Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. He wrote the book on it. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.
Here’s an oversimplified view of a learning ecosystem. Bear with me.
A learner interacts with stuff through what I’ll call pipes and with people through relationships. A net connection is one form of pipe; webpages and other information are stuff. Interactions with people and stuff lead to learning.
Learning with Blogs, Wikis, and Web 2.0 Tools
February 28 – March 16
Tuesdays & Thursdays
6 one-hour sessions + hands-on labs for $300
Contact us right away if you’re interested.
Sign up for this session and receive a free copy of Robert Scobel’s Naked Conversations.
Oaxaca is a spiritual place, infused with Zapotec culture and respect for nature, cut off from the Mexico of the Aztecs, Coca-Cola, and Mexico City.
On a mountaintop less than half an hour from downtown Oaxaca sit the ruins of a mammoth place of worship and community called Monte Alban.
This morning, hundreds of us packed the ballroom of the new Hyatt Regency Colorado Convention Center for the opening of TechKnowledge 06. Incoming ASTD president Kevin Oakes thanked the Rocky Mountain Chapter, advisory boards, hard-working staff, platinum sponsors, silver sponsors, planning committees, and others. Kevin and I go back quite a ways; Oakes Interactive was hawking training multimedia before the Web was invented. If I’m not mistaken, Kevin’s the first educational technolgy specialist to lead ASTD.
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Denver is beautiful. View of the Rockies from the 31st floor of my hotel.
The Colorado History Museum is a reminder that Colorado is more pioneer and cowboyish than Texas.
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be conducting a 75-minute unworkshop at ASTD TechKnowledge in Denver. Come on down. It’s in the Capitol Ballroom 5/6 at 1:45. My topic is Blogs, Wikis, and Self-Service Learning. Since I won’t be using PowerPoint, I’m going to stash a few pointers here.
Interesting Blogs
General
Business
Learning
Jay’s Informal Learning blog.
The new workshop series on today’s topics and more.
Informal Learning and the Web were made for one another. I want to show you how.
Join our online “unworkshop” next month and learn how to use web tools to improve learning effectivenss. You will:
I will personally lead five or six original live webinars. Fun is assured.
The first dozen people who sign up will receive free copies of Naked Conversations : How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers, the brand-new business best-seller by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
Tonight about 40 of us attended a Blogger Dinner at Taste of the Himalayas, a Nepali restaurant in Berkeley. It was too noisy to hear and too cramped to move arounnd. Steve Gillmor walked in, couldn’t find a seat, and walked out. I had interesting conversations with half a dozen people, a disappointingly small number for one of these events. Most folks were from Berkeley or Oakland. Scott Beale kidded that he hailed from the West Bay (AKA San Francisco). Steve Hill maintains a beautiful cycling/travel site.
Was this a Blogger Dinner or a Geek Dinner? Sylvia Paull, who hosts Berkeley’s weekly Geek Breakfast and hosts occasional Nerd Walks, seemed to prefer Blogger Dinner, so that is how I will refer to it. In the comments appended to the event announcement, I asked, “Is Berkeley becoming the epicenter of the blogosphere?” to which someone immediately responded, “It already is.”
These are the business cards of Reg Cheramy, a Canadian fellow who writes Web 2.0 Central, sort of Michael Arrington of the north. Get it? Tags. Tags are what makes Web 2.0 rock.
If you’re attending ASTD TechKnowledge in Denver, drop by my session at 1:45 on Tuesday 1/31, for a preview of the workshops I’ll be offering starting next month.
We’ll set up a blog, play with a wiki, talk about informal learning, mash it up with Web 2.0, and give you something to take back home.
As consultants go, I’m relatively cheap. Pick up my tab at The Buckhorn, and I’ll answer any question you can throw at me. Just look at this menu: rattlesnake, Rocky Mountain oysters, buffalo, elk (elk!), quail, and gator tail, served up in a saloon right out of Gunsmoke.
i love blogging.
i’ve blogged for five years now.
blogging let’s me say what i want.
it helps me think,
and learn.
talk, talk, talk.
silence, silence, silence.
talk, talk, talk.
silence, comment, silence.
conversation is the ultimate learning technology.
it’s engaging.
yet few people have the opportunity
to read the conversation of comments.
Informal learning is made for times of rapid change.
It also produces results. It is natural.
I just
completed my book on the topic and will be devoting
this year to implementing programs with
organizations daring enough to experiment. In
addition to hands-on advice, setting up experiments,
webinars, presentations, and consulting, I will be
developing some baseline measures of potential.
Take part in our five-minute web
survey. It is free. In
about a month, I will send you the overall results.
Welcome to Jay’s hangout on the web! There’s a lot underneath the hood here. I’ve been blogging more than a dozen years. Go to “coordinates” for a list of what to check out and how to get in touch. Don’t miss the Important Stuff collection.
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