Change in Scoop.it! topic from "#lrnchat" to "The eLearning Guild - Guild, Members & Conference Curation"

I've decided that I would much rather gather recourses from the eLearning Guild and it's membership rather than from the twitterchat #lrnchat.  Many of the members of #lrnchat are in fact Guild members.  It seems to make more sense to expand this selection of curation to more wildly gather the information, resources and wisdom that eminates from the Guild, it's members,  it's conferences, and the conference backchannels.

I am not an employee of the eLearning Guild, but I am a member and have been for some time now.  The amound of information that one can get from the Guild, whether being a member or not is incredible.  However, once you also factor in the collective knowledge and resources shared by it's 49000 (and growing) membership; the amount of information at your fingertips becomes as hard to fathom as the universe itself.

I hope that by creating this Scoop.it! page that I will be able to gather up much of that knowledge and shared resources to give, yet one more, venue for this information to travel and to be shared.  My hope is that readers of this will find as much value from the information as I will.

Happy learning, sharing and growing to everyone.

(note: for now I can't change the url of the page http://scoop.it/lrnchat, but may try to find how to change it or create a whole new account  in the future)

Monday's Tracked Learning

I'm sure I missed tracking some my learning opportunities that happened throughout the day. I also know there were many items that seemed more like trivia bits that were interesting to me, but were things I didn't track since they were mini-trivia points.  Those of are some of the types of things that are still great learning opportunities, but things we forget to share and pass on to others.

During Work

• Marielle Thompson wins Canada a gold medal in women's ski competition this past weekend.  First in 40 years
• 30 hockey players join together for anti-homophobia campaign
• Morning radio call in shows are really really annoying
• A lot of people seem to experience issues with drop down menus not working in IE7, but as a user of a site where this is happening to me, it does not appear as if it is something I can change a setting for and magically it will work. It seems to be more of a programming issue, but what?
• My Internet browser has more add-ons running and enabled than I ever imagined. 
• There is a #lrnbk chat
• The people going through university currently are not nearly as tech savvy as we are lead to believe. 
• On Google you can no longer enter X and narrow your search to videos. The word videos has been replaced by YouTube. 
• 25 billion downloads on app store
• The most productive time of the day (in the office) is after 4:00pm 

Afterwork (I didn't do much reading/exploring on Monday night)

• iPad 3 smart covers to have rear coverage too
• Redheads have a high threshold for pain and can tolerate spicier food
• What I envision I can draw and what actually occurs when I try are vastly different. 

CHALLENGE: Tracking and Sharing my Learning

Today I read Jane Bozarth's post on "What Does Learning Look Like? This" and it gave me a new appreciation to something I love to do and is in fact one of the statements I make why I have this blog.  "I strive to learn one new thing each day."

As Jane's post points out, how many of us really notice when and how we are learning.  It happens constantly, yet we often don't recognize those moments nor do we share our findings with others. If I really think about what I have learned already today, the list is kind of interesting considering I've only been up for 3 hours.

• wind speed hit 80km/hr over night
• child thinks she can block parents from her computer use by adding password to her account
• parent discovers how to remove same password
• reasons for Ron Wilson being let go from Leafs
• drawing is fun
• you don't have to draw well to get your point across
• there are many sites on the web to find out how many words you can make from a set of scrambled letters
• Torontosun.com does not appear to be loading today
• one of the fights on UFC last night was scored incorrectly and a rematch will be needed
• Trader Joes seems to be a place I need to shop
• in 1934 a pair of socks cost 9cents
• the town tax dept is closed on Saturdays

That's quite a list, it's quite random and jumps around, but also is a great chronicle of the day so far. 

The question then to be asked is Did I recognize what I was learning when I was learning it?  No.  Did I share all the items I learned with anyone?  No.  Did I share any of the items? Yes.  Which ones did I chose to share and why?

Often my moments of "WOW I need to share this" only come when the item really astounds me.  The item/result truly was unexpected or I know it will make someone else's life (usually work life) easier.  So why don't I share the other items?  Why do we only share the WOWs? 

I suppose for me it's because I'm often joked at for having "interesting but useless facts" floating around in my head.  So why share them all, but the point to take away, is that what interests you will surely interest at least one other person.  Someone has shared an item with me, I have learned from it, I REALLY should share that item too and pass on the learning.  If we truly think about it this is the way all knowledge has passed through the generations, by sharing.  If the shared stopped much of the learning would as well.

Jane's post calls for us to realize those learning moments and be much more fully aware of them.  I commented on her post that I am taking this thinking forward to my team.  I initially said that I want to challenge them to track all of their learning moments for a month, but now that I have written what I learned in 3 hours....that might be a huge task.

Instead this will be the challenge I put forward to them and myself and I hope you may as well.

Try to keep track of everything you learn in one week, which of those items do you share?  At the end of the week I'd like them to reflect on why did you choose to share those only specific learnings, why do you keep the others to yourself?

I'm curious and excited to see the results of this experiment and would love to see other readers results next Saturday (March 10th).

Happy learning.