I arrived in Berlin yesterday morning, checked in at the misnamed but reasonably-priced Hotel Berlin Plaza, plugged in my laptop, and tapped away most of the day as I watched the snow drift by. The Plaza does not have internet connections; in fact, they charge 2,5 Euros an hour to use Microsoft Office Continue reading →

My noggin is filling up with learning fluff from the net, the street, books, conversations, and subscriptions. think I know how Johnny Mnemonic must have felt. He’s the William Gibson character with a hard drive implant in his head. If he doesn’t download after a while, well, let’s not go there. It’s Continue reading →

A printed manuscript of my book on Informal Learning just arrived. Four hundred pages of characters and runes. It’s intimidating. Maybe that’s why none of the people I sent it to for comment are responding. A Dutch writer who saw the manuscript wrote back less than a day later. “That’s a BIG book Continue reading →

Pictures from the FlickR free zone. This feels so strange. I resized these in MS Paint and uploaded them via Blogger.

The Emerging Elearning signs along the Corniche Road have come down. Party’s over.

The Hilton’s beach is on the Gulf but behind a breakwater.

German women delude themselves that Continue reading →

The old Joe Walsh song is thumping in my forebrain.

Werner Trotter pointed me to RollYO, a service for running your own selctive search engines. His Edutrain RollYO searches, for example

* grayharriman.com
* mcgeesmusings.net
* ottergroup.com
* downes.ca
* elearnspace.org
* elearning-reviews.org
* clomedia.com
* educause.edu
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Work is moving right along here in my writer’s cottage hidden away in the Abu Dhabi Hilton. My book now tops four hundred pages and that’s before adding the graphics.

Michelangelo said the statue was inside the stone. All he needed to do was chip away the superfluous marble to let the statue emerge. Continue reading →

This has been a wonderful day. We completed the circle of our World Cafe by sharing people’s contributions with the Minister of Education Sheikh Nahayan.

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Jery Michalski is chair of today’s sessions on Lifelong Learning. Jerry asks the audience what they think Lifelong Learning means. A woman with a wonderful Irish lilt to her voice brings up making time for reflection. the head of the woman’s college says you don’t learn well without knowing your style. Continue reading →

Ellen Wagner is on the stage talking about designing experiences that are useful, usable, and desirable. She told a story of giving a presentation, retrieving a phone message telling her a blogger in the audience disagreed with her data, and telling the audience she knew someone questioned her data. Continue reading →