…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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The E-Learning Curve Blog Joins the eLearning Learning Community

I’m delighted to announce that the E-Learning Curve Blog has joined the eLearning Learning community. eLearning Learning is

a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning.

In a response to a Learning Circuits Blog Big Question a few months ago, I described myself as a ‘learnivore:’

I continually acquire new knowledge and information through my Web-, book-, podcast-, and presentation reading, blogging (reading and writing), academic study and research, and work-based learning-related tasks. These activities are drivers for the information I try to take on board in my attempts to enhance my skills, abilities, and expertise.

This sounds great in theory, but in practice it means that I must carefully manage my time to ensure that I can stay current with the best that all of the above (especially the e-learning blogging community) have to contribute. For the last 18 months, I have used Google reader, Foxmarks, del.icio.us and Bloglines to manage my RSS feeds and interesting links. All of these utilities are great, but having four tools to aggregate and store content is inefficient, particularly as I don’t just subscribe to e-learning blogs. eLearning Learning enables me to access a range of regularly updated e-learning content with the click of a mouse button.

In my view, eLearning Learning’s value is threefold (see Figure 1):

1. It’s a single location when you can access the cream of e-learning blogs and commentary from a diverse range of contributors
2. Those contributors write some of my favorite blogs including Clive on Learning, eLearning Technology, elearnspace, Informal Learning, Jane Hart - Pick of the Day, Kapp Notes, Lars is Learning and the Rapid eLearning Blog… as well as a bunch of really interesting blogs I’m looking forward to getting to know.
3. It’s an easy-to-use, web-based interface – perfect (and appropriate) to view content from the main page area, by keyword or blog name. Similarly, find content using the search functionality.

The easiest way to discover the site is to simply go there and check it out. In the meantime I’ve created a (very) short demo highlighting some of the features: just click on the image to view the presentation.

Figure 1. eLearning Learning homepage

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