About a week ago, I asked readers to contribute a personal secret about teaching and learning. I had gotten this idea while listening to the radio as Frank Warren was discussing his bookand blog, called PostSecret, where people send in postcards with their personal secrets. I thought it would be interesting to find out what others have to say privately about themselves with teaching and learning. Today’s the first of a couple of posts where I’m going to share what folks submitted. (If you’d like to add you secret, you still can and I’ll insert it in. Check this form out to add your secret.)

Facebook is an Internet phenomenon. It launched to a small group of Harvard students in 2004 and now has millions of users worldwide. Although elearning is popular, it has not had the kind of widespread acceptance with the general public that Facebook has seen. Let’s take a look at a few things that Facebook can teach us about elearning.

These are my Jumptags for January 24th through January 27th: Software Project Management Resources — Columbia University – Project management resources: templates, samples, articles, software, lecture notes on software & general PM. Updated January 6, 2009. John Musser. Custom E-Learning Training & LMS Solutions Kineo – Tip 35: A Shot of Theory – Elaboration Theory – A synopsis of elaboration [...]

When I began my first year of teaching, I had never completed a single course in the field of education. I had graduated with a degree in Business Administration and majored in Marketing. My degree and business experience helped me land a job teaching Marketing Education for a high school that was unable to find a certified teacher. (A word of warning, I don’t recommend this particular path into a teaching career for the faint of heart!) …

These are my Jumptags for January 21st through January 22nd: Lesson planning tool: Learning Score – Learning Score is an amazing multimedia lesson-planning and delivery tool that uses a music score metaphor to show the range of planned activities for a lesson as a graphical time line. Mockingbird | Wireframes on the fly – Mockingbird is a free-for-now app for [...]

These are my Jumptags for January 20th through January 21st: The Simplicity of Helvetica | Webdesigner Depot – Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces in the world. Technically speaking, it's a sans serif Grotesque typeface, inspired by and based on the Reset user folder permissions? – Perfect fix for resetting all folder permissions in a Home folder. Free [...]

If you haven’t added your personal secret about teaching, learning, training, or instructional design, then I encourage you to do so.  It’s anonymous, and I promise not to tell anyone except the 2 other people who read my blog. Here are some more ideas for secrets.  Maybe you: never use spellcheck. dislike clipart. think the instructional strategy for your company [...]

These are my Jumptags for January 12th through January 19th: Here’s a Quick Way to Create Your Next E-Learning Template in PowerPoint » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Follow Tom Kuhlmann's tutorial on how to create an elearning template in Powerpoint quickly and using the built in graphics. Podcasting 101 Flowchart – From Wesley Fryer, a quick flowchart for creating [...]

I don’t know if you remember.  But a few years back a book came out where folks would send a postcard to this guy.  On the postcard would be a secret. He has a blog, too, called PostSecret.  Well, I was listening to NPR the other day, and the author Frank Warren was on talking about a new book that’s [...]

I just wanted to share with you today an article that will be published soon in Contemporary Educational Technology.  This is pretty new journal, and my information says that we will be published in volume 1, issue 2 in April.  This article was written with a former student Fethi Inan, who is a faculty member at Texas Tech University, now.  [...]