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An introduction to social media - for learning and performance enhancement
Pretty nice table-of-contents style post that is in effect a handbook on social media. Jane Hart writes, "I am frequently asked for a link to an introductory guide to social media and its use for leaning and performance improvement, so here is my guide. The contents list is shown in the screenshot below. This is a social resource as it also provides the opportunity for you to provide your own experiences of using social tools for learning. You can access the contents page here." Jane Hart, Jane' Pick of the Day, July 7, 2010 10:05 a.m..

2 must-read blog posts
Jane Hart links to two posts citing the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus on memory. "Dr Ebbinghaus' experiment revealed we suffer an exponential 'forgetting curve' and that about 50% of context-free information is lost in the first hour after acquisition if there is no opportunity to reinforce it with practice". Consequently, "Designers need to get off the content bus and start thinking about, using, designing and exploiting learning environments full of experiences and interactivity." But not, I would say, simply to foster memory. Learning is not simply remembering. Jane Hart, Jane's Pick of the Day, May 28, 2010 3:47 p.m..

Understanding "learning" - some more thoughts
Interesting thoughts on different types of learning, from Harold Jarche. "In his posting yesterday," writes Jane Hart, "he now refers to learners as being Dependent, Independent and Interdependent." Well, I would define 'group directed learning' as a type of co-dependent learning, hardly removed from dependent learning, while other forms of organizational learning can continue to be 'interdependent'. In other words, being dependent as a group isn't much of an improvement over being dependent as an individual, while being independent is possibly only if you're no longer in a group. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, March 4, 2010 12:51 p.m..

25 places to find instructional videos
Because everybody loves these 'list' posts - so much easier to read than posts with sentences. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, February 8, 2010 3:03 p.m..

L&D still stuck in the course paradigm - how can we change things?
Clark: "Kirkpatrick has held back training for 50 years with it's over-worked, often irrelevant, statistically flawed behaviourist approach to evaluation." Can't say I disagree. This quote appears at the tail end of a somewhat disjointed conversation on the ASTD report described here yesterday. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, January 7, 2010 7:28 a.m..

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List
To me what's interesting is not so much the list as the page of winners and losers (especially the big losers, like Bloglines) over last year. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, November 16, 2009 2:14 p.m..

Raindrop
An announcement went out over the internet today about Raindrop, Mozilla's answer to improving email. "A central principle behind Raindrop is that messaging should be personal - we want Raindrop to be people-centric both in how we process messages, and in how we can help give people control over their personal data and experiences." More from Mashable. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, October 23, 2009 2:53 p.m..

Google Sidewiki
A bunch of people this week linked to Google Sidewiki. "This is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page." Some people are saying it will make the web lot more social, but I wonder whether it will be much more successful than the old Wikalong extension, which does exactly the same thing. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, September 24, 2009 6:52 p.m..

Google Fast Flip
Fast Flip is a nifty application from Google that lets you zip through newspaper pages one after another. The pages are not rendered; they're just images, so you have to click on them to go to the original. Still, I love the ease of use. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, September 15, 2009 6:26 a.m..

We choose the moon
I was actually around in 1969 and watched the moon landing myself. Just looking at this site sent shivers up my spine. We have too few great noble projects today. "Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon with this real-time interactive recreation of the Apollo 11 mission. (Currently in the pre-launch phase). You can even follow the misson on Twitter." You know, I hear those objections, to our wind-power program, to Obama's health care plan, to open education and free learning, and the rest, and I just want to look at these people and say we choose to go to the Moon and make the arguments about ROI and effectiveness and data-supported decision-making just go away. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, July 13, 2009 3:58 p.m..

Social Learning Question of the Day
I agree with Jane Hart, Kevin Jones has a great idea, but I am afraid he'll be scrounging the bottom of the barrel for questions after a few months of asking one a day (and just to make things harder for him: my shoe size is 10 1/2). Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, December 9, 2008 1:47 p.m..

Live Blogging at DevLearn
Quite a bit of stuff from various bloggers from DevLearn. Mark Oehlert covers Tim O'Reilly in a CoverItLive feed. Sitting beside him, Jay Cross covers the talk in his blog. Clark Quinn offers a concept map of the O'Reilly keynote. Jay cross shares his photos. Michelle Lentz Twitters the event. Tony Karrer covers the eLearning Research panel. So does Jay Cross. Wendy Wickham blogs dinner and breakfast conversation. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, November 13, 2008 9:30 a.m..

