They may ... still go home and read about what they've learnt in a book. Many do. They may also lurk on a few blog posts on the ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning ... Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ODriscoll ... blog posts on the topic: Stephen Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal ... . Theres some truth to that, but at the end of my Whats New in eLearning session (on blogs, wikis, social ...

There's been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony O'Driscoll , Brent Schelenker , and Steven Downes at the eLearningGuild. And then over beers. Getting back, I've seen quite a few blog posts on the topic: Stephen ... the end of my What's New in eLearning session (on blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, rss readers, etc.) my final point ... Environment (PLE) with capitals to mean a put together system that integrates and supports your personal learning and ...

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to ... Daily Me: the great number of blogs, etc. on the web and the fact that most of us only read a tiny bit of this and ...

Medical Education Blog For University of ... thinking about how we teach medical students called Application Oriented Curriculum. Readers of my Blog know that I ... correct mistakes in a safe environment â?¢ Significant Event Audit http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/sigevent/ â?¢ One ... Active Learning - Remembering In an active learning environment, formative assessment of learning is important because ... teaching blogs. This article is a continuation of the teaching techniques series Creating ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give to someone new to the field (of E-Learning). 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? I’m a ... environment, there are concepts from the class I am trying to incorporate into the courses for which I am responsible. Use ... promote collaborative learning environments. Authored by gminks . Hosted by Edublogs .

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Innocentive model to the masses and is run on Ning. Kevin is optimistic that we can change on the environment. Response to ills ... optimistic about being at piece in environment. Designer have an approach to the world and to life that is ...

In doing so it examines the different types of blog environments that are being used in terms of their ... and Teaching - Jill Walker Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration - Bob Godwin ... top top ole s / vle s: ONLINE / VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS   ... ; Blogs and Blogging Chat CMC ... ; Speakeasy ("test your connection speed")     BLOGS ...

Learning Environments - James Farmer (2004) Blogging Across the Curriculum ("... a growing and ... Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-line Collaboration - Bob Godwin-Jones (LL&T, May 2003 ... top top ole s / vle s: ONLINE / VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS   ... been most times.  :-)     Blogs and Blogging Chat CMC: Computer-Mediated ...