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I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. So I’ve just rebuilt this year’s Directory – which still lists well over 2,00o tools. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools. MORE
I did that by putting it on the same directory at Searls.com as the last podcast already sat. But I can’t figure out how to point to that directory, or to replicate the process by which I made the podcast file appear in the first post. Hi, Liveblog fans. This post continues (or plays jazz with) this liveblog post , following my podcast learnings, live. As an old radio guy and an inveterate talker, I think I should be good at podcasting. MORE
We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking. MORE
RT @ MakeUseOf : Directory – Did-You-Knows: A Collection Of Interesting & Surprising Facts To Increase Your Knowledge [link] #. Tweet. A Tipping Point in Learning [link] Thx to @ alc47 for the guest post #. “It’s almost certainly the case that lectures have been ineffective for centuries&# A better way to teach, Science Mag, [link] #. What the Social Business Professional Gets Paid [Infographic] [link] via @ RWW #. The C4LPT Daily is out! link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools. MORE
I just checke, and the same thing happens with all files from all directories on all drives. Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set. MORE
Hiya, Summary: I solved the problems by creating the /Mail directory in my account on mail231.csoft.net and then rebuilding my mailboxes. The /Mail directory should have been created when the account was created 2. Documentation on how to set up mailing lists should be complete, *especially* the bit about running the command on a second server in the Mail directory 7. At that point, he would have noticed that the directory doesn't exist. MORE
At the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) I’ve provided a variety of free resources for many years now on workplace trends, technologies and tools – notably the Directory of Learning Tools and the Top 100 Tools for Learning lists. MORE
Jonathan Zittrain [twitter: zittrain ] explains the Facebook directory “leak,&# which turns out not to be a leak at all MORE
We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking. MORE
So,the bulk of Gary’s manual is a directory of the services you’ll need to hire. For $3 at a library book sale I picked up a copy of Releasing an Independent Record , revised 4th edition, by Gary Hustwit, published in 1994 by Rockpress Publishing Co. The short review is: Times have changed. Gary’s advice is that if you want to get your music out, don’t go to one of the existing labels. Start your own. MORE
When I was updating the Directory of Learning Tools for 2011, I reviewed each and everyone of the 2,000+ tools in the list. But there was one tool that jumped out at me as being importantly different: SimplyBox - described as “the only decentralized and contextual enterprise communication solution&#. There are a number of [.]. Tools MORE
Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life. Skype in the classroom brings together a community of people and information to save teachers time and help them make the most of Skype and the international teaching community. Teachers create a profile [.]. Tools MORE
reQall is not even listed among Jane Hart’s Directory of thousands of eLearning tools.). This free tool is so cool that I was surprised to note that I had not blogged it. Imagine I want to be reminded of something. I call reQall on my cell and say the date and item. reQall interprets what I said to text and emails me at the time I specified. You can mix and match what device you use and how you use it: Try it MORE
Certainly you could have a focused directory that knows who knows about this context, and perhaps an app that presents different options for context-sensitive trouble-shooting or repair (e.g. MORE
My friend Billo, diagnosed the problem almost immediately: I had no apache2 directory in /var/log/. To create an apache2 directory in /var/log: cd /var/log/. Last night I installed a new, blank hard drive on my MacBook. I installed from Time Machine, which went quite well. (I MORE
The Directory (of over 2,000) Learning & Performance Tools now has a new home [link] #. Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom [link] HT @ nharm #. The political party that wants to ban PowerPoint [link] via @ guardian #. Are activity streams the new "collaboration"? link] <Yes! it's as much about "flow" #. RT @ Quinnovator : Latest Learnlet: Checklist Manifesto: [link] #. MORE
Check it out for news, views, jobs, reports, research papers and supplier directory. After a lengthy hibernation, Learning Light ’s eLearning Centre rides again! From a press release yesterday: Learning Light has now launched the new look and feel e-learning centre. MORE
In my original post I expressed suprise that printed directories such as Yellow Pages had managed to not only survive but grow in the Internet age. Perhaps the post on the Yahoo Finance discussion board nailed it: “The latest Yell results looks like the end of an era and the beginning of the end of paper directories generally. MORE
