via Andys Black Hole: Are you seriously Mobile ??? In a post about mobile workforces, this quote caught my eye: “Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but which have the most compelling architecture of…

Today I participated in an Elluminate session by Alex Hayes on moblogging Some introductory thoughts and prompts from Alex are available at http://alexanderhayes.wikispaces.com/17082006 Before the session started we were sent some SMS and MMS messages which…

link to website This is a three page summary from Jay Cross about informal learning, accompanied by a great poster (finally worked out how to do ’tile’ printing after a few discussions with the printer). Everyone I’ve shown it to so far has given it rave…

link to website “Different Voices, Different Spaces is a collection of resources that features a ‘good practice’ model applied to voice technologies in teaching and learning within a range of adult education and vocational training settings. This collection…

Some of the workshops I run are about showing participants a range of tools that they may later, sometimes much later, implement. To formalise the offer of coaching and follow-up, how about giving them a ‘voucher’ for coaching - after a hands on session on…

link to website “After 41 years in the auto body industry, 27 of these as a teacher at the Institute of TAFE Tasmania, Denis Crowden decided it was time to pick up the tools again and undertake a Return to Industry placement at Elite Crash Repairs in…

link to pdf Social computing, personal broadcasting, mobile phone use, educational gaming, augmented reality and enhanced visualisation are the six emerging trends identified as likely to have a significant impact in higher education. This annual research…

link to word document From the Consortium Research Program comes this series of 15 case studies of good practice in VET from John Mitchell, Clive Chappell, Andrea Bateman and Susan Roy. These could be used as excellent discussion starters with VET…

link to pdf Following on from the seminar last week, the link above is to an interview with Nigel Paine that was published in Campus Review (8 March 06) Also here is a link to the presentation slides from each presenter…

This seminar was hosted by Aesharenet and John Mitchell & Associates. Held March 24th at OTEN in Sydney. Below are a few selected quotes, ideas and suggestions, more detail in the full posts here ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on…

After lunch Louise Turnbull from OTEN spoke to us about a case study “Using technology to do our business better”. Of the 38,000 students through OTEN, all have access to online learning support, and 3,000 of those actually study online. To get to this…

After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us. Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information…

John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder” new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals ‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your…

link to website Idea Champions is a consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, leadership and out of the box products. Since 1986, we’ve been helping forward thinking organizations unleash their collective…

link to website from Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users “One thing that could make a big difference [to training] Non-fiction writing: write conversationally Blogs: reduce talking about yourself by 80% (make up the difference with things that benefit…

link to website Good reminder from Ian Robertson of Rogers’ Theory of Diffusion of Innovation: “Diffusion of innovation theory posits that there are four factors that influence the uptake of an innovation: relative advantage; compatibility; trialability; and…

link to website Mental Space - $39.95 Tina Konstant ;Morris Taylor ISBN 1843040166 Format PaperBack Category Motivation - Business and Management Publisher Pearson Professional Education Publication Date 28-Jun-2002 Pages 214 more at…

link to website from BBC News “Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts. “I am predicting 50 years of…

Elephant Talk: Eno’s Oblique Strategies

link to pdf “Technology_of_cooperation” by Andrea Saveri, Howard Rheingold, and Kathi Vian Intro… “Emerging digital technologies present new opportunities for developing complex cooperative strategies that change the way people work together to solve…

Earlier this week I took part in a forum coordinated by Dr John Mitchell for the NCVER Project, "Critical Issues in Teaching, Learning and Assessment". Link to project page and papers One of the issues under discussion was innovation and how to create…

link to website Infrastructure of sharing in the commons Tuesday 28 June - Teemu Arina “What strikes me the most these days is that everyone is talking about sharing in the commons. There is an increased amount of contributions in the commons without any…

link to website “An open access, peer-reviewed, community journal on knowledge management in development - for and by development practitioners and researchers. KM4D Journal focuses on knowledge management in development. It includes diverse knowledge…

Index of /pdfs from the mindgenius website

link to website another book to buy by Howard Rheingold Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation.

link to website By Dave Pollard PART ONE “Four years ago I wrote a well-received paper entitled A Prescription for Business Innovation: Creating Technologies that Solve Basic Human Needs. I’ve updated it, broken it into three manageable pieces, and present…

link to website list of interesting looking books

link to website offer a 21 day trial - could be good one to try after mindGenius runs out.