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  • Social workers get their own TV channel

    Anna Bawden
    27 Oct 2009 | 5:03 am
    One of the Social Work Taskforce's central preoccupations is how best to stimulate professionalism, confidence and morale among social workers. It's final report is due out this autumn. Now the Social Care Institute for Excellence launched Social Care TV, which it hopes will help tackle these issues, as well as provoke debate.While teachers have had their own TV channel for some while, this is the first time that social care has its own TV service. Available from SCIE's website, the programmes are aimed at social care staff, managers, commissioners and trainers.The real life stories and films…

  • Teaching Awards: Becta award for next generation learning

    Mira Katbamna
    26 Oct 2009 | 5:05 pm
    Dan Lea is no geek, yet he manages to get his class recording and blogging – and he makes it look easyThey've only known him a few weeks, but as far as six-year-olds Sapphire Roll and Naila Haque are concerned, their teacher, Dan Lea, is the business. "Mr Lea is the best teacher in the world," they tell me. "And he is funny!"As Naila and Sapphire discuss just why he is so funny (it's the dancing and singing, apparently) their thoughts are recorded on a video camera by two classmates. In the corner, four children are playing the Elf Tales maths computer game. And at the front of the room,…

  • 'Robot' computer to mark English essays

    Polly Curtis
    24 Sep 2009 | 4:08 pm
    • Exam board denies system will be extended to GCSEs• Union fears 'a disaster waiting to happen'The owner of one of England's three major exam boards is to introduce artificial intelligence-based automated marking of English exam essays in the UK from next month.Pearson, the American-based parent company of Edexcel, is to use computers to "read" and assess essays for international English tests in a move that has fuelled speculation that GCSEs and A-levels will be next.All three exam boards are now investing heavily in e-assessment but none has yet perfected a form of marking essays using…

  • Why e-assessment hasn't been quickly adopted

    20 Jul 2009 | 4:05 pm
    An expert says on-screen exams will soon be the norm. Don't hold your breath, says Warwick MansellKen Boston was bullish about the power of technology to transform the educational experience of millions of pupils. "On-screen assessment will shortly touch the life of every learner in this country," predicted Boston, at the time chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, in a speech at London's Royal Festival Hall, setting out his organisation's "blueprint" for the use of technology in exams.But that was back in 2004, and few experts would say that he has been proved right.

  • Obituary: Robin Mason

    5 Jul 2009 | 4:01 pm
    Advocate of e-learning in higher educationRobin Mason, who has died aged 63 from pneumonia as a secondary complication from a brain tumour, changed the face of distance education through her research at the Open University (OU) and her contribution to higher education policy documents. Coming to higher education later in life, Mason joined the Institute of Educational Technology at the OU in the early 1980s, and worked initially as a part-time project officer. When she embarked on her PhD on computer conferencing in 1985, her work became ground-breaking. She was attempting to link students by…
 
 
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  • President caps 1 311 ZOU graduates - The Herald

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:44 am
    President caps 1 311 ZOU graduatesThe HeraldDr Kurasha said she was elected to head the Sadc Distance Education Association of Southern Africa, demonstrating that Zimbabwe was trusted in the

  • China Distance Education Holdings Limited Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal ... - PR-AU.com... (press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:26 am
    China Distance Education Holdings Limited Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal PR-AU.com... (press release)China Distance Education Holdings Limited ("CDEL," or the "Company"), a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education, and more »

  • Ignou enteres its silver jubilee year - Times of India

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:58 pm
    SINDH TODAYIgnou enteres its silver jubilee yearTimes of IndiaCalling Ignou the pioneer of open and distance education, Sibal said: "Absence of adequate number of quality faculty is a major concern, but this problem Speech of President Pratibha Devisingh Patil at inauguration of Silver Jubilee India Education DiaryPrez laments poor skill certification among workforcePress Trust of IndiaPresident inaugurates IGNOU Silver Jubilee celebrationsIndiaEduNews.netThaindian.comall 32 news articles »

  • Distance education could address dearth of teachers: Sibal - Thaindian.com

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:16 am
    Distance education could address dearth of teachers: SibalThaindian.comNew Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Distance education, via cell phones and other technology geared to provide open access to education, could address the dearth of and more »

  • Distance Learning showcased at APSU - Business Clarksville

    18 Nov 2009 | 10:32 pm
    Distance Learning showcased at APSUBusiness Clarksville13, with the winner to be announced at 4 pm The Distance Education Showcase will be from 10 am-2 pm, Wednesday, Nov. 11 in the Morgan University Center and more »
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    About.com: Distance Learning

  • 10 Ways to Get Help from Your Online Professors

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:19 pm
    If you're struggling with an online class, don't wait until the last minute to get help. Interacting with online professors can be daunting. Virtual communication can even seem more difficult than a face-to-face meeting. But, there's no need to fear. Follow these ten suggestions and you'll be able to get the help you need. See Also: How to Participate in an Online Class Chat Room 10 Indispensible Free Web Resources for Students 10 Ways to Get Help from Your Online Professors originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 22:19:35.Permalink | Comment |…

  • New: 10 Facts About Online Degrees

    14 Nov 2009 | 8:19 pm
    Online degrees are becoming more popular with working students and those who prefer to learn from the comfort of home. If you're thinking about enrolling in a virtual program, consider these ten facts about online degrees. See Also: 7 Mistakes Online Students Make Is Distance Learning Right for You? New: 10 Facts About Online Degrees originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at 04:19:57.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Earning Credit by Playing Video Games

    13 Nov 2009 | 8:10 pm
    Discovering evil plots, collecting clues, solving conspiracies. It may sound like a video game. But, actually, it's a way to earn high school credit. In this game-based online high school course from Florida Virtual University students learn by playing. The Miami Herald reports: "The characters representing the student -- Eddie Flash and Libby Whitetree -- go through missions in which they gain powers and collect clues. Students keep notes in a "conspiracy log" and play mini games to reinforce what they've learned. The clues contain the lessons in the form of videos, maps, interactive…

  • National Accreditation vs. Regional Accreditation

    11 Nov 2009 | 4:54 pm
    As a prospective online student, you may need to choose between schools with national accreditation and schools with regional accreditation. Your choice may affect your ability to transfer credits, be accepted for graduate studies, or gain employment. Check out this article for the pros and cons of each option. See Also: Check Any School's Accreditation Is Using a Diploma Mill Degree Illegal? National Accreditation vs. Regional Accreditation originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 00:54:29.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • National Distance Learning Week

    7 Nov 2009 | 5:11 pm
    This week is National Distance Learning Week, sponsored by the United States Distance Learning Association. Check out the website for access to free webinars including: Higher Ed: Global Education Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Collaborative Learning Globally Blended Learning Register in advance to reserve a spot or take a look at their articles to learn more about National Distance Learning Week. See Also: Is Distance Learning Right for You? How Does an Online University Work? National Distance Learning Week originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Sunday, November 8th,…
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  • Research Areas in Distance Education: A Delphi Study

    This study had three purposes: Firstly, to develop a categorization of research areas in distance education; secondly, to identify the most important research areas in distance education; and thirdly, to identify the most neglected research areas in distance education. Based on a literature review and a Delphi study, three broad levels or perspectives with 15 research areas were derived to organize the body of knowledge in distance education. Prospective researchers can use the results to identify gaps and priority areas and to explore potential research directions.Read the Full Article

  • Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs

    The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students’ academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640) from Fall 2002 to Fall 2004 in the Master’s of Business Administration and Master’s in Communication Sciences and Disorders at a national research university in the southeastern United States. Demographic variables analyzed were…

  • Online Learner Authentication: Verifying the Identity of Online Users

    This paper addresses how one university has partnered with a corporation to work on the verification of online student identity and describes ongoing efforts to best verify online student identity. Through this collaboration, the university seeks to enhance the credibility of its online evaluation process by employing data forensic techniques commonly used by today’s financial services industry. Detail is presented on how user authentication strategies are being applied to verify remote learner identity during formal online performance appraisals. Additional details on how the existing…

  • An Exploratory Study into the Efficacy of Learning Objects

    Learning objects have quickly become a widely accepted approach to instructional technology, particularly in on-line and computer-based learning environments. While there is a substantial body of literature concerning learning objects, very little of it verifies their efficacy. This research investigated the effectiveness of learning objects by comparing learning outcomes using a learning object with outcomes using a traditional textbook-based method of instruction. Participants were 327 undergraduate college students at a traditional public four-year coed institution, a private four-year…

  • Assessing the relationship of student-instructor and student-student interaction to student learning and satisfaction in Web-based Online Learning Environment

    This study shows the importance of interaction to student learning within Web-based online learning programs. The population of this study was students enrolled in multiple academic disciplines at a private university in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. A Web-based research instrument was designed to assess students’ characteristics, their perceptions of learning, satisfaction, student-to-student interactions and student-to-instructor interactions. Regression analyses were employed to analyze the relationship of interaction variables with student learning and satisfaction.
 
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  • Here’s How to Get Past a Screen Full of Bullet Points

    tom
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:41 am
    The tendency when working with PowerPoint is to start with the template structure.  This works fine if you want to create quick presentations.  The problem with that approach is you tend to get slides full of bullet points. To get the most out of PowerPoint and build the best elearning courses requires thinking of PowerPoint in a different way.  You have to think outside of the template and bullet point box. In a previous post, I showed how to expand your PowerPoint skills by creating custom illustrations.  In today’s post we’ll build on that.  I’m going to show…

  • 5 Ways to Use Silhouette Graphics in Your E-Learning Course

    tom
    10 Nov 2009 | 12:38 am
      In a recent post, I showed how to easily create your own silhouette characters.  Today I share show some ways to use those silhouettes in your elearning courses.  Something to keep in mind is that the silhouette doesn’t need to be confined to people.  You can use them on objects, as well. Create a Progress Meter As a visual cue, use silhouette characters or objects to create a progress meter.  As the learners advance, the silhouettes change to real images.  This lets them see their progress through their course and where they’re currently at. Create Section…

  • 3 Ways to Define Interactive Rapid E-Learning

    tom
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:21 am
    There’s a lot of debate about interactivity in elearning.  You have some people who think elearning is not valid unless it has a high level of interactivity.  Anything that’s not interactive is just a “boring click-and-read course.”  On the other hand, there are a lot of people who equate interactivity with nonsensical games.  So to them, any interactivity is just extra time and expense.  I’ve worked with clients who thought interactivity was adding a rollover or slick animations.  They’d “ooh” and “aah” over the dumbest things.  It was…

  • The Project Management Tip You Can’t Ignore

    tom
    27 Oct 2009 | 1:51 am
    Managing elearning projects requires good communication between the instructional designers and subject matter experts.  In most cases, this communication happens via email.  Thus, better email communication ultimately leads to better project management, which most likely means better elearning courses. At a recent ASTD conference, I ran into Mike Song, the author of The Hamster Revolution.  It’s a book on how to effectively manage emails.  Mike gave me a free copy which I skimmed through on the plane flight home. It’s a quick read and very practical, but I’ll have…

  • These PowerPoint Experts Can Make You a Star

    tom
    20 Oct 2009 | 1:35 am
    Sometimes we get so busy that we lose sight of the great resources available to us.  It’s not until you pull your head up from your desk and look around that you realize what’s available.  That’s why it’s important to be connected to other people who have similar interests or do similar work.  You’ll learn from them and have access to all sorts of information.  If you think about it, there’s really not much that you know (if anything) that you didn’t learn from someone else or because of someone else. Last week I was at PowerPoint Live 2009 in Atlanta where I…
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  • eLearning Conferences 2010

    Tony Karrer
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:33 am
    Clayton R Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page and so we’ve somewhat established a pattern of published in here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. December 2009 December 1-4, 2009 New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.nzare.org.nz/ December 2, 2009 Security and Defence Learning: International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services, 5th, Hotel…

  • SharePoint Fear and Loathing by Learning Professionals

    Tony Karrer
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:55 am
    I was surprised by the fear and loathing expressed around SharePoint yesterday at LearnTrends 2009.  I don’t think it’s the best tool out there, but it likely is the best tool being adopted by your IT department and is part of the Enterprise 2.0 plan in your organization.  My belief is that it’s going to be a big part of eLearning 2.0 for many workplace learning professionals.  SharePoint 2010 looks to be a much better product. As such, I’m always looking for people who want to discuss how they are using it.  Certainly we’ll be doing more sessions like SharePoint…

  • Innovation Awards 2009

    Tony Karrer
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:56 pm
    We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here. CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution. It provides a blend of learning management and performance support. Because they operate in bandwidth…

  • Be Ready to Take Advantage of Opportunities

    Tony Karrer
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:53 am
    I participated in a session at DevLearn that I mentioned last week in my posts Missed Opportunities and Enough Tools for Now. The session was conducted where we broken into discussion groups around different topics each their own facilitator. My group discussed that as learning professionals we need to put ourselves in position to be able to serve learners and internal/external clients through the best possible solution we can design and create given the constraints that exist. This might mean improving our capabilities around existing offerings. It also means getting ready to offer new kinds…

  • Dilbert Warns Me About Work Literacy

    Tony Karrer
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:01 am
    Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work. Maybe reading blog posts about the topic is okay :) Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Processing Pages with Links Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Work Literacy Workshop eLearning Technology Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.
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  • Exploring the Benefits of Using WordPress for Learning

    B.J. Schone
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am
    Below are the slides from my second presentation at DevLearn 2009. I also co-presented this session along with my colleague, John Polaschek. The presentation covers the basics of blogging and describes the advantages we’ve found with using WordPress. We’ve used it internally at Qualcomm and we’re very pleased with the results. Check out the slides for more info! Have you introduced blogging at your organization? If so, please share a little bit of your experience with us. I’d be curious to hear how it’s going and any tips you can provide to others. Thanks!

