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  • Free Silverlight eLearning Courseware player

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:27 am
    Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free.

  • Kantar Retail Forms Leading Retail Insights and Consulting Business

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am
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  • ASC to Introduce New Quality Monitoring Solution, INSPIRATIONpro 10.0, at Call Center World

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:28 am
    Hoesbach/Germany, February 9 2010 - " ASC , a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate communications, today announced it will demonstrate its new quality monitoring solution, INSPIRATIONpro 10.0, at Call Center World, Berlin, Germany, at the Estrel Convention Center, Hall 4, booth C2a, on February 8-11, 2010.

  • Adaptive Curriculum Introduces New CEO

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:09 am
    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., BUSINESS WIRE -- Adaptive Curriculum today announces the appointment of Jim Bowler as its first Chief Executive Officer.

  • MDM Web Dynpro UIs

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:39 am
    Enhancements for Governed Master Data Creation and Maintenance Processes in Conjunction with SAP NetWeaver BPM When it comes to collaboratively governed master data creation and maintenance processes in heterogeneous landscapes, SAP NetWeaver BPM together with SAP NetWeaver MDM provide the perfect environment for setting up end-to-end data ...
 
 
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    About.com: Distance Learning

  • New Profile: Advantages Online Private School

    6 Feb 2010 | 5:37 pm
    If you're looking for an online high school with qualified teachers, take a look at Advantages Online Private School. Their virtual teachers have at least ten years of experience or hold advanced degrees. Advantages Online Private School also offers a variety of courses at the AP level and the  general ed. level. Check out this new profile to learn more about the programs, tuition fees, and admissions requirements found at Advantages Online Private School. See Also: Online High School Reviews 4 Types of Online High Schools New Profile: Advantages Online Private School originally appeared on…

  • How to Go Back to School and Finish Your Degree Online

    5 Feb 2010 | 5:30 pm
    During the recession, many adult learners have headed back to school. Online programs are often ideal for returning students that need flexibility and the opportunity to work around employment and family responsibilities. Take a look at this article to learn how to go back to school and complete your degree online. See Also: How to Choose an Online College 10 Facts About Online Diplomas How to Go Back to School and Finish Your Degree Online originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 01:30:36.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Tax Breaks for Online Students

    2 Feb 2010 | 7:05 pm
    Tax season is coming up. But, you may not have to pay as much as expected. Online students enrolled in accredited programs often qualify for tax breaks to the tune of several thousand dollars. Take a look at this article to see how much you can save before April 15. See Also: Distance Learning Scholarships Types of Financial Aid for Distance Learners Tax Breaks for Online Students originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 03:05:17.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Earn an Online Degree in Less Time

    30 Jan 2010 | 4:11 pm
    Think you don't have time to earn an online degree? Think again. By requesting transfer equivalencies, earning credit for work experience, and planning ahead, many students can earn an online degree in just two or three years. Check out this article to learn how to speed up your studies. See Also: 4 Steps to Life Experience Credit 3 Online Colleges That Turn Test Scores Into Credit Earn an Online Degree in Less Time originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 00:11:57.Permalink | Comment | Email this

  • Everything You Need to Know About Online MBA Degrees

    28 Jan 2010 | 4:16 pm
    Online MBA degrees are becoming a popular choice for young professionals seeking advancement and mature adults looking for a career change. Many reputable colleges now offer accredited online MBA programs tailored to students that need to continue full time employment while completing their coursework. Want to learn more? Check out this article for the inside scoop on earning an online MBA degree. See Also: Online MBA Degree Accreditation 5 Mistakes Online MBA Students Make Everything You Need to Know About Online MBA Degrees originally appeared on About.com Distance Learning on Friday,…
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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 Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses

    tom
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:04 am
      In a previous post, I shared some free handwritten fonts.  Today, we’ll explore how you might use them in your elearning courses. We already looked at how fonts are more than the text you read.  As a graphic element, they convey meaning and play a role in the message you communicate. That means you always have to consider what visual cues the text provides in addition to what is being read. A Few Examples Below are images from some web sites that include the use of handwritten fonts.  Look them over and consider what value they bring to the screen.  How would…

  • Why E-Learning is So Effective

    tom
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:30 am
      E-learning is hot. And for good reason. If done right, it can produce great results by decreasing costs and improving performance. Also, unlike a one time classroom session, the elearning course is available for others.  This includes the static elearning course as well as any ongoing conversations in networked communities. Recently, I had a conversation with someone new to elearning and it struck me that she didn’t fully understand the value of elearning.  I think this is common as more people are joining the world of elearning.  Understanding elearning’s value…

  • How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload)

    tom
    26 Jan 2010 | 12:27 am
    There’s a lot of conversation about social media.  And for good reason.  The tools let you connect with peers who share common interests.   It’s also a great way to build a personal learning network.  For example, if you build rapid elearning courses with Articulate products there are all sorts of resources available to you: Articulate’s Facebook page keeps you up-to-date on news and information. Connect with us via Twitter.  It’s a more personal connection to the network and you can stay on top of the cool tutorials we create with Screenr. Articulate…

  • Here’s a Quick Way to Create Your Next E-Learning Template in PowerPoint

    tom
    19 Jan 2010 | 12:20 am
    In a previous post, I showed you how to design your own PowerPoint templates.  In other posts, I’ve talked about how to use PowerPoint’s drawing features to build the envelope icon and television monitor.  These are all intended to help you become more proficient with PowerPoint and your graphic design skills. In today’s post, we’ll pull some of these ideas together to create a folder graphic that you can use in your elearning courses.  I have a published example below, as well as a step-by-step tutorial.  You can also download the PowerPoint file so that you can…

  • How Fonts Take a Starring Role in Your E-Learning Courses

    tom
    12 Jan 2010 | 12:11 am
      The video below shows how graphic designer, Brian Hoff, selected the right font for one of his projects.  There are many points in the video where he probably could have stopped, but didn’t.  No one would have known the difference.  But something kept him going until he found just the right look. Click here to view video. What kept him going is knowing that the typography does more than share the information to be read. It also communicates ideas or concepts visually because the font is more than text.  It’s a graphic element that contributes to what you want…
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  • LMS Tracking of Podcasts and Video Casts

    Tony Karrer
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:47 am
    I received an interesting question from someone who is working on providing content to a remote sales force of about 40 people on topics such as selling process, products and selling skills.  They currently provide some podcasts and video casts, but would like to track the new content that is being developed now.  It seems like this should be an obvious question.  You can put the audio or video inside a SCORM course and load it into an LMS.  Given the small audience and limited scope, likely a Rapid Learning Management System would make a lot of sense if that was the…

