As an Instructional Designer/Trainer, I’m always looking for ways to help others learn new concepts both in and out of the classroom. In this post, I’ll focus on how you might use Twitter in your classroom to increase interaction and make learning fun! Setup a Twitter Account: To get started, setup your own Twitter account [...]
Archive for the ‘web 2.0’ Category
I was recently talking to a friend of mine regarding how to increase the readership of my blog. He said, “It just takes time…” Well, in the interest of increasing traffic to this blog, I’ve decided to do a little research to further this process along. First, it’s important to get a baseline measurement of [...]
Social Learning Champion vs. Network/Security Administrator
Posted: April 2, 2008 in RSS, web 2.0, web 2.0 securityOn the BlogCascadia website, there is an article written by Kevin Jones. The article summarizes a session held by Tony Karrer at TechKnowledge 2008. The article documents things that can get in the way of social learning implementations. Firewalls, IP, Privacy, Security, Control of information by management, Strict control over policies – Accuracy, Liability / [...]
Collaboration What an interesting word! Many years ago, I was a master scheduler who worked with production managers, warehouse supervisors and purchasing departments to ensure we manufactured the appropriate number of products to keep our customers happy and our inventory low. Back then, the buzz word was “JIT” or “just-in-time” production. This term, coined by [...]
This morning, I read an article on MSNBC that discussed one CEOs approach to solving the problem of information overload . The article focused on some of his new directives. Here are just a few highlights from the article that I found interesting: He stopped checking his email every minute and started checking it twice [...]