  • A Case Study of Micro-Blogging for Learning at Qualcomm

    B.J. Schone
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:46 pm
    Below are the slides from my presentation at DevLearn 2009. I co-presented this session along with my colleague, John Polaschek. The presentation had two main areas of focus: How micro-blogging can be used to help facilitate discussions and knowledge-sharing between employees How Qualcomm is using Yammer to help employees connect across divisions and geographic regions I hope you enjoy it, even though you won’t have our charming personalities to accompany the slides! Please leave a comment if you’ve worked with micro-blogging at your organization. I’d be curious to hear how…

  • DevLearn 2009 – Day 3 Recap

    B.J. Schone
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:35 pm
    Ah, the final day of DevLearn 2009. It’s been so much fun! But all good things must come to an end… If you haven’t caught up yet, be sure to read recaps of Day 1 and Day 2. And don’t forget: You can view photos from DevLearn, too! Keynote: Why New Media Matters – Leo Laporte Leo gave a great keynote without using any slides at all. How refreshing is that?! His stories were engaging, and it’s clear why he’s been so successful as a radio/technology personality for so many years. Cammy Bean did an awesome job (again) of live-blogging this morning’s…

  • DevLearn 2009 – Day 2 Recap

    B.J. Schone
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:48 am
    Day 2 of DevLearn kicked off with a keynote from Eric Zimmerman on Serious Game Design. Cammy Bean did a fantastic job of taking notes during the keynote, so I’ll defer to her on this. You can see her notes here. (Thank you, Cammy!) Session 401: Overview of Latest Learning Trends: What’s Hot, What’s Not, and Why This session was presented by Lance Dublin. In Lance’s typical style, it was full of interesting discussion and TONS of open (and often uncomfortable) questions. He covered everything from eLearning basics to all of the new “2.0″ technologies. Some…

  • DevLearn 2009 – Day 1 Recap

    B.J. Schone
    12 Nov 2009 | 11:41 am
    DevLearn 2009 is off to a great start! Yesterday was the official opening day of the conference, and it was jam-packed with a fantastic keynote by Andrew McAfee, several great presentations, and plenty of breakout sessions/bootcamps (ex. the Social Learning Camp). So much good stuff! Social Learning Camp Mark Oehlert has dedicated 99% of his time at DevLearn to the Social Learning Camp, and we should all say a huge THANK YOU for that. Mark is leading (almost) non-stop sessions on all aspects related to social learning and social technologies. Crowds gather around for each session, and…
 
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  • LearnTrends 2009: Balance, web 2.0, Internet Time Alliance, DAU

    Jay Cross
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:42 pm
    George Siemens began the day by challenging us to see the world as a set of trade-offs. What’s the optimal balance point? Asking people to jot ideas on the white board, the line that divides presenter from audience began to blur. We’re all audience; we all presenters; it shifts back and forth. Few things are black or white; most are shades of gray. As George said, it’s nutty for only one person to do the talking among a group of 125 people. Group scribbling on the white board proved a catalyst to discussion. I think it’s like taking notes: you don’t have to…

  • LearnTrends Tweetstream backchannel

    Jay Cross
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:59 pm
    Here’s tho conversation taking place at Twitter during LearnTrends. (We’d ask people to put their comments and questions into our conference system, where all could see them. ScottSkibell Videos from Tues & Wed #learntrends event are up. http://ow.ly/DwZE Catch the sessions you might have missed. -4:48 PM Nov 18th, 2009 Feature | Block yuuhey RT @jackiegerstein: mLearnopedia – http://bit.ly/48D0Ms – blogs, activities, research, resources for mobile learning – #learntrends -4:15 PM Nov 18th, 2009 Feature | Block trishuhl @poll 111231 #1: Lots of tools to…

  • LearnTrends: Backchannel

    Jay Cross
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm
    Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. The recording will be up before the day is over, but I thought you might enjoy the discussion that went with it. Twitter and chat are ubiquitous at conferences now. The back channel becomes part of the overall message. Moderator (Jay Cross) to Clark Quinn: You have the baton now. --------------------- tmast: yeah.  it looks like the sky in Indy too if you add big gray rain clouds, take away the sunlight, and change the blue to gray --------------------- Mars Chen: ok ---------------------…

  • LearnTrends Live: Mobile Learning

    Jay Cross
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:52 am
    Judy Brown is talking about mobile learning: it’s more that eLearning lite. M-learning: Pervasive. Get learners to complete tasks while going about their day-to-day lives. Laptops are mobile but not in Judy’s book. She wants something you always take with you. It’s always connected. It’s instant-on. When is learning needed? (from Conrad Gottfredson) When learning for the first time When wanting to learn more When trying to remember When things change When something goes wrong Modules for assessment, content, mobility, performance. Quiz. Recordings. Augmented reality.

  • LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

    Jay Cross
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pm
    Personal Knowledge Management BIG KM (corporate) |  Little KM | Personal KM Lots going on. Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?” “Sorting” means filtering one’s sources. Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories” are your personal folksonomy. “Making explicit” is tagging and pigeon-holing. “Retrieving” is recall. “Connecting” is following people. “Exchanging” is conversation, swaps,…
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  • Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Released – Using it with #Articulate Presenter ‘09

    mozealou
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    Today Microsoft released the Office 2010 Public Beta, meaning anyone who wants it can download it here.  I wanted to give you a heads up, and let you know how it impacts Articulate Presenter ‘09, and for those brave enough to try the two, what you can do if you run into issues. What you should know about the Office 2010 Beta and Articulate Presenter ‘09: Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is Free. You can download it from Microsoft – Download office 2010 Beta. Currently Articulate does not support PowerPoint 2010 Beta. Articulate supports Office 2007 and previous, but I have been…

  • 10 Things to Consider Before Choosing an LMS

    mozealou
    5 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    So you know you want an LMS.  Good. This article isn’t here to tell you why you need one, or why you should use one, this is a guide for anyone who already knows they want an LMS, just wants a guide for what to check for. Over the years I have spent many hours testing content and trying various different Learning Management Systems, and have even done some LMS (like) design work with Articulate Online.  Over that time period I have had the opportunity to learn a lot about what does work well, and what doesn’t work well in a lot of systems, so based on my knowledge on the…

  • What Troy McClure Can Teach You About Creating Awesome Screencasts

    mozealou
    29 Oct 2009 | 7:55 am
    Troy McClure has made some exceptional instructional films in his day. You might remember him from such educational films as The Half-Assed Guide to Foundation Repair and Alice’s Adventures through the Windshield Glass. So with all his instructional video experience, you might be wondering… What can Troy McClure teach me about creating awesome Screencasts? Let’s first watch this educational film from Troy McClure, Meat and You: Partners in Freedom: Eliminate confusion points and address common mistakes It is maddening watching a screencast when something confusing is shown,…

  • How Twitter Can Save Your Life in a Zombie Apocalypse #ZA

    mozealou
    16 Oct 2009 | 10:21 am
    Which are you: A zombie or a survivor? Thursday (10/08/09) was an unusually quiet day on the Twitter front, for almost 3 hours I didn’t get a single update from anyone I follow, and I normally get updates from the people I follow once every couple of minutes, so going 3 hours with no posts I naturally began to worry, and I began to wonder… Had a zombie apocalypse already devoured all the people I follow on Twitter? Zombie Survival Kit So I start to load my gun, and grab my sword when Twitter user @rhysatwork sends me a note telling me (via Twitter search) that Twitter was…

  • I donated to the victims of Ondoy, here is how you can too

    mozealou
    29 Sep 2009 | 1:51 pm
    I just made a small donation to the Philippine National Red Cross to help the over 300,000 people displaced by Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines.  If you are interested you can make a donation directly to the Philippine National Red Cross here. A couple of people who work for Articulate are currently displaced by Typhoon Ondoy, my thoughts go out to those folks and all those effected and we hope the floods clear up soon.
 
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  • Devlearn 09 - Day 3

    maish@elearningpost.com
    15 Nov 2009 | 8:03 am
    Day 3 of Devlearn was a short event day, just 1 keynote and 2 breakout sessions. It started off really well with a keynote by Leo Laporte. Leo is a wonderful storyteller. He told his story as a youngster trying to get into the mass media business. He described the difficulties and bottlenecks that the industry posed to people like him, from the high equipment costs to the very controlled distribution to the impenetrable bureaucracy. Only few people made it through the system, the rest were outliers waiting for their opportunity. The opportunity came in the form of the microprocessor and the…

  • Devlearn 09 - Day 2

    maish@elearningpost.com
    13 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    Day 2 of Devlearn was much better for me. But it did not start out that way. The second day keynote was by Eric Zimmerman, game designer and author of Rules of Play. Now Eric is a very smart chap, but his keynote was a mess. There was no structure in his presentation and his incessant “ahmmm” and “ahhhhs” drove me dizzy. I was not the only one who felt this way apparently. The Tweetboard had many tweets by people having this same feeling. After the dizzy spell, I was behind a couple of people leaving the conference room and this is what I heard: “Did you find it useful?” “Nah!

  • Devlearn 09 - Day 1

    maish@elearningpost.com
    12 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am
    I’m in cold San Jose this week attending Devlearn 2009. The first day keynote was by Andrew McAfee. He is the author of a recently published book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. I’m not going to describe the subject of his talk; there are many blogs that have done that already (here and here). It was a nice talk and he gave many pointers. But he made no attempt to bridge the gap between Enterprise 2.0 and Learning 2.0. Or answer questions like ‘how Enterprise 2.0 can be used to leverage Learning 2.0?’ Maybe the breakout sessions…

  • The Information Architecture of Behavior Change Websites

    maish@elearningpost.com
    10 Nov 2009 | 5:33 am
    This research report looks at the IA of sites that are designed to influence behavioral change, for example, giving up smoking. The report identifies 3 types of structure: hierarchical, matrix (hypertext), tunnel (linear) and the hybrid (a mix of the other types). “The Internet has rapidly become an accepted part of daily life for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. As a result, it is reasonable to conclude that these revolutionary advances will act as a catalyst to expand the scope and impact of both persuasive technology, in general, and of Internet-based health behavior change…

  • Communities of Practice: Optimizing Internal Knowledge Sharing

    maish@elearningpost.com
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    Michael Hawley has written an article describing how ‘Communities of Practice’ or CoPs can save intranets from the findabilty problem. “The key to intranet success is to provide value to employees and give them a reason to visit the site repeatedly. One of the primary ways to achieve this is to connect employees with the people and groups with whom they need to collaborate. Workgroups, or communities of practice, provide the basis for a living, growing, vibrant space in which people can access the information they need, share best practices, and contribute to a shared knowledge base.”…
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  • Friday’s Finds #27

    Harold Jarche
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:23 am
    As part of my – sense-making, moving from tacit to explicit, sharing with others – PKM system, here’s what caught my attention via Twitter during the past week. This week, I’m going to focus more on what others found interesting, as there was a lot of traffic as a result of the LearnTrends conference. LearnTrends once again emphasized my perspective that Work is Learning and Learning is the Work. #learntrends Janet Clarey (@JClarey): “We need to help people get around in their network and learn from it, instead of building Communities of Practice.” via…

  • Group-centric work and training

    Harold Jarche
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:07 pm
    Individual Training In the +20 years I spent in the military, much of it was as a student on course. In the military there is a whole system that governs individual training, in our case it was CFITES. CFITES comprises several volumes of instructions, including all of the ADDIE steps. A lot of resources are put into preparing individuals for duty and the system is designed for large numbers. Much time and effort goes into training a soldier and in peacetime there’s not much other than training to do anyway. If in doubt – train. Military Instructional Systems Design (ISD) has…

  • Time to get off the train

    Harold Jarche
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:58 am
    In Alvin & Heidi Toffler’s book, Revolutionary Wealth, they discuss the “clash of speeds” of our various societal structures, using a train analogy. Speeding along at 100 mph is the enlightened business train; adapting and using new technologies (exploiting change). Still fast at 90 mph is the civil society train; NGO’s, professional groups, activists, religious groups (demanding change). Keeping up at 60 mph is the family train; working, shopping, trading & selling from home (adapting to change). A distance back, at 30 mph is the union train, still focused on…

  • Across the chasm

    Harold Jarche
    16 Nov 2009 | 5:54 am
    I’ve written before how I use the chasm model to explain my professional work of 1) seeing what is ready to cross the chasm by 2) staying connected to the innovators & being an early adopter so that 3) I can help mainstream organizations. It’s a graphic summary of my consulting practice. As you can see, I ignore the Laggards. In the field of web social media for workplace performance, what technologies are the Innovators experimenting with? Which ones are now being picked up by the Early Adopters (like me) and finally, which technologies and ideas are ready to cross the chasm to…

  • Social learning is real

    Harold Jarche
    15 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm
    Once again, I’m learning from my colleagues, as yesterday I realized how important self-direction is in enabling social learning. Now I’m picking up on Jay’s post on Social Learning Gets Real and see how it connects to Jane’s observations. Jay has described several aspects of the future of social learning (below) and they map to the matrix (farther down) I created based on Jane’s five types of social learning. As Jay says: In the past, we’ve focused on individuals but work is performed by groups. Hence, I expect us to start helping groups learn to perform…
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  • CAC 2009 Student Presentations

