Michael Specht

An imperfect blog from Australia looking at technology, enterprise 2.0, management, Human Resources (HR) and other random thoughts.

Entries Tagged as 'Learning'

The 9 year old and the future

March 26th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Environment, Future, Learning, Recruitment · 2,058 views

Over the weekend our 9 year old expressed an interesting in getting Google Reader setup on his PC as he wanted to read stuff like Dad. This got me thinking again about what he and his generation will expect in a technology sense from their employers when he enters the workforce in 10-12 years.
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The growth of our planet and it’s impact

February 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Future, Learning, Recruitment · 1,755 views

Just watched an eye opening video called “Did you Know“, thanks to Des Paroz for the link.  Not sure who put it together, what it is for or even if all the statistics are right but worth a watch even so.  I suspect the information is fairly accurate and most would be accepted as common [...]

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Edublogs goes premuim

February 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Blogging, Learning · 1,376 views

James Farmer seems to finally have his day job under control, why cause he is blogging again over at Incsub.  Today he announced Edublogs Premium.
What is it?  A full featured multi-user blogging service, very cool.
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What is a good presentation?

September 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Branding, Communication, Learning · 2,564 views

I subscribe to Presentation Zen to find the latest and greatest trends in presentations. Some of the presentations they reference are fantastic others I don’t really relate to but I still stay subscribed. So today when I saw a couple of people referring to the Top 10 Presentations I was interested.
KnowHR have pulled [...]

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Using Second Life for training

August 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Learning, Technology · 1,717 views

I have been following Second Life for awhile now just watching what happens.  Personally I feel the potential for the environment is huge we just need to get over the gambling and sex that currently occupies a majority of Second Life.
This is changing, there has been several conference run in Second Life, Cory Doctorow has [...]

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Mobile flash cards

August 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Learning, Technology · 1,976 views

On my way to work this morning I was listening to Chris Pirillo talking to James Wen from Positive Motion, about their new tool called Mobile Prep a mobile phone flash card program.
Atf irst I was a bit skeptical about the product but listening to James and hearing his vision of how he wants to [...]

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How to manage gaming geeks, or any geek for that matter

June 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Learning, Personal · 1,396 views

Just finished listening to show number 51 from The Cranky Middle Manager Show where Wayne spends time chatting with Matt Manuel from EA who looks after the development of FIFA 2006.
A great show with some really interesting ideas covering on-boarding, peer mentoring, and team management. It seems that a number of the manager’s at [...]

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Learning like a 5 year old

March 24th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Learning, Recruitment · 1,882 views

A recent Wired Magazine article provides unique perspectives on learning and to a lesser degree recruitment.
The article talks about a senior manager at Yahoo who is a guild leader in World of Warcraft, a massive multi player online game. His position in World of Warcraft has provided him many of the necessary [...]

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Tablet PC in our schools

November 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Learning · 1,853 views

Frank Arrigo’s son is getting a Tablet at his new school, very cool. Frank provides a great description of the software that that will be using. Frank is pumped, maybe he should have a look at The Table Education Blog for some more ideas?
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Students who actually think!

September 7th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Learning · 1,854 views

Anne Bartlett-Bragg (one of the organisers of BlogTalk Downunder) was interviewed recently by Anna Salleh from ABC Science Online about her research in blogs and education that she has been conducting for her PhD. Her quote “I say, I’m sorry, I’m making you think. Isn’t that why we’re here?” made me laugh, so many [...]

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