  • Selling Social Learning – Be a Jack

    Tony Karrer
    3 Feb 2010 | 6:32 am
    I was just reading a post - Top 5 tips to gain buy in for learning with social media.  The tips were many of the usual suspects (click on the link for details): Build a solid measurable plan Do your research and put it to the test Choose your words carefully Blitz the stigma Educate the decision makers This is good stuff, but it also got me to thinking that this might be way more complicated than it really needs to be.  Instead, one of the things that I Learned about Learning in 2009 and was an important eLearning Predictions for 2010 was to “Be a Jack”.  What does this…

  • Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Information Overload

    Tony Karrer
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:10 am
    Great post by Tim Kastelle - Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Innovation.  He’s talking primarily about Innovation pipelines based on crowdsourcing.  His diagram:   Show a fairly common model for how things can be filtered.  This is similar to the model that we used on Project Greenlight – the scriptwriting and director contest by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.  Anyone (hopefully everyone) could submit their script / movie.  From there, we had smaller and smaller batches of people reviewing until it got down to the core team looking at the top few submissions. …

  • SharePoint Social Learning Experience

    Tony Karrer
    1 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am
    I had a great conversation last week that sparked an early stage idea for what I think would be a wonderful way for learning and development organizations to leverage SharePoint better.  HP Web 2.0 for Marketing – Social Learning Experience The concept is probably easiest to understand by considering what HP did around their course on Web 2.0 for Marketing.  You can find more on this by going to the LearnTrends – SharePoint in Corporate Learning Recordings. The basic concept was that HP’s learning organization wanted to help their marketing professionals get up to speed on the…

  • Still No Flash?

    Tony Karrer
    28 Jan 2010 | 6:23 am
    One of the interesting things that was not included in the announcement of the iPad yesterday was support for Flash.  It’s a nice big device, perfect for browsing the web and remote learners.  But it doesn’t have Flash support.  Apple has said in the past that they plan to support Flash at some point, but I’m beginning to wonder. In the meantime, it seems like HTML 5 is picking up steam. Any guesses on Flash support on Apple mobile devices going forward? And if it’s not going to be supported, does this mean we’ll be looking at other delivery technologies going…
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  • Making business decisions: the hand and the heart

    Jay Cross
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:17 pm
    Inside Learning Technologies is an important magazine in the U.K. (Isn’t it odd that while the net spans the globe, learning magazines remain confined to their home countries?) For the current issue, I wrote an article entitled Making Business Decision: the Hand and the Heart. This is the sequel to last month’s Speaking the Language of Business. Hats off to Donald Taylor, a big cheese at the Learning Technologies Conference and chair of the Learning & Skills Group.  Donald excerpted and edited sections of my book-in-progress, What Would Andrew Do?, to create both articles.

  • Jay’s latest book focuses on social & informal learning in the cloud

    Jay Cross
    31 Jan 2010 | 9:47 pm
    The January 2010 Edition of Working Smarter was released today. Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud, this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 technology. The hardcopy version of Working Smarter costs $19.98. Believe me, I’m not trying to fool you with trick pricing. My publisher’s algorithm won’t let me charge $20 even. I figured $19.98 was better than $20.01. Buy the 240-page hard copy. The download version of Working Smarter costs $12.00. I prefer the hard copy myself but your mileage may vary. And of course you can get the soft copy right…

  • Go straight to the finish line

    Jay Cross
    29 Jan 2010 | 11:11 am
    Two of my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance, Jane Hart and Charles Jennings just returned from speaking at the Learning Technologies conference in London. Jane & Charles The conference program would lead you to assume that the Learning Technologies conference would be a hotbed of social and informal learning. Jane addressed how L&D is changing. “People naturally learn from each other, and as technology-supported social learning becomes main stream, what effects can we expect it to have on organisational Learning and Development? She argued that social learning offers the…

  • Schlockly service at Warmart

    Jay Cross
    23 Jan 2010 | 9:56 pm
    A friend gave my wife two $50 VISA debit cards from Walmart. Supposedly as good as cash, the cards are actually issued by General Electric Credit. When we tried to buy $95 worth of electronics at Walmart in Mountain View this afternoon, the cashier said the cards were unreadable. Had we made purchases on them? No, we had not. Well, we couldn’t use them. We asked to her to call the store manager. A flustered customer service rep arrived. She couldn’t find the manager. In time, she called in the card numbers on her cell and told us each card had a balance of $48.12. (GE charges…

  • Hillary Clinton, the United States, and Freedom on the Net

    Jay Cross
    21 Jan 2010 | 10:20 pm
    Internet Freedom The prepared text of U.S. of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech, delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. JANUARY 21, 2010 When I read this (thx George Siemens for the link), I thought Right On! The Department of State is moving into the 21st Century. I figured we were finally edging toward diplomatic relations with the flat world. Here are a few excerpts; I recommend reading the whole speech. SYNCING PROGRESS WITH PRINCIPLES On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress. But the United States does. We…
 
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    9 Feb 2010 | 6:54 am
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  • Real killer still out there, according to teen charged in school stabbing death

    DB-RSS-B0T
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:52 am
    The teenager accused of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old freshman in a boys bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School told a friend he was being persecuted for trying to help the victim and that the real killer was still out there. The More...

  • What is the law on Cannabis seeds?

    LowerLadySheriff
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:32 am
    Now that cannabis has been reclassified, does it remain legal to own the seeds? A company are using our business address as a "return to sender" address, I suppose in an attempt to not get caught. We tried to take them to the Police Station in the Summer but they wouldn't take them because it was legal to own cannabis (marijuana) seeds.

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  • Why Flash on the iPhone/iPad doesn’t solve #mLearning

    Dave Mozealous
    27 Jan 2010 | 2:36 pm
    By now you have probably heard about the release of Apple’s new toy the iPad.  One of the biggest disappointments about the device so far is that again it is an apple device that will not initially support the Adobe Flash Player, much like the iPhone/iPod Touch. Checking Twitter for comments about “Flash” and “iPad” you find a lot of disappointment: @invaderkong: Wait….STILL NO FUCKING FLASH…yah iPad….I think I’ll wait till google copies ya and then makes you better @sethruffer: iPad looks incredible….but…

  • Convert #Articulate Web output to LMS output without republishing

    Dave Mozealous
    19 Jan 2010 | 3:27 pm
    This post is written in response to Deepak Saini’s questions in a comment on one of my posts. So here is the problem: You have a bunch of Articulate presentations that you have published and uploaded to your website, and now it is your job to take all those presentations and upload them to your new LMS, but the problem is you no longer have the source presentations. How can you convert your Web published content to LMS content without republishing from Articulate Presenter? Whenever possible, you should republish your content, doing this method ain’t going to be easy. A couple…

  • Create a Screenr Video Podcast in 4 EASY steps

    Dave Mozealous
    8 Jan 2010 | 8:51 am
    It’s 2010, and you are dying to do something that embraces mobile learning. Why not create a Video Podcast of all your Screenr screencasts? Here is how you can create a Video Podcast of your Screenr screencasts in 4 easy steps. A little background One of the cool things about Screenr, is that you can view your Screenr Screencasts on an iPhone. Articulate’s CEO @GetAdam created this Screencast to show you what Screenr Videos look like on an iPhone: View at Screenr Cool, so Screenr screencasts play on an iPhone…how did we do that? Only certain video types will play on an…