    Karl Kapp
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:37 am
    Today student's present their mock solution to a mock exercise as part of their Master's of Science in Instructional Technology degree requirement. It is a great event. Students have written a 40 page proposal, created a 20 minute "sales" presentation and are prepared for a 15 minute question and answer session from our corporate advisory council members (we have over 30 in attendance this semester).Here is a brief overview of the Request for Proposal to which they've responded this semester (it changes every semester.)Mock E-Learning RFP Fall 2009This semester the focus is on developing a…

  • Fall 2009 Corporate Advisory Event Starts Today

    Karl Kapp
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:35 am
    Today marks the beginning of one of my favorite events of the year. Our annual Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) event. This is an event where students of instructional technology have a conference with professionals in the field where they can learn, exchange ideas and select students for jobs and internships. It is a great win-win event.This semester we have over 35 individuals representing 31 different companies including representatives from Kodak, KPMG, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Tyco Electronics, Vanguard, Northrop Grumman and others are in attendance. Including several entrepreneurial…

  • Designing a Virtual World Learning Event? Think Participant Centered

    Karl Kapp
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:11 am
    Immersed in a learning environment (notice, no bulleted list of objectives)An important virtual world design principle is that the participant (not the teacher) must be positioned at the center of the learning experience--a 360 degree immersion in an learning experience. Thus the term Virtual Immersive Environment (VIE)Unlike the classroom-based “Sage on the Stage” model where the teacher imparts knowledge upon the passive learning consumer, in a 3D Learning Experience, the participant must be actively engaged. Within the environment, the learner's actions and interactions must have…

  • Random Web 2.0 Statistics

    Karl Kapp
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:17 am
    Here are some interesting Web 2.0 Statistics gathered from a number of different sources.Web 2.0 users report a 20% decrease in communication and travel costs both internally and in external supplier relationships (according to a November 2009 T&D Magazine article, The Wonders of Conversion, quoting a McKinsey & Company Survey)Using Web 2.0 tools, production innovation soared 20% because organizations could receive input from partners and customers quickly and apply feedback to products. (same source as above)Web 2.0 technology users increased their revenue across internal relations,…

  • Learn about Somali Pirates and Capitalism with This Interesting Game

    Karl Kapp
    14 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am
    Here is a chance for you to step into the role of a Somali Pirate in Wired's Cutthroat Capitalism.The folks over at Wired have created an interesting game to "teach" people stories in the news, the idea is that someone can better understand the news story of the Somali pirates by understanding their motivation and by taking on the role of the pirate to better understand the economic motivations behind the Somali attacks.Give the game a try and see if you can be a successful pirate and...see if you learn anything about the economics of being a modern day pirate.Imagine if all complex news…
 
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  • RSS – Day 4 – Other Uses

    kevindjones
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am
    RSS is so simple, it is hard to say anything else that hasn’t been said.  Except that RSS is not only for blogs and textual information, it is for podcasts & videos as well. When subscribing to a podcast, iTunes will download the latest version. Just as RSS finds the latest and delivers it to you.  There are other services that will do that as well. Here is where I take a sidestep.  I love learning, so RSS is a natural love of mine because it gets me the information I want right away.  First, my story, then, your challenge. I was in a job.  A good job, but my direction was not…

  • RSS – Day 3 – RSS at Work

    kevindjones
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:20 am
    Week 2: RSS: Day 3 Great.  There are a lot of sites that we could use RSS on, but what about at work?  How can we use this where it will make a huge impact? Photo by Robert Scoble on Flickr This is a story I tell often when I talk about these technologies.  In a past life one of my responsibilities was to put together a conference for our customers.  The first year I did this I introduced the use of some of the tools we are talking about in this Challenge, including RSS.   The majority of the work was done in these tools. For this conference, a number of employees were tasked to create…

  • Documentation Showdown – MS Word or Wiki

    kevindjones
    17 Nov 2009 | 7:12 pm
    OK – Many would argue (as I would) that information in a wiki is easier to create, to share, to collaborate.  But that does not mean that it is always done that way – or even most of the time. In fact, we default to what we have used in the past.  We go with what is comfortable. So, this week’s question is this: What do you use as default?  Microsoft Word or a Wiki?  I realize that it depends on the context – but overall what do you use? 1) Vote in the poll and 2) add your comments as to why you use one over the other. View Poll

  • RSS – Day 2 – Using RSS

    kevindjones
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    RSS – Day 2 – Using RSS Now that you have your account set up, you are good to go!  You can now receive updates on just about any information, not only blogs.  For example, you can subscribe to News sites, National Geographic Photo of the Day (I looked for NASA photos of the day, but they didn’t have RSS feeds – ’tis a shame), shows on Frontline, videos on TED.com, and much, much more. RSS Folders But it doesn’t all come in a jumble of information.  With folders or tags, you can organize the information.  For example, I have a “Photography”…

  • RSS – Day 1 – An Introduction

    kevindjones
    16 Nov 2009 | 5:23 am
    Week 2: RSS: Day 1 Last week we learned about Blogs, set one up and posted.  We even looked at a number of others’ blogs.  But there are two sides to this beast – the writing and the reading. WARNING: Once you learn about RSS and try it, you won’t be able to turn back.  This is one of those technologies that once tried, everyone wonders how they ever lived without it. RSS logo Let’s say you found ten blogs you loved.  But to read each of them you have to go out every day and see if there is an update.  Maybe five of them have posted, but you have just wasted time…
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  • DevLearn Pondering #1: Why Don't You Like Your LMS? #dl09

    Nicole
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:25 pm
    Last week I attended the DevLearn09 conference in San Jose (California) and I had a ball - not often you can say that about a conference! DevLearn is an annual event put on by the eLearning Guild and this year's did not disappoint with big name keynotes like Andrew McAfee, Eric Zimmerman and Leo Laporte. More than anything though it's the real wealth of knowledge shared in the conversations with the presenters and attendees that gather in the form of eLearning professionals, developers, designers, analysts and writers that impressed me. Back to the title of this blog - it began the the first…

  • UserVoice in Litmos: Community in Action

    Nicole
    17 Nov 2009 | 7:09 pm
    You'll be happy to hear we've recently added UserVoice to Litmos because as they say on the UserVoice website: Your customers have great ideas. Are you ready to listen? Well yes - we sure are! This change means there is now a 'Feedback' button on the left side of the screen when you're logged in to a trial or paid account. UserVoice enables anyone to send us feedback, submit new feature requests, vote feature ideas up/down and see what other users think of our system. Already we've seen a few feature requests come through that we were contemplating adding anyway, but hearing the supportive…

  • Mobile Learning #dl09

    Nicole
    12 Nov 2009 | 2:34 pm
    I learned a little more about the Merrill Lynch pilot mobile learning program (called GoLearn) that was so successful a few years back. The pilot involved 2100 Investment Bankers and the course created was focused around compliance content. It was rolled out on the BlackBerry with the necessary design configurations, and the results that came back were amazingly positive as I mentioned in my previous post: Everyone who completed the course did so in less time and with better results A survey that was packaged up with the course found that 99% of the users felt the format was conducive to…

  • Social Learning Camp on Delicious Bookmarking #dl09

    Nicole
    12 Nov 2009 | 2:18 pm
    Over at the Social Learning Camp I heard some good tips from Mark Oehlert on using Delicious bookmarking within organizations as a way of creating a knowledge base and a culture of knowledge sharing. The idea that you can turn a solitary action in to a community action is pretty cool. Meaning, instead of people just browsing websites and resources that they like (as they are anyway), you give out a Delicious button to tag their favorite sites with, which can then be used to share resources amongst their colleagues. For the organization, this tool can effectively turn everyone in to a…

  • Social Learning and SCORM #dl09

    Nicole
    11 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pm
    Presented by Aaron Silvers and Mark Oehlert in the Social Learning Camp, I knew this topic was going to be interesting. The discussion started with a question, that was never really answered. In fact, as suspected this whole topic is pretty airy fairy because in order to measure social learning, you have to first define social learning. Since no one in the group had a concise definition of social learning, the metrics can't really be identified, hence there was no real answer...yet. What does social learning look like? How do we measure it? What are the metrics? All great questions which were…
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  • The brain chip…

    gsiemens
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:06 am
    Our ability to do things with technology far exceeds our ability to understand implications. Consider the brain chip: “Intel researchers in Pittsburgh told journalists today that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to surf the Internet, manipulate documents, and much more”. This got me thinking about how far I would go to adopt technology. Or humanity as a whole. Do you have a limit? Is there a point at which you would say “no more”. And if you (we) did, would it matter? Would it abate development? Is transhumanism our future? Will technology always lead…

  • Chrome OS

    gsiemens
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    Lots of reaction to Google’s Chrome OS (web operating system, in theory, a means to do away with Windows, Mac, Linux). Running Chrome OS at this stage is no easy task (see steps required here) – it’ll be a while before it will be available for most users. And, once available, it’s geared to the netbook market. Not surprisingly, since Chrome started its life as a browser, applications run as tabs. Without being able to cite any research, I think most people seem more comfortable with a browser than any other application on their computer. Google is targeting ease of…

  • Salesforce Chatter

    gsiemens
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:37 am
    Salesforce, like many other companies, is jumping onto the enterprise social media bandwagon with the soon-to-be-released Chatter. Basically, Chatter introduces some of the functionality found in Facebook and Twitter into a secure enterprise system. Reactions vary (have a look at the comments on the article), including: “everyone’s on Facebook already – why bother with Chatter”, “this is great – just what I needed”, and “Elgg does this better already and its free”. Still, the best way to determine if a software has gained traction is to…

  • Video Games: Modern Warfare

    gsiemens
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:27 am
    Controversy aside, Modern Warfare 2 is an interesting “sign of the times”. In its first week of release, the game generated $550 million (in UK and North America). What other media even comes close? What’s a big weekend for a new movie release? $50-60 million? I’ve been looking for something approaching an authoritative figure on the cost of developing MW2. Figures range between $30-50 million. Again, considering block buster movies can cost in excess of $100 million to make, the movie industry is being significantly upstaged by the gaming industry. Plus, games run on…

  • LearnTrends recordings

    gsiemens
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:14 am
    After three days of 5+ hours work of presentations, we’ve (Jay Cross, Tony Karrer, and I) wrapped up our third annual LearnTrends conference. Scott Skibell of Skillcasting has completed and posted recordings of the event. Topics include: convergence, mobile learning, design, social learning, managing information, microlearning, enterprise 2.0, and many others. A great event – congrats and thanks to all involved in presenting/planning/attending! For some reason, these intensive online conferences are more exhausting than face to face events.
 
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  • Inside Learning Technologies

    Jay Cross
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:54 pm
    You may be interested in the first two articles in the latest issue of Inside Learning Technologies. The first story, Speaking the Language of Business, is mine. Jane Hart wrote the second story, How to Create a Social Learning Environment. You say you haven’t heard of Inside Learning Technologies? That’s because it’s printed in the UK, yank. Now edited by Don Tailor, this magazine operates on a principal I wish other magazines would adopt: fewer stories, more depth. The magazine comes out but three times a year!

  • Social Learning Examples

    Jay Cross
    15 Nov 2009 | 11:51 pm
    At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. It turns out that my pal Jane Hart has already done it for us! Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning. She covers blogs, collaborative calendaring, podcasting, feeds, collaborative mind-mapping, microblogging, photo sharing, screencast sharing, presentation sharing, video sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative editing…

  • Search me

    Jay Cross
    15 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pm
    Similar Site Search reads one site’s tags and proceeds to find sites like it. Of course, I could always do this.

  • Online message board: free, very cool

    Jay Cross
    14 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    For DevLearn, Mark Oehlert gathered thoughts on an electronic message board. This is better than MindMapping for collecting thoughts at random, for you’re not forced to think in terms of hierarchies. It’s also easier for visitors who have but one simple idea they want to express. Pindex is one of those things that’s easier to learn by just trying it out than by reading about it. Here are the Pindex board I’m using as I think about the topics for my next book and the board Mark used a DevLearn for Social Leaning Camp. This is an amazingly great little app. Pass the…

  • Rypple

    Jay Cross
    8 Nov 2009 | 11:46 am
    Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Rypple Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly. I signed up (free), input the names of five friends, and selected five questions to ask. Rypple sends out a question a week. Typical interchange: You asked: What would make my presentation decks clearer? Feedback from friends: make your graphics larger, and not try to cram so many images on them (often small stuff tucked in that’s hard to read) I think they are visually very clear when you look at them as you present them, but without you there, they are…
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    Online Learning Update

  • Online enrollment soars at PSU’s World Campus - Anne Danahy, Centre Daily

    Ray
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    When Al Turgeon taught Penn State’s first completely online class in January 1998, the turfgrass man-a professor had about 17 students. Six weeks later, that number had doubled. Today almost 10,000 students from around the country and world are taking classes from what Penn State calls its World Campus. The number of course enrollments increased 37 percent over last year. That reflects a national trend of rising enrollment in online programs even as growth in old-fashioned classroom enrollment is sluggish.

  • Online Learning: Second Life allows Escambia County educators to meet in an online-only world - Rebekah Allen, Pensacola News Journal

    Ray
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    Escambia County School District recently purchased a significant piece of land which will be used primarily for professional development for teachers. The acquisition, which holds several facilities for teacher resources, also houses a tree house conference area and a state-of-the-art, glass-dome room, located in the bay, where teachers can exchange ideas while taking in the marine life.Oh, and you can fly while on the land.Because it's in Second Life, a computer simulator and Internet sensation where people use avatars, or virtual personas, to live out an online-only life.

