Please don’t congratulate me on something so inane

Had to complete some required compliance training recently – three web-based training programs to be exact … or to be more exact, I had three WBTs inflicted upon me.
Wish #1: Please, please, please allow me to skip the first lesson that has to deal with “how to navigate this WBT.” I already know that [...]

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links for 2008-09-30

Learning 2.0 Strategy : eLearning Technology
Seven Key Aspects of Learning 2.0 Strategy
(tags: web2.0 learning2.0 enterprise strategy)

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links for 2008-09-25

The Effectiveness of a Web-based Board Game for Teaching Undergraduate Students Information Literacy Concepts and Skills
To teach incoming undergraduate students information literacy skills, a research team at the University of Michigan School of Information developed the Defense of Hidgeon, a web-based board game. We opted for a game in lieu of other approaches because what [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks 23 Sept 08

Okay – so delicious and WordPress aren’t playing together well and I have to post these things the good old fashioned way … by typing (gasp!). Here are some sites that caught my eye and are now part of my delicious bookmarks:
Examples of eLearning 2.0: eLearning Technologya few common ways that I’ve seen eLearning [...]

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Do you play Free Rice? You should

Saw this at eLearning across the globe …
I started to play the FreeRice game awhile ago … admittedly haven’t been playing for awhile now. But after seeing this video, I’m going to pick it up again.

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Arrrr – Talk Like a Pirate Day be the 19th

Tomorrow is the annual Talk Like a Pirate Day (I don’t know who invented it, nor do I care … it’s just fun)
And for those who may be interested, my pirate name …

My pirate name is:

Bloody Roger Read [...]

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Pew study on gaming “shatters stereotypes”

So, gamers are not pimply-faced teenage boys who sit in a darkened basement all by themselves with no hope of social skills or ‘real’ knowledge of how things work in the world … <sarcasm> huh – go figure … </sarcasm>.
Pew Internet has just released the findings of a study that pretty much indicate the “game [...]

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Sites that caught my eye

Businesses Can’t Hide from 2.0: A Look at 2.0’s Impact Across Industries Today, if you’re not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies’ impact
on business, then you’re just not staying current. Period.
CoWordCoWord converts MS Word into a real-time multi-user collaborative word
processor. With CoWord, you and your collaborators can edit the same MS
Word document at anytime (the [...]

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“You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter”

I’ve seen this making the Twitter rounds … just had to blog it … too funny … give it a listen (yes, it’s a song)  “You’re No One If You’re Not On Twitter”

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Jay Cross explains it clearly – ROI of enterprise 2.0 learning

Many a corporation misses massive opportunities by demanding to know
“Where’s the ROI?” in cases where ROI is an inappropriate and
misleading indicator. Permit me to explain why.
And Jay, as usual, goes on to explain with clarity … giving me several “uh-huh” moments.
The ROI of enterprise 2.0 learning

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Something fun: John Cleese & genetic foundations

Too funny!

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Are we REALLY in the “learning” business? Really? (my Inigo Montoya moment)

Many favorite lines from The Princess Bride movie – one of them is when Inigo Montoya says to Vizzini, “You keep saying that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.“  And I had that line race through my mind in a series of conversations with some colleagues.
Some background … I’m [...]

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39% Unsuccessful Search Rate Among Google Users

Hmmmm … news about a survey conducted by Boost eLearning (a self-proclaimed pioneer in Google search training for organizations) indicates that 39% of Google searches fail, which leads to lost productivity. And it is apparently 40+ hours of lost productivity.

“Google is an incredibly powerful and [...]

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Do folks really really learn differently?

There seems to be a lot of “of course” replies to this question … where there are many assumptions made about differences between generations. But is this truly the case? If so, then what data can we point to that demonstrates this?
A commentor offered: Boomers learn differently than Gen X’ers. Gen X’ers [...]

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Something fun: the Peanuts & the Joy of Vid Editing Software

When one is bored and has a lot of time on one’s hands …

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Lazy Bloggers Post Generator

Too funny …

The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator

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Is it “training” or “information” or does it really matter

I can’t remember the last time I searched for a course in the organization’s LMS. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to the LMS to look for a training program when I needed to really learn something. Oh sure – I’ll go to the LMS to take an annually required compliance course … but that’s [...]

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Sites that caught my eye

Okay – so I’m not having any luck with synching my delicious bookmarks directly to the blog. For now it looks like it’ll be a manual process.
Here are some links I thought were really interesting:

Online Collaboration Tools – New Technologies and Web Services – Sharewood Guide Sep01 – Robin Good’s Latest News

Harold Jarche > [...]

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