WiZiQ is a web-based platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach and learn live, online.  If you want to give a public or private WiZiQ session you can now embed the code right into your own blog.  Here's an example of a public session to be given by Nellie Deutsch: ...

Several Web 2.0 entities (YouTube, Facebook, Howcast, Google) plus some academics and the Department of State will be gathering next week to kickoff the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit . The goal is to find ways to use media to counter the messages of violence, extremism, and oppression. It will be very interesting to track the progress of this movement on the "areas of interest". There is a lot of potential to make some serious changes in the quality of the message being delivered to young people in different countries.

In the process of thinking through how to support informal learning, I was reminded of a diagram I created several years ago.  I started from an approach based upon philosophy that talked about acting in the world: you act in the world when you can, and when you have a breakdown you need to solve it, so you repair, and then reflect and learn so you can act more competently the next time (Ok, so it’s an idealized model). What it led me to think was that when we have a need, we first try to find the answer. If we don’t, then we have to do more extreme steps of actively trying to ...

I needed to figure out how to download YouTube videos for an upcoming conference presentation where I wasn't confident that I would be able to have a good enough connection to play the video. I found that there was a very nice bookmarklet to Download as MP4 Files : One way is to save the following link as a bookmarklet by dragging it to your Links bar (in Firefox, Safari) or right-clicking and adding it to your favorites (in Internet Explorer, Opera): Get YouTube video When you want to download a YouTube video, just click on the bookmarklet. KeepVid offered both (save as FLV ...

Estimating Training Design and Developing Time and Costs Contents Budgeting Training Cost Guidelines Estimating Development Hours eLearning Development Time Instructor Preparation Time Seat Time Interactive Multimedia Instruction Case Study Tools Reference Budgeting Learning activities are budgeted in a wide variety of ways, so the degree of estimating the costs will depend upon the organization you are working for. Generally speaking, the closer you are to your clients, the less you have to estimate. For example, a small ...

In my continuing quest to change hearts and minds about the use of social media, I think it's important to communicate not only the mechanics about getting around social media platforms but, perhaps more importantly, communicating cultural dynamics . But therein lies the rub. Whom should you trust for information about social media protocol? Who's Your Trust Agent? I s'pose much influence can be had by those you hit up first. If, for example, you happen to first land with someone who values social media as a tool for "getting more traffic," "gaining ...

I'm curious to find out a few things from bloggers who have been posting for more than a year: What is your blogging tool of choice (blogger, wordpress , etc)? Have you always used the same tool? If you switched why? How often to you post? Does traffic to your blog matter to you? Do you try to stick to one topic/theme or are you generalized? How many other blogs do you follow? Have you kept your blog in the standard templates offered, have you tweaked it, or have you designed your own fully? Do you blog internally for a company/organization or is it out there for the world to see?

At my previous job I had 5 weeks of paid and 1 week of unpaid vacation per year. I took it all. I have 2 weeks of vacation now. The hours weren’t as flexible in my previous job and they were set. In my current job, I’m able to do a lot more personally and that means more to me. So, I exchanged time off for flexibility. Last week was the first time in 2 years that I actually disconnected from what has become 16 hour on-and-off workdays where all things work and all things personal blend. It’s refreshing. What do you do to refresh?

Malcolm Gladwell says that everything has a Tipping Point , that point at which a virus goes epidemic, when the hip new thing goes mainstream. Think Uggs . Well, my Facebook world has just tipped. I'm not talking about the quantity of my friends, but rather the breadth and depth. In the past month, I have friended or been friended by: my 73 year old mother (we like to play Scrabble) my 16 year old niece (she has WAY more friends than I do, which is not surprising) former students almost everyone I used to swim with in my high school swimming days ...

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to concentrate on one task at a time, let alone complete one and before I move onto the next. Am I normal for my generation; a product of my environment; has work forced be to be this way; is it just too much info all at once? I'm just not sure any more. I certainly know, as it seems to be discussed more and more that information overload is bogging us down. I never believed that it was really happening. I felt like I was thriving learning more and more. I was excited to read, hear, see the next big thing or learn more about a topic I that found ...

Courtesy of lisa_funtime Free education?  I’m not referring to grants or scholarships.  I’m talking about a change in the way we acquire marketable knowledge and skills.  Could there really be such a thing as free education? MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has made essentially all its course content available in a free, web-based format.  Tag line:  “Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.” Other institutions are offering similar content and services.  Are there any drawbacks?  In the current environment, yes.  ...

A new site called eLearning Tool Chest ( eLearningToolChest.com ) has a collection of eLearning books, authoring tools, blogs, and other miscellaneous resources. The site is growing each week. I think it could be pretty big in a month or two. If you think a specific book, authoring tool, or resource should be listed, you can suggest that it be added . Visit eLearningToolChest.com        ...

We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ... The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? If you are a blogger, I would highly recommend taking this as an opportunity to go back through your blog posts over the year and looking for any "aha moments" or highlight the posts that you think were the best/most interesting. You might want to look back at some discussions going on during the last two yearly recaps: 2007 - What Did You Learn about Learning? 2008 - Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions.

We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ... The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? If you are a blogger, I would highly recommend taking this as an opportunity to go back through your blog posts over the year and looking for any "aha moments" or highlight the posts that you think were the best/most interesting. You might want to look back at some discussions going on during the last two yearly recaps: 2007 - What Did You Learn about Learning? 2008 - Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions.