  • Click ‘n' learn: GCCC adds more online learning - CHRIS SEGAL, News Herald Writer

    Ray
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:01 pm
    Gulf Coast Community College administrators are adding online course offerings, which now include six associate degrees that can be completely solely online. The degrees include general studies (liberal arts) A.A. degree and A.A. transfer tracks in elementary teacher education, history, psychology, social studies education and special education. Many courses have been offered but they are now being packaged as complete degree programs, said Steve Dunnivant, associate dean of E-learning.

  • Learning Online:The Class of 2013 Spends 1/5 of Day on Computer! - CNN Money

    Ray
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:10 pm
    For the first time, the study delved into exactly how much time multi-tasking students were engaging with their preferred media on a daily basis, for any purpose. When all platforms were totaled, the study found that students are spending a whopping 12 hours daily, on average, engaged with some type of media. The majority of that time -- 9.5 hours -- is spent with their "tech" gadgets, including computers, mobile devices, MP3 players, and gaming devices. Markedly, students are now spending twice as much time on their computers as compared to television viewing. Students reported watching 2.5…

  • Google backtracks on putting world’s books online - Dominic Rushe, Times Online

    Ray
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    Google has slashed in half its controversial plans to become the world’s biggest online library in a legal move to appease critics, including China, the US Justice Department, authors and publishers. In an American legal filing made close to midnight on Friday, Google and its publishing allies set out their latest proposal for a plan that will allow Google to distribute millions of books online.The agreement is designed to settle a 2005 class action lawsuit accusing the search engine of copyright infringement after it started scanning vast libraries of books.
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  • How to roll out knowledge to contact centres

    Lars Hyland
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:34 am
    Just published on the popular Trainingzone site. Comments welcome. -------------- In a real-time business environment, how do you ensure staff are kept fully up to speed on new products and services, while also keeping customers happy? Lars Hyland outlines ways in which technology can improve knowledge, learning and communication in the pressurised environment of the contact centre. It's hard to

  • Awards: Most effective training + Elearning company of the year

    Lars Hyland
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:47 am
    This post is a bit of self congratulatory trumpet blowing, but the past two weeks can’t go by without comment. Last night Brightwave won the E-learning Production Company of the Year Award at this year’s E-learning Age Awards. That’s a fantastic achievement and well deserved – the team are highly professional, talented and great fun to work with. Our clients seem to agree too with comments like:

  • A mobile future for communications and learning

    Lars Hyland
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:24 am
    I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the Handheld Learning conference is a far more vibrant community of Twitter users than the recent WOLCE attendees. You can get a great sense of the presentations, even get to review them and discover new things in ways which seem almost better than actually attending yourself. One great find was this recent video put together to support the MOCOM 2020

  • Onboarding staff in the 21st century

    Lars Hyland
    29 Sep 2009 | 9:27 am
    The British Computer Society (BCS) and IT Training Magazine have published my article on how onboarding new staff can be transformed in terms of overall time to full productivity and dramatically reduced training costs. As the economy picks up the quality and efficiency of induction will matter more than ever. What do you think? ------------------------ How we work and who we work for is

  • UK Higher Education needs more radical change than a debate about who funds it

    Lars Hyland
    21 Sep 2009 | 6:57 am
    With the current media and political debate about the future funding of education (and the rest of the entire public sector for that matter), I was struck with the thought that perhaps the wrong question is being asked.Is funding or cutting the same model of higher education the real issue. Or would a more radical shake up of higher education be more affordable and indeed more effective at
 
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  • TEDxEDUcn – Accolades and Observations

    Julie Lindsay
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pm
    The inaugural TEDxEDUcn was held last Saturday at International School Beijing (ISB). It was jointly organized by Western Academy Beijing and ISB. As an official TEDx event it followed the usual requirements of including the opening TEDx video, and playing some online TED talks interspersed with live TED talks, of which there were many! It had about 100 people in attendance.I was enthralled with speakers such as Yang Jia, Chinese college professor, Harvard graduate, and disabled by a degenerative eye condition that left her blind in her 20’s. Her message was inspiring and including,…

  • WISE 09 - It's a wrap here in Qatar

    Julie Lindsay
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:44 am
    Photos from the WISE event The inaugural WISE event in Qatar is over. We have networked, talked, debated, deliberated and tried to find creative solutions to global problems......but now we are all going home to process and work out how we can make the most of what we learned, who we met and where we could go from here. So, what were the highlights for me over the three days?? What has really stayed with me is the fact that EVERYONE you talked to at this event had an interesting story to tell, and an 'important' position in terms of education (at all different levels, countries etc). So,…

  • WISE Day 1 Reflection

    Julie Lindsay
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:03 pm
    Waiting to start WISE opening session Images above of Sheikha Mozah opening WISEMrs Irina Bokova, Director-General UNESCODr Abdulla bin Al-Thani, Chairman of WISEDay 1 at the World Innovation Summit for Education saw people literally from all over the world converge in Doha. A real meeting of the minds, a real melting pot of ideas, experience and a common motivation to discuss what is happening in education now with a view to improving it. The overriding theme is "Global education: Working together for sustainable development'. Complete accolades to the multimedia people, extremely powerful…

  • Becoming WISE in Qatar - Day 1

    Julie Lindsay
    15 Nov 2009 | 7:44 pm
    Here I am back in Doha, Qatar after a personal invitation to attend the WISE event. (World Innovation Summit For Education). Also here, so I found out through Twitter late last night, is Alan Levine, Tom Barrett....and 100's of others!I have a wonderful room at the fairly new Grand Hyatt Hotel, with a balcony overlooking the pool area and towards the Pearl. Photos above taken just now from my balcony.What an amazing event! At last I will see and hear Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, the Leader of innovation and education here in Doha. I can't believe I lived here for 2 years and worked…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    7 Nov 2009 | 10:30 pm
    SEEdebate.org Giving Teachers a Place for their Students to Connect and Learn Onlinetags: acrossmydesk, debate, eracism, collaboration, flatclassroom, learning, online, educationBest international school websitesA selection of school websites recommended largely by my PLN as best designs.tags: schoolwebsites, acrossmydesk25 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learners"Are you a student who browses the Internet with Firefox? If so, then you already may realize the number of extensions available to Firefox users. Many of these extensions can be used to deepen your e-Learning experiences, so…
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  • A Decade of Global Learning

    Chris
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:27 am
    I was browsing through some old files this week and I stumbled across this wonderful piece of video that brought back some great memories for me.  It’s just over 10 years old and is an interview with a group of students I taught back then, just after they had been awarded third place in the 1998 AT&T Virtual Classroom Contest. The Virtual Classroom Contest, for anyone that remembers it, was an amazing web-based global collaboration project that linked kids from across the world together. Over 300 schools took part each year, forming 100 teams made up of three different schools that…

  • The Value of Thinking Out Loud

    Chris
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:01 pm
    At the recent ULearn Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, I was asked (along with many other educators, I hasten to add!) to be part of the EdTalks series. Naturally, I was thrilled to have been asked and readily agreed, although I must admit that in the flurry of preparation for ULearn I really didn’t think about it very much until I got to Christchurch.  Sitting in the foyer of the Chistchurch Conference Centre, quite by accident, I bumped into Matt Tippen, one of the brains behind EdTalks, who said “Oh, so you’re Chris Betcher. Are you ready to record your…

  • Finding New Things to do with an IWB

    Chris
    27 Oct 2009 | 7:34 pm
    The following post was originally written as a reponse to a thread about interactive whiteboards on the www.iwbrevolution.com Ning.  One of the thread participants there made a statement about needing to see IWBs used in new ways. I’m interested (read desperate) to see the revolutionary value adding aspects. I have an IWB, I love using my IWB, but I need to grasp the ideas and strategies that move people to describe it as a ‘revolution’ in learning. Show me an idea that is actually new!!! While I appreciate where he’s coming from, I think the question is somewhat…

  • Getting an Ad-Free Ning

    Chris
    25 Oct 2009 | 7:32 pm
    Quite a few teachers at our school are starting to see the advantages that a Ning community can offer.  We have been using Nings this year with several classes, and I’m finding them a really good, really easy way to get teachers interacting with technology in ways they might not have done otherwise.  Ning provides a visually rich, yet secure, environment for students to collaborate and socialise in, with a range of tools that are both useful and fun to use.  Because Ning offers many of the same kinds of tools that Facebook offers – discussion, video, pictures, chat –…

  • iPhone – A Garden of Pure Ideology?

    Chris
    17 Oct 2009 | 3:42 pm
    There are moments when I really like my iPhone, yet others that frustrate the heck out of me.  I finally got one a couple of months ago when my carrier, 3 Mobile, finally got the iPhone, long after nearly every other Australian mobile telco.  This surprised me, since 3 Mobile were the first carrier to bring 3G services to the Australian marketplace about 8 years ago, so I was expecting that when the iPhone 3G was released in Australia that 3 Mobile would be one of the first to carry it.  Not so. Until the iPhone, I was a relatively happy user of a Nokia N95 8Gb. As phones go, the N95 was a…
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  • Google Wave Collaboration Experiment

    Wendy
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:11 am
    So I managed to get Google Wave invites for the other 2 members of our LMS Administration team.I figured that Wave would help us improve our collaboration process - which currently consists of Elluminate or Virtual Classroom when we have the license space + teleconference (because not everyone has a working mic on their computers) + a word doc + multiple emails.Wave HAD to be an improvement. Right?---------------------------------Project: Create an Intro to SkillPort programParticipants: Sid (not her real name), Sally (not her real name either), the Veteran (our senior trainer and an absolute…

  • First Google Wave Commentary

    Wendy
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:52 am
    Sound advice from the nice folks at Funny Eye for the Corporate GuyThe picture has nothing to do with the thoughts below - but with the way my past few weeks have been going, it's a good reminder.---------------------------------------------My current thoughts on Google Wave - A Wave needs to be focused focused focused. I am finding the broader waves become very disorganized and hard to follow very quickly.- Start small, then go larger. The small group can create the initial format. New members then have something to play off of. Like chat rooms, large groups can get unwieldy very quickly.-…

  • Working around the LMS

    Wendy
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:34 am
    I was at a local learning/technology conference yesterday and one of my peers (who I'll keep anonymous) did a great presentation on some short, just-in-time videos/screencasts that her department had done. I thought one of the most interesting points she made was that at this time, they aren't bothering to put them in their LMS, because they're just interested in people getting the training (which they want to make as easy as possible)... they aren't interested in tracking it.We have done some similar projects and we have taken the same approach... the LMS just takes too much time for people…

  • Question 5 - Tell me about your LMS!

    Wendy
    28 Oct 2009 | 7:21 am
    How did you organize your groups? By department? By job description? Other criteria?I'm looking for ideas for our folder structure. If we get the structure right, we can get the reports right...or so I hope.The current plan is for us to organize folks by department and by whether or not they are managers. There is also talk about organizing by job description. We plan to use our Enterprise system (Banner) to help automate this process.We are taking any and all ideas.If I get permission, I will share what we came up with on these pages a few months (I hope) from now.BTW - thank you so much for…

  • Question 4 - Tell me about your LMS!

    Wendy
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:20 am
    What reports in your LMS do you find most valuable?Just curious. Again, please leave comments.
 
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  • eLearning System Maintenance

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am
    The eLearning system will be shutdown beginning at 6:00 AM on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 for application server maintenance. The maintenance will be completed and service restored by 7:00 AM. The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio applications will not be available during this period. This maintenance is necessary to apply patches to the application server operating system.

  • Respondus Newsletter

    12 Nov 2009 | 8:36 am
    The November 2009 version of the Respondus Update Newsletter is now available online from the Respondus website.

  • Faculty Focus Intersession Technology Workshops

    10 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am
    ITS-Educational Technology invites you to register for Faculty Focus workshops, just for faculty, on technology's role in teaching and learning. New this year is a workshop featuring Adobe Connect, UNI's web-conferencing solution. Seating is limited and reservations are required. Visit http://www.uni.edu/its/et/tnt/focus to learn more and to access online registration.