  • I before E, ESPECIALLY after C

    Dave Mozealous
    24 Dec 2009 | 7:58 am
    Every American elementary schooler is taught the mnemonic device, “I before E, except after C.”  I am dumbfounded by how bad this rule is. I misspell words all the time. Words like policies, species, and caffeine I can never spell correctly because they violate the rule. The rule is littered with exceptions. Recently, I wondered how bad the rule actually is, how many words in the English language that contain either (either is an exception to the rule) combination of ie or ei represent exceptions to the rule? Well I set out solve this problem.  The data proves that the I…

  • How to use HTTPAnalyzer to debug AICC LMS reporting issues

    Dave Mozealous
    18 Dec 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Quick post here. I just created a screencast showing how you can use HTTPAnalyzer to debug reporting issues between content and a Learning Management System. You can get HTTPAnalyzer from the good folks at IEInspector here. If you are a QA Engineer working on any type of Web Application, HTTPAnalyzer is a must have. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Digg this! Post this on Diigo Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Add this to Mister Wong
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  • Smashing Silos

    maish@elearningpost.com
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:10 pm
    Evan Rosen, author of The Culture of Collaboration, writes about his 5 ways to bust silo mentality at work: Eliminate Needless Formality and Hierarchy (easy access) Provide One-Click Access to Entire Organization (easy access to everyone) Design Dedicated Physical Spaces for Collaboration Adopt Common Systems and Processes (standard platform) Establish Cross-Functional Mentoring

  • Content strategy is a plan

    maish@elearningpost.com
    29 Jan 2010 | 4:25 pm
    From Kristiana Halvorson: “The most important thing to understand is this: Content strategy isn’t a bunch of tactics. It’s a plan.” “It’s a well-founded plan, fueled by your business objectives and user goals. An achievable plan, created with your current business reality, content assets, and limited resources in mind. A future plan, for what’s going to happen to your content once you send it off into the world. And, most importantly, a profitable plan, where your measures of success ultimately have impact on your organization’s bottom line.”

  • Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One

    maish@elearningpost.com
    29 Jan 2010 | 3:57 pm
    A good read on how storytelling can unite the different aspects of the user experience such as brining different perspectives together, defining the goal or defining the user (personas). However, there is another benefit that the article briefly touches upon and that is defining the journey (scenarios). It’s one thing to define a user, but a whole different perspective when you chart out the journey of this user accomplishing goals and tasks.

  • Lessig Calls Google Book Settlement A “Path To Insanity”

    maish@elearningpost.com
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:02 am
    Interesting post on Lawrence Lessig’s views on the Google book deal. “By breaking up books into different licensable parts, Lessig fears that we are going to encounter the same problem with books that we do today with film. He gives the example of documentary films which are sometimes nearly impossible to restore or preserve in digital form because the rights to every song and clip of archive footage need to be cleared again. This is an artifact of the types of licensing contracts that became the norm for film, where each constituent part of a work carries its own copyrights into…

  • A Better Way to Manage Knowledge

    maish@elearningpost.com
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:58 am
    John Hagel and John Seely Brown talk about Creation Spaces - “places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning ecology so that performance accelerates.” They go on to discuss how these spaces are different from the traditional KM systems: “Knowledge management traditionally has focused on capturing knowledge that already exists within the firm — its systems rarely extend beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. Creation spaces instead focus on mobilizing and focusing participants across all institutional boundaries.”
 
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  • Social computing in knowledge-intensive workplaces

    Harold Jarche
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:53 am
    Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out: 20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014 50% of businesses using activity streams, such as micro-blogging, by 2012 20% of businesses will use social network analysis by 2015 70-95% of IT dominated social media initiatives will fail through to 2012 I’ve highlighted the last point because it’s time to look at social media as a connecting force in the enterprise. Here are some notes from a Twitter conversation with Treena Gravatt…

  • Wired Work

    Harold Jarche
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am
    Wirearchy may be a neologism, but I’ve found it to be a most descriptive term for discussing what happens when you connect everyone via electronic networks. To paraphrase Jon Husband: It is generally accepted that we live and work in an increasingly ‘wired’ world. There are emerging patterns and dynamics related to interconnected people and interlinked information flows, which are bypassing established traditional structures and services. This presentation covers my interpretation of wirearchy and is a continuation of my presentation on Net Work: learning to work anew. Once…

  • With a little help from my friends

    Harold Jarche
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Here are some of the interesting things I learned on Twitter. This week I’m featuring my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance. — I remarked earlier in the week that “crowds don’t need wise contributors, but diverse & independent ones; it’s like evolution: simple mechanisms create complexity.” — We learn through idle chatter, so it seems (via @shareski): @charlesjennings “if it’s social & engaged there is no us & them, only we” “It’s not the channel that empowers or dis-empowers the learner. It’s the…

  • Aggregate Understand Connect

    Harold Jarche
    4 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pm
    I’ve changed one word, but doesn’t it make more sense like this? As I talk about PKM here or with this graphic and discussion, “understand” is more descriptive of the human sense-making activities than “filter” is. Perhaps I should go back and change these posts to reflect what we are actually doing – understanding as part of the sense-making process. This is inspired  partially by The Problem with DIKW as well as comments by Stephen Downes, but I still want to keep the PKM concept as simple as possible, for business reasons, not academic ones.

  • Create you own blog – review

    Harold Jarche
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    I have to admit that I enjoyed reading through Create your own blog by Tris Hussey. The subtitle, 6 easy projects to start blogging like a pro, did not attract me initially but the book is well written, covers a lot of ground and is quite helpful. The first three chapters cover the basics and then there are sections on personal blogs, business blogs, blogs for artists, etc. If you’re 18 years old and a digital native, you don’t need this book and neither do you if you’ve already been blogging for several years. However, there is still a good segment of the population who may…
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  • Resources for "Enterprise Learning and Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds" Webinar

    Karl Kapp
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:54 am
    Dan Bliton of Booz Allen Hamilton asked Tony and Karl to present a webinar entitled "Enterprise Learning and Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds." The presentation promises to be a lot of fun. Here are the supporting resources.SlidesHere are the slides from the presentation.Bah Learning In 3 DView more presentations from kkapp.Resources:Alternatives to Second LifeA Few More Alternatives to Second LifeApplying ADDIE to 3D WorldsQuestions about Second LifeVirtual Worlds Worth Billions in the New YearSave Yourself Time and Money--Before Implementing a Virtual World, Do an AnalysisRecent Second…

