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Fry and Coe, 1980; Anderman and Young, 1994; Ames, 1992

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Today is Chocolate Day

We now divert from our normal online-blah-blah-blah and take a reverent moment to acknowledge that it is Chocolate Day! Want a little chocolate fun? Take the Is It Beer or Chocolate? quiz (I did terribly at 51%). Look at some of the interesting links from Chris Hodge. Think about the political implications of your [...]

Rituals for Healthy Living - What are yours?

My friend and neighbor, Ashley Cooper, has created a new blog to share what she learned when she asked her network, “what rituals do you do to invite balance and well-being into your life. She was so taken by the responses, she is compiling them into a blog, Rituals for Healthy Living. When I work with [...]

EFQUEL Slides Featured on Slideshare

I was surprised to get an email that the slides I used at a keynote at the European Foundation for Quality in ELearning are currently featured on SlideShare’s SlideShare’s homepage. Fun! This is one of the things I still need to blog about, but in the meantime, here are the slides. I was a little worried [...]

Sitting with fire - a blog as community and reflection

Blogs are often touted as “individual voices.” Of course, blogs can be many things, including reflective community voices. Check out the blog of the Tassajara Zen Center in California, facing many dangerous fires in their area on the Central California coast. Sitting with fire. What I noticed was their use of questions. Amazing. Short. Right to [...]

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Knowledge Sharing in the CGIAR - Tools and Methods for Sharing Knowledge: The CGIAR’s Wiki Approach

The ICT-KM Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has an article out about a project that is near and dear to my heart and which I have been working on, the Knowledge Sharing Toolkit Wiki. Here is a snippet from the article, ending with a provocative question. Click in to read [...]

Another Free Social Media Event in Seattle July 12th

It seems there are some other cool “social media” happenings in Seattle so I thought I should also pass this one along - happening July 12th all day, plus a Mashable party in the evening. This one is SocialMediaCampSeattle: SocialMediaCamp brings together the brightest minds in Social Media with people interested in learning more about the [...]

Perspectives on Social Media - Seattle July 8th

Are you in Seattle on July 8th? Then consider stopping by the Social Media Event at ZAAZ Seattle July 8th. I’m on the slate with what appears to be a very cool group of people and will be trying to unravel a bit more of the ball of string I’ve been calling “slow community.” (Caveat: [...]

4 Meetings, 6 Planes, and lots of amazing friends

I’m back from over three weeks of travel in Europe and I realized that if I didn’t sit down and write at least one blog post, no matter how trite or incomplete, I will have gone nearly a month without a blog post and I’ve not done that since I started this blog (over on [...]