…and the ‘Blogger of the Week’ award from E-Learning Planet goes to…

I just received an e-mail from the discerning people over at E-Learning Planet notifying me that I'm their Blogger of the Previous Week for my ongoing series of posts on Podcasting for E-Learning. Thank you very much folks: I am genuinely delighted that you take the time to follow my blog. My view is that the contribution provided by blogosphere contributors like E-Learning Planet, Jane Hart (with E-Learning Pick of the Day, Top 100 Tools for Learning, 100 Featured Learning Professionals and many more), and Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning mean that the rest of us have a wide and deep set of highly useful learning-related resources and contacts at our disposal.

Want to have some fun? Navigate to one of the resources I’ve listed here, and click on a link to any of the bloggers displayed in front of you. I guarantee that you’ll encounter the thoughts of an engaging, perceptive, challenging, even innovative and ground-breaking learning resource. That’s how good these lists are.

According to elearningplanet.com:

Millions of e-learning Web sites are available in Cyberspace. There are Web sites that include only e-learning blogs; some include e-learning forums, information on e-learning jobs, reviews on e-learning products, and so on. But, very few Web sites post information that covers all aspects of e-learning.

Tyro selected the E-Learning Curve Blog for the ‘Blogger of the Week’ award because

During the previous week, Michael posted five blog posts on podcasting for e-learning. In one of his posts, Michael listed the advantages of hard disk recording to store digital audio for podcasting. He also announced the release of his new podcast episode, “Transatlantic: The Flying Boats of Foynes”. Through his other posts, Michael initiated his series of forthcoming blog posts on editing podcasts using Audacity, an open source multi-track audio editor and recorder.

Well done too, to Aotearoa's Ken Allen for getting the ‘Blog Post of the Week’ gong for his excellent post about Visitor to Second Life, where he visited ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Island. And an airport.

Posted on Sunday, Ken? Don't you take a day off?

More on Podcasting for E-Learning next time...

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Where is my comment? E-Learning Curve Blog site maintenance notice

No blog post today, as I’ve just discovered that since I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (WP2.8.0) comments haven’t been published, because of a plugin being incompatible with this version of WordPress.

Virginia, Suzanne, and all the others who have commented: apologies for apparently not getting back to you – I wasn’t being rude, the technology was, for once getting in the way rather than facilitating dialog.

So today is a time to pause, reflect – and sort out the back end of the site.

I’ve just batch-approved all comments since mid-May and I expect you’ll get an e-mail notifier that your comment has been approved. If you’ve taken the time to write to me, and you haven’t got a notification, let me know via e-mail and I’ll investigate further.

Thanks for your patience!

Tomorrow: Normal service resumes – Brandon Hall

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E-Learning Curve Blog is ‘Blogger of the Week’ on E-learning Planet

I’m delighted (and very proud) to have been awarded the Blogger of the Week accolade from E-Learning Planet.

This multi-faceted site includes e-learning forums, information on e-learning jobs, reviews on e-learning products, and so on.

According to the site, they “post information that covers all aspects of e-learning” including:

• An e-learning blog.
• Facilitates collaborative learning between e-learning professionals through its forum.
• Conducts frequent online contests for e-learning professionals.
• Provides free online training and assignments for instructional designers and graphic designers.
• Selects its favorite blog post and blogger from the e-learning blogosphere on a weekly basis.
• Selects active participants in the planet’s forum.

E-Learning Planet select the Blogger of the Week based on the following parameters:

• The number of informative, innovative, and self blog posts in a week
• The number of positive comments from visitors

Previous Bloggers of the Week include Donald Clark, Tony Karrer, Harold Jarche, and Jay Cross. I’m not sure I deserve to be in such illustrious company, but I’ll take it!

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A Christmas Message from the E-Learning Curve Blog

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir agus Athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh, agus go mba seacht fearr sinn go léir ag an am seo ar an bhliain seo chugainn!

A peaceful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you, and may we all be seven times better off at this time next year!
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