bladergirl99 (July 14, 2008 at 3:31 pm)

is that ur grandfather or something

dannycoulombe (June 22, 2008 at 6:19 am)

Very instructive! Direct contact with people is a very important learning method that I hasn't toke time to analyse before. As a french webmaster looking for a web to learn in this english web (because english is the universal language here), I think that a real eyes contact as demonstrated in your teaching, give a great help in learning confidence and stimulate positive orizons.I hope that I was clear in that foreign language.

ChessLectures (March 17, 2008 at 11:42 am)

Very interesting, personally the "art" and "science" of learning (and informal learning) is probably the most interesting thing.I am a chess player and i find that the process of informal-learning is perhaps more important then the normal examatic / 1-2-3 method. There's a book by Waitzkin- "The Art of Learning" exactly on that topic.You made me realize that i'm an Informal-Learner and that is why i have an almost autistic ability for autodidaction and such low grades!Thanks

CorbeauBlanc (February 28, 2008 at 6:26 pm)

I am a student and I am shocked how much everything is about exams, especially in the british systems.I always say, if school was good it would not need to be obligatory.

trombone7 (November 5, 2007 at 7:11 pm)

Good video. You need to be bigger on the screen though. At no point did your face actually take up the entire screen. I think the biggest barrier to informal learning is a company not wanting to really go into "Why we do it this way." They don't want to conversationally uproot the motivations or lack of motivations, or how shallow monotonous or redundant entire departments of a company are. They'd rather put together a bullet-point email presentation and a multiple choice test. Thanks again.

janicewhite (May 15, 2007 at 10:31 am)

Thanks for the conversation Jay! Your slides seemed to play the part of the respondent and there's nothing like eye contact to maintain attention. Good to find an interesting resource on an interesting topic - informal learning.

amysue102 (March 7, 2007 at 1:15 am)

Brilliant, Jay! I'm trying to post this video on my blog, but it looks like YouTube doesn't support TypePad yet, so I'm just going to have to link to it...

jakeross1 (March 3, 2007 at 3:56 am)

greenerthan, the production values story is this. 1) i recorded the video with my casio pocket camera mounted on a mini tripod on my desk. 2) i feel that impromptu, un-slick video has more credibility than studio production. what do you think? am i just rationalizing my crappy a/v skills?

greenerthan (March 3, 2007 at 3:51 am)

Very nice video Jay. I've been following your work for a year, and this summary of your theses generated numerous quotables. Loved the myface metaphor, driving home your themes of human community. Did you at all intend to sacrifice a bit of your production value to the the closeup-induced fuzziness, perhaps in order to pluck a range of subconscious chords? Great use of MovieMaker too;

adaptivesoftware (March 2, 2007 at 7:28 am)

Very nice video on informal learning. When I do training sessions I realize that participants typically retain only a certain percentage of what they learned. However when peole learn informally they do it in the context of a certain activity, which fosters beter retention. ThanksParag