  • Learning in 3D Week 5 Stops for Blog Book Tour and Webinars

    Karl Kapp
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:14 am
    Here are the great stops for week 5 of the blog book tour. Also, follow the tour on Twitter with hashtag #lrn3d. And, join us on Facebook at the Learning in 3D page. We are trying to hit 200 fans by the end of the week. Can you help? Invite your colleagues, friends and relatives to become a fan. Also, if you like, stop by our Amazon web page and leave a review. Tour StopsDay Twenty-One 02/08/10 John Rice at the Educational Games Research blog. Day Twenty-Two 02/09/10 (actually, this stop with Dan Bliton is with Booz Allen and Hamilton (see below). It is a sold out event, however, it will be…

  • Blog Book Tour Recap Week Four: Interesting

    Karl Kapp
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:20 pm
    Week four was a busy week with an interesting development in the virtual world space. The biggest news was that Forterra Systems assets and intellectual property was sold to SAIC and about a dozen Forterra employees will be joining SAIC.In the book tour we had some interesting stops but a few stops were missed as well. Day Sixteen Gordon Snyder's at Information & Communications Technology Blog brought in the interesting idea of Cyberbullies in a virtual world and the impact they can have and did have on a young girl and the tragic results. It was a moving post. Day Seventeen Over at Koreen…

  • Virtual World Vendor Forterra Systems Purchased by SAIC.

    Karl Kapp
    3 Feb 2010 | 5:31 pm
    A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called Not a Good Week for the Virtual Worlds Space where I reported, based on other reports, that Forterra Systems had laid off some of its workforce. It now looks like the large consultancy firm SAIC has purchased Forterra and is going to leverage the 3D capabilities as part of its offerings. I think this sends a signal to both large consultancy firms that they also better get onto the virtual immersive environment opportunityHere is the press release:FORTERRA SYSTEMS ACQUIRED BY SAICForterra Systems is pleased to announce that effective…

  • Learning in 3D Week 4 Stops for Blog Book Tour

    Karl Kapp
    1 Feb 2010 | 4:40 am
    Here are the great stops for week 4 of the blog book tour. Also, follow the tour on Twitter with hashtag #lrn3d. And, join us on Facebook at the Learning in 3D page.Tour StopsDay Sixteen 02/01/10 Gordon Snyder's blog Information & Communications Technology Blog Day Seventeen 02/02/10 Koreen Olbrich's Learning in TandemDay Eighteen 02/03/10 Bart Pursel at Virtual Learning Worlds.Day Nineteen 02/04/10 Clive Shepherd(already posted due to a vacation) Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tourDay Twenty 02/05/10 Tom Werner who has a Brandon Hall Research blog. ***With special guest…
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  • Rahaf Harfoush on the Lessons Learned From The Social Obama Campaign

    kevindjones
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am
    After Dave’s keynote at Training2010, Rahaf Harfoush, author of Yes We Did, spoke after barely getting off a delayed plane.  And we are very glad she made it! It was a great presentation that gave me a lot of wonderful ideas. These, again, are my raw notes… She wrote, “Yes We Did” on using social media for building the Obama brand. Overarching Themes Power of strategy in an integrated media campaign – this is a win for strategy.  They planned how and why they were going to be online and what they were going to do. Online organizing = offline action Consistent Branding…

  • Keynote: Training’s Future with Social Technologies

    kevindjones
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:44 am
    Dave Wilkins’ keynote at Training2010 was amazing.  I got into the auditorium an hour before hand to see if I could help and to save places on the front row to so we could heckle him.  He had me run through the slides of his preso and my reaction was, “It is about time.”  What he says in his presentation is RIGHT ON and has needed to be said for some time in front of a large audience. The essesence for me was this: Training and Learning folk, you are behind in adopting this.  Either adapt or become less valuable than you are now, if not (personally) extinct. Here are my…

  • 1 Feb 2010 | 9:04 am

    kevindjones
    1 Feb 2010 | 9:04 am
    Reports from Training 2010 I am at Training 2010 in San Diego this week.  The next few posts will be from this conference.  Not all coherent, I am sure, but rather in not fashion. Tom Stone’s “Overcoming Obstacles and Objections to the Use of Web 2.0 in Organizations.”   I have loved Tom’s sessions at other conferences and expect this will be great as well. Obstacles and Objections: Culture & Change issues Productivity concerns Connection with L&D Purpose issues Control issues Measurement issues Technology issues He is providing ‘advanced common sense.’  I love…

  • College Students Don’t ‘GET’ Twitter – And Why

    kevindjones
    26 Jan 2010 | 5:46 am
    This short video shows shows snippets of informal interviews on college students’ perception of Twitter.  The case?  They don’t get it.  Whether that is wide spread or not, we really can’t be surprised. Why?  How do I, and MANY others use it primarily?  Professionally.  To share information about our chosen line of work – oh and some personal stuff on the side.  They wouldn’t get Yammer either, as that is all professional. Wait until they get the working world and reintroduced to Twitter.  Suddenly, they will find that there is a lot of great information…

  • Be Comfortable Being Beat Down

    kevindjones
    20 Jan 2010 | 5:57 am
    Racquetball is a fast game.  Most of it is played by reflex.  Play it enough, and your reflexes – mind and body – become pretty fast.  I play a couple times a week with a guy who is better than I am.  During a round I will win one game – two if I am lucky – out of five or so.  The last time we played there was a bit of meta cognition.  I recognized that after I made a bad shot I had to quickly learn from it and then forget it because the ball was being served again and it was time to play. Working with NASA now, I run into the same thing often.  Yesterday I was…
 
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  • Need Professional Voices for eLearning Videos?

    Nicole
    3 Feb 2010 | 5:59 pm
    If you're putting together your eLearning or online training content and you can't stand the sound of your own voice, or you just need a professional voice of a different accent or language to narrate the audio, look no further than www.voice123.com. Voice123 is a really cool site that has hundreds of thousands (!) of  voice producers and voiceover professionals waiting to audition for the part. How it works is that you either search the database for that perfect voice or post your requirements up on the site. If you choose to 'Post a project' you'll need to outline some criteria…

  • iTunes U for Learning Content Distribution

    Nicole
    2 Feb 2010 | 7:55 pm
    Today I've been checking out iTunes U for the first time. It's been around a few years so I'm not sure why I hadn't looked at it before. But if you haven't checked it out either it is a specialized area of the Apple iTunes store that enables Higher Ed institutions to make audio/visual content available for download and subscription. According to Wikipedia the service was 'created to manage, distribute, and control access to educational audio and video content and PDF files for students within a college or university as well as the broader Internet.' Wikipedia says that 'an advantage iTunes U…

  • Microsoft Asks Litmos about their BizSpark Experience

    Nicole
    24 Jan 2010 | 8:57 pm
    The guys from Microsoft NZ dropped by our office last week to film a short interview with Litmos Founder, Rich Chetwynd. They asked a few questions about the Litmos Learning Management System (LMS) and were keen to hear how our experience in the BizSpark program was going... Here is the finished product: Rich will also be doing some radio interviews during February but those dates are yet to be confirmed. @Schnicker

