The first couple of responses to this month's LCBQ Addressing I Want it Now #LCBQ have come in and Kasper Spiro's caught my eye: On demand: agile e-Learning development #LCBQ. Like Kasper, I'm very familiar with Agile in software development. was not as familiar with it in terms of eLearning development. It's the updating part that doesn't happen. MORE >>

For April Fool’s of this year, we (the Internet Time Alliance , with large credit to Jane and Harold) posted a message on our site: The Internet Time Alliance (ITA) has spent much of the past year on a mission. We have located and assembled a huge collection of informal learning content. “Without content there is no learning. social MORE >>

You don’t need to be a software developer or hardcore techie to use APIs. In fact, some web APIs, like the Twitter API , are relatively easy to use, and you can use them get access to useful and otherwise hidden data. Before you can start to play with Twitter’s API, you’ll need to know a few API basics. Show User Data. link]. MORE >>

For VizThink NYC’s third workshop of 2011 BigBlueGumball took the crowd on a fun and engaging trip into the world of visual communication. Steve and Todd Cherches (also known as Todd and Steve Cherches , or BigBlueGumball) showed us, through three hands-on activities, that visual communication is not just about drawing. it’s hard!) MORE >>

Last Tuesday I presented Perspectives on the Information Literate University at an internal seminar at the Open University (the photo shows a sculpture outside the library). For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major British distance learning university, which has had over 1.5 million people studying with it in its 40 year history. MORE >>