Sunday, November 23, 2008
State of the Blogosphere 2008
A colleague recently returned from a trip to Singapore where he saw a briefing on the state of the blogosphere. The presentation can be found here. It has some great statistics and numbers for anyone who is looking to build a case for blogging.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Technorati
This is something similar to what Tony Karrer is looking at doing specifically for the e-Learning field. Technorati is a collection of all of the blog postings on a variety of news topics. Sort of like a Blogosphere Gazette.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
eLearning Learning
If you want to stay up to date without going through the hassle of searching multiple web sites, blogging, networking, reading journals/magazines/books, taking classes, attending conferences...basically everything you should be doing, then here is a great web site.
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." It's particularly great for people who don't have an RSS reader.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Can an ex-NFL player just enjoy the game?
Can an ex NFL player go to a game and just enjoy the game like an average fan, or do they spend the whole time critiquing every last play?
In my previous post on the "quality" of training that I'm subjected to, there is an interesting revelation to be found. Note that I did not go into an all out bashing of the learning curriculum like I have seen so many other learning folks do. I've seen so many colleagues that could not get past the lack of ________ (objectives, instructional strategies, interaction, feedback, and the list goes on).
It makes me wonder if sometimes we as learning people are so caught up finding the negative things wrong with training, that we actually learn less than the average person does. I wonder how much of our cognitive load is taken up with thinking "how this could be better" rather than thinking "how can I get the most out of it".
This isn't to say that we should not strive to improve the learning. After all, that is the profession we are in and it is a noble goal. However, we have all gone through some type of mandatory training or training sponsored by an external organization where we know that our thoughts and comments will have little (if any) impact. It seems like it is these situations where learning folks may struggle the most. Sort of like an ex-NFL player who knows what needs to change, but can't get on the field to change it...maybe that's why so many of them turn into broadcasters and critics :-)
In my previous post on the "quality" of training that I'm subjected to, there is an interesting revelation to be found. Note that I did not go into an all out bashing of the learning curriculum like I have seen so many other learning folks do. I've seen so many colleagues that could not get past the lack of ________ (objectives, instructional strategies, interaction, feedback, and the list goes on).
It makes me wonder if sometimes we as learning people are so caught up finding the negative things wrong with training, that we actually learn less than the average person does. I wonder how much of our cognitive load is taken up with thinking "how this could be better" rather than thinking "how can I get the most out of it".
This isn't to say that we should not strive to improve the learning. After all, that is the profession we are in and it is a noble goal. However, we have all gone through some type of mandatory training or training sponsored by an external organization where we know that our thoughts and comments will have little (if any) impact. It seems like it is these situations where learning folks may struggle the most. Sort of like an ex-NFL player who knows what needs to change, but can't get on the field to change it...maybe that's why so many of them turn into broadcasters and critics :-)
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