You are going to want to get familiar with some tools Groovy has outside of Eclipse. You should set your environmental variable to point to Groovy. Open up your environmental variables tab and add a variable called GROOVY_HOME where the value will be something like this: C:\groovy-1.6-RC-3.

One thing about groovy is that is allows you to run the groovy scripts right away without creating a class. You can do this by opening the groovy console. Open a command prompt and type c:\groovysh. When the shell opens, you can type something like this groovy:000> println “Hello World” and that string will print to the console. The disadvantage of the shell is that when you close it, your data is gone.

You can create a groovy script very easily. Create a file called hello.groovy and in the text file, add this line of code: println “Hello World”. Save the file and from a regular command prompt (not the groovysh console) type: C:\groovy hello.groovy. You should see “Hello World” print to the console. This can be very helpful because you don’t have to create a class to compile some groovy code.

To compile the class you can type groovyc hello.groovy. This command will create a class for you.

(Step 6 coming soon)

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Have you ever wanted to have a single list of the various free webinars brought together in a single place?   In conjunction with eLearning Learning, we are working with Jon Udell (thanks Jon) to use his calendar aggregation technology to bring together a list of free webinars that we believe will be of interest to learning professionals.

Free eLearning Webinars

Let me know if you think this will be valuable. 

Integrated with Best of eLearning Learning

We are planning to include events that are coming up in the Best of eLearning Learning each week.  We just did exactly that for the post:

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where we listed three upcoming webinars.  Hopefully another reason to subscribe to the best of eLearning Learning.

Get the Word Out

Hopefully this can grow to address both sides of this need – consumers and producers. 

As a consumer, I seem to randomly run into webinars like you probably did when I just announced: Free Webinar - Models for Learning in a New World.  Because they hit me somewhat randomly, I most often don’t schedule it into my calendar at that time.  I know that I’ll make a decision later about the event.

As a producer, I know that getting the word out on a webinar can be very difficult.  I will publish the information about the webinar I just mentioned on my blog, but that hits exactly the same audience.  I will tweet about it.  Hopefully a few people will Retweet.  But it doesn’t reach all that wide.  I’m hoping that this will become a good way for producers to get the word out.  By the way, if you are producing events that will be of interest to a learning professionals audience, then drop me an email.

Thoughts and Ideas

We are just beginning this process.  We have some ideas on where this will go and how to make it better, but I would really like to get your input.

Is this a good idea?

What can we do to make this better?

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I’m doing a free webinar in a few weeks where I will be discussing some of the major trends that are affecting models of learning.  I think this will be an interesting discussion and I welcome your participation.

Models for Learning in a New World

This is a very interesting time to be a learning professional. Fragmentation of jobs, increasing concept work, and constant change all put a premium on learning. At the same time, we are seeing an explosion of information sources, greatly increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world, and new tools emerging every day. This environment means that workplace learning is changing. We have to look beyond formal learning solutions towards solutions that support self-directed and social learning.

In this session, Dr. Karrer will discuss the big picture trends that are impacting workplace learning. He will present how learning solutions are evolving in organizations to meet changing needs. Holly and Monika will discuss a model for learning that integrates various learning strategies that combine formal, performance support and informal learning.

Come join this interesting presentation and discussion around models for learning in a new world of learning.

Presenters:

Dr. Tony Karrer, TechEmpower, Inc.

Holly St. John Peck, Peck Training Group, LLC

Monika Ebert, Different Lens, LLC

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 25^th 10-11 AM Pacific, 1-2 PM Eastern, 5 PM GMT

Register for the Webinar

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