After or while reading, do a cookie game and you will learn and see a personal impact and meaning. Ray’s request. Jane McGonigal with Institute for the Future has researched and developed alternate games that make people move games from…
Saving the World Through Game Design
Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference. Preview the video – it is inspiring to have newer ways of thinking about the future. http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2008/mcgonigal Ray Jimenez, PhD…
Phoenix Mars Lander Successful Landing – Genius
Congratulations to the NASA, JPL and Caltech teams. It is a great pleasure and joy to see JPL and Caltech teams realize their dreams. I am based in the Pasadena area and often meet, interact and have conversations with some…
Widgets Conference 2008
Stay tuned for the Widget Summit http://widgetsummit.com/ Check some of the sessions and speakers. Although this may seem too geeky for the average trainer and learning officer, this illustrates how organizations continue to make our lives better with improved widgets…
Welcome to the LOL Social Networking Program
Do You Know Your Blog’s Reach?
I have been doing my blog primarily for personal learning and sharing. I rarely asked if people read my blogs. Curiosity got to me so I tried three Web 2.0 tools that provide a feel on the type of audience…
“If You Believe in Computers Too Much, You Lose Touch with Reality.” — “Joseph Weizenbaum: An Appreciation” – Inventor of Eliza
“What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world?” In Nick Carr’s blog, he expressed appreciation for Joseph Weizenbaum, the inventor of Eliza, who…
No Physical Space, No Constraints – Video on Information Revolution
Another one of Michael Wesch’s short video presentations. A wonderful way of summarizing what profound impacts digital technology has on the way we live, learn and play. An interesting way to understand the value of social networking. Ray Jimenez, PhD…
Lotus Connections – IBM’s Social Collaboration
The two videos provide you an overview of Lotus Connections. This is helpful for those who wish to have an inside look on how social networking is applied in Enterprise 2.0 applications. To see the full view of the presentation,…
Are You Coming to Bed? Someone is Wrong on the Internet.
I grabbed this image from Alan Pepofsky’s blog. One can not be the all time 24/7 police of content accuracy — which many of us in learning and train oftentimes want to do. I am guilty of sometimes being a…
Listing of Business and Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking
Listing of Business and Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking andCollaborative Applications Ringsidenetworkshttp://www.ringsidenetworks.com/ Enterprise Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/ SharePoint (Wiki, Social Network Systems)http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/prodinfo/what.mspx SocialText (Wiki)http://socialtext.com/ LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/ Widgetshttp://grazr.com/popular Cisco and TribeNethttp://losangeles.tribe.net/welcome Leverage Softwarehttp://www.leveragesoftware.com/ IBM’s Lotus Connections (Profile, Blog, Wiki, Social Bookmarking, Social Network Systems)http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/ ConnectBeam (Social…
Really Cool “3-Minute e-Learning” on Social Networking – Wiki, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, RSS
Tony Karrer spotted Commoncraft’s interesting presentations. I find the snippets from Commoncraft very illustrative of the “3-Minute e-Learning” application points. They are short and wacky but effective. I am sure it is low budgeted as well. The topics on Social…
Wired article – “Doing everything right by doing everything wrong”
This is an interesting article from Wired Magazine on “How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong” – how Steve Jobs’ leadership style is often in contrast to traditionally accepted norms. The part that interests me the most is…
PLE – Personal Learning Environment – supporting learning as a lifestytle
This is a slideshow of Graham Attwell which I thought coverssome of the essentials what PLE (Personal Learning Environment)will continue to present opportunities for a new way of learning. View Upload your own Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com“Helping Learners Learn Their…
My 30 Wacky Videos – Leveraging YouTube Videos & Embedding Ability
In the spirit of wackiness and rapid e-learning, I published a few of my “Wacky Videos” – done a year ago – in YouTube. This was a test. A few people sent emails asking for more. So I decided to…