Don McIntosh

I am a lurker in this forum.

I think it is useful to see what is happening in the corporate world. Many companies have long recognized the value of informal learning and have adopted Web 2.0 technologies enthusiastically to give it some structure and to capture some of it.

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Hello Jo-Ann and Deirdre,

This is a great conversation and with your permission I would like to share it with my students in the Masters of Education program at the University of Phoenix. I would just use it as food for thought. Would you mind?

Regards,

Don.

The discussion of audience and objectives is very useful. It is interesting the assumptions that we make when these are not articulated and recorded.

For example, I had assumed that this project would have a uniquely Canadian perspective and, while that might be interesting, it may not be the intention at all.

Great work on the wiki summary Sylvia. Thank you.

Should we start adding in details within the various lenses, for example, the names of people?

Should we add an area on audience and objectives?

Don.

What I enjoy about museums is the sense of discovery. Even though it is obvious that someone else has discovered it before, there is always something new to learn.

Come to think of it, the World Wide Web is a "museum" of information and now of interconnection. I get that sense of discovery almost every day now.