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... query “Are you familiar with the work of [fill-in-the-blank] ?” Most of the time, I was not. Environment is vital for thinking big thoughts, and it doesn’t get much better than this. Before heading to the railroad car, Doug and I chatted on the deck below his garden as the Russian River flowed by. Last night we were swapping thoughts about the greed of corporations, the goodness of gardens, the power of connections, and so on ...
Internet Time - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Commentse-Learning 2.0: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile
Social Networking: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfileI have been fine-tuning a survey tool to gauge the TechnoProfile of the target learning audience in social learning, networking, collaboration and Learning 2.0 environments. I call it "Learner TechnoProfile." The survey design is based on my discoveries from social learning sessions, (ASTD handoout) client projects and my research "in helping learners apply their learning" or Micro-Learning Impacts in social ... the social networking environment.(2) Second step is to nurture the network of participants from one form of ...
Ray Jimenez - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 07/01/2008
Online Tutoring e-Book 6 - Culture and Ethics - Facilitating Online Learning Although this is written specifically for online tutors, much of the information and advice applies to online facilitators as well. The authors examine cultural differences in the online learning environment, including how diversity affects language, written text, images, metaphors, communication style, and online presence. Appendix B is a chart comparing different linguistic groups and cultures. tags: FST, diversity, e-learning, teaching, communication, community Some of the key questions revolve around ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - CommentsThe Dominant Animal at the Long Now Foundation
Human Evolution and the Environment,” Paul Ehrlich, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 7pm, TONIGHT, June ... . The problem is running out of environment. Sadly, cultural evolution (for example, ethics) has not kept pace ...
Internet Time - Saturday, June 28, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/26/2008
JALN: Does one size fit all? Exploring Asynchronous learning in a multicultural environment Small-scale study of cultural differences in an asynchronous learning environment, focusing on high and low context cultures. Includes a ... language may be vague, lacking the specificity of the low context culture, as the environment within which communication ... communication. Interestingly, low context participants concentrate on the participation environment, while high context ... Environments: Models and Resources (PDF) 22-page article on designing for diversity in online learning. Examines ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, June 26, 2008 - CommentsDeep Problems with Our Tools - e-Learning, Social Learning, etc.
... buckets on learning styles.2. PLE - Personal Learning Environment, the new idea that people must now master their own learning as a consequence or as enabled by abundance of open learning technologies.I appreciate why we need to categorize people. There is, however, a temptation to make our "categorization tool" or method become the standard. We consequently lose our bearing and insist that people fit our models.I suggest, we encourage some skepticism in our use of tools ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - CommentsGet Social, Get Game and Get Learning! eLearning Guild's Summer Seminar Series
... lt;insert shameless plug here> Just wanted to let everyone know, so you can all run out and sign up now! now! now! - that Brent Schlenker and I are doing an eLearning Guild Summer Seminar Series that is focused on all things "2.0" and how they can be used to create powerful ,collaborative, learning environments. An outline for our session is available here - but I should also point out that Clark Quinn and Jeff Johannigman are doing their session on serious games aka Immersive Learning Simulations, immediately following ours - so stay for both!
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/18/2008
Half an Hour: Finding Time Stephen Downes, on finding the time to write online by focusing on using content from a closed environment and bringing it into the open. tags: writing, lifelonglearning, productivity The whole point isn’t to *add* online writing on top of everything else you do. Nobody has time for that.Rather, what you want to be thinking of doing is to gradually migrate to writing online *instead* of writing for those other purposes.That doesn’t mean you become a blog writer and nothing else. Rather, what you’ll find is that writing for the website ...
Experiencing eLearning - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsObjection #13: How Do You Measure ROI?
... these environments may not have a hard and fast ROI at first, or may be very difficult to calculate. The subjective ... quest for an ROI. Rachel Happe suggested some measurements of ROI. A lot of them are for environments that face ...
Engaged Learning - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsObjection #11 - Too Much Info
... folder structure to a combined file/folder and tagging structure. In the corporate environment it is a difficult switch because it is a cultural switch. Watch this video. It will explain how we have so much information that it cannot be effectively managed using the old way we manage. We have to change how we manage information. For this to be effective, we have to do two things. The first is to, obviously, start organizing the massive amounts of our information in a way that will allow us to find it when we need it ...
Engaged Learning - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsOn being a noob
... environment that was mostly traditional ILT, or bringing work in-house that was formerly outsourced. This feeling is nothing new though. Everyone reading this probably has a similar story. Some people might even think the original Noob + Archie was the best model. For me, this was just a moment of reflection at 5 AM (the time I weed, before anyone needs money or a ride) and a reminder to be patient with those that are just now getting up-to-speed on the state of learning today ...
Janet Clarey - Monday, June 16, 2008 - CommentsObjection #9: They Aren't Technical
... public facing Web 2.0 solution that triples as a Social Learning environment, communication tool and a Customer Support tool. Within our company the mantra is, “Our customers are not technical. They don’t know computers.” That never settled right with me. Something was wrong every time I heard them say that. So I decided to do a little digging. I did some research by interviewing our customers - the ones that would call into our Support ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsDoing what comes naturally
... case of the former (presentation in a web conferencing environment), what freaks me out is the complete lack of ... fact that what you're saying usually gets a favourable response in a face-to face environment. This isn't a problem ...
