Welcome to the New England Learning Association’s New Blog. New Technologies bring with it new ways to communicate. The NELA BLOG as it will be known, is a work in progress that is designed to let the learning and technology world share ideas, thoughts, success stories and more. As our mission statement says: The New England Learning Association (NELA) brings together professionals in industry and education for the purpose of advancing the successful adoption of technology for learning.
NELA is an organization known for connecting New England to the rest of the world with its new Global Chapters project, co-sponsored events with other countries and consulates such as the Canadian, Swiss and Irish. In addition to successful webinars and physical events throughout the year that NELA produces, the NELA BLOG gives us a unique opportunity to share the before, during and after of these events with others who could not attend or would like to share their comments.
The NELA BLOG is looking for thoughts and content from lots of places. Let’s take advantage of what blogs have to offer together. We are looking for participants, thought leaders, writers and users to offer their insight and comments. We are looking for what your success stories are. How do they make an impact to the industry? What did people really learn?
If you are a thought leader send us a few paragraphs that outline an article. Start a conversation on a relevant topic. Tell us what’s next. If it is interesting to you it will be interesting to others. We will get responses and feedback from all over the world. From India, the U.K., Switzerland, Canada, Italy and many more. Thought leaders who have already accepted an invitation to participate are from vendors, users, research firms, colleges and schools.
We want to hear from everyone. This is your opportunity to participate in an unbiased, non-threatening way. We are not looking for a compilation of every other blog cut and pasted into this one. You can get that anywhere. NELA will continue to be different and relevant. User experiences and how that is relevant to the industry,that is what really matters. So please, take a minute to think about what would really make this blog useful to you and let us know. The more you participate the better it will be.
What should you do first? Tuesday’s speaker, Saul Carliner has posted questions in advance for comments and discussion.
Due to security at the Cananian Consulate, remember to pre-register for the NELA event Tuesday Evening January 24.
Sincerely,
Allan Cole
New England Learning Association
New England Learning Association Blog…
I read recently that there are 80,000 new blogs a day. As Dorothy Parker might say, “What fresh hell is this?” But I am confident that, just as the early days of Web “home pages” gave way to better and……
Trackback by billtrippe.com — January 20, 2006 @ 12:48 pm
NELA Launches New Blog…
As part of an ongoing project I have with the New England Learning Association (NELA) the new NELA Blog was launched today. The goal of the project is to extend the interaction and learning of the NELA community by creating ongoing discussions and i…..
Trackback by D Foster Associates — January 20, 2006 @ 1:35 pm
Kudos to NELA for launching its blog! This is exactly the type of activity that an innovative association should undertake - not just talk about learning and technology, but actually DO learning and technology. The value of the NELA community mindshare is enormous and it’s exciting to think about the possibilities. I look forward to participating in it.
Comment by Ed Arnold — January 24, 2006 @ 8:31 am