The networked nature of information

Sometimes I follow The Learning Circuits blog and its monthly “Big Question”.  This month’s questions were borrowed from the Work Literacy blog, which I’ve also been following lately.  The questions that Tony Karrer asked on The Learning Circuits blog are leading questions:
Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies?  Shouldn’t [...]

Influence Strategy

I believe that through education, a society has the opportunity to influence an individual.  In return, I believe that through education, an individual should receive the tools that he or she needs to influence society in return.  As an educator, I hope that my students will be changed in some way through their participation in [...]

My potential influence

During the first few weeks of the 2008 CASTLE book club, participants like myself were challenged to reflect on whether or not we had an influence strategy and if not, what we could do to develop an influence strategy.  Most of the reflection questions asked participants to think about our organizations.  I’ve been rolling around [...]

Diffusion of Innovations

I decided to read Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition by Everett M. Rogers and Everett Rogers after seeing Geoff Sheehy mention it on his blog a while back.  I figured if he found it relevant to his research into knowledge management, maybe I’d find it relevant as well.

Everett M. Rogers spent most of his life [...]

One line professional development blog

Most of the bloggers that I follow use Twitter to a much greater extent than I do. In all honesty, I can barely claim to “use” Twitter at all; I think I only average about one tweet a week. I can see how Twitter can be a useful part of a personal learning network, but [...]

A brush with fame (plus my review of Influencer)

As I was on my way to return my borrowed copy of Influencer: The Power to Change Anything to its rightful owner, I passed David Wiley in a doorway. He saw the book in my hand, mentioned that he had heard a lot of good things about the book, and asked my opinion (but [...]

A change I’d like to see . . .

As one of my professional development goals for this summer, I decided to participate in the first annual CASTLE Summer book club. The book we are reading for this summer is Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. The authors suggest [...]

What do I want to learn?

Yesterday while reading Michele Martin’s blog I came across a link to a post on Sacha Chua’s blog entitled “What do I want to Learn?” It’s a good question.
The easy answer is “everything”, but that simply isn’t true. I’ve learned enough to know that there are lots of things that I don’t [...]

Photos of Japan and China on Flickr

I like to take pictures. Lots of them. On my recent trip to Asia I took over 400 shots. For me, my photos are my favorite souvenirs from any trip. My photos can instantly transport me to the moment in time when I saw something so beautiful or unusual that I [...]

Some contrasts between Japan and China

Within minutes of checking us into our hotel room, our Japanese hostess took us out for a nighttime walk through the streets of Tokyo. We had no particular plan at that point, so we just wandered around, stepping into a shop or two, at our hostess’s suggestion. One of the shops we stepped [...]