Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance
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It’s out
October 26th, 2006 — results, tools
Too much 2.0?
October 25th, 2006 — tools
Take a look at The Museum of Modern Betas. I just invested an hour with one of these, Thumbstacks!
Thanks to Steve Rubell for the link.
TagCrowd: for spotting what’s important
October 21st, 2006 — general, tools
Here’s a cool way to visualize important words in text. This is the tag cloud for the first 20% of Informal Learning. The more repetitions, the larger the font. Paste in 100K of text or upload it.
book business calls change chapter communities companies connections conversation corporate costs creating display don effective everything faster formal future going image individual informal insert job knowledge learning less life management measure network organization people performance programs re results school social someone space text things training value work workers world years
SlideShare #2
October 11th, 2006 — general, tools
I love the web. If something’s askew, you can get in touch and get it fixed. This rarely happened in the days you had to mail in complaints via snail mail.
Post before last, I mentioned having trouble with SlideShare, the new YouTube of PowerPoints.
We’ve got to start meeting like this
October 9th, 2006 — general, tools
CLO Magazine, October 2006, Effectiveness
Admission and travel to conferences claim a significant amount of many corporations’ investment in learning. That’s why CLOs need to be aware of a fresh alternative that costs less and works better.
Professionals attend conferences to learn things, yet conference participants often say they learn more in the hallway than in formal sessions. Unconferences bring the hallway conversations back into the main tent by handing control to participants instead of experts on stage.
Social Intelligence
October 2nd, 2006 — general, results, tools
Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence (1996) was delightful. Its topic shares common ground 
with informal learning. Both are about behavior that’s right under our noses. When you hear the backstory, it seems so obvious you wonder why you hadn’t made the connections before. Both say we’ve been barking up the wrong tree, Goleman that the human medium is the message and I that most real learning happens outside of class.
Emotional Intelligence was such a great concept that I’m surprised I became bored with it, choosing to follow the wisdom but not the continuing literature: Working with Emotional Intelligence, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, Emotionally Intelligence Parenting, The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace, Destructive Emotions, and others.
Informal Learning price reduced
September 24th, 2006 — general, results, tools
First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in my “How much would you pay?” poll. I’ll be sending a couple of you free copies of the book.
My publisher, Pfeiffer, takes you at your word. The sticker price has been lowered to $40.
Informal Learning
Microsoft is not Google
August 29th, 2006 — tools
The pundits are at it again, reporting from ringside on a fantasy fight between Google and Microsoft Office as if they’re in a boxing match. In fact the fighters are not even in the same ring. In today’s Unworkshop we discussed each company’s offerings. Continue reading →
Skypecasts! Free web conferencing for a hundred participants
June 19th, 2006 — tools, unworkshops
Participants in our Unworkshops learn about using the web to support learning by jumping in and trying things. Our current group includes participants in Italy, Austria, Denmark, Australia, and across North America. Since we want to demonstrate technology that our alumni can use to prototype applications with their clients, we’re always on the prowl for free or nearly-free software and services.
Learningscaping 101
June 18th, 2006 — general, tools, unworkshops
Patterns in the Clouds: Some Thoughts on Not Being Completely Wrong about PLEs is a charming position paper by Mike Malloc about personal learning environments, the wrong-headed notions about Learning Objects, and the importance of small pieces, loosely joined:
Respect the web2.0 way
In any work on PLEs, let’s be very careful to learn from the simplicity, clarity, user-centricity, restraint and attention to detail that characterise web2.0. The good systems-effects only emerge when usage becomes rich and plentiful - and that depends on an ecology in which the individual parts are simple, focused and easy to get along with, and in which the interoperability architecture makes very lightweight demands on its citizens. Small pieces, loosely joined. Small APIs. Small steps. And remember to make it shiny :o)