Clive on Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsMicro-Elements (Things) in Social Learning - From the ASTD International Conference
... presentation.Seven-Step Dynamic Process ⬠Web 2.0 to Learning and Performance1. Inventory and map your environment ⬠on page 27 of the PDF, there are four dimensions of Social and Collaborative Learning; we need to understand where we are and design a strategy. On page 28 and 29, knowing the nature of your participants, your culture, business demands and available facilitators are important.2. Narrow scope ⬠in businesses, you will be asked for results ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsVirtual Language Immersion
Great post by Karl Kapp -Immerse Yourself in Another Language. As someone who's always felt that immersion is the best way (possibly the only way) to really learn languages. While I like the new tutoring systems such as EduFire, the idea of putting someone in a virtual environment to learn the language is fantastic.I've mentioned before that I also think Second Life as a Learning Tool can be fantastic if you set up an environment like Plymoth Plantation - a recreation of Plymouth where actors playing the part of Native Americans and Colonists told stories and answered questions about ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsWikis for Improving Productivity
... advantage do you see to this environment rather than a structured document management? A: He had an idea of what he wanted to do. PBwiki was easy, especially for accessibility for multiple people to help keep it updated. Also likes using widgets; they have pictures from company events hosted on Bubble but viewable through the wiki. Q: How did you set up the template page? A: PBwiki provides some base structure. They customized and saved their own templates ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 06/09/2008
8220;Net Gen Nonsense” blog and George Siemens’ arguments that it’s the environment changing rather than the learners. Chris Lott argues that learners have changed in response to the changing environment; the ... important factor to consider when it comes to nutrition and try to teach proper eating habits in an environment that is ...
Experiencing eLearning - Monday, June 9, 2008 - CommentsTraining, Innovation, Learning Landscape, Interviews, Outsourcing, & Education
Learning, Training & Development - Defend Thyselves! - Elliott Masie in HR Management We have an obligation to create an environment where they can learn the skills they need to succeed and we have a critical need to create (and measure) the readiness of this tribe to take on tomorrow's challenges. The context of error - Cognitive Edge Innovation happens when people use things in unexpected ways, or come up against intractable problems. We learn from tolerated failure, without the world is sterile and dies. Systems that eliminate failure, eliminate innovation. The Learning ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, June 9, 2008 - CommentsV-Learning, The skills needed for success
... is not as relevant now.- What else must we do to modify and adapt to the changing environment- It is now almost ... that we can play in 3d personal space.- Good experimentation environment- Waiting for when people realize that they ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsObjection #4: Posting Anything, Including Bonobos
Objection #4 comes from those who are nervous about what content is posted. “We can just let ANYONE post ANYTHING!” Answer: Why not? What are you afraid of? This isn’t said in a condescending way, but really - What are you afraid of? That someone will post something in appropriate? Too late. Already happens (happened). The only difference is that you didn’t have any visibility into it. Story time When we launched our internal environment there were a few people who started a forum discussion. A couple days into it one person posted something that ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsLearning Gets a Second Life
... world by 2011!WebPages don't interact so well in the environment right now (still).Remember, one thing to create the environment. The other to develop the learning activities!- There is still not a good handbook.- Still nascent.Level 1 - guest speakers. Take classroom skills and import.- But have the addition of chat conversations.Level 2 - start creating games. Now more game design skills rather than straight instructional design skills.Level 3 - add multiplayer element to the game design skill.Killer ap #4 - Role play and collaboration- Cease fire islandKiller Ap - #5 Mixed reality meetingsKiller Ap #6 - Recruitment and new hire orientation- Get them to socialize with other peopleThere is only one barrier to Web 3D learning ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsKeynote Day 2
... metadata- Common architecture for multiple worldsUse Cases- Creating and publishing objects - authentic environments.- Creating activities and experiences - and want this to persist!- Sharing and using the designed experiences - with peer-reviewed quality control. But all levels can use and manipulate and experience.- Satisfying end users - do they feel empowered?Function of middleware (I hope that the slides are available ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsLight, Agile and Flexible
... production/creating - track and timeline, can be iterative, common environment.- recap / reflection(Yay! I got the LOLcat to ... that work well in a distributed 2.0 environment + Support diversity - different sources + Support autonomy - do ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsGames, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer
Exploring environments - where to first?- What are the most valuable activities?- What do I need to do to achieve goal ... need to build something complicated. + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters.- ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsGames, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer
Exploring environments - where to first?- What are the most valuable activities?- What do I need to do to achieve goal ... need to build something complicated. + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters.- ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsGames, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer
PacMan - some can play with eyes closed Gamer 3.0 - Myst - Exploring environments - where to first? - What are the ... . + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters. - Leverage Gadgets + If you need SOPs - why ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsGames, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer
PacMan - some can play with eyes closed Gamer 3.0 - Myst - Exploring environments - where to first? - What are the ... . + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters. - Leverage Gadgets + If you need SOPs - why ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsGames, Gadgets and Gizmos for Knowledge Transfer
Exploring environments - where to first?- What are the most valuable activities?- What do I need to do to achieve goal ... need to build something complicated. + can grow them up to match environment. Use different characters.- ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsIf an LMS writes a press release in the woods, does anyone but the edupunk read it?
... promote the use of a more participatory information landscape for learning environments, I think that we should be explicitly promoting this DIY aspect ⬠a sense that the information can be shaped and controlled by professional educators, and that sharing this control with students can be an appropriate, information-abundant, learning pedagogy. I do not have any real objection to corporate embrace of these tools ...
Janet Clarey - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsLearning for the New Mobile Society
... back into the environment? (The sensor to shooter loop)-------------Dr. Metcalf - Rank your site to see how mobile it is. mr.dev.mobiThink about becoming mobile producer as well as mobile producer.JOTT - auto-transcribe the information you dictate. Voice to text-----------------Judy - WiFi has made all the difference.Flash available on many phones.-----------Dr. Metcalf - it makes a huge difference with graphics in Japanese culture ...
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