1. BEtreat - a party workshop
(Blog/Blog)

Etienne Wenger and I are throwing a birthday workshop in Grass Valley, California.  It's a way of sharing our work together and pushing out the envelope. And having fun at the same time. BEtreat In 2008 ...

2. Following the White House
(Blog/Social Media)

... realising that there's more to communication than a website, email and making pdf documents available, it's important to realise that the online tools the White House are using are not in themselves an ...

3. Not blogging thoughts
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... online. Come back Dream Weaver??? Another reason for not blogging is Twitter, of course. It's so quick and easy. Once you've posted all your important inane stuff, what else is left to talk about? There ...

4. Communication toolbox - or ode to the pdf
(Portfolio/Toolboxes)

... activities and processes that can help support the objectives of a workshop or meeting and include: Yellow Pages Directory Social Network Mapping Evening News Online Tools Facilitation Samoan Circle ...

5. Toasting mother ship on Ada Lovelace Day
(Blog/Social Media)

... were thought of. It's because of you that when people tell me online tools is a generational thing I think they must be referring to the generation before me. You would be happy to know that I don't rely ...

6. Building competencies through e-learning
(Blog/News)

... Books Online.  They will also be blogging about the webcast in the Talent Development blog. I'm a little uneasy talking about e-learning in one hour. Apart from anything else, there are so many interpretations ...

7. Online space or a place to hang out?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

Today I was asked how to get people to use an online space that has been created for them. The group has all the tools and a facilitator - all in a cosy online workspace. So why is no-one posting a message ...

8. Thinking public personal boundaries
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... for blogposts, phone conversations, writing, projects, and mapping conversations with people who come round. Forget post-it notes. forget online notes... give me a flipchart. Getting things in big letters ...

9. Thinking calendars: iCal and google
(Blog/Social Media)

... use the one on my site to set up meetings with me (which I greatly appreciate). At least half the time I make a calendar entry I'm not online, so the base has to be a desktop calendar... ... Today, ...

10. Marketing authentic peasants
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... an article from Times Online about buying property in  the north of Portugal.  After enthusiastic talk about renovating old farmhouses and sharing tennis clubs, swimming pools and bars, the ...

11. Connectivity as place
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... you can get off the shelf. There is an idea that inviting people to subscribe to an online space is how people join your community...A community of practice is a social learning system, with or without ...

12. Some process issues about where we meet next time
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... of creating and developing online communities..." and Bev's paragraph on this: Moreover, the proliferation of tools, places and ways to meet creates new “heterotopias” (Foucault 1994) ...

13. Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice
(Blog/News)

This looks like an interesting online workshop - about strategies and tools for communities of practice - running between April 28 and May 30 2008. (disclaimer: I'm on the design team)  CPsquare ...

14. The world's most expensive cable connection?
(Blog/Social Media)

2000 USD a day for a cable connection at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa.   Don't expect to see me online in the last week of February! ...

15. Those myths about social media
(Blog/Social Media)

I still meet people who want to convince me that face-to-face meetings are superior to doing things together online. That's like saying that the phone is better (or worse) than writing a letter, or ...

16. Pró-Margem Sul
(Blog/Setúbal Now)

... that the Região de Setúbal and other online newspapers like O Setúbalense get Feeds for their site, while we wait for more people to be blogging about it.    ...

17. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... (often in a globalised context) designed practices (see the work of The New London Group). In our chapter on "Exclusion in international online learning communities" (2003) Sally Mavor and ...

18. Joe Blogg vs Right Tool
(Blog/Social Media)

I take my share of responsibilty for giving the idea that there are some "must have" online tools. But not any more...As Beth Dunn on Small Dots says "when you go in to suggest a... blog, ...

19. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

An article written by John Smith and Bev Trayner for the Elearning Conference in Montreal, 2006. Abstract: Weaving together online and face-to-face learning improves the quality of working in both media. ...

20. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... (CBT) which aims to promote specific and independent learning through interaction with software rather than with teachers can also take place through the Web site using online software.   Recently, ...