It's surprising how much I learn by watching my kids (now 13, 11 and 8) go through school today. I've mentioned before the experience of the Ten Year Old Wikipedia Update and also my questioning of Cursive Writing . The most recent aha is the learning associated with kids search behavior. My recent experience was my son's write-up of his science assignment around oobleck. I didn't know it at the time, but upon consulting the define: operator (based on my son's suggestion) in Google: Oobleck is a popular name used to refer to a stiff mixture of corn starch and water (1 part water to 1.

Sue Hellman sent me this one! screedbot, the animated scrolling typewriter text generator.  Write some text and click Create Screed to make your own animated text. After you make your text you can save it to your computer, to Flickr, and put it on your blog. screedbot

Create an interface like that of the Bulk Rename Utility . Why do I hate so much of the software on the Windows platform? Bulk Rename Utility says it all with a single screenshot. Thanks guys for the succinct visual of that which I struggle to verbalize. Hat tip to Gruber ( Daring Fireball ).

A contact asked me what I saw as the link between Sharepoint and elearning, and I started to give my standard answer about portals fitting in with the whole performance ecosystem. Last I played with Sharepoint, it seemed like a portal solution; a place to deposit files.  Obvious extensions I would infer from social networking would include wrapping discussion around resources (and, of course, having a way to make the resources accessible from multiple points of view, search, and other features in support of reasonable information architecture). However, I decided to update myself on ...

Terra Incognita - A Penn State World Campus Blog Weblog for Penn State World Campus. Penn State Online - A recognized leader in distance education for more than 100 years. --> « Welcome to David Wiley ANGEL Builds Good Karma » --> Content Is Infrastructure October 3rd, 2007 by David Wiley Content is infrastructure. Why would I say such a thing? For three reasons. First, I wish to point out that content is absolutely critical. In the late 90s, webmasters frequently heard the phrase ...

Recently Google released a new search feature which is available to any user who has a Google account, Google Search Wiki. In short, this service allows the user to promote or demote sites, or add comments about any web site. Your results customized your future search results, and your input anonymously becomes part of the collective Google Search Wiki. Thus, as the user community rates sites (with or without comments), any user can pull up search results which now give results based upon user feedback. I am calling this Google 2.0, or the Collective Intelligence of Search. If you're ...

E-learning Examples Dial-up (low bandwidth) Basic Principles of Selling Shows how e-learning can combine text, pictures, graphics, animation, sound and music plus interactive quiz questions, (all optional!). Use the forward/back buttons or the menu in the course to navigate. Click the link below to start. Close the browser window when finished. The Leadership Experience Illustrates how blended learning can combine training, workshops and coaching with web-based questionnaires, action plans and e-learning materials to gather ...

Improved collective performance: Investing in Web 2.0 - Knowledge Board We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. They are almost household names. This is not so of a new generation of social networking technology, which is being used to provide software services under trading names such as Ning, CollectiveX, Sossoon, Hiitch, Huddle, Mzinga, British Telecom's Workspace (project management), Clearspace, and even Microsoft's Sharepoint. How does management respond to this? Traditional senior and middle managers, ...

On April Fool’s Day of this year, I wrote the following page in the Learnscaping un-book . I meant to be serious. Coincidence happens . Isaac Newton (1643-1727) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716) invented calculus at the same time but independently of one another! ( wikipedia ) When Newton and Leibniz first published their results , there was great controversy over which mathematician (and therefore which country) deserved credit. Newton derived his results first, but Leibniz published first. Newton claimed Leibniz stole ideas from his unpublished notes, which Newton ...

Here are some recent items from the LearnTech News feed: Drawter.com - DrawAble Markup Language Think Anatomy ITSAWONDERFULINTERNET.COM Search.io - Tabbed Search Harold Jarche » Wake up and smell the coffee Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant! SHOOTOUT: Google SearchWiki vs. Wikia Search The LearnTech News feed is an add-on to Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, and is intended for those who want a continuous stream of information about new tools, technologies and related articles and resources.  Subscribe to the feed via RSS ...

When I ran across The Funeral for my Xbox 260 (with WORKING pics) via Geekologie , I couldn’t help think what the Training Binder Funeral would look like. What friends from yesteryear would pay their respects? No doubt the three-hole punch would speak. The band-aid and the ream of paper would sit together. Some card stock would be hanging out in the back. Clip art figures would hold their clip art hands in despair. A diverse group of page dividers would form a cluster - 8, 5, and 3 tabs all together at once. There would  be talk of other old binders - binders working double duty ...

My netvibes page is rapidly falling into disuse thanks to Twitter. I still have much love for all the feeds in my reader but it feels more lecture-like with people talking AT me. I understand that there is a masked asymmetry involved in Twitter but it just feels like a great rolling conversation in the hallway of this awesome conference where everybody interesting just happens to be chatting it up. So before I head to IITSEC, I wanted to pass along a few of the tidbits I've picked up in the hallway.  BigTweet : A way to post to your Twitter feed from any Web page. You can post sequenced ...

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OK...so I get one day of rest to do laundry and then I head off to the Interservice and Industry, Training, Simulation and Education Conference (IITSEC). If you are not within the U.S. Dept of Defense sphere or its international partners, then let me hip you to this gig. Imagine 15-20K people from all over the world who deal in training, simulation and education for various militaries. Now imagine an expo floor (pdf), kinda like COMDEX meets E3 meets an arms dealer. Now toss in a program full of 'paper sessions' with titles like: "Semantic Web Technology for Training to Meet a ...