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Page of Digital Storytelling Resources prepared for a workshop at MCLI

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Denham Grey writes: “My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices. Have come to appreciate the role, value and importance of social learning, situated learning, learning in community and culture. That more is learned on the playing fields […]

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“Images Canada — the gateway to images of Canadian events, people, places and things!
Search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada. Type a keyword in the search box, select the number of images you want displayed per page, then press “Go”. Follow an Image Trail or browse through […]

This report by Roger Harris, Michele Simons, Berwyn Clayton is available online from NCVER.
Reading this report, many of the challenges felt familiar to comments I have heard in the VET sector. The challenges foreseen by VET practitioners who were interviewed haven’t changed dramatically, but the importance of them in the ‘urgency’ scales has shifted. Predictions […]

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As someone who has worked in virtual teams, some tools to do it better are always welcome.
Dave Pollard’s article outlines different types of collaboration in the world of work, as well as a matrix outlining the advantages of various styles of tools (as opposed to naming software tools he talks about the […]

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From Steve Brooks at edugadget.com:
“podcasting tools are quickly evolving
What:Podcasting tools are evolving quickly and it may be time to stop panicking and start embracing it. I wrote about podcasting 42 days ago and basically said the tools weren’t easy enough to use for non-techies. That is changing quickly and will continue to change […]

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James Farmer discusses the alternatives to large systems for recording lectures. This comes from a Higher Ed background where the lecture is a common instructional method, but the issues have implications for the use of audio in all sectors. He writes:
“-A lecture delivered to a theatre is utterly and totally different to the […]

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Via James Farmer, a link to “(My) 7 guidelines for effective corporate e Learning” by Anol Bhattacharya.
The first being:
1. The business world is not about learning, it’s about doing business.

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Talsico makes a software product which helps generate ‘picture process maps’. Material is represented in flowchart, step by step (text) and photo means. Icons and colour are used for common elements between process maps. The final output is a .doc format. From the samples on the website the section headinsgs and some layout […]

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in this article from the NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory (US), comes a summary about skills that self directed learners which are: student motivation, metacognition, self-efficacy, self-regulation, locus of control, and goal orientation and what can be done to develop these skills through instruction (an interesting choice of words, but taken from the article)

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From Jakob Nielsen
“Lower-Literacy Users
Summary:
Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.
We’ve known since 1997 how most users read on the Web: they scan […]

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From Derek Morrison at Auricle
“In previous Auricle articles I’ve alluded to the Internet and intranets as e-learning filling stations and, so, I thought it was time to engage with podcasting as one way of ‘filling up’. For this article I was particularly interested in tracking down podcasts and raw MP3 files with high […]

From Steve Denning’s website at http://www.stevedenning.com I downloaded the first chapter of an upcoming book The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling (pdf file ).
Having recently been in planning meetings and an initital meeting of a Community of Practice at which the need for ‘new’ stories was discussed, re-reading this today was timely. Denning highlights the […]

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from Godfrey Parkin
“In recent posts I have talked about the power of informal learning, and wondered why learning professionals conspicuously ignore the potential for performance improvement that it offers. Now that the kind of human interactions that make informal learning so effective are being facilitated by the Internet, the relevance and impact of […]

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From the site: What’s a PodGuide?.
“A PodGuide is a very simple thing. It’s the combination of a map (PDF) of a certain place and a series of audio tracks (mp3) which you can download for your iPod. Think of an audio tour in a museum, but not limited to just that. You could […]