2010: My blogging year recapped

As 2010 draws to a close, I thought I’d take a moment to recap my blog posts during the year.

I hope you take the opportunity to read any that you may have missed.

Oh, and please leave a comment or two or three…!

Learning theory & instructional design

•  Taxonomy of Learning Theories
•  Theory-informed instructional design tips
•  The two faces of blended learning
•  Style counsel
•  Art vs (Information) Science

Informal learning

•  My award-winning IQ
•  Online courses must die!
•  The ILE and the FLE in harmony
•  How to revamp your learning model
•  Open Learning Network vs ILE

Social media

•  Social media: It’s not about the technology!
•  Social media: Prevention is better than cure
•  The 4 lessons Kid Fury teaches us
•  I stand corrected
•  How not to do social media
•  Why Gowalla should merge with Foursquare
•  Sharing is caring

Knowledge management

•  Art vs (Information) Science
•  Erin doesn’t get it

Government 2.0

•  London, New York, Parramatta
•  I stand corrected

Blogging

•  Thickness of skin required
•  Greetings from the E-Learning Provocateur
•  Sharing is caring

E-Books

•  The age of the e-book
•  The end of publishing as we know it

Engagement

•  The elephant in the room
•  Shades of green
•  The Melbourne Cup: it’s not about the horses!

Events

•  My 1-liners from LearnX 2010
•  My 1-liners from TEDxCanberra 2010

Cartoons

•  The ingredients of intelligence
•  Campus firestarter
•  A short history of spam
•  Thickness of skin required
•  Trending: Sydney
•  Selective tolerance

Miscellaneous

•  Confucius 2.0
•  Green e-learning
•  Honest football
•  The two types of augmented reality
•  Swimming against the tide
•  Square pegs and round holes
•  Facts are a bitch
•  Smartfailing the vintage future
•  Allergic to ATNA
 

Selective tolerance

As we near another Christmas, I thought this cartoon was timely.

Allergic to ATNA

The reactions of some world leaders to the US diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks has been, well, predictable.

According to The Guardian, Gaddafi of Libya praised WikiLeaks for exposing American “hypocrisy”. Chavez of Venezuela called on Hillary Clinton to resign in the wake of “all of this spying and delinquency”. Linera of Bolivia decried “insults” and “third rate espionage”. And so on around the globe.

I look forward to these governments submitting their own diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. Then the world can judge their behaviour behind closed doors.

Yeah, right.

The hypocrisy of these world leaders has prompted me to self-reflect.

I don’t want to be one of those e-learning “experts” who waxes lyrical about emerging technologies and lofty ideals like collaboration, only to leave it to others to implement (because that’s the hard bit).

I actually want to do it, enable it, drive it, test it, improve it, share it.

Hence I have published this post. Now that I’ve told the world, I have to keep myself accountable!
 

Erin doesn’t get it

I watched Erin Brockovich again last night. It’s an excellent movie.

While it’s based on a true story, the producers have obviously used their poetic licence to boost its dramatic effect.

Even though I know this, a particular scene that I didn’t like the first time around made we wince again.

The knowledge managers among us will know what I’m talking about…

Erin: Hey! Those are my files.

Theresa: Yeah, we had them couriered over. And listen, good work. They’re a great start. We’re just going to have to spend a little time filling in the holes in your research.

Erin: Excuse me? Theresa, was it? There are no holes in my research.

Theresa: No offense. There are just some things we need that you probably didn’t know to ask.

Erin: Don’t talk to me like I’m an idiot, OK? I may not have a law degree, but I’ve spent 18 months on this case, and I know more about those plaintiffs than you ever will.

Theresa: Erin, you don’t even have phone numbers for some of them.

Erin: Whose number do you need?

Theresa: Everyone’s. This is a lawsuit. We need to be able to contact the plaintiffs.

Erin: I said whose number do you need?

Theresa: You don’t know 600 plaintiffs’ numbers by heart… Annabelle Daniels.

Erin: Annabelle Daniels, 714 454 9346, 10 years old, 11 in May. Lived on the plume since birth. Wanted to be a synchronized swimmer, so she spent every minute she could in the PG&E pool. She had a tumor in her brain stem detected last November, had an operation on Thanksgiving, shrunk it with radiation after that. Her parents are Rita and Ted. Ted’s got Chron’s disease, and Rita has chronic headaches and nausea and underwent a hysterectomy last fall. Ted grew up in Hinkley. His brother Robbie and his wife May and their five kids, Robbie Jr, Martha, Ed, Rose and Peter lived on the plume too. Their number’s 454 9445. You want their diseases?

Theresa: OK, look, I think we got off on the wrong foot here…

Erin: That’s all you got, lady. Two wrong feet in f**king ugly shoes.

Charming.

Unfortunately Theresa was too polite to say: You just don’t get it, Erin.
If you get hit by a bus tomorrow, our case is screwed.
 

Sharing is caring

I’ve finally bitten the bullet and added those social media sharing icons to my blog posts.

I was fiddling around with a few alternatives, but WordPress doesn’t seem to like foreign code.

Only today did I realise that WordPress provides its own solution. It’s under Settings > Sharing Settings. Go figure.

Anyway, I’m curious to see if the icons make much of a difference to my readership.

Please do me a favour: when you see them, press them!

Thanks :o)