Posted in Business, Collaboration, Community, Leadership, Management, Strategy, Teams on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve always enjoyed helping people. I think that’s why I started my career as an elementary teacher. While at times it was a challenging job, I feel that some of the most rewarding moments in my life thus far were experienced in the classroom or working one-on-one with my students. The feeling that comes with [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Community, Education, Games, Internet, Reading, Technology on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
eLearning, Community development, Technology, and Fun — all these impact and work together in changing the exciting landscape of online learning for the next generation. Often, I talk with organizational leaders who look puzzled when I start discussing the unification of these practices. Most take each of the areas above and put them in separate [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Game-based Learning on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The Brunel University School of Sport and Education finished a three year study of the effects and benefits of online games on youth. Their findings? That youth between the ages of 11-18 benefited from online gaming by developing key learning skills. Using the over nine million member RuneScape as their lab, Brunel noted the following:
The [...]
Posted in Collaboration, tagged blogs, social software on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Baseline Magazine has a very interesting article about how Proctor and Gamble is using blogs and other social software applications inside their corporation. The article is about 5 pages in length but there is value in reading through the entire article.
According to the article,
Roughly 600 employees author all of P&G’s 300 blogs, which offer personal [...]
Posted in Collaboration, tagged Collaboratoin, Web 2.0 on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Learning Circuits recently published an interesting article by Jay Cross, called Implementation 2.0. The article discusses how to effectively collaborate using Web 2.0 technologies. This article and others by Jay Cross are excellent resources into using Web 2.0 technologies for learning and collaboration.
You can find the Learning Circuits article at http://www.learningcircuits.org/0108_cross.htm
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