  • eLearning Workshops

    5 Nov 2009 | 1:57 pm
    ITS-Educational Technology has developed an eLearning workshop to assist faculty with creating an online presence for their face-to-face courses. This online presence would be used to allow continuation of course work during an emergency situation where the campus may be quarantined or closed. During this session participants will need to bring their course materials (such as a syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, handouts) and will receive hands-on instruction on how to place those materials into an eLearning course. The goal of the workshop will be for each faculty member to leave the…

  • Faculty eLearning Survey

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:03 am
    Only 4 days remain for UNI faculty to complete the eLearning utilization survey. Take ten minutes of your time and assist educational technology support staff with measuring the effectiveness of the University’s learning management system. The survey is available through midnight Sunday in MyUNIverse and will provide useful information for improving students’ online learning experience, making vendor/product selections and budgetary decisions.
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  • Uploading your Captivate 4 Videos to BlackBoard

    15 Nov 2009 | 12:52 pm
    While presenting Delivering e-Learning Assets in PDF Format at the DevLearn 09 Conference a question was raised as to how do you go about sharing your Captivate 4 projects on BlackBoard. Now that you can save your video projects as a PDF file it is easy to upload them to your BlackBoard course as a simple PDF file. But if you would like, you have the option of storing your video project as a zip file on BlackBoard which gets unzipped when your students click on the link. There are a couple of details which are important to note when uploading your Captivate projects to BlackBoard in a zip…

  • DevLearn 09 Follow-up

    14 Nov 2009 | 8:13 am
    After nearly a week out of the office attending the Adobe Summit and DevLearn 09 Conference I'm back in my office catching up. I met some really wonderful people and really enjoyed the conversations we had about the state of eLearning. It was very exciting to meet up with professionals in this area who I have only interacted with online for the past couple of years. To say the least, we are living through some really interesting and exciting times when it comes to learning and how to capitalize on the power of the web for eLearning.I had over 50 participants at my session Delivering…

  • Inspiration 9 Coming January 2010

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:12 am
    Inspiration 8 continues to be on my top 10 all time list of software applications and every time I use it or run a workshop showing teachers how they can support students I am always amazed at the built in features and templates. Just yesterday, I did an in-service program on using Inspiration 8 and Webspiration and I showed a group of Middle School teachers how they can integrate graphic organizers in their classroom's with students. Some of the features which really shine are: Text to Speech, WordGuide, Templates, and the Transfer to Word. On the heels of this I was excited to see that…

  • Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic - Individual Membership is now Free

    1 Nov 2009 | 5:53 pm
    Thanks to major funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Grant #H327D090001 and support of private donors, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic ® (RFB&D®) Individual Membership is now free to individuals with proper certification*. Member benefits include: FREE access to the nation's largest audiobook library of textbooks and literature titlesHuman-narrated audiobooks with descriptions of images, tables and graphsEasy-to-use online catalog24/7 online member services and phone supportVarious audiobook downloadable formats, including DAISY and…

  • Recording of Technology Supports for Writing Webinar is Now Available

    30 Oct 2009 | 8:10 am
    This past Wednesday, Joan Green and I held a webinar on technology supports for writing which was based on our new eBook, "Technology Supports for Writing" which we recently released. The 51 page eBook which is accessible with Adobe Acrobat Reader includes a great compilation of resources for anyone who needs to support students in the area of writing. Included in the ebook iare over 12 videos that are embedded that let you actually see how the software works. You can view the videos in full screen and get a sense first hand if you think that the program may have application for the students…
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  • Joe’s Guide to Free Elearning Tools: Firefox Environment Backup Extension

    jmullock
    11 Nov 2009 | 6:47 am
    Item: Firefox Environment Backup Extension Category: Utilities It’s not something you often think of but a pc is not just a computer, it’s personal computer.  Think about it:  How easy or difficult would it be to log in and get your work done on a colleague’s machine?  We’re not talking about defeating the password, just being a [...]

  • Boredom-Proofing Learning Content: Making Learning Content Compelling

    Karen Lubrecht
    9 Oct 2009 | 11:04 am
    Click here to view the recording. Use the slider in the lower left to skip the intro and jump to the 12-minute marker where Patti’s presentation begins, and use the slider in the lower right to turn up the volume. Download the handouts, handout 1 , notes (1.7 MB pdf) and handout 2 , slide deck, [...]

  • Joe’s Guide to Free Elearning Tools: Bulk Rename Utility

    jmullock
    9 Sep 2009 | 8:16 am
    Item: Bulk File Renamer Category: Utilities I was fortunate to be able to get out of town with “Mrs. Free eLearning Tools” for a few days before the beginning of the new school year. Of course, getting away no longer means leaving the digital world behind. In fact, in addition to our usual day-to-day electronic gear, [...]

  • Synchronous Shootout

    Noelle Archambeau
    20 Aug 2009 | 1:23 pm
    Last night we held a synchronous shootout at Penn State Great Valley. Participants were divided into groups and asked to complete the challenge below. All of the teams came up with great ideas, and the classes they developed are posted below. Scenario Web conferencing giant, iLinc Communications, would like to teach a “Best Practices for Virtual Instructors” class. [...]

  • A Better Way to Design & Build Immersive E-Learning

    Noelle Archambeau
    23 Jul 2009 | 2:30 pm
    Thanks again to Robert Penn, CEO of Suddenly Smart, for a wonderful presentation today on building immersive e-learning. Download the PowerPoint slides (2.6 MB pdf) that Rob used View the session recording (1 hour) — thanks to iLinc Communications for sponsoring the session Take a closer look at all of the great examples Rob demoed Click the following links to learn [...]
 
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  • SMEs as Developers - How Should This work?

    Leanne.D
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:02 am
    Based on the CIASTD fall conference and information from my peers at DevLearn, it appears that an emerging trend is that SMEs will act as developers. We provide them with the tools necessary and they create the course.  Admittedly, I have a difficult time understanding what such a development model would really look like? Is providing a SME with templates, maybe some workshops, and then sending them off to publish the course really helpful?  How do we rapidly set up a SME for success as a developer? For example, a frequent SME challenge is that they forget what it’s like to be new. SMEs…

  • Using Media to Maximize Learning

    Gayle
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    That’s a loaded title for a blog post no doubt! Well, hold on to your mouse, because that is the focus of BLP’s blog for the month of November. I would like to kick off this topic with an example to do nothing more than stir the thinking pot and also note that there is more to come. We talk a lot about tell vs. teach around here, but I would like to bring up tell vs. show. Since I am on the multimedia side of things in our company, I am often not the one writing the words on the screen, but the one putting images on the screen. So, you’ll understand my affection for…

  • Interactivity on a Budget

    Lisa
    11 Nov 2009 | 5:41 pm
    When many people hear the phrase “interactive” in reference to e-learning, the graphic that comes to mind may be a dollar sign. The sort of interactivity that includes branching and high-end animations often comes with a pretty hefty price tag…but it doesn’t always have to. Shelby Watts and I have developed a presentation on Interactivity on a Budget, which will be offered as an LOL Live Webinar next week (yes, it is a shameless plug. Or maybe a chance to check your calendar early…we’ll offer the session on two Thursday mornings, 11/19 and 12/3 from 8:30 – 10 a.m.. But I…

  • Embracing Elearning: CIASTD Keynote

    Kristen
    4 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm
    I had the chance today to take part in the Fall Conference of Central Indiana Chapter of ASTD. It was a fabulous event, and we were lucky to have David Anderson, Community Manager of Articulate, as the keynote. I took some notes and I thought this might be a good chance to share. Two fun facts: David can do some impressive work in Second Life.  He recreated the conference room in SL before the start of the 8:30 am keynote. He also has three pets: chickens. The chickens have their own blog. (I couldn’t find the chickens’  blog, but I did locate David’s take on Multimedia…

  • When you need to Tell not Teach–the eMag

    Leanne
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:18 pm
    How often do you find yourself with a request for “training” that is really more about sharing information? The ultimate goal isn’t training learners to DO anything; it’s about building awareness, providing details, or just communicating a message. Sometimes “Telling” is the goal, not “Teaching” and, believe me, both are needed and helpful, if packaged effectively. My colleagues and I have been thinking about the best way to “Tell” and we’ve developed a prototype of an eMagazine, or eMag, as an alternative to page-turner…
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  • Live Blogging - ASTD Orange County's November 2009 Meetup With CEO of WD-40

    mel
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:20 am
    In this morning's post, I mentioned that I was considering liveblogging this evening's keynote with Garry Ridge.  I'm still thinking... thinking... (don't pressure me!)... thinking... okay, yes!  Unless you're attending in-person at the meetup venue (registration required), feel free to join us here instead at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 18.  (Note:  Dinner served only at the live meetup.)  :) <a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b1d789d525" >ASTD-OC (Orange…

  • The Learning Moment

    mel
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:45 am
    Training isn't something that you look upon as being an accessory... it's part of the main wardrobe.  Any CEO who doesn't believe that...doesn't accept that...who doesn't have the guts to try that, (then) their business will not be sustainable over time.  The power we have isn't ours... it's in the people around us.  And our role as CEOs has got to be to not mark people's papers, but to help them get an 'A'."  While the quality of speakers we've enjoyed at our local ASTD chapter (Orange County) has been phenomenal,…

  • A 7-Step variation on the tried-and-true brainstorming technique for new ideas.

    mel
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:45 am
    Sometimes I just want an alternative to the same 'ol brainstorming session. Here's a simple alternative that I learned during my good 'ol days as a consultant with Andersen Consulting. (Now Accenture.) It's called the 5-3-5 method. (Don't ask... I'm not sure who came up with that name. But, in case you're wondering, "5-3-5" supposedly derives from the concept that this variation to brainstorming requires "five people (though this can vary), three ideas, five minutes."Purpose:Use this as an alternative to the traditional brainstorming session. It…

  • Busy weekend - REBarCamp San Diego - NAR Convention - ASTD-OC Leadership Meetup

    mel
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:18 am
    The weekend's activities started last Thursday with RE BarCamp. Then, there was the NAR Convention that ran through the weekend. And, of course, the ASTD-OC Chapter leaders transition meeting last Saturday.RE BarCamp was a hit with over 500 people in attendance at the Stingaree in San Diego's Gas Lamp District. In a nutshell, in addition to getting a whole buncha folks in the real estate profession together for a day to learn from each other about various topics ranging from Facebook, video blogging and social media to Google Wave, professionalism and legal issues of social media…

  • About our next videobook project

    mel
    12 Nov 2009 | 5:05 am
    When Stefan and I wrote the Swanepoel Social Media Report 2010: A Field Guide for Real Estate Professionals, one of the things we originally envisioned was to include tutorials for each of the social media platforms we mention in the book.  Some of these were the usual suspects: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogging.  But, additional honorable mentions also include:  twellow.com, hashtags, tagalus, hashtags.org, alerts, RSS and a slew of others.   Given all the number of tools, platforms and quick-start activities we mention in the book, we saw early on the…
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  • Bridging the e-learning skills gap

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:10 am
    This morning I presented on ‘the e-learning skills gap’ for a webinar run by the Learning and Skills Group (LSG). The LSG webinars are always well attended (this one attracted 120) and ably hosted by Don Taylor. A recording of the webinar will be available here in due course, although there’s also a SlideShare version if you just want to flip through the slides. I was asked by Don at the end to identify three skills which all l&d professionals need to beef up on if they are to bridge the skills gap. I picked out three: Curriculum design: integrating learning technologies…

  • Getting a life

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:39 am
    Working life provides a great many valuable learning experiences, but it will never provide the diversity of opportunity that an individual can obtain by maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Those who overwork are severely damaging their potential to learn, as John Medina points out in Brain Rules: Exercise boosts brain power (and, unless you're a professional athlete or a manual worker, chances are your work provides few opportunities for exercise). People who experience chronic stress are sick more often, and if the stress is too severe, or too prolonged, stress begins to harm learning…

  • The Big Question: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?

    12 Nov 2009 | 3:59 am
    This month’s Big Question in the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is ‘How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?’ How indeed? Well one way to approach this issue is to step back from the technology and ask yourself whether bottom-up learning in general (which has always happened, but which social media facilitates) is appropriate for the target population? Bottom-up learning is managed by employees themselves. Why? Because it is in their interests to gain whatever knowledge and skills they need to perform effectively. A bottom-up approach is needed…

  • Yet another renaissance for the training video

    10 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    Last week I participated in a webinar hosted by Video Arts, one of the world's most successful vendors of training films, perhaps most famous for the comic 'see how not to do it, then learn how it should be done' videos featuring John Cleese and other comedy stars. Video Arts was formed in 1972 by a number of colleagues at the BBC, including Anthony Jay and Cleese himself, who were dismayed at the poor quality of the training films that the BBC were showing them and realised there was an opportunity to do a better job themselves. My involvement began in the late 1970s, when I became a Video…

  • The Big Question: How should presenters address multitasking?

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:58 am
    I’m just in time to tackle this month’s Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog. The question was prompted to some extent by my post Multitasking is now every presenter’s problem, in which I put forward the notion that it wasn’t just webinar presenters who had to deal with their audience multitasking, this was now rife at face-to-face events as well.There were some great responses to the Big Question – I particularly liked the concept of Binge Thinking suggested by Ken Allen. I’m not going to rework the arguments here, but I would like to clarify my own thoughts and…
 
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  • lrnchat LIVE! at DevLearn09

    Brent Schlenker
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
    DevLearn09 #dl09 Originally uploaded by LitmosThere were a lot more lrnchat participants at DevLearn than in this photo. I just want to be clear on that. The photo-op was totally spontaneous so we had to go with who was there at the time. Sorry to those of you that left early :(I have a lot to blog about DevLearn09, but I just had to get this out because, for me, this pretty much sums up the highlight of the event: community!The sense of camaraderie was simply amazing! Social media brought us all together online where we learn from and about each other. DevLearn brings us all together and…

  • On-the-Spot Learning: Coming Soon to Your Location? by David Metcalf, Judy Brown & David Rogers : Learning Solutions Magazine

    Brent Schlenker
    9 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    via learningsolutionsmag.com This is a GREAT article! A must read for eLearning designers thinking about mobile devices. Posted via web from bschlenker's lifestream DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA

  • The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

    Brent Schlenker
    1 Nov 2009 | 8:27 pm
    http://completewaveguide.com/Sent from my iPhoneDevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA

  • Preparing for DevLearn09 - Part 4 - FREE Consulting

    Brent Schlenker
    21 Oct 2009 | 12:54 pm
    ...or as we like to call it, DEMOFEST!  Getting feedback is critical to the success of any project.  So why not get over 1000 eLearning pros to review your latest project and give you the BEST feedback?  Sharing your work and learning from your peers is what DEMOFEST is all about.  No prizes.  No contest.  No fear of failure.  Its just you and your peers talking shop about YOUR project.  I can't think of any better feedback mechanism than this opportunity at DevLearn.  So, if you're registered or plan on registering then you should also dig up your latest project and fill out the…

  • Preparing for DevLearn - Part 3 - Don't forget!

