If you’ve been wondering why things have beent a little quiet on the blog, my husband and I just moved from Chicagoland to North Carolina, in the Raleigh-Durham area. Our stuff has arrived and we’re slowly getting settled into the new place. However, pretty much our whole lives are still in boxes and bins. I have to say that I really appreciate being able to telecommute, both because it means we can do this move to someplace warmer and because I was able to work from a hotel while waiting for the moving truck to arrive. Yesterday morning I worked from a local coffee ...

... local manager of some very worthy non-profits here in Southern California. :-) Until next year's BAD09, we'll ... Just a bit off-topic, but had to post it.  This is a cool little kudo for the efforts of a favorite little local non-profit that's near and dear to me... my wife. As many of you know by now, Blog Action Day did some great things to bring millions of eyeballs on the issue of poverty last week on October 15. My wife (a manager in a Southern California non-profit dealing in human trafficking issues) is still gushing to family and friends about what a great day ...

EDUCAUSE Review > Archive > Volume 41, Number 4, July/August 2006 > Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want Managing ... / ). EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 4 (July/August 2006): 50–71. Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty ... Learning/Course Management Systems (L/CMSs) has exploded in higher education. Recently, the authors served as editors for a book, Course Management Systems for Learning, which explored current L/CMS design and usage by documenting ...

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 ... my area (Orange County, California), our local ASTD Chapter didn't have a presence on LinkedIn for the longest ... I can get a read on how many of our local chapter members contribute to any online discussion forum . Today, ...

Districts adopting laptop programs outnumber the districts that have shelved them, said Matt Hoover, program manager for ...

... how we manage the flow of information in our lives.  This does not mean that you must start blogging in order to make ... headlines of your local newspaper as a matter of habit each morning because you enjoy being informed and can handle idle ... content from your local paper but you can scan other sources of information related to your interests.  It seems like every media outlet from the smallest local rag to the largest cable channel has a feed you can subscribe too. So, ...

Learning Networks - The New Framework Stephen Downes presented a work in progress in Palermo this week, Learning Networks - Theory & Practice. Leading the Transition from Classrooms to Learning Spaces The convergence of technology, pedagogy, and space can lead to exciting new models of campus interaction. Developing Self-Directed Learners According to Abdullah, self-directed learners are "responsible owners and managers of their own learning process" Telling Tales with Technology As it gains popularity in classrooms around the country, digital storytelling takes on local ...

I had seen these physics lectures before, but I was reminded via Stephen Downes and the NY Times article about professor Lewin's lectures and was telling someone about them just the other day. Thought I should definitely point you to them. I personally am compelled by watching something like Planet Earth. Professor Lewin has managed to create something akin to that experience on a topic that can be made extremely boring by most professors. You can find his lectures ... physics at their local university at all.

... with my wife, a manager in the non-profit sector working to fight human trafficking and hunger issues, to tell a story ... , or in need of helping, take a look at the following resources: Local (California and Orange County)   Dial 2-1-1. Like dialing 4-1-1 for information about local vendors and local haunts, 2-1-1 is an information line for ... . Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, the local affiliate of the national organization Feeding America (formerly ... . An organization that works with local churches to make global connections for local support. This post is ...

Google that’s designed to speed up web site load times by caching content on your local computer. It’s sort of ... site has to be using Gears. WordPress is one such site. There is a server side component that manages the offline ... choose which Gears enabled sites are allowed to store content on your computer and can manage the list of allowed sites from the Google Gears Settings. When I allowed WordPress to use Gears it downloaded 212 items to my local computer that ... browser or in Flash. The display logic in Javascript or SWFs can be stored locally and not downloaded every time a ...

Team-based E-learning Turns A New Page - Science Daily Most e-learning systems are based on modules, students work through a curriculum. Usually a student has something to learn, and the tutor sets questions or an assignment to test what they have learned. Collaborative learning through teamwork projects need an entire project management system ... for a unique 3 hour company wide training effort. The following day, Elliott Masie visited the local Starbucks in Saratoga Springs, NY and did an in-depth interview with the store manager on the learning outcomes, processes and texture ...

... their noses in their companies databases, their confidence will often be much lower. Leapfrogging Through Local Wisdom: Knowledge Management for Development - World Changing Ideally there should be a strong link between KS ...

I was reading in Management Today magazine about a new website called SkyLounge.com , which connects business travellers who want to meet up with like-minded souls when stuck in a strange town on their own with nothing to do in the evenings. Not a bad idea if you simply have to talk to people non-stop in every waking hour, but I must confess I enjoy the rare chance for some time to myself. Where I most miss company is if I'm somewhere nice and want to take a look at ... . However spectacular the local delights, I can only ever view my presence as a scouting mission - it's as if nothing ...