Then, using gftp, I have uploaded the drupal archive from my home computer to the www/drupal directory. Again, if this were just an ordinary web account, with only one domain, I would have simply uploaded it in into the main document directory, www. This will create the full directory structure, putting all the files in the right place. I then (using the Linux change director command, 'cd') move to the www/drupal directory. to put myself in the main www directory. MORE
Specifically: when I defined the script directory for the gRSShopper scripts, I defined it relative to whatever script started first. A cron job is an automatically executed set of scripts that typically launch starting in the user's home directory. MORE
The biggest auto museum web site directory for the U.S. One of the interesting things one discovers driving through small towns all over the country is the number of them that have train museums. MORE
In the list of Live tools in my Directory of Learning tools you can find nearly 120 tools for web, audio and video conferencing, screen sharing as well as accessing/ building virtual worlds. I hope this might give you some ideas – and if you know of any tools that are not already on the list, please add the details in the comments below the list on the Directory page itself, and I will add them in. MORE
When we have an information need, we might need directories to people with various expertise (associated with Communities of Practice, presumably). A number of years ago, I discussed a valued model that talks about how we solve problems in the world. MORE
When I set up the installer for Reclaim, I defined the directory locations as relative locations. for the CGI directory ($Site->{st_cgif} in the code) and "." for the page directory (Site->{st_urlf}). Harvesting, Again I'm having issues with the harvester again. MORE
One is to use Image Capture , which will import them directly to whatever directory you like. MORE
So I edited it and loaded it in the main directory (on the to-do list is to make sure.htaccess is part of the out-of-the-box distribution). In the previous segment I decided to create a course with modules and sections, and set up the modules. MORE
Here are the links to the pages in my Directory of Learning & Performance Tools , which lists over 1,000 tools in 4 main categories as shown below. Looking for some new ideas for tools to support your work? Want to add or amend a tool’s details? You can do so here. What are your favourite tools for learning? Voting is now open in this year’s Top Tools for Learning survey. Please share your own. INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS. E-Learning Authoring Tools. MORE
It might be asking a SME via an expertise directory. I’m convincing myself that as performance consultants assisting our organizations moving forward, we need to start thinking differently. And as an extreme version of this, let me start by saying we need to start thinking ‘social’ first. When we’re facing a performance problem in the organization, our first resort should be to ask: “would a social solution solve this”? Let me explain. MORE
An interesting other cut is that you can do something contextual for any or all of these areas as well: you could provide a contextually relevant or local directory of mentors for formal social or collaborators for performance support. MORE
There is no KM directory but here are most of the Groups (in no particular order) that I have found: Gurteen Knowledge Community. By David Gurteen There are a growing number of LinkedIn Groups many of them dedicated to KM. KM Forum. Network of Intellectual Capital Professionals. actKM. CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum. For Knowledge Persons. KM Australia and Asia. KM Cluster. KM Edge. Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management Experts. Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals. MORE
I'm using CoreDownload Wallpaper Changer , along with my collection of tens of thousands of photos (three or four times what I've uploaded to Flickr; Core descends into a directory tree, while the others I've looked at depend merely on a list) to change my desktop wallpaper. MORE
Here is one of my first pieces, published in Reality 2.0 , a directory within my self-hosted Searls.com site. Then I went up to the internet level of the site’s directory, but found the Netscape view was impaired. (“Best viewed with Microsoft Explorer,” it said.) A week after this experience, I went back to Microsoft site and found its whole Internet Strategy directory much more Netscape-friendly and nicely organized. MORE
It presumed a directory structure, inherited from Unix (e.g. (Cross posted from this at Facebook). In Snow on the Water I wrote about the ‘low threshold of death” for what media folks call “content” — which always seemed to me like another word for packing material. But its common parlance now. For example, a couple days ago I heard a guy on WEEI, my fave sports station in Boston, yell “Coming up! Twenty-five straight minutes of content!” MORE
I just checke, and the same thing happens with all files from all directories on all drives. Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set. MORE
