When I attend webinars or participate in online courses and conferences, I usually live blog my notes. That helps me remember what I attended and what I learned, and it lets me share that knowledge with others. In a recent discussion about how I have learned about instructional design without getting a master’s degree, someone
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It’s time for that annual ritual of looking back at the year. Unlike last year, this year I’m actually reviewing before the new year starts. What did I do this year? A few things come to mind. In January, we officially launched Sakai as our LMS, marking the end of a long process of choosing
Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but
Full Title: Creating a Culture of Learning – Modeling a Vision for Technology Use in an Online Environment to Impact the Use of Technology in the K-12 System Liveblogged notes from the TCC online conference. My notes in italics. Summary: “This session will share ideas of how to create a culture of learning in an
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I’m liveblogging the webinar Growing in a Down Market with PBwiki. My comments are in italics. Presenter: Teo Mayes, CTO RMC Vanguard They used UStream for the audio, in addition to the typical phone line. I know I’m a little late to the party, but this is actually the first time I’ve used UStream. So
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These are my live-blogged notes from the webinar Emerging Trends in Collaborative Learning from the WebEx/eLearning Guild Online eLearning Summit. My comments are in italics. Speakers Heidi Fisk, Co-Founder, The eLearning Guild Brent Schlenker, the Emerging Technologies Analyst, The eLearning Guild How do you define “collaborative learning”? Brent showed his online profile in different places
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The folks at Common Craft have been creating videos for businesses. Their latest is for Wetpaint wikis, a site I’ve been exploring for our courses as a potential alternative for Wikispaces. This video is less about the technology and more about why someone would create a wiki: to share something they’re passionate about. Although it
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I’m not sure why, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion board assignments that aren’t really discussions. They’re galleries. People do an individual assignment, then they post their work to the discussion board to get peer feedback. It’s not that peer feedback is a bad thing, but really, are you actually having a
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This is Part 3 of my notes from the webinar Wikis & Emerging Web 2.0 E-Learning Communities. My notes are in all caps. Jeff Brainard, Socialtext Director of Marketing What to look for in a wiki easy to use create and find content integrate with other technology (RSS, multimedia, etc.) other ways to view information
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