CaptureFox Movie
Jane Hart reports, "Capture Fox Movie is a Firefox add-on and a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer. It records your screen frame by frame. You can also record your voice." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, October 3, 2008 3:06 p.m..

100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to Follow On Twitter
You will never follow all of these people on Twitter, but it's nonetheless interesting to see the list. I'm on it, but I don't recommend that you follow me, as my twittering - by means of a connection from my Facebook status updates - is uninspired to say the least. Of course, if you wanted to follow them all, you'd probably want to use Tony Hirst's edu-Twitter Yahoo Pipes. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, September 29, 2008 3:19 p.m..

Freepath 2.0
Jane Hart reports: "Freepath 2.0 is designed with educators (and their students) in mind. With Freepath 2.0, users can create playlists of their content and then call up the content for a presentation when they want it. This content can be live websites, images, videos, music, pretty much anything. The audience sees the content you select, not your playlist. Then you can upload your playlist to myFreepath to share with others." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, August 11, 2008 2:14 p.m..

JohnLocker.Com
There has been an explosion of free or cheap online learning opportunities online recently. For example: JohnLocker. "The Smartest Free Documentaries Online. Educate Yourself on History, Science, Music, War, Religions, Politics, Conspiracies, and more!" But also, in my email, EduFire, which offers individual language lessons, or free flash cards. Or Spanish Pod, which advertised a 'guided subscription' for $29 a month. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, June 18, 2008 1:13 p.m..

Firefox 3
Jane Hart's pick of the day was pretty easy yeasterday - Firefox 3 has launched. I installed it on one machine, a Windows media box I (try to) use for film editing (unsuccessfully - the brand new Adobe Premiere Pro does transitions worse than $100 Premiere Elements, the video uploader converts perfectly good video to blank media on Google video, the machine (equipped especially to edit video) is missing .avi codecs, and the Dell XPS crashes frequently (actually - in the time it took to go from being a brand new machine to something that crashes a lot to a non-functioning brick (which happened today) my Linux desktop was rebooted once. Once! Because the power went out)). Anyhow, the new version of Firefox (which magically installed itself!) didn't run very well (somehow, I don't blame Firefox). More here with a link to BBC's coverage of the activity behind the scenes. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, June 17, 2008 3:16 p.m..

Meetup
I have a meetup coming up in an unusual location, and even though most people won't be able to join me on Gran Canaria I'm still looking very much forward to it. Related to this, I will be announcing tomorrow the most awesome contest in the history of OLDaily. Well, also, the first. But still, you won't want to miss this unique opportunity (no, it's not a trip to Gran Canaria, sorry). In the meantime, if you want to know what a meetup is, you might want to look at this CommonCraft video. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, June 12, 2008 2:14 p.m..

Http://Www.Groupboard.Com/Products/
As usual Jane Hart describes it without wasting words: "Interactive website tools for education, business and fun. Add whiteboard, chat, games, message boards, VOIP and web conferencing to your site by simply copying a few lines of HTML code." Groupboard. When I tried it, the software advised me that there is a big in OSX Java that causes Groupboard to run very slowly. Yeah, yet another quality Java experience. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, May 8, 2008 1:03 p.m..

Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008
As widely reported elsewhere, "The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, April 10, 2008 1:23 p.m..

Zoho People
This is very interesting. I've been creating slides on Zoho, but I never thought of it as a human resources services. Until now. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, March 11, 2008 5:44 p.m..

Learnitlists
Interesting. It's designed as a widget, to be used in social network applications. "The learnit widget will make the same words appear in a different order each time. You can flip them between the language you speak and the language you're learning. You can see them side by side, or hide them. Every time you do a search on the Internet, you can glance at them." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, February 25, 2008 2:42 p.m..

SciVee
It's pure dissemination-mode communication, similar in a way to TeacherTube, but SciVee is nonetheless an initiative to be applauded as it puts the practice of science into the hands of viewers for free. The content is licensed under Creative Commons. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, February 8, 2008 3:39 p.m..

CuePrompter
I like this. "CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, January 21, 2008 2:41 p.m..

Study Groups
Interesting use of Facebook to create on-the-fly study groups. Students can discuss assignments, share files, assign tasks, schedule meetings, and keep track of activities. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, December 28, 2007 8:54 a.m..

HumanBrainCloud
Um, hm. It pretty clearly works, even if it hasn't reached full-blown meme scale yet (I am only the 330,000th or so to play). The association bubbles it sprouts are spot on, and will only be more refined over time. The most prolific player is appropriately named 'I_have_no_life'. What do you do with the results of what amounts to a planetary scale word association test? Mass psychoanalysis? Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, November 20, 2007 2:28 p.m..

