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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

This is a tool you use to react to something you see, hear or do and an opportunity to create a voice. People want to learn something from you. Retweet – A great way to find your own voice is to use existing information (other people’s Tweets) and tell others what you think about it. I think of Retweets as blog comments.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

If you had to choose an eLearning provider solely on the basis of samples, and one gave you a module with just text, and the other gave you a module with text and a voice-over provided by professional talent, you’d be likely to think the latter represented the better product. Think about it. And you’d be wrong. Properly d.

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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.

Dashe & Thomson

and “Voice-over recording use a telephone?(Brainshark) Many long-time training professionals will look at content generated by tools like Mindflash and Brainshark and protest with statements like: “But all they’re doing is stringing together Powerpoint slides, (Mindflash) how is that training?”, Brainshark) Are you kidding? Properly d.

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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). She authors the blog Wishful thinking in medical education , which she uses to advance thinking about the training of student doctors.

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Bob Mosher on Informal Learning and Performance Support

Learning Visions

Informal Learning: Are We Missing a HUGE Opportunity? with Bob Mosher of Learning Guide Solutions, presented by Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI and sponsored by Kineo. Not that different from a learning portal, but this has a methodology. This real-live event happened October 21 in Westford, MA.

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Our Many Hats

eLearning Cyclops

Social Media (SoMe) expert and Informal Learning Catalyst - Sometimes I''m the go to guy to coach staff on utilizing SoMe or I''m the guy implementing informal/social learning. Sound Engineer and Voice Talent - Oh how I wish I had a budget for voice talent and a professional studio.

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eLearning Cyclops: Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally.

eLearning Cyclops

Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally Assess Its Impact #LCBQ. This months Big Question at Learning Circuits is regarding assessing the impact of informal learning. If you have identified specific things staff have learned and applied, look for how it has impacted the organization (results).