Beaker’s directory looks a bit like Github in terms of style. At the Web 1.0 conference , Paul Frazee. is talking about a browser — a Chrome fork — he’s been writing to browse the distributed Web. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned , people. MORE
Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced. If you’re assembling a far-flung collaborative team or bringing together a community of practice, here’s a way to help people stay connected. Yammer is like a private Twitter. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#. MORE
For years it buried radio station streams in an iTunes directory most people didn’t know was there — and then created a Pandora competitor with iTunes Radio. The old stream directory still exists, for what it’s worth, under “Music.” MORE
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) Directory of Learning & Performance Tools has been completely updated and revised, and each tool now has its own entry. It also includes new Like buttons for you to rate the tools and platforms listed. It has also been expanded to include a Services category – for both […]. Social learning MORE
The C4LPT Directory lists over 2,000 tools for learning and performance: . directory-of-learning-performance-tools/. Here is an updated version (V3) of the WSD Framework with more charts and descriptions, and now available as a PDF to download under a Creative Commons Licence. MORE
If that's not 2.0-ish for you, check out the directory which Go2Web20 created and posted via Scribd. WEB2~Directory~V2 - Upload a Document to ScribdHoly Social Media Batman! So you say you want some 2.0? Wel, Go2Web20 is just this mind-bendingly large collection of 2.0 sites. Incredible work. MORE
Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source. MORE
Here’s a list of free college courses available online , much of it open courseware. It’s a loooong list, I’m happy to say. Here’s a related post. MORE
Directory Related Topics Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. So I’ve just rebuilt this year’s Directory – which still lists well over 2,00o tools. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools.
Jane Hart
DECEMBER 7, 2015
The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) Directory of Learning & Performance Tools has been completely updated and revised, and each tool now has its own entry. It also includes new Like buttons for you to rate the tools and platforms listed. It has also been expanded to include a Services category – for both […]. Social learning
David Weinberger
APRIL 27, 2009
Here’s a list of free college courses available online , much of it open courseware. It’s a loooong list, I’m happy to say. Here’s a related post.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 9, 2011
In the list of Live tools in my Directory of Learning tools you can find nearly 120 tools for web, audio and video conferencing, screen sharing as well as accessing/ building virtual worlds. I hope this might give you some ideas – and if you know of any tools that are not already on the list, please add the details in the comments below the list on the Directory page itself, and I will add them in.
Jane Hart
APRIL 22, 2014
At the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) I’ve provided a variety of free resources for many years now on workplace trends, technologies and tools – notably the Directory of Learning Tools and the Top 100 Tools for Learning lists.
David Weinberger
JULY 29, 2010
Jonathan Zittrain [twitter: zittrain ] explains the Facebook directory “leak,&# which turns out not to be a leak at all
Jane Hart
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
When I was updating the Directory of Learning Tools for 2011, I reviewed each and everyone of the 2,000+ tools in the list. But there was one tool that jumped out at me as being importantly different: SimplyBox - described as “the only decentralized and contextual enterprise communication solution&#. There are a number of [.]. Tools
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
When I set up the installer for Reclaim, I defined the directory locations as relative locations. for the CGI directory ($Site->{st_cgif} in the code) and "." for the page directory (Site->{st_urlf}). Harvesting, Again I'm having issues with the harvester again.
Jane Hart
MARCH 2, 2011
Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life. Skype in the classroom brings together a community of people and information to save teachers time and help them make the most of Skype and the international teaching community. Teachers create a profile [.]. Tools
Jane Hart
MAY 14, 2011
RT @ MakeUseOf : Directory – Did-You-Knows: A Collection Of Interesting & Surprising Facts To Increase Your Knowledge [link] #. Tweet. A Tipping Point in Learning [link] Thx to @ alc47 for the guest post #. “It’s almost certainly the case that lectures have been ineffective for centuries&# A better way to teach, Science Mag, [link] #. What the Social Business Professional Gets Paid [Infographic] [link] via @ RWW #. The C4LPT Daily is out! link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools.
