Jane's Pick of the Day

Where are you on the LMS adoption curve?

For those in workplace learning, you might be interested in this posting on my Social Media for Working and Learning blog: Where are you on the LMS adoption curve?

Curated.by goes into public beta

After being in private beta for the last 12 weeks, Curated.by now goes into public beta.  The idea behind curated.by, remains the same.

"We are a growing collection of topics and interests, edited, organized and curated by everyone. A place that makes it easy to follow a specific topic or an evolving story, something that is still very difficult today."

Today, I set up a bundle of  resources on Social Learning.  You can find it here.

A useful tool for education, training as well as the general sharing of resources.

To find out more about Curated.by, visit, Getting started

Sliderocket HTML5 Player for iPad and iPhone

Sliderocket have just introduced a  HTML5 player, which means you can enable their presentations on the iPad and iPhone.

SlideRocket HTML5 Player from SlideRocket on Vimeo.

Find out more on the SlideRocket blog

Linkbunch : put multiple links into one link

Just heard about Linkbunch from one of the contributors to the Learning Tools Directory.

LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS, as in the example below:

Find out more: Linkbun.ch

UPDATE:

Tools come and go; looks like this one has come and gone!

Social Learning tools for the school classroom

Yesterday I gave a keynote presentation at a schools conference  entitled " The Social Learning Revolution",  where I talked about the impact that social media was having on learning both inside and outside the school classroom.

During my presentation I mentioned a number of tools that could help classroom teachers provide a collaborative "networked learning" approach to classroom-based learning. 

Although up to now I haven't  really focused on school-based learning, let alone social learning in the school classroom,  this is clearly a very important area, and I have been asked for some more resources in this area

So, today, I've begun by adding a new section to my Directory of Learning Tools called Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom - that is those tools and platforms particularly targeted at or useful for learners aged 5-18.  As this is a huge age range, the list is also sub-categorised as follows, ie tools suitable for:

Key stage 1 :  years 1-2, ages 5-7
Key Stage 2 : years 3-6, ages 7-11
Key Stage 3 : years 7-9, ages 11-14
Key Stage 4 : years 10-11, ages 14-16
Key Stage 5 (Sixth Form) : years 12-13, ages 16-18

But I would like your help to build this list. So if you are a school teacher (or a provider of social and collaboration tools for schools) and you would like to recommend a tool for the list, please do so in the comments section at the bottom of the listing (ie not in this posting!!), and I will add the tool to the page in the Directory'.  Thanks for your help.

BTW the Directory already contains over 2,000 tools in 12 categories.

Simplebooklet : cloud based self-publishing

There are lots of self-publishing sites, but here's one I just heard about that.

"Simplebooklet is a cloud based self-publishing platform.  It is the simplest way to create and publish your own virtual brochures, flyers, flashcards, booklets, pamphlets, manuals, guides and flipbooks across the web."

Take a look at Simplebooklet.com

Live #lrnchat at DevLearn

#lrnchat is a place for people interested in the topic of learning who use the social messaging service Twitter to learn from one another and discuss how to help other people learn.

Lrnchat takes place twice every Thursday: first at 4:30-6pm BST/5:30-7pm CET (11:30-1pm EDT/) and then again at 8:30-10pm EDT/5:30-7pm PDT.

I am one of the hosts for the early/European version and once we have scheduled up the questions for the session, I usually sit back and take part at my desk in my home office.

Last week, however, was different.  I was in San Francisco for DevLearn 10 - and most of the lrnchat hosts and lots of the participants were there too, so at 5.30 pm last week a number of us gathered together for a live lrnchat session.

The photo below was taken (with Charles Jennings camera) just before we got started.

We are (from left to right):

Mark Oehlert @moehlert, Harold Jarche @hjarche, Charles Jennings @charlesjennings, Koreen Olbrish  @KoreenOlbrish, Aaron Silvers @mrch0mp3rs,  Marcia Conner @marciamarcia, Jane Hart @c4lpt, Clark Quinn @quinnovator, Marty Rosenheck  @mbr1online , Jane Bozarth @janebozarth and Don Bolen @dbolen

You can find out more about lrnchat here - as well as read the transcripts of the lrnchats from previous weeks.  And if you haven't tried lrnchat yet - come and join us  tomorrow.

Wondershare QuizCreator

I am often asked about online test and quiz authoring tools.  Here's one to consider.

Wondershare QuizCreator is a Flash Test maker that enables trainers and educators to make quizzes for online testing. You can integrate multimedia objects into your quizzes. You can also track the quiz results and analyze the statistic report with the Quiz Management System (QMS).

Here are some of the features of QuizCreator

• Create online quizzes with 9 question types such as Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Matching, Sequence, Word Bank, Click Map and Short Essay
• Enhance the questions with multimedia items such as images, screen shots, audios (narration and text-to-speech), Flash videos and Flash movies
• Include maths and science symbols with the equation editor to create quizzes for Math, Physics, and Chemistry testing

You can find out more about WonderShare QuizCreator HERE.

Although WonderShare QuizCreator is a commercial product, you can download a free trial HERE.

[For more testing tools, take a look at the Instruction Tools section of the Directory of Learning Tools]

DevLearn 2010 - but no time for blogging!

I've been in San Francisco for the last week working with my Internet Time Alliance (ITA) colleagues and attending DevLearn, where I was invited to speak on the State of Learning in the Workplace Today (see my slides here). [Photo of this session courtesy of Jay Cross]

Although I've been tweeting a lot from the conference (see @c4lpt) and trying to keep up with what's happening in Facebook, I've not blogged at all.  This Forbes article suggests that it is a common trend, How Facebook and Twitter are replacing blogging. (Do others feel like this?)

Instead, however I will point you to some blog postings and photostreams from my ITA colleagues to give you a flavour of what's been happening.

Jay Cross

• DevLearn Day 1
• DevLearn Day 2
• DevLearn Day 3

Charles Jennings's flickr stream

DevLearn was a fabulous event and I finally got to meet in person many of the people who have become good friends online - there's too many to mention by name, and I don't want to miss any out!  One of the highlights for me, however, was live lrnchatting during DevLearn, and I will be writing a posting about that shortly ...