  • 10 Tips to Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro

    Nicole
    22 Jan 2010 | 6:49 pm
    I've been reading Tom Kuhlmann's eBook as pictured on the right. Tom is the author of The Rapid E-Learning Blog (part of the Articulate website) and although the book has been around for a wee while, there are some really great ideas and relevant tips in there. I extracted a few of the ones I liked the most for this post: 10 Tips from 'The Insider's Guide To Becoming a Rapid E-Learning Pro': The difference between a novice and pro is that the pro knows how to contribute to the organization’s bottom line. Remember, while training is important and e-learning is vital to effective training,…

  • 10 Findings from a New Youth Media Study

    Nicole
    20 Jan 2010 | 9:28 pm
    A recent report conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation has some surprising statistics on youth media usage (well, for me anyway). The report which is the 3rd in a series conducted every five years, shows youth media use is still increasing despite experts in the second report (2005) believing that it would not be possible as there was not enough time left in the day. This is the report overview: 'Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use.  The…
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  • Time to Know: Changing classrooms

    gsiemens
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:44 pm
    Right after I posted a rant on how systems reduce innovation, I came across this article on an a start up called Time to Know. If you’re ever asked to criticize today’s education system, say something like “industrial paradigm” or “if you took a teacher from 100 years ago, he/she would feel right at home today”. Both of these are irritating and inaccurate phrases that pop up in this article. We also encounter “rich exploration applets” and “full digital curriculum coverage”. Time to Know will likely succeed, because it integrates…

  • Privacy

    gsiemens
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:57 am
    The Economist’s article on Privacy 2.0 (Woo hoo! Someone has come up with the brilliant idea of adding “2.0″ to privacy! This is terrific. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2.0 meme spread to enterprise, the web, learning, etc. What revolutionary times), argues that privacy could stop the spread of social networks. Silly Economist. Privacy is a transactional entity – like money. When we think we derive value from the exchange, we’ll make the transaction. When we think we’re getting ripped off, we’ll stop. Right now, free tools and opportunities to…

  • Social Media Toolkit

    gsiemens
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:13 am
    About five years ago, if you wanted to get attention for consulting or speaking engagements, frequent use of “web 2.0″ was required. Today, you can get the same mileage from “social media”. In fact, add “social” to anything and you’ll get attention. But language is like that – we sacrifice precision in order to achieve general or shared understanding. A term captures a broad phenomenon and makes it accessible to others. Saying web 2.0 is easier than saying “the means by which we alter the existing mindset in computing from centralized…

  • The iPad: Content lives to see another day

    gsiemens
    28 Jan 2010 | 6:39 am
    The real story of Apple’s iPad is not the device itself. Rather, the long-term impact is that many of the information structures of the physical world – books and newspapers – now have a place in the digital world, as well as a revenue model online. Apple possesses the mystical ability to charge for content. For example, many people who would balk at paying for $10 software for their desktop/laptop had no problem paying hundreds of dollars for iPhone apps (I’m looking at myself here – which does cause a bit of eye strain). Similarly, books, newspapers, and…

  • Foursquare and newspapers

    gsiemens
    26 Jan 2010 | 11:54 am
    I signed up for Twitter in November 2006 (I think). And did nothing with it for a fairly long time. Alan “so cool that I’m coming to a conference near you soon” Levine posted his Twitter life cycle, capturing perfectly my experience with the service. From “this is dumb” to “I can’t stop” in no time at all. Lately I’ve taken to Foursquare (my account is here – you will notice that I am mayor of many coffee shops). When I first heard about the service, I concluded it was largely a waste – a means to extract information, helping…
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  • A social interaction pattern language 2 of 2

    Jay Cross
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:17 pm
    Getting good at social interactions is vital for social learning. We live in a social world. Every action taken that involves more than one person arises from conversation that generates, coordinates, and reflects those actions. At best, those group actions serve the well-being of the whole: not just the whole of a particular organization, but the whole of life. However, as we well know, many group actions are not life-serving. They are disconnected, existing in a fantasy in which, by analogy, it’s as if they imagine it is possible for the cells in one’s stomach to work against…

  • A social interaction pattern language 1 of 2

    Jay Cross
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:56 pm
    Pattern Language? A concept invented by Christopher Alexander, award-winning, renegade architect despised by most other architects, but wildly popular among designers and software authors. Alexander used to live in my neighborhood. I wrote up a little presentation on his Pepto-Bismol colored house. Neighbors complained his house was so ugly it lowered the value of each house nearby by $15,000. When Uta and I moved into our current house 17 years ago, Alexander was completing the house across the street. A rag-tag group of students put together this concrete monstrosity. Here’s the view…

  • Informal learning from the horse’s mouth

    Jay Cross
    3 Feb 2010 | 9:34 pm
    Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now. I’m the Johnny Appleseed of networked, social learning I make 95% of my work available on the net at no charge. You can find it in blogs, presentations, articles, books, YouTube, free book chapters. Google “informal learning jay cross;” go to the Informal Learning Page, for an overview and links.. (20 minutes later) I just set up the Jaycross FAQ. It’s going to encourage…

  • Free Learning to Learn course going strong

    Jay Cross
    1 Feb 2010 | 11:32 pm
    Addictive Learning That Sticks In a hurry? Enroll in the course here. I announced this free course on Learning to Learn on this blog two days ago. Fifty people have enrolled. Most have completed their first three questions. 16% of the participants answered question 1 correctly and won’t see that one again. Only 8% answered question 2. 10% got question 3 right. There’s still plenty of room in our virtual classroom. Please join us. Related Announcement of free Learning to Learn course

  • Social Media Camp

    Jay Cross
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:00 pm
    Today I joined more than a hundred people at the Presidio Officers Club for a day-long Social Media Camp. Another 650 attended remotely by via Justin.tv. Many participants were novices. The majority were interested in social media as a marketing tool. We saw some cool technology, e.g. 12 Sprints (knowledge workflow from SAP). Kevin Marks gave an interesting keynote on Tummlers (moderator – geisha – steward role). Who do you suppose is in charge of social media within companies? In the group, 10% lodge it under PR. The remaining 90% consider social media a marketing function. Mind…
 
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  • More on Online Language Learning - ERIC A. TAUB, Gadgetwise New York Times

    Ray
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:10 pm
    Last week’s article on online language learning apparently hit a nerve; not only was it widely e-mailed, but a number of individuals told me about other language courses that I had missed in my research. In addition, a few factual corrections to the story are in order. Starting with the latter, the free language courses at the BBC’s web site may not work in all countries. For example, the videos cannot be played in the U.S., but other elements of the program do work.

  • From the Campus to the Future - Diana G. Oblinger, EDUCAUSE Review

    Ray
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:05 pm
    The purpose of higher education is to equip students for success in life — in their workplaces, in their communities, and in their personal lives. Yet though this purpose has remained constant for centuries, colleges and universities themselves are undergoing major change. The campus, the library, the refereed journal article, the classroom, and the traditional-age student — common features of higher education today—may be inadequate in describing higher education tomorrow.

  • Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! - Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, EDUCAUSE Review

    Ray
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:02 pm
    At first blush, the university seems to be in greater demand than ever. Yet there are troubling indicators that the picture is not so rosy. And we're not talking just about the university endowment reductions caused by the current financial meltdown. A dismal 58 percent of entering freshmen actually graduate from the same college within six years.4 More and more students are questioning the "bang for the buck" as college tuition has risen in cost more than any other good or service since 1990, leaving students with $714 billion in outstanding student-loan debt in the United States alone.5…

  • Google to Push Google Voice, Google Wave to Businesses - Clint Boulton, eWeek

    Ray
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:12 pm
    Google Enterprise President Girouard said Google will release Google Wave, the company's real-time collaboration platform, for all consumers and businesses in 2010. Google, which currently offers the open-source Wave platform by invitation only, has rolled the platform out to more than 1 million users. Wave lets users communicate in via instant messaging, and enables multiuser document editing and social networking all in real time on one user interface. As such, it is a sort of lively incarnation of many of the Google Apps programs. Girouard said parts of Wave will show up in other Google…

  • Bill Gates looks to improve online learning through grants - Staff and Samantha Lockhart, the Manitoban

    Ray
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:10 pm
    Bill Gates has recently announced in his 2010 annual letter that he will be offering grants from his foundations to further the usage of online learning. One aspect of online learning is the availability of video lectures online. Many free lectures from universities appear on such websites as AcademicEarth.org, whose goal is to “bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.”
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  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    6 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pm
    The Future of ShoppingI love this video! However, does that mean everything you try on virtually will automatically fit when you actually take it home.....? Hmmmmmtags: acrossmydesk, ITGS, arts_entertainment, virtual_communicationFileURLs.com - Get a shareable URL for your filetags: acrossmydesk, filesharing, cloudcomputingCool Cat Teacher Blog: 14 Tips to Get More from Your Amazon KindleExcellent and informative blog post from colleague Vicki Davis on getting the most from your Kindle. I bought my daughter a Kindle recently and she loves it but I do not think she is using it to its potential…

  • Outside my Window: Beijing Feb.7, 2010

    Julie Lindsay
    6 Feb 2010 | 5:22 pm
    Snow again last night! A blanket of white to greet us this Sunday morning. Taking a few pictures before cars and feet and shovels destroy its serenity. Current temperature is -5 Celcius.Sharing ideas about eLearning and digital literacy in education

  • 'Pandora's Box' - Presenting the Flat Classroom project 10-1 Keynote

    Julie Lindsay
    5 Feb 2010 | 11:58 pm
    The Flat Classroom Project 2010-1 is well under way. We have over 200 students from 10 classrooms across 6 different countries. The online Press Release provides more details.So far, students have been connecting with their team members via the Flat Classroom Project Ning, and also starting to edit the collaborative wiki topic pagesA special feature of every Flat Classroom Project is the addition of a keynote video that participants can watch, discuss and interact over. For FCP10-1 we are very excited to announce the Keynote, 'Pandora's Box: Fresh Start in a New World' has been delivered by…

  • Announcing the 2010 Net Generation Education Project

    Julie Lindsay
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:26 am
    Applications invited NOW at NetGenEd Application Net Generation Education Project: Call for Classrooms Written by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsayhttp://netgened2010.flatclassroomproject.org/ Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (co founders of the Flat ClassroomTM Project) are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project, another global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future.This is the second…

  • Across My Desk (weekly)

    Julie Lindsay
    30 Jan 2010 | 10:30 pm
    Google For Educatorstags: google, education, acrossmydesk, web2.0E-Books free onlinetags: free, ebook, acrossmydeskOfficial Google Reader Blog: Follow changes to any websitetags: rss, google, acrossmydeskPing: online music education in 2010 « Country Education Projecttags: music, flatclassroom, project, acrossmydeskHorizon Report 2010 summary blog postFrom Curriki, a worthwhile summary of the Horizon Report 2010 http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/tags: hz10, acrossmydesk, emergingtechnologies, education, mobile2010 Horizon ReportRecently released Horizon Report 2010, from the New Media Consortium…
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  • Learning Japanese

    Kim Cofino
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:15 am
    Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing my best to get a head start on learning some Japanese for our upcoming move. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t really get started quite so early (after all, we’re not moving until August), but I am a little bit nervous about not being able to read anything in Japanese right when we arrive. And, given the fact that I’ve shown basically no aptitude for picking up Thai over the past three years, I figured a super-early head start might be a good idea. So, during the last week of our semester break, I opened up one of my Christmas presents: a…

  • A New Adventure Begins (soon)

    Kim Cofino
    4 Jan 2010 | 3:44 am
    One of the most exciting things about teaching in international schools is the possibility of teaching anywhere in the world. Every year around this time (recruiting season begins in November and continues all the way through the following spring) international teachers around the world are excitedly taking about potential job opportunities in different countries and continents. Of course, this doesn’t mean that we’re unhappy where we are, it just means that we enjoy the adventure of a new culture, new customs, and a new lifestyle. Even if we’re not moving, we delight…

  • Tips for Managing Tech Tools in the Classroom

    Kim Cofino
    10 Dec 2009 | 4:32 pm
    One of the things I love about being a technology facilitator is that I get to see all sorts of fantastic management strategies in the many classrooms I visit. Every teacher seems to have a unique way of handling the variety of tools we have at our disposal here at ISB. Thankfully, as part of our CoETaIL course, Jeff and Dennis asked all of the participating teachers to add to a shared VoiceThread about technology management strategies in the classroom. Check out all of the great tips they shared here: Do you have any special tips to share about managing tech in the classroom? Please feel…

  • Making the Implicit Explicit

    Kim Cofino
    9 Dec 2009 | 4:09 pm
    Update: I’m not sure who started this wiki page, but it’s got a whole list of additional implicit skills. I love collaboration! One of the issues that comes up again and again in our CoETaIL program is the “essential technology skills” that all of our students (and teachers) need to know. Now, I have to admit, I usually have a hard time with this idea, because it often comes with a list of skills like: bullets in Word, formulas in Excel or animations in PowerPoint. Basically all the things I’ve been trying to de-emphasize in favor of bigger, more wider-reaching…

  • Making Change for a Quarter: Re-Envisioning 6th Grade IT

    Kim Cofino
    7 Dec 2009 | 2:32 am
    It’s hard to believe, but it’s been two full years since I taught my own technology classes. Of course I’ve done all sorts of co-planning and co-teaching in the last couple of years at ISB, but it’s certainly not the same as having your own group of students to work with. So, this year, in my new role of Middle School Technology and Learning Coordinator, I am thrilled to be back in the classroom, teaching our one middle school IT class – a sixth grade quarter-long exploratory course – for just one quarter this year. With the end of the semester quickly…
 
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  • Experiencing the Unexpected

    Chris
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:03 pm
    This is the first time I’ve ever done this, but I’d like to welcome a guest writer to Betchablog.  This post was written by one of my work colleagues, Pam Nutt, and was actually the first part of her welcoming address to staff for the start of the 2010 school year.  I enjoyed hearing Pam deliver this address to our teachers so I asked if she’d mind posting it here for all to read.  As you’ll discover, it was based on some of her experiences in Alice Springs in outback Australia, and I liked the way she linked it back to kids and learning.  Enjoy! —…

  • Five Simple Skills

    Chris
    30 Jan 2010 | 11:23 pm
    There always seems to be a lot of talk about the need for more teachers to embrace “21st Century skills”. Of course, there’s a lot of discussion about what these “21st Century skills” actually are. Many people have debated and discussed this issue, asking the question of what exactly should today’s learners know in order to function in the “21st Century”. I’m sure there are a whole lot of really good answers to these questions that dig deeply into effective pedagogy and the deeper philosophy of education. This post is not about those…

  • So What Should We Be Amazed By?

