(image via Communigations ) Riny Heijdendaal, Harry van Oosterveen, Dorine Ruter and Simon Koolwijk have shared some skype tips, so together it makes for a list of 10 Skype tips for the Advanced skype user. Here we go: Tip 1: You can add echo123 as a contact person to test your headset and microphone settings. When you dial echo 123 you will be invited to speak and the recording will be played back to you so that you will hear your own voice as a a person to whom you are talking on skype would hear you. Tip 2: Skype has a lot of short commands which make

This morning at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am PDT (GMT -7) I shared some of my ideas about connecting the formal learning in universities to the wider, networked world to a group of learning professionals at Tartu University, in Estonia. This was part of School - From Teaching Institution to Learning Space which took place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia.  During the conference you could watch the conference online http://video.ut.ee . First, there is always the challenge of plopping

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. Of Bodhi in Chicago (who has since passed on) who took this newbie under his wing and who gave me my online name of choconancy. “Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and  how they break and fail. You can try something and if it doesn’t work, learn, adjust and try again. I figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Learning Technology 2008 on YouTube The future of management → Adaptation February 10th, 2008 | general CLO, February 2008 Business firms evolve or die . Traditional learning is bursting at the seams because there is always more to learn and unlearn. The network era is crowding out the industrial era. Some organizations will not survive the journey.

I co-facilitated an online trajectory about dairy development with dairy practitioners (for Heifer in collaboration with Agri-ProFocus) before a face-to-face learning event in the Netherlands. In terms of impact on learning together I think this is huge compared to simply organising a face-to-face event. What we tried to achieve: The organizing team of three felt starting online As the facilitator team of 3 we took an hour to look back at the process and formulate our lessons. I

(This is cross-posted from my blog on Learning Alliances .) You probably already know that Skype is a great tool – especially for community leaders. That experience affects usability, learning and collaboration. Although most people probably think of Skype as a personal or individual tool, it is complex enough to demonstrate the issues If you are a technology steward, it’s not only a great tool but it’s also a handy example for illustrating some of the use and integration issues that we have to deal with and be able to talk about. To really talk about how to use

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← McKinsey’s Global Survey on Enterprise 2.0 The key to the effective enterprise → Social Network Dreamtime August 2nd, 2008 | general This aboriginal painting in Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia, stopped me in my tracks. Social Network Dreamtime [...] #9 Accelerating innovation — Informal Learning Blog on 02.06.09 The label said the artist’s intent was a bit murky.

You probably already know that Skype is a great tool – especially for community leaders. That experience affects usability, learning and collaboration. Although most people probably think of Skype as a personal or individual tool, it is complex enough to demonstrate the issues involved in understanding a community platform. If you are a technology steward, it’s not only a great tool but it’s also a handy example for illustrating some of the use and integration issues that we have to deal with and be able to talk about. To really talk about how to use a tool we need to be

Claroline is an open source e-learning environment, where workshops can be shaped and participants supervised. We’ll have to remember this.” Skype “Skype has been used here at MDF for a while. My colleagues got very enthusiastic about it as soon as they heard about the application and everybody started to use Skype. What is Claroline? What are the features of Claroline?

Informal Learning Blog home archives about ← Out of sight, out of mind Marc, Allison, Jay, New York, Free, March 25, 8:30 thru cocktail hour → Time to change centuries February 20th, 2008 | change JAY CROSS CHALLENGES THE CURRENT PARADIGMS OF BUSINESS AND LOOKS AT HOW TECHNOLOGY AND THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE IS TRANSFORMING LEARNING Business firms evolve or die. The organisations’ challenge is to achieve the right balance, applying command-and-control