Phronetic

These are the Web 2.0 Tools and Other Links used in Robin's CSTD Presentation tonight ~
9rules - blog aggregator
Alexa - site stats and ranking
AllMyData - online storage and backup
Attensa - enterprise rss feeder
Bitty Browser - picture in picture for the web
Bloglines - web-based personal news aggregator in place of a desktop client
Blogniscient - bird's eye view of the blogosphere
Blackboard - host classes on the web
Bubbl.us - brainstorming made simple
Calendar Hub - web calendar
Chalksite - manage grades, assignments, a teacher website and communication between teachers, parents and students
Clipmarks - sharing clipped web pages
College Ruled - online class schedules
Commentful - tracking your online comments
Co.mments - tracking your online comments
Clipmarks - clip the web and share
Central Desktop - on demand web-based business collaboration tools
Creative Commons - copyright your work
Del.icio.us - social Tag
Democracy 2.0 - wiki geared for creating laws by wiki
doggdot.us - social tag
DropCash - organize a fundraiser
Educause - advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology
Feedburner - podcast & rss feeder
Feed Crier - rss feeder to instant messaging
Feedlounge - rss feeder
Flickr - photo sharing
Flock - social web browser
Findory - personalized newspaper that learns from the news you read
Friendster - social networking
Furl - personal web file
Glide - complete online operating system
GradeFix - intelligently organizes and prioritizes all of your homework
Gnosh - meta search tool
GoToMeeting - online meetings
Gabbr.com - social news community
Kiko - Online Calendar
Haiku - LMS online
Linked In - networking tool
Literacy Tent - technology helping literacy
Magnolia - Discover, share and discuss the best of the web
MediaWiki - free wiki package
Microsoft Office Live - easy way to get started on the web
Moodle - open source course management system
MouseBrains - brainstorming tool
My AOL - AOL's feeds service
MyBlogLog - blog directory
MySpace - social networking
Netvibes - browser start page
News Alloy - web based feed reader
Newsburst - rss reader from CNET News.com
Newsgator - rss platform
Newsvine - community news service letting members customize the news viewed
Ning - create your own social network
Odeo - MP3s and audio channels
Open ID - open and decentralized identity system
Openomy - online file system
Outpost - Earth - dynamic blog directory and world network
Plaxo - online address book
Pocket Mod - disposable online personal organizer
Protopage - browser start page
Oishii - social bookmarking
Pageflakes - browser start page
Plazes - geo locator
Pluck - Social Media
Programmable Web - mashups and the web as platform
Rallypoint - online collaboration
Rate My Everything - rate anything
Rate My Professor - Review your college and university professors then rate the teachers yourself
RateMyTeachers.com students critique their teachers
Reddit - What's New Online
Remember the Milk - Manage your tasks
Rojo - aggregator service with the ability to share feeds with others
Second Life - online society within a 3D world, where users can explore, build, socialize, and participate in their own economy
Shadows - tag, comment, and rate your favorite web pages
Shutterbook - photo sharing
Simpy - tagging, social bookmarking and personal search engine
Site Shuffle - turning your homepage into a web player
Six Apart - making publishing on the web faster
Smugmug - photo sharing
Social Text - enterprise Wiki
Sphere - blog search and discovery
Stu.dicio.us - simple and reliable note-taking
Superglu - helps gather content from all over the web and publish in one place
Tada Lists - based on the to-do lists inside Backpack [online organisation tool]
TagWorld - social networking
TailRank - tracking hottest blog news
Technorati - searches weblogs by keyword and for links
Thinkfree - online productivity tools
Tioti - tape it off the internet
Topix - local news for the world
Twitter - what are you doing? web instant messaging
XDrive - free online storage
voo2do - simple, web-based to-do lists
Wayfaring - online maps
Wikio - create personal pages by selecting the info that interests you
Wikispaces - groups create content
Writeboard - free collaborative writing software
Writely - web word processor
YouTube - user-generated videos
Zimbra - open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration
Zoho - online office and productivity tools
Zoto - photo sharing

Due to inclement weather, Robin's CSTD Presentation is postponed for March 15.

Jeffrey is currently attending and presenting at the AHRD conference.

The International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction is currently conducting an extensive survey of the experience of learners in online learning environments. The purpose of the study is to identify key issues and concerns that determine success in online learning, with a particular view to discovering what competencies, dispositions and attitudes learners should have to fare well in online settings.

In view of your involvement and expertise in online learning and instruction, the ibstpi project team managing this research study is asking for your assistance in completing the survey yourself as well as identifying appropriate respondents among your students and other members of your networks who have significant online learning experience. Kindly bring the survey to the attention of such people or bring the potential respondents in question to the attention of the ibstpi research team. You may also want to bring other colleagues or electronic distribution lists that could be approached with a similar request to the attention of the ibstpi research team. The survey is available here [http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2263XSW3FQU].

IRB protocols have been met for this study. Thus, the survey is preceded by a statement regarding IRB approval of this research and an option for respondents to give their consent to participating in the survey.

We hope to obtain responses from a cross-section of learners in diverse settings, such as broad-based education programs or more narrowly defined training events, whether in blended or fully online courses. The survey is in English. However, if respondents wish to respond to open items in German, French, or Spanish, this will be accepted by the research team.

Please forward to Robin Yap any lists of learners you consider to qualify for this study or contact Dr. Michael Beaudoin if you have questions regarding the above research. Otherwise, send any lists directly to Robin for inputting into our master distribution list or just forward the survey link directly to your distribution lists.

We very much appreciate your interest and support of this endeavor. Those who complete and send Robin their contact information will be provided with our findings.

We had a giveaway at the Northern Voice conference and gave one to Tod Maffin who blogged about us here. They're a great idea we think because you can see who is calling you without actually holding your phone as its facing you. Quite a clever office accessory.

If you want one of these cell phone holders, see Robin at his CSTD presentation on March 15th in Toronto.

Have a great weekend ahead ~

Robin Yap is one of six North American delegates to create the updated ISO 2009 Education Standards in Berlin on March 26-27, 2007. This is a great honour and prestige to be part of as these standards shape the world of higher and corporate education.

ANSI US/TAG (Technical Advisory Group) invited Robin as a representative of ibstpi and Phronetic as well as representatives from ASTD and Wilson Thomson to deliberate the new standards especially including Web 2.0 tools and other emerging technologies.

Look for more postings on these deliberations in the coming weeks.

Read Robin's Blog on the Next Generation Organisational Certification Programme, Web 2.0 Tools and Organisational Change and Transformational Models.

Any important meeting or initiative, we need to have a good prep. That's what we've been doing this afternoon at the ANSI pre-ISO delegate prep meeting. When in Berlin, its good to have good wiener schnitzel so check out Leibniz Klause at Leibniz Strasse - location chosen by Dr. Doug Lynch. Great choice to warm our aching backs and weary jet lagged bodies after a day long trip.

UPDATE: More ISO photos here