    Chris
    23 Jan 2010 | 7:00 pm
    I wrote a blog post a little while back called This is Not Amazing, and the basic thrust of it was that, after more than 30 years since “the personal computer revolution”, more than 10 years of living in a post-Google World, and now almost a full decade into the 21st century, that we should stop being so amazed at things which are simply just part of our normal world.  The post gave a few examples of things that are, quite frankly, pretty average tasks that can be accomplished on a personal computer and it relayed the story of how I had a day where I kept getting told how…

  • Seeing with Different Eyes

    Chris
    13 Jan 2010 | 4:08 pm
    Earlier this year, I had a visitor from South Africa contact me to ask if they could drop into the school at which I work while they were visiting Australia.  She was were here as part of a study tour, and had heard some good things about PLC Sydney.  In fact, her school in Johannesburg was a similar sort of school – independent, all girls, similar size – and she was interested in comparing a few ideas.  Her school was also using IWBs extensively, and was keen to see how our staff were using them. On the day she visited, we chatted for a while in the main staffroom, shared…

  • A Fascination with Migration Information

    Chris
    8 Jan 2010 | 3:42 pm
    Warning! Geek talk ahead.  If you aren’t into the techie stuff, you may want to skip this post… A few people asked me about what themes, widgets and plugins I decided to use on the new blog site, so I thought I’d just give a quick rundown of what I’m using, bearing in mind that it’s only been a few days and it’s almost inevitable I’m likely to continue changing my mind about a few more things. One the whole though, I think I’ve got the blog running mostly the way I want. For now anyway. The site is running the latest version of Wordpress…
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  • Long Overdue Random Brain Dump

    Wendy
    15 Jan 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Made an important baby step towards greater acceptance of "fun" and "games" in my eLearning tutorials.Behold! My tutorial doppelganger!Thank you South Park Character Creator.Thus far, the tutorial I created with these characters have gotten rave reviews.Best comment that came back to me was from the director 3 levels up (1 step below the Main Muck)Not only was that fun, but I GOT IT!!!!If THAT'S not a ringing endorsement for what I do, I don't know what is.-------------------------------------------------I'm finding that the merging of professional and personal within my network is improving…

  • Massive Change through Micro-movements

    Wendy
    7 Jan 2010 | 10:03 am
    Over the past 6 months, I've been working on mastering pullups. Specifically - Kipping Pullups. To give you an idea of what I am talking about - Again Faster has some great instructional videos. Part 1 - The Kipping PullupPart 2 - The Kipping PullupSix months ago - I couldn't do ANYTHING resembling a pullup. So I've been practicing.- Bought a pullup bar and put it in a door in a high traffic area. When I pass the bar, I do a pullup (or, in the early stages, TRY to do a pullup). - Practically every time I was at the gym, I would make some effort during warmups to do a pullup, even if it wasn't…

  • What do I want to do next?

    Wendy
    4 Jan 2010 | 5:38 am
    I've hit a point where I am just too satisfied with my career.- I work with great people- I'm really comfortable with my current skillset- There doesn't seem to be any demand to expand my current skillset- I have no ambition, aspiration or desire to present at conferences- I don't want to go into management- I have nothing that will keep me motivated through 4 more years of schoolSo now what?I'm kicking around learning more about developing mobile tools - but I need to find an appropriate project. Nothing I have on deck really fits.Do I look for a problem to fit the solution? I would also…

  • RIP Chainsaw

    Wendy
    29 Dec 2009 | 10:49 am
    I lost the brains of the operation last night.Fitness coach.Relaxation mentor.A constant through many tumultuous years.We had 16 awesome years together.Rest in peace old friend. I'll miss you.

  • Open Letter from the Trenches

    Wendy
    18 Dec 2009 | 6:59 am
    Dear new C-level person:I have been asked to represent the members of trench 52A - the group that helps you do stuff.We are happy that you got the position and, from the information we have received so far as it has trickled down through the 5-layer management chain, think you are headed in the right direction.We would like to help you make your vision come to life.We have been tasked to implement a new tool that some believe will help the department function better.So that our solution more closely correlates with your vision, we have a few questions:1) If you could design an ideal…
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  • ITS-ET Graduate Assistant

    4 Feb 2010 | 7:26 am
    ITS-Educational Technology has openings for one graduate assistant during this semester and one for the upcoming academic year. Primary responsibility is presenting computer workshops to UNI students, faculty and staff. Applicants must commit to spring 2010, summer 2010 (including May), fall 2010 and spring 2011 semesters. For more information, including how to apply, visit http://www.uni.edu/its/et/tnt/gradassistant2.html.

  • Students: Read MyUNIverse News

    4 Feb 2010 | 7:21 am
    MyUNIverse News is the official UNI news source for students. It is distributed each Monday during the academic year by the Office of University Marketing & Public Relations. The latest version is available at http://www.uni.edu/myuniverse/2010/020110.shtml

  • RESOLVED - Grade Release Bug

    30 Jan 2010 | 4:42 am
    The student My Grades release issue is resolved. Managed nodes in the cluster were refreshed and restart of the LMS server was completed at 6:25 a.m. Saturday, January 30, 2010.

  • UPDATE - Grade Release Bug

    29 Jan 2010 | 9:51 am
    The files to fix the student My Grades release issue were put into place at 6:00 a.m. Friday 29 Jan 2010, however, a data refresh error prevented the changes from migrating to all of the application servers. The data refresh error was not discovered in time to initiate another system restart. Another application server restart is being scheduled for Saturday, Jan 30, at 6:00 a.m. and the Grade release issue should be resolved by 7:00 a.m.

  • eLearning System Restart

    27 Jan 2010 | 11:33 am
    The eLearning system will be restarted between 6:00-7:00 AM on Friday, January 29, 2010. This off-cycle maintenance is necessary to resolve a bug with releasing grade book columns, which was introduced with the hotfix installation on 1/22. The Blackboard/WebCT learning management and electronic portfolio applications will not be available during this period.
 
