Don’t you just love it when things fall into place?  For example, this Thursday I am ready to give a session for DevLearn08 entitled, “15 Objections to Social Learning and How to Overcome Them.”  Then, yesterday, someone at my company put up this comment: “ The Community Portal (the name of our customer facing social media / learning platform) should be a Knowledge Base first, and a Social Networking Site second. “ What a great opportunity to use my presentation and expand on it!  I will have to use this as an example on Thursday.  Here was my ...

Tony Karrer of the eLearning Technology blog invited me to take part in a new site called eLearning Learning . This new site brings a collection of ed tech related blogs together making it very easy to research a variety of topics without jumping from blog to blog. Tony describes it best with this quote; "This is the beginning of a community portal ... my blog. If you click on one of the topics it will bring you to the learning eLearning site where you will see a listing ... . Thanks to all who are taking part in learning eLearning.

... eLearning Learning is a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning. If you would like to be included and or participate, please contact: Tony Karrer eLearning Learning ... of organizational learning.  Ever since Jay’s book, Informal Learning , people have wanted specific ways to go ... ... Learning Visions - Friday, November 7, 2008 - ...

Yours truly was happy to accept an invitation to add this blog to the new elearning portal called eLearningLearning . No, it's okay. You read it correctly. It's learning about eLearning, get it? Basically, it's an aggregator. It lists and organizes the best content from blogs and other web sites having authors who write about elearning. "This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best ... Tony Karrer, author of the eLearning Technology blog for putting this all together. The eLearningLearning portal ...

... eLearning Learning site you will be able to further into the first topic link (i.e. Learning > Learning-Blogging, or Learning-Technology, etc.). The break down goes on and on. "This is the beginning of a community portal where the ... Tony Karrer graciously asked me to participate in the launch of a new tool called eLearning Learning . I've added ... link you will first come to the content that was created by myself, or fed into the eLearning Learning site. As you ... through eLearning (mine) Collin Kromke - Web 2.0 Work Kevin Jones - Engaged Learning Wendy Wickham - In The ...

I'm happy to announce the launch of eLearning Learning . This is the beginning of a community portal where the ... Learning is a jump off point. The content comes from other places. Right now these are mostly posts from bloggers, but you will soon see other kinds of content appearing. The bottom line is that eLearning Learning is trying to help find and ... the way the label widget works!" Kevin Jones - Engaged Learning "I like your widget a lot. Kind of a linear tag ... featured bloggers are including the eLearning Learning Organizer Widget. This widget is in my sidebar and it shows ...

Next week is DevLearn , and as it’s run by the eLearning Guild, it’s always good.  I’ll be switching time between two pre-conference symposiums , one on games, and one on mobile.  Then I’ll be presenting on Deeper Instructional Design, doing Breakfast Bytes on (learning) games in the organization and one with Jay Cross on hot ... resurrect for the Corporate Learning Trends conference.  Run by George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and Jay Cross, it’s ... individual tactics of courses, portals, eCommunity and more into a coherent solution. Remember, this is part of ...

... hard to bear. Kenny Henderson talked about the fine work they are doing with e-learning at BSkyB , the satellite TV company. BSkyB are de-emphasising the corporate LMS in favour of an all-purpose learning portal, making all manner of ... content on the portal, providing a Web 2.0 feel to the whole thing. Graeme Duncan, from Caspian Learning , presented ... 'All Jock Tamson's Bairns' was the strangest title yet for a conference on e-learning, and I must confess I ... e-learning community in Scotland, and was held in the very lovely city of Edinburgh. I spoke first, which was ...

I can't get enough of this. The University of Manitoba recently posted the video of Micheal Wesch's June 17, 2008, talk entitled "A Portal to Media Literacy" where you can get a glimpse into how Micheal organized a couple of his classes at Kansas State University. He strives to create platforms of participation for students that leverage the emerging media environment. He shows how to let students participate in their learning in an open way to harness the 'upload world' they are familiar with. Some great illustrations of practices in wiki and RSS aggregator usage are in this ...

I wanted to take a moment to tout an online training portal, www.Lynda.com , for their low-cost, excellent eLearning material.  Lynda.com catalogs hundreds of software training courses , and they are often the first to offer training material for the newest software on the market.  For example, Lynda.com released a complete training program for ... Lynda.com, do you have recommendations for other training portals that are similar?    Tagged: elearning, learning, lynda.com, training    ...