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Some accumulated thoughts…

Mar 5, 2010 5:35pm

I have had my head down cranking out the manuscript for my mobile learning book. The deadline for the first draft is breathing down my neck, and I’ve been quite busy with some client work as well. The proverbial one-armed paper hanger comes to mind. However, that does not mean my...

eLearning Learning

Feb 23, 2010 5:38pm

Just to note that Learnlets is now part of the blogs recorded in Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning. Tony’s made an architecture that allows blogs and articles on a particular topic to be aggregated and searched. As part of a Personal Learning Network for those in elearning, such a searchable repository is...

Proliferating Portals

Feb 17, 2010 9:02am

After my last blog post, a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information. Let’s say you are the Director of a company’s Education/Training department...

Formalizing informal learning?

Feb 16, 2010 7:03am

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question, asking whether we can formalize informal learning. I have to say, I don’t get the question. That is, I understand what they’re asking, and like the response they give, but I really think it’s the wrong question. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal...

Writing and the 4C’s of Mobile

Feb 8, 2010 7:03am

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning. My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning, where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. This time is different. The prose actually does flow quite easily from my fingers, but I find myself restructuring more often than last time. ...

Down on the iPad?

Jan 31, 2010 7:02am

At the Upside Learning Blog, this post (which I found through the CLO group on LinkedIn) proclaims that the elearning industry is down on the iPad. I saw several flaws in the argument and had to write this response: I have to say I think this is partly or completely wrong....

iLust? Changing the game

Jan 29, 2010 7:09am

Yesterday, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Apple released their take on the tablet computer, the iPad. Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying it’s “the most important thing I’ve ever done.” And that’s saying a lot. Like him or not, he’s changed the face of our digital...

Accessorize your brain

Jan 26, 2010 10:30am

It flashed on me last night. Jeopardy-style, the answer to the question is the answer to the question “why do/will smartphones rule” is “because ‘there’s an app for that’”. Let me explain. First, you have to be clear on what a smartphone is. David Pogue has tried to call the converged...

How I became a learning experience designer

Jan 25, 2010 6:12am

Not meaning this to be a sudden spate of reflectiveness, given my last post on my experience with the web, but Cammy Bean has asked when folks became instructional designers, and it occurs to me to capture my rather twisted path with a hope of clarifying the filters I bring...

What does the 20th year of the web mean?

Jan 23, 2010 7:12am

Gina Minks, who I know only through Twitter (@gminks), tho’ hope to meet someday, tagged me for the following Questions from On. Her post was immensely personal, and I have no such deeply significant experience, but I have been on the internet since before there was one, so I reckon...