    Brent Schlenker
    20 Oct 2009 | 11:57 am
    Don't forget!  Since we're in learning its important to start applying those memory strategies so YOU don't forget the important things for DevLearn.  Besides comfortable shoes, pants, etc, you should dress for chilly conference rooms.  And don't forget to get your dry-cleaning before you leave.  FEDEx got my Guild shirts too me just in the nick of time last year ;-) The most important thing is to clear your mind, and come prepared to ENGAGE!  This isn't a "sit around and listen" crowd.  So, be prepared to think, connect, play, and LEARN.Image Capture Device:…
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  • UK update#6 – UK’s first free WiFi town

    derek.wenmoth
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:53 am
    Listening to the BBC in the car on the way back from our last appointment today I heard an interview with a representative of the town of Swindon in Wiltshire, where they have just announced a plan to provide free WiFi access to the internet for all residents. The £1million project to build a ‘WiFi Mesh’ aims to provide blanket wi-fi coverage using a network of ‘internet access points’ at 1,400 locations in the town. The initiative is a public-private partnership,with residents provided with free line rental, and no connection charge. They will be able to access the…

  • Top 100 tools for learning

    derek.wenmoth
    15 Nov 2009 | 11:13 am
    Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 View more documents from Jane Hart. Jane Hart has just published the final list of the top 100 tools for learning that she has compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 278 Learning Professionals worldwide. Jane’s list is always worth a read. No real surprises in this year’s list in terms of the applications listed in the top 100 – however, of real interest is the fact that, for a list of the top 100 tools for learning, there’s only one LMS that has made it into the top 20. Perhaps the dominance of other tools such as blogs, wikis,…

  • UK Update #5 – What to do with failing schools

    derek.wenmoth
    13 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Education has featured large in the news since I arrived in England – mostly around concerns about the quality of what is being provided in some areas. The tertiary (higher ed) sector has been under fire for lack of performance, and there is currently much controversy over a paper by Lord Peter Mandelson titled Higher Ambitions – the Future of Universities in a Knowledge Economy which recommends a “consumer revolution” in higher education, with students being given far more information on the actual value of their course. Today Ed Balls , schools secretary, announced a new…

  • Intro to cloud computing

    derek.wenmoth
    13 Nov 2009 | 3:25 am
    Commoncraft have just released a 3 min intro to the basics of cloud computing which is a welcome addition to the great work they do. An evaluation copy of the video is available to view here. Using a simple story of a growing florist business, this video explains the basics of cloud computing: how it works and why it makes sense for businesses and individuals. The difference between on-site computing and cloud computing The financial benefits of cloud computing What makes cloud computing secure and efficient How cloud computing impacts consumers Purchase details are included on their site.

  • UK Update#4 – OER workshop

    derek.wenmoth
    12 Nov 2009 | 6:51 am
    One of the workshops I attended at the JISC-CETIS conference was on Open Education Resources (OERs) – an area of increasing interest within the education community around the world, and the focus of several JISC-funded projects, many of which were represented among the participants in the workshop. My interest in attending was three-fold – firstly because of the growing interest in NZ around the development of the WikiEducator project, second, the role of content interoperability standards such as SCORM and the IMS Common Cartridge in the development and distribution of open…
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  • A-level playing field looking patchy

    Donald Clark
    15 Nov 2009 | 7:57 am
    Learning or cramfests?Reached that time in life when my kids are off to 6th form college and have to knuckle down, and narrow down, in terms of subjects, which is a shame. No one really know what they want to do at 15, and if they do, it’s a probably a bad sign. If the answer is a doctor or lawyer, you can bet good money that a pushy parent has his or her hand up their offspring’s spineless back. The good news is that A-Levels have been around since 1951 and are simply the de facto qualifications for UK Universities, with some cache on an international scale, as they are used by lots of…

  • E-learning Age Awards

    Donald Clark
    13 Nov 2009 | 3:59 am
    Award ceremonies can be the worst and best of times. I’ve been to lots and the one’s I’ve enjoyed the most have been those that descended into chaos! Easily the best was way back in the early 90s where Willie Rushton told a horrifically sexist joke (based on the name of the host organisation-BIVA) and was booed by most of the women in the room. Bread rolls were thrown and the whole thing descended into farce. My second favourite was last year’s WOLCE awards, where Marcus Brigstocke had a hilarious time congratulating non-deserving companies like RBS on their ‘Understanding…

  • INSET days – 7 reasons to scrap them

    Donald Clark
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:38 am
    Parents get pretty annoyed every time an ‘INSET’ day comes along. What other organisation simply closes shop and refuses to deal with all of its customers or clients five days a year? Imagine phoning up the school and saying, ‘Listen, my work is having a training evening next week, could you look after my kid for me, until I get home?’ Here’s seven reasons to scrap them: Organisations don’t throw customers out of the door for an entire day of trainingExtra cost/load on parents in terms of childcare is significantKids lose about a week of schooling a yearNo convincing research…

  • Gardner's 'Multiple Intelligences' seductive nonsense?

    Donald Clark
    1 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    In Gardner’s 2003 paper in the American Educational Research Association, Multiple Intelligences after Twenty Years, he states, “I have come to realize that once one releases an idea – “meme” – into the world, one cannot completely control its behaviour – anymore than one can control those products of our genes we call children.” Absolutely. One of the problems with Gardner’s ‘Multiple Intelligences’ was its seductiveness. A teacher could simply say, everyone’s smart, we’re all just smart in different ways. There’s a truth in this, in terms of a narrowly academic…

  • BBC Bitesize - stupid, lazy GCSE questions

    Donald Clark
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:13 pm
    English GCSE RevisionTo Kill A MockingbirdHow were black people were treated in 1930s America?a) Treated like everyone elseb) Treated extremely badlyc) Treated for dry rot and rising dampWhat halfwit came up with this question and its dumb-assed third option? In what way is this really testing 15 year old GCSE students? It simply reduces the questions to a 50:50 chance of getting them right.Here's another...Why are we told about Jem's broken arm at the start of the novel when the attack does not occur until the end?a) To make us feel sorry for Jem.b) To create suspense.c) So that we know what…
 
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    mark oehlert
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:24 pm
    Hmmm..testing out quick compose feature on typepad...

  • Social Learning Workshop

    mark oehlert
    10 Nov 2009 | 12:32 pm
    Social Learning Workshop

  • Ross Mayfield and Robert Scoble talk about Socialtext and Enterprise 2.0 (via SocialText)

    mark oehlert
    30 Oct 2009 | 4:43 pm

  • Lessons from Leonsis - Not the Tech but the Culture

    mark oehlert
    28 Oct 2009 | 11:20 am
    Ted Leonsis, for those who don't know, is a guy who made big bucks at AOL and is now owner of the Washington Capitals hockey team (CAPS Let's Go CAPS!) Ted also writes his own blog -really he does - and recently he posted this piece. In this post, Ted (yes, I call him Ted) asks if it ever does any good to blame the media for your troubles. He concludes that it isn't. He talks a lot about what he thinks you should be doing if you're in a position to need to control your image in the media and while that's helpful - I really like the article for what its not explicitly…

  • Come be a Camp Counselor at Social Learning Camp

    mark oehlert
    26 Oct 2009 | 11:54 am
    So I totally forgot about this yesterday! I am doing this Social Learning Camp at DevLearn 2009. OK. So, developing the materials for it here, yadda yadda. Anyway, we are going to be running quick (40 min) sessions throughout the conference on a bunch of different topics (you can see the schedule at the link above). We also have some real superstars coming through like Jay Cross, Koreen Olbrish, Mark Sylvester, Robin Paoli and Aaron Silvers - to talk about a range of Social Learning topics. Here is the kicker though - I can talk believe me - those of you that know me, know I am not kidding.
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  • Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank #dl09

    19 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pm
    Last week at DevLearn in San Jose, Stephen Walsh and I presented to a packed room: "Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank" It was Friday morning and everyone was quite exhausted. Before we got started, I joked that we'd know we'd been successful if no one yawned. I think people were quite engaged and I didn't catch any yawns, so I'd say we hit the mark.  Here are slides from our presentation. I'm sorry I can't share links to all of the demos we showed, but you can find some live examples on the case studies section of the Kineo website.  Enjoy! Yawn Proof…

  • Cammy and Kineo in New York

    19 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    I'm hanging out in Times Square right now, looking forward to our seminar here tomorrow morning. New York is so exhilarating. The lights! The tall buildings! I feel like such an awestruck country bumpkin. Here's where I'll be:Kineo hosts e-learning conference in New York on Nov 20thNew York Workshop: Strategies for Delivering Effective eLearning in Trying TimesJoin us in New York on Nov 20th for a breakfast session, kindly hosted by Barclays, one of Kineo's key US and UK clients.We’ll discuss how creative strategies can overcome tight budgets and limited resources to create great eLearning.

  • DevLearn ‘09 Friday Keynote: Leo Laporte #dl09

    13 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    Live blogged notes from the Friday morning keynote at DevLearn in San Jose. Leo Laporte: www.Leoville.com “The Tech Guy!” a US-based journalist specializing in technology coverage on radio, TV, and the Internet. What I have learned in mass media – where it’s failed us and why we’ve reinvented it (new media). His story.  But first, this one… Mass media: a 2oth century invention that is starting to fall apart. Started early 1900s with radio.  Before that, media was local (cave paintings). Radio changed everything. Initially radio was a one-to-one tool (ship to shore…

  • DevLearn ‘09 Keynote: Eric Zimmerman #dl09

    12 Nov 2009 | 10:14 am
    These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at DevLearn. Eric Zimmerman – started career as an artist. 15 years in game industry. Gamelab CEO. Book:   Rules of Play – Game Design Fundamentals (Eric wrote the textbook on that!) Meaningful Play Opening with the a rousing game of rock, paper, scissors… Meaning A closed fist: in rock, paper scissors it means a certain thing.  The game gives the gesture meaning. MMRPS - massively multiplayer rock-paper scissors. Round robin style – everyone is now playing the game!  And we’re down to the final two: Josh…

  • Ruth Clark: Evidence Based E-Learning #dl09 #dl09-104

    11 Nov 2009 | 11:59 am
    These are live blogged notes from DevLearn '09 -- session with Ruth Clark on Evidenced Based E-Learning. I arrived a few minutes late to the session and just had to dive in...************************** Learning Styles/the Learning Styles Myth -- Did an experiment: Self report, Barsch learning style inventory, memory test. What were the correlations? If someone said they were kinesthetic, were the other measures showing the same? Instead, they found NO Relationships! (Her new book takes on the biggest myths of the field including Learning Styles. This is controversial!) Replace it with…
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  • Internet Time Alliance Podcast

    Clark
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:42 am
    Earlier this month, Charles Jennings, Harold Jarche, Jay Cross and I got together, virtually, to represent the Internet Time Alliance for a discussion around organizations and social media with Xyleme Learning.  Dawn Polous elegantly and eloquently hosted us, providing the starting questions and segueing between the comments. They’ve gathered them up in a series of podcasts, and if you’re curious about what we’re up to, I recommend you go have a listen.

  • Competing conference contexts

    Clark
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:34 am
    Last week I was at the excellent-as-always DevLearn, and this week I attended the Virtual School Symposium (VSS; for the first time).  Both are about online learning, but the former is in the corporate world, and the latter is in the K12 world.  There are a lot of differences! There are similarities, for example both are great conferences.  Both are experiencing growth, offer good lineups of presentations, have appropriate exhibitions, good food, and socializing. Both also have a passionate attendee base, as you would expect from the growth. Both conferences are also tech literate: there…

  • Promoting social media

    Clark
    13 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    The Big Question of the Month is “How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?”.  Now, this is late, but it’s because I’ve been getting ready for and then attending DevLearn (as always, was a great event), but Jay Cross and I spent a day talking about this issue in the larger picture of social learning in the media. Then, in last night’s #lrnchat, the question was asked again as part of the usual 3 question format.  So, I decided to pull out my tweeted contributions and elaborate on them a bit as my response.  These are…

  • Who are mindmaps for?

    Clark
    13 Nov 2009 | 9:12 am
    In response to my recent mindmap of Andrew McAfee’s conference keynote (one of a number of mindmaps I’ve done), I got this comment: Does the diagram work as a useful way of encapsulating the talk for someone who was there? Because, speaking as someone who wasn’t, I find it almost entirely content-free. Just kind of a collection of buzz-phrases in thought bubbles, more or less randomly connected. I’m not trying to criticise his talk – which obviously I didn’t hear – or his points – which I still have no idea about – but the diagram as a method of conveying information…

  • Zimmerman Keynote Mindmap DevLearn 09

    Clark
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:14 am
    Eric Zimmerman spoke eloquently on games as the second day keynote at DevLearn.  In it, he talked about how systems thinking was important, how games are systems of rules and consequently develop systems thinking.  He talked about how our play brings meaning to the rules, and that creating spaces of possible outcomes allow us to explore. He ended up advocating that we design for possibilities of unexpected outcomes to create meaning for our learners.  Cammy Bean has blogged the presentation too.
 