Jane Hart
JUNE 5, 2016
Here are the links to the pages in my Directory of Learning & Performance Tools , which lists over 1,000 tools in 4 main categories as shown below. Looking for some new ideas for tools to support your work? Want to add or amend a tool’s details? You can do so here. What are your favourite tools for learning? Voting is now open in this year’s Top Tools for Learning survey. Please share your own. INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS. E-Learning Authoring Tools.
Doc Searls
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
I just checke, and the same thing happens with all files from all directories on all drives. Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 7, 2010
I'm using CoreDownload Wallpaper Changer , along with my collection of tens of thousands of photos (three or four times what I've uploaded to Flickr; Core descends into a directory tree, while the others I've looked at depend merely on a list) to change my desktop wallpaper.
Doc Searls
MARCH 9, 2015
I did that by putting it on the same directory at Searls.com as the last podcast already sat. But I can’t figure out how to point to that directory, or to replicate the process by which I made the podcast file appear in the first post. Hi, Liveblog fans. This post continues (or plays jazz with) this liveblog post , following my podcast learnings, live. As an old radio guy and an inveterate talker, I think I should be good at podcasting.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
Specifically: when I defined the script directory for the gRSShopper scripts, I defined it relative to whatever script started first. A cron job is an automatically executed set of scripts that typically launch starting in the user's home directory.
Doc Searls
OCTOBER 2, 2013
For years it buried radio station streams in an iTunes directory most people didn’t know was there — and then created a Pandora competitor with iTunes Radio. The old stream directory still exists, for what it’s worth, under “Music.”
Jane Hart
MARCH 20, 2012
The C4LPT Directory lists over 2,000 tools for learning and performance: . directory-of-learning-performance-tools/. Here is an updated version (V3) of the WSD Framework with more charts and descriptions, and now available as a PDF to download under a Creative Commons Licence.
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 30, 2009
The biggest auto museum web site directory for the U.S. One of the interesting things one discovers driving through small towns all over the country is the number of them that have train museums.
Doc Searls
JULY 25, 2017
One is to use Image Capture , which will import them directly to whatever directory you like.
Doc Searls
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
I just checke, and the same thing happens with all files from all directories on all drives. Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
It presumed a directory structure, inherited from Unix (e.g. (Cross posted from this at Facebook). In Snow on the Water I wrote about the ‘low threshold of death” for what media folks call “content” — which always seemed to me like another word for packing material. But its common parlance now. For example, a couple days ago I heard a guy on WEEI, my fave sports station in Boston, yell “Coming up! Twenty-five straight minutes of content!”
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 17, 2013
An interesting other cut is that you can do something contextual for any or all of these areas as well: you could provide a contextually relevant or local directory of mentors for formal social or collaborators for performance support.
David Weinberger
DECEMBER 3, 2016
Beaker’s directory looks a bit like Github in terms of style. At the Web 1.0 conference , Paul Frazee. is talking about a browser — a Chrome fork — he’s been writing to browse the distributed Web. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned , people.
Tony Karrer
JULY 10, 2008
We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
MARCH 27, 2010
Check it out for news, views, jobs, reports, research papers and supplier directory. After a lengthy hibernation, Learning Light ’s eLearning Centre rides again! From a press release yesterday: Learning Light has now launched the new look and feel e-learning centre.
David Gurteen
FEBRUARY 11, 2009
There is no KM directory but here are most of the Groups (in no particular order) that I have found: Gurteen Knowledge Community. By David Gurteen There are a growing number of LinkedIn Groups many of them dedicated to KM. KM Forum. Network of Intellectual Capital Professionals. actKM. CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum. For Knowledge Persons. KM Australia and Asia. KM Cluster. KM Edge. Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management Experts. Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals.
