shamelessly overdue bookmark dump

i'm sorry, guys - i've been reading, reading, reading for the past few weeks in preparation for my upcoming attendance at AG|09, but I haven't taken a moment to share anything. i know, i know.

anyway, here are. sorry about the lack of categories, but if i don't just get this out, this post might never appear.

• Cathy Lombardozzi on the value of conferences
• iTunes U: better than attending class?
  
• Remember when you were an e-learning n00b? the eLearning Guild wants to talk to you.
• Clark: variables and triggers (read his "author's note" at the end; so elegant)
  
• Kevin Jones and the Requirements to Social Learning Adoption (kind of a catchy band name, no?)
• The Ultimate Open Courseware toolset: free learning for everyone!
• Build a video site in seconds
  
• The Kindle 2 and the Author's Guild: old mediaheads throw a hissy. My wife says that this is all a publicity stunt for Amazon, but i'm afraid that this is the real face of fear coming from the desperate, clutching their meal tickets.
• Free academic software for managing and sharing research papers. Where was this 12 years ago, Jane?
• Speaking of academia, do you consider Twitter a free research portal?
  
• Jay Cross: No more 'learners'. Actually, all i should have to have said was 'Jay Cross' and you should already have been clicking.
  
• siftables: a new learning tool (don't you love TED? i know i do)
• Speaking of TED, here's a bit for those of you still waiting to try Twitter
  
• Brian, this one is for you: Effective Learning on Mobile Devices
• Actually, Brian, I have some more: 1 and 2 and 3. Enjoy!
  
• How to attend AG|09 (sorta) if you can't make it in person
• Jeff Hurt stays on topic with 6 steps for using Twitter for your conference/event
• If Jane wore glasses, they'd be coke bottle thick so that she could see the future.
• Clark Quinn draws a Venn diagram.
• Rationalizing a netbook. You know you want this.
• Jane manages to come up with stuff i manage to miss. S'why she's in the Google Reader, friends.
• I think my current job has done a lot for me on this front, but how did you learn about accessibility (or are you even induced to think about it)?
• Clark Aldrich talks about a lot about sims. Some of them he even likes.
• On communicating visually
• Clive talks about a graphics style manual. I tried to put together a comprehensive guide a few years ago, but failed. Kind of seeing why.
• Social Learning Question of the Day account on Twitter. Brilliant!
• A tour of a low(ish)-budget video studio. Very nice.
• 100+ Language Learning sites
• Jane recommends Busuu, a free online community for learning languages
• and completing the language trifecta: Avatar Languages
• wait, one more: SL Language Conference
  
• More things i am blatantly stealing from Jane Hart: 18 People to follow for a real education on Twitter (very useful!), a presentation about what Twitter can do for you, and 38 ways to find great edublogs
  
• Clark Quinn's 'least assistance' principle
• The training department of the future. Spoiler alert: no flying cars.
• Keep up with Clark Quinn's Monday Broken ID series.
• This blog post kind of pulled me up short and made me think about the forces working in my workplace. Wendy's in-the-trenches reports tend to do that.
• Speaking of Wendy, she unwittingly tipped me off to this: 10 things learning designers forget
• Clark Aldrich allowed me to sound smart whilst talking to a colleague. Huzzah! On practice
  
• Anthropology + learning studies = Craig. Well, in this case it equals Charlotte Linde, but it has my attention: Telling stories to 'work the past'
  
• Let's check in with Big Dog, Little Dog
• On Blogging and the Cultural Virtues of Twitter. I'm really starting to like this Open Culture blog.
• Learning is like breathing
• Don't miss the Online Symposium on New Media and Learning
• Nailing down what i do: "social netlearning"?
• Track all of my personal information on the web? Yes, please.
• Social media stats that you can use.
• An aesthetically-pleasing (well, for me) video on the history of the internet.
• Clark Quinn is playing smaller gigs this year, man. It's all about the fans.
• A well-said turn explanation as to why i will always devolve into drawing on napkins to convey what i mean.
• Listen to Alec Jeong talk about Cooliris. This + a web-enabled SMARTBoard = pretty.
• The e-Learning Lingo Podcast. Spit hot wonk yang like the, uh, wonkiest.
  
• Tony Karrer hits you with a pop quiz: Video-Based eLearning Authoring tools
• Koreen Olbrish said they were cool, and they were.
• Jay Cross calls for agile instructional design
• Clark Aldrich calls books out. Seriously, this guy is almost never a boring read.
• Jane tips us off to two document sharing/editing sites: DocVerse and Docuter.
• Also, Jane presents A Guide to Social Learning.
• Mobile Learning in Senegal
• An organ grinder of funny: compliance poetry
• "If you can type, you can make movies" ...really?
• E-learning: not a fad
• Invest in your people: 100+ Free E-Learning Tools for Emplyee Training and Personal Training
• Twitter for Teachers wiki
  
• Tony Karrer talks about good writing
• Required reading for Interaction Designers from the School of Visual Arts in NYC
• In search of common ground: A task conceptualization to facilitate the design of (e)learning environments with design patterns. Yes, you're reading a scientific tract. Deal with it.
• My favorite quote from this blog post: "The internet is not making us dumber. It's just that it's getting harder for people to pretend to be intelligent." Read the post in English here.
  
• Graffiti as informal learning, social media
• BackNoise lets you create conversations on the fly, in meetings, watching TV, during class, on the train, anywhere and anytime.
• Autodidacts, unite!
• Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: what are they best used for, respectively?
• A simple question (possibly our only question): how does learning happen best?

That's all for now. It's late.