Blogs - SKIL2

SKIL2 is alive and Liz is back

HI Folks It's been just over a year since I last wrote. Many thanks to my brother Marc for adding in all the really useful sites and information. I've been working away at SKIL2 doing lots of research and reading and thinking ... and working with my test organisation ... Depaul Irel… Continue

Added by liz lennon on June 7, 2009 at 12:37pm — No Comments

35 Tools For Teachers, Tutors and Students

Slightly off topic, but if you're trying to set up formal training in an organization then take a look at this list of resources from Mashable. There's a variety of tools including quiz generators, wh… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on September 21, 2008 at 6:40am — No Comments

Learning on Demand

Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent has a nice post about open source learning in organizations. It includes a link to a great 8 minute video with John Seely Brown. She says: "Most learning is social. In a brief conversation with Ulrike Reinhard at SCOPE|08: The Fu… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on September 21, 2008 at 6:33am — No Comments

30+ Solutions to Start Your Own Wiki

The single most powerful open-source tool for organizations is probably the wiki. Mashable has gathered a list of more than 30 of them for those that wish to try their hand at running one themselves or are looking for a fully… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on September 21, 2008 at 6:24am — No Comments

Vote For Your Favourite Web Framework

Django, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, CakePHP, Google's Web Toolkit... Webmonkey is currently considering open source web frameworks that are already up and running and has a bit of explanation a… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on September 9, 2008 at 9:09am — No Comments

Ways That Organisations Learn

If you're ever looking for a good, intelligent, insightful read, then I can thoroughly recommend Grant McCracken's This Blog Sits At The (intersection of Anthropology and Economics). His piece today, Br… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on September 5, 2008 at 8:04am — No Comments

ProProfs Range Of Free Services

Mashable reports: "ProProfs is a service that provides online educational tools, like a Web school and online flash cards. The service has completely revamped its… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on August 15, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

13 OpenSocial Video Tutorials and Educational Videos

If you're looking for an easy-on-the-brain way to get better aquainted with OpenSocial, the backbone of sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, Orkut and many more, Mashable has just published links… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on August 6, 2008 at 11:17am — No Comments

100 Open Source Presentations From OSCon

Over 100 presentations from the July O'Reilly OSCon conference are now available free online here. Most of them are downloadable as some form of slide format. Lots and lots of great stuff hidden in here, so if… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on August 6, 2008 at 8:08am — No Comments

20+ Video Tutorials for Open Source Applications

The Social Networking news site Mashable has a list of Video Tutorials you might find useful. It covers image editing, Linux, Open Office and the Nvu website creation package. Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on August 1, 2008 at 3:43am — No Comments

Instructional Design for Online Learning (IDOL)

I love a catchy acronym. Gas prices driving distance education growth?, a blog post by John Koetsier at Sparkplug9, included the interesting matrix above. It belongs to the… Continue

Added by Marc Garnaut on July 10, 2008 at 7:21am — No Comments

SKIL2 visual branding

The banner at the top of this site is part of my visual branding for SKIL2.I love it.

And just in case people think that I only live online. Here's a photo of me and the team who are creating a no dig garden near my cottage in Ballinamore. To get that story wander over to my… Continue

Added by liz lennon on May 28, 2008 at 3:05pm — No Comments

Quick Update from Liz - May 13 2008

It's sunny and beautiful here in Ballinamore and I'm very tempted to go out and play. For those of you that don't live in Ireland - you have no idea how much we treasure our sunny days - they are liquid gold. And - we had a crappy wet summer in 2007 which was followed by a ve… Continue

Added by liz lennon on May 13, 2008 at 1:16pm — No Comments

Network Size- from the small is beautiful to - really big

I'd call our SKIL2 network a little gem. Small but beautifully formed. What we lack in size -we make up in quality. For me - it feels like a safe space to try out my own SKIL2 learning. I also need to wander out - in real and virtual time - and see what other peo… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 29, 2008 at 11:06am — 2 Comments

And then there was Paris

I've been looking at the different open source (OS) learning management systems (LMS) - or - virtual learning environments (it seems different countries use different names) for the SKIL2 platform. (Note to self - develop a list of all these new acronyms.) Basically,… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 23, 2008 at 12:34pm — No Comments

Update to SKIL2 Information package. April 2008.

SKIL2 Info pack. april 2008..pdf

As a result of some excellent feedback from Ronnie I went back into the info… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 20, 2008 at 8:41pm — 3 Comments

The SKIL2 Information Package. April 2008.

SKIL2 Info pack. april 2008..pdf SKIL2 is a project in its infancy. So, over the last few weeks I've been designi… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 18, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Slow but Sure

Sometimes progress is about just staying still - and waiting to see what happens. This week I had my first 2 members join the network. Many welcomes to Pat and Ronnie. I know that they will add great value to all the work I'll be doing on the SKIL2 project. The n… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 17, 2008 at 2:25pm — No Comments

SKIL2 progress and need for patience when I get frustrated

In the last week I've been busy doing a few things: 1. Writing my application for the Social Entrepreneur Ireland award. It's worth 5000 euro and links into their mentoring and networking. All done and sent off on Thursday. Love checking things of the list. 2. Confirming the national non profit partner for SKIL2. I won't name them yet as we are sorting out resources. They are really excited about the potential for SKIL2 and I even have their senior managers asking to be on the… Continue

Added by liz lennon on April 5, 2008 at 4:20pm — No Comments

SKIL2 progress

In the last few weeks I have been developing a project that I've called SKIL2. SKIL2 is an acronym for - spaces for information + knowledge + learning - service knowledge innovation leadership. SKIL2 has 4 key components - P2 (profitable partnerships); CII (creative inward investment); PC (project coordination); and KIS (knowledge information spaces). P2 - profitable partnerships - will see a national non profit; third level & privat… Continue

Added by liz lennon on March 28, 2008 at 10:01am — No Comments

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