E-Learning Showcase
After listing new applications daily for a few months, Jane Hart is also listing e-learning 'solutions' that she has run across. This could be really interesting if it were run as a regular feature (though that said my experience from running the NAWeb Awards is that most e-learning is behind a login wall, safely hidden from critical eyes). Of course, if she were to post examples of e-learning on anything like a regular basis, she could well experience the application fatigue that is no doubt beginning to colour her Web 2.0 application perspective. When someone introduces a new product as "Yet another new launch. This one is an instructional video site. This is how they describe themselves..." can cynicism be far behind? Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, October 2, 2007 5:23 p.m..

IBM Lotus Symphony
The best comment I heard about IBM's new Symphony suite of (free) applications is that it is intended to make you forget about the old one. "Business, academic, governmental and consumer users alike can download this enterprise-grade office software, which is the same tool inside some of IBM's most popular collaboration products, such as the recently released Lotus 8." The Suite is probably best thought of as an update of the old Star Office, a Java-based set of applications intended mostly (but not exclusively) for a Linux user. I'm inclined to try out this suite, but they require you to register before you can access it, and you know how I feel about that - in my view, registration is a form of payment (especially since I'll be deleting the spam from here to Sunday). Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, September 20, 2007 1:40 p.m..

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2007
Jane hart has made the PDF of her Top 100 Tools guide available for download. The guide lists the tools by popularity and by category. There is also an alphabetical listing. The resulting listing is, I think, very precise. And what was interesting to me was that the listing by category is essentially a snapshot of what we would think a Personal Learning Environment should look like - a web browser, an RSS reader, a personal start page, an email tool, and the rest. Each of the tools listed in the guide is linked to a page describing the tool, with comments from the survey participants. Visitors are encouraged (but not required) to submit their email to be notified when the 2008 list is created. Jane Hart, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, September 11, 2007 8:17 a.m..

Research and Guidelines On Online Social - and Educational - Networking
I've been working all day on code, trying to speed up some functions (my website has been staggering under the load recently) and also to implement OpenID (which crashed my server this afternoon - it's frustrating to work with very badly documented pre-alpha modules). So I'm a bit hesitant to put too much into today's newsletter. So I'll keep it brief today, beginning with this item on the most popular social networking activities. Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, August 15, 2007 3:28 p.m..

Top 10 Tools
Jane Hart is collecting lists of Top Ten tools. This is mine. It's interesting to look at the styles represented. Jane Hart, Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, July 23, 2007 12:33 p.m..

YackPack For Education
Jane Hart has been performing a real service listing new educational applications (or applications that could be used in education). Today she highlights Yack Pack for Education. A YackPack creates a group of people that can converse with each other in real time or leave voice messages for each other. More. According to the site, "YackPack can quickly improve educational communication. Motivate students, give quality feedback with ease and communicate clearly with students, parents and administrators." And, of course, the appeal is that it's "a private and secure space that's safe from outsiders." Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, April 24, 2007 5:11 p.m..

ShowYourself
Interesting link to a widget that lets you post all your different identities in one place. When I look at it, I just see what a mess the web's personal sign-on system is. And, of course, if you are one of the selected vendors, you can't be listed by this widget (forget portable identities - there's a business model there if it gets popular). meanwhile, I have people over on the other blog insisting that companies work together. Who do they think they're kidding? Jane Hart, Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, March 22, 2007 4:05 p.m..

Applying the 80-20 Rule
Jane Hart asks, if "you have a £100,000 budget to spend this year, does that mean if you apply the 80-20 rule, you really only have as little as £20,000 to spend on formal learning? So what on earth do you do with the other £80,000?" It's a good question. And the answer is, of course, "access to 'learning' when they need it and just in time to do a task." But what does that look like? Because I access our organization's online resources basically never. How do you get people to look at them when they're needed, is ever? You have to look at the work flow. If you have a wiki, but staff have to stop what they're doing and open it up to use it, then they mostly likely won't. If you have a blog but staff have to access blogspot every day to use it, they won't. Because it's not part of their workflow. If I have £80,000 and worked in a normal office (ie., one where people start their day by opening their email) I'd hire someone to run a daily email newsletter (not once a week or once a month, because then they become Productions, over-engineered and not useful or habitual) linking to blogs, wiki pages and other stuff I'd encourage staff in various departments to produce. Jane Hart, Waller Hart, February 12, 2007 10:31 a.m..