I mentioned a while back I was guest blogging on Darren Sidnick’s blog on communities of practice with an emphasis on the current interests of folks at his company, UFI Learndirect. Darren said it was ok to repost these on my blog, so I’ll be including one about once a week for the next 10 … Continue reading Communities of Practice Series with Darren Sidnick #1
Rambly post alert – this one hops all over the place with little regard to coherence. My friend Mark Hammersley reminded me a few months ago of a tool to help surface intercultural issues and build trust in distributed teams. One was Thiagi’s Multicultural Email Game. (Mark notes it is also included in the “Building Trust … Continue reading Onramps to online engagement
As if I had time/attention for another workshop or course! I’m barely following Leigh’s online facilitation workshop, running a workshop for a client, guesting in a South African workshop and now starts George Siemens and Stephen Downe’s Connectivism Course. But I’m weak. I can’t resist. So in the spirit of things, here is my first blog assignment. … Continue reading Connectivism Course – Pre Assignment
This is an article that Josien Kapma and I wrote for the Dutch journal, “Leren in Organisaties”. I have posted it earlier as a PDF, but got the request to offer it as straight HTML. So here it is again! Also From Workplace Courses to Communities (PDF from the Journal) From workplace courses to global … Continue reading From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White
Last week I was in Wellington New Zealand, participating in the DEANZ 2008 Conference. I loved the conference theme, “my place, my space, my learning!” Oh yeah! On the first morning I had the great opportunity to offer the kick off keynote. As usual, I firehosed my way through 90 minutes talking about stewarding technology … Continue reading DEANZ 2008 – my place, my space, my learning