Dinner with Jay Cross , Clark Quinn and others, taking pictures of Stacey and her stolen skateboard.) Wow.  What a fabulous conference put on by Brent Schlenker and the eLearning Guild . (I am told that handouts & PPTs will be available next week.)  Here were some hightlights from my POV: Tweets - I had used Twitter casually before the converence.  Then during the conference I swear I used it more in those few days than I had in all the time leading up to it. Now I can’t go back.  What a great way to give and get info. Meets - I met so ...

... to give you feedback). Become familiar with the eLearning Guild's Research reports. You can find these on ... I held a Breakfast Byte session at DevLearn for people new to the eLearning field. Here are some miscellaneous ... “eLearning” has an ambiguous definition. Personally, I consider eLearning to be the intersection of learning ... other people that are brand new to eLearning. Assemble a list of eLearning blogs. Read them often. Just ask around ... ). Start a blog about your eLearning adventures. Use blogger.com or wordpress.com to sign up for a free blog. Write ...

So some folks sent in some very interesting comments and ideas on this challenge but not in the form of a slide deck. I wanted to include those pieces as well so here they are below in as best order as I can arrange them...I will say that I don't know if some folks who sent stuff in, wanted their name publicly attached so I'll try to err on the side of caution...If I missed anything that anyone sent me...pls resend...things got a bit crazy there for a while. Thx all!! Mark One of the first comments I got was: "With all due respect Mark, I think this question is ill posed. People react to ...

Phew. You guys did an INCREDIBLE job of responding to my plea for assistance . First, let me say that I hope that the family medical emergency that knocked out one of my presenters, has resolved itself in a HUGELY positive way - -there are design challenges and then there are important things right? Now, before I get to the community submissions, let me profusely thank Deborah Todd and Bob Hone - our 'in room' contributors. They both did a fabulous job and brought some amazing insights to the session. <you know its going well, when you look around the packed room and everyone is ...

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In case you’re not getting enough DevLearn 2008 coverage, here’s a list of awesome bloggers who are writing about their experiences here in San Jose: Jay Cross (also here) Brian Dusablon Josh Goldman Kevin Jones Tony Karrer Mark Oehlert Clark Quinn Brent Schlenker Wendy Wickham Did I accidentally leave you off the list? If so - I’m sorry! Please add a comment with a link to your blog.        ...

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Day 1 of DevLearn 2008 kicked off today with a great keynote from Tim O’Reilly ( @TimOReilly ), where he walked us through the Web 2.0 movement and how it has impacted learning and training. Here are some of the notes I took during his keynote: We should always try to follow the “alpha-geeks.” These are the people who are constantly hacking and studying things in unconventional ways. They are often the ones who come up with the most innovative solutions and they tend to have the most fun. If we follow their fun stuff, it’ll usually lead us to innovation. Tim ...