Tried REAL live blogging today – thoughts on CoverItLive

I just tried using CoverItLive for the last online session I just attended through the eLearning Guild. You can see the results here of this blogging session and here for the session just prior to it where I did my normal “note taking” method. Brent Schlenker passed me along to it earlier today through his […]

ARRR Matey, Did Ye Know It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day

Just incase you haven’t heard the new yet. It is indeed talk like a pirate day. Find tons of booty (treasure) here: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html http://www.yarr.org.uk/talk/ (even has pirate ring tones…lol) Pirate News Around the World Swaggy: a scurvy cur’s ship what ye be intendin’ to loot!Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be […]

TripAdvisor is Donating $1mil to 1 of 5 Global Charities – Please Vote

More Than Footprints Campaign“TripAdvisor will donate a total of $1 million, allocated evenly among the Charities, as determined by the percentage of total votes that each charity receives during the Promotion Period. Each charity will receive a minimum donation of $50,000. The donation amount for each charity will be announced at http://www.tripadvisor.com/, and all other […]

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Looking for a definition & explanation of the term LMS Roles

We, along with some colleagues implementing the same LMS at different organizations are having difficulty wrapping our heads around the term ROLES. We tried to no avail to get the term dropped or changed to something that makes more sense to our internal educational lingo. I believe the term Roles is a common LMS term […]

Organization Structure? We need that?

Once again the LMS haunts me night and day. I should have bought stocks in Advil. Looking back at the implementation process and how poorly it has progressed is very much due to the fact that we do not have an HR system that properly or even semi-adequately has any organizational structure. Each staff member […]

I Love the World & Discovery Channel

…and I don’t care who knows it. If I could lock myself in a room and just watch the Discovery Channel and National Geographic all day, I’d be a happy gal. My friend jokes that they are my “nerd channels”. I just don’t care. I love watching them and learning all they offer. I saw […]

Discovering Your Brand

I saw that Christy Tucker was working through Michele Martin’s Web 2.0 Wednesday task to discover what was her personal brand. I loved the word cloud she showed using Wordle so I too gave it a try. Michele suggests that the top 5 words should give you a picture into what brand you are portraying […]

Learning Styles a Myth

I saw this on Brent Schlenker’s post who got it from Clive Sheppard who got it from Stephen Downes and wanted to place it here purely for my own future reference. Please refer to their posts for more thoughts/comments. I love that Brent pointed out that the video states the myth exists because we all […]