eLearning 2.0 – Go Do It : eLearning Technology
Funny just when I really needed it in my professional and academic career I was able to get the the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering. Then just when I needed some guidance on where to start and what to get excited about I heard a speaker there named Tony Karrer. I got excited about blogging, feed reading, and wikis and all the potential I could use them for in my classes and more so my workplace and where I want to take myself over the next year.
I got back from the conference and started this blogging and not only that but I’m keeping it up. It because a little addictive though. The more I read and learn the more I want to express and share. But I’m starting to realize that is exactly what Tony and Brent Schlenker meant when they said that the best way to start learning how to use it and what you can get from blogging is to just start trying.
I mention this in my online course recently and used this blog to introduce myself to the class. Many of the questions that came up from my classmates were most of the same ones that came up during discussion during the Guild sessions. It’s wonderful to feel a little bit like a SME even if you aren’t quite there yet.
Now I have been collecting rss feeds and trying to get through the mass that I have accumulated so that I can just concentrate more on the new material that comes in. But again, just when I needed more info on elearning 2.0 there is a post from Tony on his blog eLearning 2.0 – Go Do It. The timing couldn’t be better.
This is one of the joys that I am finding with feeds, blogging and the such; the learning truly becomes just in time. As I need it I find it and better yet it often just appears. What’s on the mind of you tends to be on the minds of others in the same collaboration space.