Jay Cross, in Bus Routes & Bike Paths likens formal learning to riding the bus with it’s unvarying routes and schedule and compares informal learning to people on bikes who can go where ever they want, whenever they want. Does your training “city” have any bike paths built in?
Category Archives: TSPO
Getting from tacit to explicit
I think Tony has nailed this one right on the button. I very much agree that a large part of maximizing learning is to get tacit knowledge to become explicit knowledge. As he points out another advantage to capturing that tacit knowledge is the opportunity for discovering the potential for corrections/improvements.
eLearning Technology: Tacit vs. Explicit Knowledge – Decisions Learning Professionals Make Everyday
Corporate Learning
A nice post on learning in a corporation make the point that the goal should be to take tacit knowledge and efficiently redistribute it as explicit knowledge. I think this is right on the mark. Part of learning, maybe the first step, is sharing what others already know. Great post!!!!
Great Learning Resources
From the Ageless Learner blog comes this great list of learning-related resources. The list includes books, magazines & web resources. I’ve found some great stuff in there. The Ageless Learner site itself is a wealth of information that could keep you occupied for days all by itself.
Use Google to find mp3, pdf etc
Marc and Angel have a good post on how to use Google’s advance search operators to find very specific files and file types. They compare this type of powerful Google search to the latest incarnation of Napster. Enjoy!
Great Online File Conversion Tool
Convert Between All Videos or Audio Formats Online » Digital Inspiration
“From Amit Agarwal’s great blog comes another nice online tool. Media Convert is a free online converter service that can convert any audio or video file format into almost any other format such as AVI, MOV, SWF, MPEG, FLV, Real, DivX and several more.
Handles files up to 50MB without any downloads or plug-ins. You can even grab screenshots of any url and more with this tool. Nice page to keep in your list of bookmarks.
UPDATE: Zamzar may be a bit better. Better interface 100MB limit. Check it out.
Great *FREE* online collaboration tool
I’ve played with this a little bit but not for a “real” conference. It looks really nice. Especially considering the price tag.
Has anyone had any exeperiencs with this tool? I’d love to hear how it worked for you.
Vyew.com – Free Web-Based Collaboration – Vyew.com – Free Web-Based Collaboration
RSS the Oprah way.
A good explaination of RSS…
Excel: Shade alternate rows
I always think that shading alternating rows makes wide spreadsheets much easier to read. Here is a quick & easy way to shade every other row.
- Highlight the range of cells that you want to format
- Choose Format from the pull-down menu
- Select Conditional Formatting to display the Conditional Formatting dialog box
- Select Formula Is from the first drop-down list box, and enter =MOD(ROW(),2)=0 in the second box
- Click the Format button to bring up the Format Cells dialog box
- Select the Patterns tab and specify a color for the shaded rows. Choose a light color so the black text will still be legible
- Click OK twice to return to your worksheet
Presentation Hows from “Creating Passionate Users”
Creating Passionate Users: A few more Presentation HowTos
Some of these great suggestions include:
- Take ridiculously long time to prepare.
- Change your slide rapidly.
- The slides are the words.
- ..and more.