Jay Cross
MARCH 22, 2008
reQall is not even listed among Jane Hart’s Directory of thousands of eLearning tools.). This free tool is so cool that I was surprised to note that I had not blogged it. Imagine I want to be reminded of something. I call reQall on my cell and say the date and item. reQall interprets what I said to text and emails me at the time I specified. You can mix and match what device you use and how you use it: Try it
Clark Quinn
JULY 18, 2013
When we have an information need, we might need directories to people with various expertise (associated with Communities of Practice, presumably). A number of years ago, I discussed a valued model that talks about how we solve problems in the world.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 24, 2012
Certainly you could have a focused directory that knows who knows about this context, and perhaps an app that presents different options for context-sensitive trouble-shooting or repair (e.g.
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
So,the bulk of Gary’s manual is a directory of the services you’ll need to hire. For $3 at a library book sale I picked up a copy of Releasing an Independent Record , revised 4th edition, by Gary Hustwit, published in 1994 by Rockpress Publishing Co. The short review is: Times have changed. Gary’s advice is that if you want to get your music out, don’t go to one of the existing labels. Start your own.
Nancy White
APRIL 22, 2008
In my original post I expressed suprise that printed directories such as Yellow Pages had managed to not only survive but grow in the Internet age. Perhaps the post on the Yahoo Finance discussion board nailed it: “The latest Yell results looks like the end of an era and the beginning of the end of paper directories generally.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
Here is one of my first pieces, published in Reality 2.0 , a directory within my self-hosted Searls.com site. Then I went up to the internet level of the site’s directory, but found the Netscape view was impaired. (“Best viewed with Microsoft Explorer,” it said.) A week after this experience, I went back to Microsoft site and found its whole Internet Strategy directory much more Netscape-friendly and nicely organized.
David Weinberger
JANUARY 14, 2009
My friend Billo, diagnosed the problem almost immediately: I had no apache2 directory in /var/log/. To create an apache2 directory in /var/log: cd /var/log/. Last night I installed a new, blank hard drive on my MacBook. I installed from Time Machine, which went quite well. (I
Clark Quinn
JULY 10, 2008
We've been building a professional-networking capability that allows everybody to put in the organization directory the skills that they bring to bear. Fortune Magazine interview with GE's CIO: Does social networking have a role within General Electric? We've gone out of our way to call it professional networking rather than social networking.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
Then, using gftp, I have uploaded the drupal archive from my home computer to the www/drupal directory. Again, if this were just an ordinary web account, with only one domain, I would have simply uploaded it in into the main document directory, www. This will create the full directory structure, putting all the files in the right place. I then (using the Linux change director command, 'cd') move to the www/drupal directory. to put myself in the main www directory.
Clark Quinn
JULY 9, 2013
It might be asking a SME via an expertise directory. I’m convincing myself that as performance consultants assisting our organizations moving forward, we need to start thinking differently. And as an extreme version of this, let me start by saying we need to start thinking ‘social’ first. When we’re facing a performance problem in the organization, our first resort should be to ask: “would a social solution solve this”? Let me explain.
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced. If you’re assembling a far-flung collaborative team or bringing together a community of practice, here’s a way to help people stay connected. Yammer is like a private Twitter. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
So I edited it and loaded it in the main directory (on the to-do list is to make sure.htaccess is part of the out-of-the-box distribution). In the previous segment I decided to create a course with modules and sections, and set up the modules.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
Hiya, Summary: I solved the problems by creating the /Mail directory in my account on mail231.csoft.net and then rebuilding my mailboxes. The /Mail directory should have been created when the account was created 2. Documentation on how to set up mailing lists should be complete, *especially* the bit about running the command on a second server in the Mail directory 7. At that point, he would have noticed that the directory doesn't exist.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 13, 2010
Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. You can find a long list of tools broken into authoring tools, games/simulations, quiz/test tools, social media, delivery platforms, tracking and whether they support mobile. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
The Directory (of over 2,000) Learning & Performance Tools now has a new home [link] #. Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom [link] HT @ nharm #. The political party that wants to ban PowerPoint [link] via @ guardian #. Are activity streams the new "collaboration"? link] <Yes! it's as much about "flow" #. RT @ Quinnovator : Latest Learnlet: Checklist Manifesto: [link] #.
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