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  • Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning

    Tony Karrer
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am
    I've received various forms of the same question from different people over the past few years. The basic question is:How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?Which provides us this month's big question:Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning?Let me provide some flavor for this question straight from someone who asked me about this:My coworkers are Baby Boomers and Traditionals. When I mention blogs or any social networking they "poo-poo" me and say our workers should not use those tools because it will make them inefficient and not do…

  • New Presenter and Learner Methods and Skills

    Tony Karrer
    1 Oct 2009 | 8:06 am
    In response to my recent post Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations, the comments were really fantastic, but got the discussion going in a different direction - and it is clear that a comment box is way too small for this discussion.Both your face-to-face and your online audience is likely multitasking. They might be participating in chat / backchannel. They might be blogging. They might be taking notes. They might be checking and responding to email. They might be figuring out where to go to dinner.Clive Shepherd captured the problem as Multitasking is now every…

  • Working with Subject Matter Experts

    Tony Karrer
    1 Sep 2009 | 1:23 pm
    I want to thank Jeff Goldman - Minute Bio for his great response last month. He suggested that we focus the Big Question on specific issues and then suggested four questions.So, let's start with his first suggestion:Working effectively with subject matter expertsThere's a lot to this topic, and certainly it's an on-going challenge. Some specific questions that are raised in this area:What should all IDs know about working with a SME?What can you and can't you expect a SME to do?Does it work to have SMEs create rapid eLearning?How does social and informal learning impact how you engage with…

  • Feedback on the Big Question?

    Tony Karrer
    2 Aug 2009 | 7:16 am
    We are coming up on three years since the first Big Question - Should all Learning Professionals Blog? That's still a great topic and the content you can find there is pretty interesting. I still personally believe that blogging is a great self-directed learning tool. Ah, but I digress.I normally don't do a Big Question in August. This year, I'm just going to do something a little bit different.The goals of the Big Question are:Get different perspectives on topics that are of interest to workplace learning professionalsProvide input to Learning Circuits, T&D and other parts of ASTD on…

  • New Skills for Learning Professionals

    Tony Karrer
    1 Jul 2009 | 1:00 am
    This month's big question comes out of a discussion that I've been having in various forms over the past few years. In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?New Skills and Knowledge for Learning Professionals?I know that there's already quite a bit out there on this topic, so please point us to existing information on the topic.How to Respond:Option 1 - Put your thoughts in a comment below. Likely there can be some…
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  • We are Professionals, Aren't We?

    Will Thalheimer
    16 Nov 2009 | 7:13 pm
    Last year I was asked by Michael Allen--one of our industry's most influential creators and most successful entrepreneurs--to contribute a chapter to his first e-Learning Annual, which Pfeiffer had urged him to manage and edit. Michael introduced my chapter as follows: "In this article, one of the learning and performance field’s leadingvisionaries looks back on his twenty-two years in the field with both loveand regret, while looking forward to the future by challenging all of us inthe field who see ourselves as learning-and-performance professionals.Dr. Thalheimer’s challenge…

  • Warmth and Competence. How our Learners Perceive...

    Will Thalheimer
    16 Oct 2009 | 1:05 pm
    If social cognition comes down to just two dimensions, Warmth and Competence, might our learners also rely on these two categories in deciding how much to engage in our learning interventions? AND, if so, do we need to ensure that all our learning events exude both warmth and competence?I got thinking about this while reading a review of Susan Fiske's keynote for the Association for Psychological Sciences. Susan Fiske, who was awarded the 2009 William James Fellow Award, is one of the world's leading social psychologists, often working with Shelley E. Taylor. As Jesse Erwin's…

  • Don't be such an Instructional Designer: Can we Communicate Better?

    Will Thalheimer
    16 Oct 2009 | 7:08 am
    Randy Olson has written a book to help scientists communicate better. He argues that scientists need to do a number of things to better connect with their audience--especially their lay audience (their non-scientific audience). That they need to take their complicated information and make it understandable to real people. Isn't that what we do as instructional designers? Yes, so maybe we have something to learn from his messages. You can check out a radio interview below. You can check out a blurb from his book below (scroll down when you get there).

  • Learning Styles Challenge -- Three-Year Update

    Will Thalheimer
    30 Sep 2009 | 6:45 am
    It has been over three years since I offered $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that utilizing learning styles improved learning outcomes. Click here for the original challenge. So far, no one has even come close. For all the talk about learning styles over the last 15 years, we might expect that I was at risk of quickly losing my money. Let me be clear, my argument is not that people don't have different learning styles, learning preferences, or learning skills. My argument is that for real-world instructional-development situations, learning styles is an ineffective and inefficient…

  • New Fonts Coming to the Web...

    Will Thalheimer
    14 Jul 2009 | 2:02 pm
    This article in Slate suggests that new fonts are coming to the web.This opens up new territory for web designers and perhaps e-learning designers as well. Many e-learning designers think of web design as the default design for e-learning. Maybe the new web will usher in a new era of e-learning design as well.One thing to watch out for: Do you or your team have the aesthetic training/empathy to know how to use fonts to set a mood, convey a meaning? Ahhh, something more to build.
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  • Learntrends 2009 Sessions Live Blogging

    emapey
    17 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    Corporate Learntrends 2009 Sessions Day 1 Dawn Convergence in Learning Early Bird Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations Learntrends Live: Reuters case study Mid Morning LearnTrends Live: Jane Hart Building a social learning environment by Jane Hart Late Morning LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM Personal Knowledge Management High Noon Merging Information, Learning and Social Media Early Afternoon Learntrends Innovation Awards 2009 Day 2 Dawn The Immernet Singularity Early Bird Reinventing Organizational Learning

  • My PLE for the Corporate Learntrends 2009 Online Conference

    emapey
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:10 am
    This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment, PLE, my list of aggregated resources for the Learntrends 2009 event. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment. LearnTrends 2009 – The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference, November 17-19, 2009 The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. - Event Schedule - Elluminate Sessions - Learntrends Forum - Learntrends Recordings - Live Blogging - Google Blog Search - Bookmarks on Delicious - posts on WordPress - Twitter Search These 2 useful sites aggregate blog posts from many…

  • Emotions in Social Networks, CCK09

    emapey
    13 Nov 2009 | 8:44 am
    John Mak asks: Who am I? What is your identity in social networks? How would emotions impact on social networking? He also shows some videos in his post. I would like to discuss this topic with John. Since I am a reading/writing-preference learner, I searched for text references about Emotions in Social Networks. These are the references I have found - CCK09: help with some clarification please hey, if i’m a node, i want to do more than connect and fire…i want to think, to feel, to be… Im ok with a metaphor of synaptic firings, but as a human filled with love & self…

  • Online Sapiens Blog Personality Analysis

    emapey
    11 Oct 2009 | 8:06 pm
    I used Typealyzer to find my Online Sapiens blog personality. I analyzed the newest 10 pages of this blog. 80% of the results indicate that the author of this blog is of the type: INTJ – The Scientist The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things. The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold…

  • CCK09 – Connectivists, Do We Need The Daily Newsletter?

    emapey
    1 Oct 2009 | 11:23 pm
    This is what happened last year in CCK08 when our instructor was missing to one of our sessions This year, The Daily CCK09 newsletter was not available to the course participants during 4 days. I wanted to know what other participants where feeling without The Daily so I started a thread in the Moodle forum, CCK09: The Daily is Down – What is the impact on the course? These were some comments in the thread: - James Neill – Thursday, 24 September 2009, 04:04 PM Daily Down? No problem in a world of network plasticity (aka neuroplasticity). What are we missing? Downes’…
 
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  • Free Icon Pack: November Seasonal Icons

    David Leggett
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.Today we share a free icon pack by the designers over at IconShock inspired by Fall and Thanksgiving: 5 Icons in total including a Turkey, Pumpkin, Pilgrims, and the changing color of leaves.Preview Download Icons

  • How To Design a Thanksgiving Pumpkin in Photoshop

    Stephen Petrany
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a realistic pumpkin icon with the help of Filters and Layer Styles. This tutorial is written for users who have a basic understanding of the tools and techniques used in Photoshop. Enjoy!Quick Nav:TutorialDownload the PSD (Source Files)The Final ImageThis is what we will be creating:Step 1: Setting Up the DocumentStart by creating a new document (File>New) that is 950×750 pixels (72 dpi)Step 2: Adding a BackgroundFill the background with a gradient. I used the colors: #39160f and #f68f6cStep 3: Starting the PumpkinCreate a new layer and…

  • Hash Two Theme: Free Download This Week

    David Leggett
    12 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Our friends over at Obox Design have allowed us to share some of their premium Micro Blogging Themes with the community here on Tutorial9. You can grab it through the 16th in our Ultimate Resource Package for Web DesignersPreview Download for FreeUsually, this theme costs $25.This week on Tutorial9 you can get this theme, a free subscription to our new Tutorial9 Newsletter, and hundreds of other freebies for free.Download for Free in the Ultimate Resource Pack

  • 32 Beautiful Text Art Creations

    Grace Smith
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Text isn’t just limited to language, it can be also used to create unique, unusual pieces of art. This roundup features a selection of creative imagery composed entirely with text.Inspirational Text ArtAll About handCreated in Illustrator, this demonstrates how text can be used to make the ordinary seem dynamic and unique.Mos Def Lyric PortraitA beautiful mix of style and various typefaces give this Lyrical portrait a multi-cultural vibe that really make it ‘pop’.Type IndustryAn exploration of the combination of type and engineering, with a lovely use of angles to anchor the…

  • Blogging: Secure Your Spot as the “Go-To” Blog

    Rob Bowen
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    With the popularity of blogging showing little waning, I decided that I would offer a bit of a tutorial on how to blog. Effectively, that is. Anyone can sit down in front of a keyboard and punch out a post of little to no import or community relevence, but it takes a bit more than that to blog effectively. There are millions of people blogging all across the vast sea of cyberspace, and many of them are doing it the right way to maintain their visibility among the masses. In fact, I posted about this very topic here at Tutorial 9 recently in, Key Elements to Blog Visibility. One of the main…
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  • Twellow DevLearn 09!

    badsquare
    8 Nov 2009 | 6:10 pm
    To make the technology-enabled social networking easier (i.e. Twitter), I created a “Hello my Name is” Twitter sticker for attendees to write their twitter user name on. This will hopefully make the Twitter business card exchange must faster. My fantastic fellow T-Mobile co-worker Jeff Tillett and I will be printing them and handing them out at our presentation on how to develop low cost mobile learning solutions on Wednesday (114). Feel free to download and print this 3”x5” Twitter sticker to write your Twitter user name. I am looking forward to attending the many DevLearn…

  • Real-time Collaboration * Google Wave

    badsquare
    30 May 2009 | 6:24 am
    The geniuses behind Google Maps recently announced Google Wave, which they are calling a “personal communication and collaboration tool”. It is a browser application (HTML 5)  that brings the opportunity to “collate” and evolve emails and traditional documents into a real-time collaborative experience that will integrate instant messaging, wiki (read-write) and social networking components.  You can also easily embed these “wave” conversations on blogs to share the discussion…pretty cool! BONUS points – Google Waves works on Android mobile devices. I repeat…Google…

  • Question = Answer * ChaCha!

    badsquare
    24 Mar 2009 | 10:19 pm
    When you have a question about something what do you do? A. Ask a friend? B. Go to the library? C. Google the answer? D. Make up an answer? (No!) E. None of the Above What about using ChaCha? Learning “on demand” is a hot topic and popular way for finding information today. A peer suggested ChaCha to me yesterday. When I tried it, an answer for  “death of Napoleon” came back in less than a minute…”gastric cancer” wow that was fast! In January of 2008, ChaCha launched its mobile answers text service at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Since that day,…

  • Rate of Learning * Food of the Gods

    badsquare
    11 Feb 2009 | 5:34 am
    As the saying goes, “the only thing that is constant is change.” While reading HG Wells Food of the Gods, about two scientists researching the growth process of living things, something occurred to me. The rate of human growth used in the book can be used as a reference for how people learn, process and adapt to new information. Stay with me for a moment… Change is constant and learning is constant, right? In Food of the Gods, two scientists theorize that the natural rate of growth is constant with periods of rest (Figure C.), which (applied to learning) is an ideal rate for…

  • 8 Social Media Case Studies

    badsquare
    23 Jan 2009 | 6:06 am
    Found this via TopRank blog via @leeodden- BlogWell will be showcasing a number of social media case studies from a variety of industries. Interesting to note that a number of big companies are leveraging Twitter for customer relationship building such as @mayoclinic, @hrblock, @allstate, @uscoastguard BlogWell is the only conference devoted to learning how big businesses successfully participate in social media. You’ll learn directly from the executives at the largest corporations in the world who are engaging in this right now. The Home Depot Mayo Clinic H&R Block Sharpie US Coast…
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  • Tinkering, Playing, and Learning

    jonmott
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pm
    John Seely Brown is visited the BYU Campus today and gave a compelling talk about Homo sapiens, Homo faber, and Homo ludens. Essentially, he argues that the formal education focuses almost exclusively on the Homo sapiens notion of “man as knowledge,” attempting to fill students with information and facts. This is gradually, in some quarters, giving way to Homo faber, or “man as maker,” students as creators of new knowledge and ideas represented in learning artifacts. But what Brown argues is almost completely missing is the notion of Homo ludens, or “man as…

  • Why Wave Won’t Replace the CMS

    jonmott
    15 Oct 2009 | 6:17 am
    Last week, Jeff Young added to the Wave hype with his frequently Tweeted and Re-Tweeted post “Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?” From what I’ve seen of Wave so far (I got my invite this week), I’d have to say, “No chance.” I have three reasons for making this conclusion: 1. Wave doesn’t replicate core CMS functionality. The CMS has become the dominant technology of choice for instructors in higher education because it allows them to easily create course websites which are automagically populated with the students enrolled in their…

  • Gaming, Social Learning & Authenticity

    jonmott
    29 Sep 2009 | 2:17 pm
    James Paul Gee argues that gaming, particularly role-playing gaming, is providing young people with precisely the skills they need to be effective and productive in our new mediated culture and highly networked workplaces. Gee’s positive view on the impact of gaming confirms what I’ve concluded about the video game “races” my son occasionally organizes in our basement. Gaming has the potential to bring people together in new, different, and socially healthy ways. My son’s game races consist of assembling a group of four or five friends, each with his own game…

  • WordPress iPhone App

    jonmott
    27 Sep 2009 | 1:15 pm
    Just discovered the free WordPress iPhone app. Great way to write short posts on the go. This post is mostly to see how it works … and to note that technology never ceases to amaze me. Why is it that with such amazing technological affordances available to us we haven’t significantly and demonstably improved learning???

