A New Blog I Can Highly Recommend

Dear Kind Readers:

I can recommend a new blog on the topic of Informal Learning; mine!

In it I'll review ideas, products, trends, tools, techniques and whatever else catches my eye on the topic of Informal Learning.

What is Informal Learning? Frankly it's hard to categorize. But that book you read on green gardening techniques or that show you watched on PBS about aircraft carriers both qualify.

You may do it with a career goal in mind like mastering Photoshop or just because you prefer to engage the gears in your mind rather than let it stall out in neutral.

I'll post at my Informal Leaning blog at least once a week.

I hope you'll join me there!

Warm regards,
Paul Jones

Comments

Anonymous said…

Sounds great. I can't wait to check it out!

4/30/2008 11:43 AM

Anonymous said…

Like you don't have enough to do already and aren't you kicking my ass enough on number of posts each week? This is getting embaressing! I'm calling your wife to make sure you're really picking up around the house and mowing the lawn! Joe

5/04/2008 7:40 PM

Anonymous said…

Thats what I call perfect timing.

I just took on a new cause and started a blog to promote it even though it is not my area of expertise.

I´ve been trully engaged in "informal learning" for the past few weeks and I will try to become an expert learning this way.

I wish you the best of luck with your new blog, I´ll be reading it often.

Sincerely,
Daniel Aguilar

5/05/2008 3:06 PM

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