See people, this is why crap like DRM is important. Read this whole story over at TechCrunch but the upshot is that if you bought music from Wal-Mart with its DRM built-in, then you better get to your local Best Buy and pick up a stack of CD-Rs. Wal-mart is going DRM-free - good, right? - except that when it does, it will turn off those DRM servers and you won't be able to access your DRM-protected music files THAT YOU ALREADY PAID FOR! Nice job huh? See, you ... longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com. If ...

Welcome: David Holcombe - CEO E-Learning Guild Ran into Brent - who is running around like a madman. My computer also doesn't like being without power too long. Sadly - the International ballroom is a bit large and the AV staff took most of the power (figures). Did manage to find a seat by the water with a spare plug. Yup...great way to be invisible ... this week. I was at a conference, 2 of the other members (including the Director) were at a local training, and one was ... each other. (That means YOU Wendy!) In parallel - Learning Management Colloquium. Management issues. For set number ...

Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? In it, he points out that a stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0 adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of ... Personal Knowledge Management system, and my day-to-day set of tools that enhance my knowledge worker productivity ... I doing? All. Maybe there are some distinctions between personal knowledge management, personal learning ...

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... upgrade project - larger classes will be created and team-taught with the local experts / managers. The managers can ... management. - Providing processing tools for knowledge creation / management. This is where I am seeing wikis and blogs ... implementation training tend to be of that sort anyway. I'm expecting some of the managers to balk at having to be there ... the Captivate project, I am looking at cohorts. For the upgrade project, I am going to be working with the local ...

Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US. We've looked at a few eLearning vendors and haven't been thrilled. We found the three US vendors expensive and/or light on good ID and the India-based vendors (Tata and Brainvisa) are priced really well, but would require more extensive project, quality and ID management. So ... simulations and online custom leadership content? Likely they would want to have a provider who is fairly local, but ...

... framework initiatives, the locally working researchers, scientists, teachers and students in universities, academies and ... fields of watershed management and agricultural development to provide feedback on abstracts and papers submitted ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What should I do first?" My first recommendation would be to decide where it is that you see yourself fitting into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a moderator/instructor? You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace ... based in Europe. There will, of course, be other local options, but it definitely pays to keep an ...

... sharing: Guidance for practitioners and managers Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) for secondary ... - Guidance for Local Authorities and Schools Review of sex and relationship education (SRE) in ...

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... time ago for Operitel and a presentation on learning technology (LMS/LCMS/Talent Management that we, Brandon Hall ... @ insynctraining Project management skills - there are books, programs, and experts specializing in project management ... , books, presentations, white papers, research, etc. Join e-learning associations (local, national, global) Take a course, enroll in a degree program (ID, facilitation of online learning, curriculum development, project management, etc ... training (started a best practice log) became a project manager for an LMS/LCMS/Talent Management implementation; ...

... programmes in a further five languages and that he wanted local offices to carry out this localisation themselves ... replacing. Testing : Don't assume you've got it right - test it locally. Not everybody can afford an online authoring ... preference to narration. Sounds sensible. Now all I have to do is find a tactful way to advise that e-learning manager who ...

... and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited now. I had a real "aha experience ... about the technical direction for their solution - they wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I ... topics. And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management ... management and other such topics. These have normally been tangential, but I see them as core moving forward. I've already ... be harder and harder to find any software getting installed locally We will start to see Wikis and tools ...

This line is from No Need to be Downhearted , a new album from local (Brighton, UK) band Electric Soft Parade. Now ESP are not that well known but I really like them, quite Beatle-like, more in a McCartney than a Lennon sort of way. Anyway, I dedicate this line to Ruth Clark, whose books have added many inches to my reading pile. Why? Because Ruth is the ultimate antidote to Don Norman and his Emotional Design , which I reviewed yesterday . What do I read after ... folks. The management of cognitive load may not grab you as forcefully as a topic as emotional design but don't be ...

... shows slower rate of growth than classroom. LMS - Learning Management Systems - are growing at one of the fastest rates of any of the established methods. Im not surprised, but Im sure there continues to be pain ( Learning Management ... Education? Again pretty close. Some differences: Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) show greater increase in ... , In-person mentoring/tutoring, Online References, Online Assessments and Testing, KMS, Learning Content Management (LCMS), Knowledge Management, Portals, Print-based materials, Video Broadcasts, EPSS, e-mail, Chat rooms, Instant ...

My new job will not use Moodle. They are transitioning from a home-grown, simple web page with a database to Skill Soft. This transition should make great writing fodder in the future Here's the Moodle implementation - start to finish: Implementing Moodle Moodle from Local Host to DNS Convincing the Boss Convincing the Boss - the Demo ... with the Boss Issues of Trust Training Pilots Crashing Moodle The Senior Management Un-Meeting The Middle Manager Meeting Talk vs. Action Physician Reaction Update: Talk vs Action Practicing ...

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