  • Assessment as a Social Activity

    jonmott
    17 Sep 2009 | 1:26 pm
    I’ve been following the Washington State Harvesting Gradebook project for sometime and have been impressed with the intellectual rigor behind the project. That is clearly evidenced in this video overview of the project: The comments at the end of the video are particularly significant. The narrator concludes: At bottom, our research findings challenge many traditional assumptions. We are all understanding now that more than ever learning and assessment is or should be social. It benefits from the insight and diversity of broader engaged community. Expertise is distributed. It is not…
 
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  • Webinar Best Practices

    Greg Friese
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    I am getting lots of questions from service and product vendors, education organizations, and membership associations about planning and delivering webinars in 2010. Questions include which platform to us, how often to deliver, how long the session should last, and how to include interaction. Like any elearning project content is king. An audience will tolerate lots of other technical and design problems if the content is good and the speaker is credible. Start your webinar project with a focus on the goals and objectives for the content you want to deliver. Then pick the platform, time…

  • Video: EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS educators

    Greg Friese
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    In this video I describe the purpose and format of the only podcast by and for EMS educators. Each week me and my terrific co-hosts Buck Feris, Rob Theriault and Chris Montera discuss issues, resources, and tips for EMS educators with guest experts from around the world. The podcast is recorded using a Skype conference call and the weekly recording is broadcast live, http://emseducast.com/live to listen and participate in live shows. Listen to the most recent EMSEducCast shows. ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com

  • Video: Trends in Online Education for Emergency Responders

    Greg Friese
    12 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    In this video I describe discusses emerging trends in elearning. These trends are shaping the availability of elearning, the cost of elearning, and the creation of elearning content by subject matter experts.This video was recorded at the 2009 National Association of EMS Educators Symposium. In the comments area share your thoughts on emerging trends in online education for emergency responders. I discuss these trends and more in my 2009 EMS Expo presentations. ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com

  • Webinar Announcement: Using Games to Teach

    Greg Friese
    11 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Join emergency response educators, Greg Friese and John Dillon, for a quick introduction on using games to teach and Audience Response Pads. There will be no preamble. Instead we will jump into how you can use games to teach core content. Participants will use virtual response pads during the Webinar as John demonstrates through interactive examples how games and audience response pads can help you know what your audience knows and how you can use that information. We will also show you how you can use a game to deliver information effectively to your audience while keeping them engaged in…

  • Video: Student Creation of Social Media Content

    Greg Friese
    10 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    In this video I describe how educators can engage their students in the creation of social media – photos, videos, podcasts, and blog articles – as a learning activity. Students likely already have the tools and experience using social media. Educators can harness this experience to create content for learning and to share with future student groups. This video was recorded at the 2009 National Association of EMS Educators Symposium. In the comments are share how you are engaging students to create social media as an education activity. Also I talked about social media as an elearning…
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  • Skill-Pill: Just-in-Time Mobile Learning

    Amit Garg
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:18 am
    Mobile Learning has finally come of age. It’s been on the horizon for many years, but now with bandwidth available for mobiles & the devices themselves are becoming more capable to start competing with computers in processing capabilities, it’s finally here! We believe mobile learning has the potential to truly become anywhere, anytime, for anyone learning. My colleague Abhijit Kadle has written about the myths of mobile learning earlier and also posted a great list of top 50 mobile learning resources. We have worked on some projects for our clients to create small learning modules…

  • Six Social Media Trends

    Abhijit Kadle
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:03 am
    Trawling through my feeds earlier this weeks I came across this link-up post by Ricard Nantel over at the Workplace Learning Blog pointing to a blog post on Harvard Business Publishing about six social media trends. Worth a quick recount: 1. Social media begins to look less social 2. Corporations look to scale 3. Social business becomes serious play 4. Your company will have a social media policy (and it might actually be enforced) 5. Mobile becomes a social media lifeline 6. Sharing no longer means e-mail      We’ve always maintained that social media will play an increasing…

  • CLO Summit India

    Amit Garg
    8 Nov 2009 | 10:30 pm
    Upside Learning is happy to be associated with the inaugural CLO Summit India. The event scheduled for Nov 20th in Mumbai will focus on how organizational learning can impact business. So what can you expect? Excerpted from the CLO Summit brochure: “A day filled with inspiring keynotes, a few crisp panel discussions, stimulating presentations. And a few pleasant surprises. In a fast changing economic environment with increasing competitive intensity, how can organizational learning become a source of competitive advantage and continuous change? How can organizational learning, positively…

  • Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources

    Abhijit Kadle
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:09 am
    I’ve spent an inordinately long time writing a whitepaper on mobile learning trying to expound our thoughts about it and how it might be used in the workplace. I’ve been doing some research around it and I’ve documented some of the better links I’ve come across. Again, as with the links I posted about Games and Simulation, these aren’t categorized in any way nor does the order assume any significance. If you’re considering mobile learning in any shape or form, I’d suggest you give these a browse. One of the travails of my paper writing (still continues) was that good web…

  • Can Fun Help Change Behaviors?

    Amit Garg
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:53 pm
    Yes, we believe it can. Having fun is an experience that stays with you longer than any form of instruction. We advocate inclusion of games & fun interactions to achieve long term learning, and change of behaviors. Learning Games that pull learners to have fun (and learn while they have fun). This video below from the fun theory , an initiative of Volkswagen, shows just how fun could be effective in getting people to consider changing their habits Let’s use more fun activities in our learning courses as well. Related posts:What are Serious Games? A Follow-up PostPatterns at Play –…
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  • Friday Funnies

    mkbnl
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:34 am
    As always, the weekly funnies feature courtesy of Darren at Teaching and Developing Online. Happening Subliminal Robots Today Frankly A couple that aren’t a cartoons: Mindset list for the class of 2013 Life after Death by Powerpoint Until next week…. Tagged: cartoons, comics, cyber school, education, high school, virtual school

  • Online K12 Research Idea (Feedback Wanted)

    mkbnl
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:11 am
    Yesterday, the following message was posted in the IT Forum, and while I responded on the listserve, I also wanted to post that response here to see if we could generate some more feedback for this individual. Recently, I read parts of the “U.S. Department of Education Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: a Meta-Analysis [...]

  • Newsline – November 2009

    mkbnl
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:21 pm
    Note the item about Gwinnett Public Schools below. Elluminate Newsline The ePublication created exclusively for educators.   November 2009 FEATURED STORY Now You Can Make It Your Own. Introducing the newest additions to the LearnCentral Community Platform. Add customization, privacy, and control with LearnCentral Private Community. Get entry-level, custom-branded “front door” to the public community with LearnCentral Portal. Want to [...]

  • The Future Of Higher Education

    mkbnl
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:08 am
    This was sent to me via e-mail from the folks at Online Colleges. I wonder what this might look like for the K-12 environment? Tagged: cyber school, education, high school, higher education, virtual school

  • OPEN: 2010 USDLA International Distance Learning Awards w/ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

    mkbnl
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:17 am
    It really has been a USDLA themed space for the last few days, hasn’t it…   Dear USDLA Members, 2010 International Distance Learning Awards Call for Nominations – November 9, 2009 – January 27, 2010 The United States Distance Learning Association, the nation’s premier distance learning association since 1987 presents its 2009 International Distance Learning Awards, [...]
 
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  • Games And Simulations

    Karl Kapp, professor, author and speaker, understands the value of games and simulations in learning. In this two-part interview, Karl covers everything from video games to virtual 3D worlds, their cognitive advantages and future trends in online learning. Coach: How did you become an evangelist for learning through games, simulations and ...

  • 10 Social Media Tools For Learning

    Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? Understanding the universe of options can help you match your need to the best approach. So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Many of these tools ...

  • Social Media And Learning

    In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. Coach: You were an early adopter of ...
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    The Distance Daily

  • Capella University Announces New Online Degrees

    Get Degrees Staff
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pm
    Capella University announced today that it has added two new online degree programs and three new specializations. The University is introducing an RN to BSN degree program, one of the most popular healthcare educational choices today. Because of the increased complexity of today’s health care environment, the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice has recommend that at least two-thirds of the nurse work force hold baccalaureate or higher degrees. Anything less than a bachelor’s degree in the profession has proven to be a career barrier for tens of thousands of nurses;…

  • All UK Nurses Will Need Degree in 2013

    Get Degrees Staff
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:22 pm
    The Health Minister in Great Britain announced today that as of 2013, all nursing candidates must have completed a three year degree program at an accredited college of nursing. At the moment, most of the nurses in Britain obtain a diploma in nursing studies and then sit for the licensing exam. Health Minister Ann Keen said: “Nurses are the largest single profession within the health service, and are critical to the delivery of high quality health care. Degree level education will provide new nurses with the decision-making skills they need to make high-level judgments in the…

  • College Grads Changing Careers to the NYPD

    Get Degrees Staff
    18 Nov 2009 | 4:27 pm
    The ranks of New York City’s finest are being joined by increasing numbers of refugees from other New York career sectors, notably the financial services area. Applications to the Police Academy rose 54 percent in 2008 over 2007, when there were 17,212 applicants. The wider pool of candidates has enabled the department to become more diverse by the year; the percentage of black, Hispanic and Asian officers has steadily risen since 2000, as has the percentage of female officers. According to the New York Times such was not always the case. The Department has recruited for years trying to…

  • New Employment Survey Report in the News

    Get Degrees Staff
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:48 pm
    Exhibiting an uncanny grasp of the obvious, CNN’s Money section, is carrying a story about the difficult job market for 2010 college graduates: Job Outlook: Still Stinks. “Hiring for graduates will remain near its lowest level in decades after 40% plunge last year, new survey says. But hiring will spike 15% at smaller companies.” This is a quick take on a survey conducted by Michigan State University’s College Employment Research Institute. The portion of this story that is not news is the ongoing unemployment rate; when this survey came out a year ago national unemployment was 6.8%.

  • New Jersey College Offers Classroom on a Flash Drive

    Get Degrees Staff
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:12 pm
    New Jersey’s Thomas Edison State College has been in the experimentation mode with a new form of course delivery: the flash drive. These solid state memory devices are the size of a house key and fit in one of the USB drives on your computer – a slot that has been standard on all computers for years. The success of their program will be leading to expansion of this addition to online education technology. The flash drive contains all of the course work required for completion, except the textbook(s). The contents of the drive includes all lectures, slide presentations, videos, tests,…
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  • Social Media Optimization

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:09 pm
    Today I am going to present how TFLB (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and Blog) can be used effectively to promote your business.    Twitter  Use Twitter To drive traffic by providing useful information with links. Monitor your brand on Twitter using Twitter Search Tool. In search results add all positive tweets under ‘Favorites’ and promote the URL to clients. (http://twitter.com/user name/favorites) Promote events using tag. Engage the audience by suggesting tool. Once I mentioned in my blog about graders and said that I am selected as digitally distinct. Some of the…

  • Various Ways of Engaging Students

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:28 am
    In my earlier blog titled ‘Is Blended Learning the Future of Educational Scenario?’ I had mentioned that instruction offered through blended mode enhances learning. It is not enough that technology is utilized for offering instruction. The instruction must be designed in such a manner that enhances recall, application and retention of knowledge that has been imparted.    I am reminded of a famous Chinese Proverb, that says,   “Tell me, and I’ll forget Show me, and I may remember, Involve me, and I’ll understand.”    It is true one hundred percent.

  • Social Media n Learning

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:18 am
    Let me first explain what ‘Social Media’ is and then explore the possibilities of using them for enhancing learning.   Social Media represents the online tools that enable anyone to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from typical one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to make use of 3Cs Collaboration, Community, Communication effectively to enhance learning and pave way for innovation.   Various Social Media Tools for Learning are:  …

  • Role of Organic Twitter Optimization in Determining Twitter Grades

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    5 Oct 2009 | 9:53 am
    Let me first introduce the factors that play an important role in determining Twitter Grades (TG). They are:   Power  Reach Authority of a twitter account   Or in other words, TG determines the quality of tweets sent by you and the influence of them upon others.    The following factors play a crucial role as Twitter Algorithm take note of these things;   Follower / Following ratio – The greater the value better it will be for Twitter Grades (TG). Power of Followers – If more people with high TG follow you the better it will be. Tweets – Here all the…

  • Social Media Marketing 4 Business Owners

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    29 Sep 2009 | 1:15 pm
    Before stressing the importance of Social Media Marketing (SMM), let me just explain in a simple manner, what Social Media actually is, and later on try to explain the SMM.   Social Media represents the online tools that enable you to interact in one-one, one-many and many-many conversational format deviating from usual one-way broadcasting options offered by media. The real-time, borderless interaction offered to participants provide an opportunity to establish a brand for individual / company.   Often times I have come across people asking whether SMM has replaced Internet…
 
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