Can't say enough good things about the resouces lodged in this site - you could spend all week looking through the place! Here are some examples....
Theories of Learning
Learning Resource and Development Center (LRDC)
Examples of Online Evaluation Forms
Spiral Development , Rapid Prototyping and Action Research
"Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal
education and lifelong learning. In particular, we want to encourage educators to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship."
What a VERY cool site. I have just bee looking through this article on
"chris argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning" from their Encyclopedia.
Of course, no sooner do I start thinking about how cool I am for having found some nifty new thing, than Jay Cross is actually making use of it! Resolution #105 - Be more like Jay. Anyway, Jay is using Flickr to upload some of his cool photos, symbols and models (think workflow models not airplane models). I think this one hurts my brain the most....
Two things:
Thing 1: I love it when I find a new blog that so clearly refutes all the naysayers who moan and lament about the dearth of anything good or worthwhile in the blogging world. Something that clearly indicates, in a 'hey look, there's a lighthouse through the fog kind of way', that blogging represents a new form not only of publishing but of discovering and of discussing. Not to heap too much responsibility on Dr. Nash here but her and her blog "E-Learning Queen" and of course her "band of instructionally designing cats" are clear points on a trend line that is certainly headed in the right direction - Welcome Dr. Nash.
Thing 2: Annotation is always a good thing. Like meta-data for the intellect. I have always wondered how best to depict and communicate useful annotations concerning the edu-blogs that I've found and follow. Susan does a good job here of taking a look at some of the best blogs to date. I wonder though, if feels like we need to start a Wikipedia entry on edu-bloggers so that we have a central place to collect all the glorious annotation of our edu-blogging universe.
A few weeks ago, I was whining about the challenge of doing both a blog and a newsletter (and sleeping and staying married, yadda yadda). So I got a reply from Scott Leslie, a wonderful guy who runs a wonderful blog, offering some insights into how to blend the two and those keep both going but maintain a lower workload. One great suggestion was to use Freelists to push out the newsletter - turns out that to link that directly to the output of my blog will take some doing, but I'm working on it.
Scott also said something that really got me thinking - to paraphrase it was something to the extent that a lot of what he was reading on both my blog and my newsletter were items that were covered elsewhere in the blogosphere. He clearly indicated that this was not an insult just really a comment on the nature of this environment. Scott was also dead-on, I have fallen into a pattern of checking the same sources for items and have been slack about adding new sources to my data bank. Part of this is a function of how much time I have to devote to this - I don't really have a lot of time to read a lot of crap so I tend to stick to people/blogs that I know are valuable on a highly consistent basis (like Scott's site and like Stephen Downes' site and like Anne Galloway's site and of course the multiple-edited BoingBoing).
So here is this challenge - find new sources and a constraint - use no new time to do that - enter NewsGator. NewsGator is the RSS aggregator that I use that runs inside of Outlook. My package includes the capability to add 2 keyword searches as RSS feeds and so I have added "e-learning" and game-based learning" to my personal blogroll. The experiment seems to be panning out - I am already finding things that may well have been found by others but which at least are new to me. I will of course continue to include those pieces found by the sites I have always relied on but, taking Scott's very gentle challenge, will also try to inject some new POV's into my coverage of learning and technology.
You can all thank Scott if I manage to find some useful items.
mark (aka Perry White)
Monday, August 30 16:00:14
(BizWorld)
A new e-learning tool has been launched by the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) which aims to make trading on the exchange much easier to understand.
It is accessible, free of charge, from the website's home page in the "learn more about" section. The new tool includes sections on the securities markets , IPOs, dividends, preference shares and bonds.
It explains how investors interact with stockbrokers, the various types of investment portfolios, how the stock market is regulated and how companies are valued.
ISEQ director Brian Healy described the new tool as "jargon free" and "user friendly" and said it aims to "demystify the working of the Stock Exchange and the investment world in general".
