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As part of my talk Moving from Training to Collaborative Learning I talked about how to reinforce learning in a seminar by following it up with assignments and discussion.  If you came to the talk and would like to participate in that, or if are interested in the topic.  Please fill-out the comment info below, and I will include you on some e-mailed assignments to help with the follow up and reinforcement of the session.  This will provide a nice Blended Learning solution for our talk. 

There was also some talk about doing a Second Life meeting in the future.  That is new for me, so if you are interested, let me know and we can set something up.  It is always fun to try out new technologies for learning and collaboration.

I saw this great video during a discussion about how we all learn informally.  It was part of a discussion about how we (meaning the participants at the talk) would research Web 2.0.  I like it because it really shows you examples of things in such an innovative way.  The fact that it is the top video on You Tube when you search for “Web 2.0″ and is #6 on Google for the same search is pretty impressive.  So maybe you have seen it already, but if not, it is a must watch video.

Today at the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering a number of people asked if I would post my handouts.  They claimed that they couldn’t make my presentation on Moving from Training to Collaborative Learning and wanted a copy of the handouts.  You should know that the handouts don’t really stand on their own really well.  You miss all the hand gestures and discussion that happens during the presentation.

But, in the interest of Collaborative Learning, you can download them, and then post your comments and questions here and we can get a discussion going.  In fact, if enough people are interested, we can do follow-up exercises from the talk and use some of the collaboration tools that I discuss to help further define the topic. 

Okay, here it is “unfiltered” as Lance suggested.  He is now branding himself as a “Creative Abrasionist” and tonight I got my share.  I ran into Lance at the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering tonight and we started a discussion about why he stopped blogging.  And then, as an “abraisionist” he immediately challenged me to see who’s blog “sucked more.”  Lance killed his blog because he just didn’t feel he was up to the task.  He told me that mine was bad because I filter it too much and that I really need to just put stuff out there and see what sticks.  We both agreed that Jay Cross’ blog is one of the better one in the “e-Learning” space.  But why aren’t there any better ones?

Lance is convinced that “blogs” need to be “unfiltered” and opinionated, which is similar to what my blog mentor says about negativity.  I think they can be more focused and don’t need to have postings every day.  Who is right?

I can post a ton of stuff if I just link to other blogs and resources, but is that worth anything to people who come to my site?  Or is it better for my site to be a corporate website with a number of “articles” that are posted from time to time when I find something useful?

If you are reading this, you came here for a reason, so please click on the comment button and let me know.  I’m convinced I can’t suck as much as Lance.