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Oct202006
412 - Real Time Write/Edit; Robots, Students and Learning
October 20, 2006
Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Oct 20, 2006.
#412 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
53,058 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Learning 2006 - Nov 5-8 - Orlando - www.learning2006.com.
Over 1,607 Global Learning Leaders Registered
1. Real Time Editing - Writing On-Line!
2. Robots & Students Teach Us About Learning.
3. What Keeps You Up at Night? - 2007 Instant Survey.
1. Real Time Editing - Writing On-Line! I had a most unusual writing experience yesterday: writing and editing an article in real time with an editor 3,000 miles away using online Google Documents. Here are the details of this interesting experiment:
* I was writing a short article for a colleague located in England.
* He had to fit the article into a tight space (700 words) and wanted to look over my shoulder as I wrote it.
* Sitting in my morning coffee shop stop, I fired up Google Documents, which has a new web-based word processor and collaborator.
* I created a document and gave my colleague sharing and editing rights.
* He logged in from London and the process began.
* As I typed, he could chat with me in the box to the right. A few times he added or edited some words as I typed, with changes appearing on both of our screens.
* It was a wild ride: different and a bit strange. Yet, the document got developed in under 30 minutes with both of our full satisfaction.
Check it out: http://docs.google.com
2. Robots & Students Teach Us About Learning: Several teams of high school students, coached by engineers, will put their robots into competition with each other as our colleagues arrive at Learning 2006 in three weeks.
We are honored to announce that First Robotics, founded by Dean Kamen, will be on site at Learning 2006 with high school students, teachers and several robots in deep competition.
As learning and training professionals, it will be interesting to watch how these teams dive deep into learning and cooperative processes to build their robots. And, then as teams are eliminated in the contest, their knowledge and inventions are integrated to improve the next round of competition. My colleague John Abele, the chair of FIRST, will be on hand to explore the learning process and how it relates to the "Wisdom of the Crowds". The robots are in action on Sunday, Nov 5th. Check out the FIRST site at: http://www.usfirst.org
3. What Keeps You Up at Night? - 2007 Instant Survey: Can you take a few minutes to help with my annual "What Keeps You Up at Night?" survey of learning and training colleagues? This will take just 3 minutes and it will be featured at Learning 2006 with a summary published in TRENDS. Go to http://www.learning2006.com/upatnight/
MASIE Center Services & Events:
* Membership in The Learning CONSORTIUM.
* Learning 2006 - Nov 5 to 8 - Orlando, Florida.
Information at: http://www.masie.com
#412 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
53,058 Readers - http://www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Learning 2006 - Nov 5-8 - Orlando - www.learning2006.com.
Over 1,607 Global Learning Leaders Registered
1. Real Time Editing - Writing On-Line!
2. Robots & Students Teach Us About Learning.
3. What Keeps You Up at Night? - 2007 Instant Survey.
1. Real Time Editing - Writing On-Line! I had a most unusual writing experience yesterday: writing and editing an article in real time with an editor 3,000 miles away using online Google Documents. Here are the details of this interesting experiment:
* I was writing a short article for a colleague located in England.
* He had to fit the article into a tight space (700 words) and wanted to look over my shoulder as I wrote it.
* Sitting in my morning coffee shop stop, I fired up Google Documents, which has a new web-based word processor and collaborator.
* I created a document and gave my colleague sharing and editing rights.
* He logged in from London and the process began.
* As I typed, he could chat with me in the box to the right. A few times he added or edited some words as I typed, with changes appearing on both of our screens.
* It was a wild ride: different and a bit strange. Yet, the document got developed in under 30 minutes with both of our full satisfaction.
Check it out: http://docs.google.com
2. Robots & Students Teach Us About Learning: Several teams of high school students, coached by engineers, will put their robots into competition with each other as our colleagues arrive at Learning 2006 in three weeks.
We are honored to announce that First Robotics, founded by Dean Kamen, will be on site at Learning 2006 with high school students, teachers and several robots in deep competition.
As learning and training professionals, it will be interesting to watch how these teams dive deep into learning and cooperative processes to build their robots. And, then as teams are eliminated in the contest, their knowledge and inventions are integrated to improve the next round of competition. My colleague John Abele, the chair of FIRST, will be on hand to explore the learning process and how it relates to the "Wisdom of the Crowds". The robots are in action on Sunday, Nov 5th. Check out the FIRST site at: http://www.usfirst.org
3. What Keeps You Up at Night? - 2007 Instant Survey: Can you take a few minutes to help with my annual "What Keeps You Up at Night?" survey of learning and training colleagues? This will take just 3 minutes and it will be featured at Learning 2006 with a summary published in TRENDS. Go to http://www.learning2006.com/upatnight/
MASIE Center Services & Events:
* Membership in The Learning CONSORTIUM.
* Learning 2006 - Nov 5 to 8 - Orlando, Florida.
Information at: http://www.masie.com
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