The GBIF Secretariat have been working for some time towards the stablishment of an electronic learning (eLearning) platform, called the GBIF Virtual Classroom. A task group was set up in 2010 to discuss this issue and, as part of their work, the GBIF community of nodes was consulted through a survey to evaluate their situation in relation to eLearning. The results of that survey where published at the end of that year.

In this time, a test server have been set up and a company specialized... Read full post

2010 is the second year that the Participant Report System has been used to collect information about the state of our network and its advancement towards the common objectives of GBIF. The full reports for 2009 and 2010 are available in the online resource centre.
In this blog post I will include a comparison on the results of the two years for the training area. It's important to highlight that the questions in the two years were not exactly the same, as in 2010 more precision was sought in... Read full post

I came across a new (?) service today: Justin.tv
With this service, you can very easily broadcast a video (with audio) live! Anyone in the internet can follow the stream without the need of creating and account and the resulting video is available for others to see for at least 6 days. The service is for free but advertisement will be shown to the viewers.
It is extremelly easy to set up and does not require any application to be installed when using it from a computer. You just need a webcam... Read full post

Last month of August I participated in this interesting conference, where two topics that I am working right now were heavily discussed: eLearning and online social networking.
This was a very busy conference with lots of parallel sessions. I have tried to summarise the most relevant ones I participated in. I hope other poeple find this useful and gives some food for thoughts:

Social Media for Trainers, by Jane Bozarth This session was centred on the potential use of social media for those... Read full post