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  • Canson to Launch PaperShow for Mac at MacWorld 2010

    6 Feb 2010 | 6:31 am
    For the past year I have been using PaperShow extensively when I teach, do presentations, and for webinars. It has been a really indispensable tool and I carry PaperShow in my bag wherever I go. Because of PaperShow's ease of use and portability I can walk into any room and within seconds have a digital flipchart ready to go, to share and capture ideas. I have written about my experiences with PaperShow on this blog for the past year and from day one have asked Canson "when will we see PaperShow for the Mac?" Well that day is finally coming and I am happy to share with you that Canson will…

  • An Interview with Audrey Dalton from CodeBaby Part 2

    2 Feb 2010 | 11:12 am
    Part 2 of Interview with Audrey DaltonBSF: Can you share some examples for us as to how eLearning Designers are taking advantage of CodeBaby for their services or products?Services:We offer a very generous support policy for 18% of your final single license price.Includes:✓ 1 year of free updates including major version changes✓ Priority phone and email support + 12 hours of application assistance on customer projectsLots of designers take advantage of custom services through clothing changes, character changes, and even completely new characters. We have clients that ask for doctors,…

  • An Interview with Audrey Dalton from CodeBaby Part 1

    2 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am
    I had the pleasure of meeting Audrey Dalton, Product Marketing Director at CodeBaby during the DevLearn 09 Conference and had a chance to sit down and talk to her about her role and the CodeBaby platform for eLearning.BSF: Hello Audrey, can you share with us your position and tell us a little background information about CodeBaby and the company?AD: Responsible for all product marketing functions for the eLearning product line: Product Release Planning and Marketing, Demand generation, MarCom, Tradeshow & Event Planning, Online Community Relations, Curriculum Design, and Corporate…

  • Totally Tubular with iPevo Bluetooth Speakers

    23 Jan 2010 | 11:19 am
    The number of new Bluetooth devices that roll out each and every week is astonishing. If you want to keep you can go to the official Bluetooth Site and check out all of the new products. Since doing the iPevo Point 2 View Webcam review, iPevo was kind enough to send me the iPevo Tubular Wireless Speakers to review, which takes advantage of Bluetooth, to stream the audio from your iPhone, IPod Touch, BlackeBerry or your PC to their speakers. I have to tell you when Bluetooth was first introduced I was not a real fan. I'm sure many of you spent countless hours as I did trying to pair up your…

  • Collaborating Web 2.0 Style

    23 Jan 2010 | 8:26 am
    Since reviewing Tazzle IT I have had numerous conversations with Bruce Haendel about Tazzle IT and the whole mobile phone market. I have enjoyed getting to know Bruce and we have had some great conversations about marketing, technology, and BlackBerry's. Just the other night I connected with Bruce over Skype and some how we got into a conversation about how he could quickly inform others about his new and innovative product called Tazzle IT. I showed him some of the video demos that I have put together and he asked me what it would take to put something like that together. After some…
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  • SME web comic

    Kristen
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:10 pm
    I can take absolutely no credit for this. I have a printed copy taped up near my desk, and I think clearly shows the number one conflict between SMEs and IDs.  SMEs want to pass on all knowledge immediately because it is all important and necessary. IDs want to organize that into comfortable chunks for the learners. To give credit, this is from one of my favorite blogs, Usable Learning. Sorry about the quality, I scanned in my copy! We've all had to sit through this course...

  • Managing Subject Matter Experts and Using Them as Learning Developers

    Sharon
    2 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am
    I have a colleague who once created a presentation called “Herding Cats: Working with SMEs.” Needless to say, her viewpoint on the value of SMEs was influenced by some negative experiences. Cats have often been used to describe SMEs - independent and impossible to control...but still lovable. Can subject matter experts (aka SMEs) make good developers? How do you manage them and keep them focused? Can you shift them from a content (input) focus to an outcome focus? How do you keep them from derailing your project by overloading you with content? If a SME doesn’t know anything…

  • Are your competencies too much of a good thing?

    Leanne.D
    29 Jan 2010 | 1:38 pm
    I love a good competency model. I’ve previously written about the value of using competencies for improved performance outcomes in the recruiting process, succession planning, and learning and development. The competencies model is a road map for success giving us the criteria of which to measure by, improve on, and hire for.  Susan David from the Harvard Business Review recently warned that in some cases our competency models have become so robust that they are actually “impossible and counterproductive”.  Check out the article. She lays out some interesting points. I agree with her…

  • Social Media - What’s the Impact

    Lisa
    28 Jan 2010 | 12:54 pm
    We’ve been talking all month about Web 2.0 - but we haven’t talked all that much about social media.  Gayle is out in Vegas right now, speaking at Tech Knowledge (go Gayle!). During the Keynote, she saw some videos she thought we’d like, so she used her new Droid to send links. I like them so much I wanted to share them with you. I’ll bet some of you are still unconvinced that this technology is here to stay. The facts in this video support the idea that this social media thing is a revolution in the way we communicate, not just an incremental adjustment. Click here to…

  • Deep thoughts: Web 2.0

    Jennifer
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:16 am
    As we near the end of January’s focus on web 2.0, for your listening pleasure, here’s an audio podcast of a roundtable discussion I recently had with two fellow BLPers, Lisa and Kristen. Web 2.0 Roundtable In it, we discuss: Does web 2.0 allow for more actual learning, or is it just another way to communicate? Why should learning professionals be excited about new web 2.0 technologies? What are the limitations? What are some of the ways that technologies have been implemented successfully? How is BLP using web 2.0 to improve our own learning? I hope you enjoy our conversation. One…
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  • Twitter Was All A Buzz During Superbowl 44

    mel
    7 Feb 2010 | 7:02 pm
    As I was watching the Superbowl today, I got to wondering if analytics providers like Radian6, Hubspot, Compete, Sysomos and others have made a killing with new clients in those who plunked down $3M for a Superbowl Ad spot.  They had better.  Or, more to the point, the advertisers themselves would be well-served to have taken up with one of these service providers.Taking just a little snapshot at key points along the Superbowl timeline, it was interesting to see what was working and what wasn't...Superbowl First QuarterAbout halfway through the 1st quarter (below), the Betty…

  • For Some Friends Who Asked: How to Modify Your Twitter Profile

    mel
    6 Feb 2010 | 4:23 pm
    Below is one of the tutorials I posted in the Success Modules topic series on MindBridj.  This one helps some of our members --and at least three of my friends who specifically asked for it--to modify their profile on Twitter.  Included also in the Success Modules -- but not in the video above -- is another video that shows MindBridj members how to customize the background of Twitter in a way that specifically brands their business.  I'm also currently working on an "Orchestration" series that addresses Chapter 5 in our book about orchestrating your social media…

  • "What got you started with social media?"

    mel
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:05 pm
    I had a great meeting with the principles of a social media-related startup company yesterday about the prospect of MindBridj providing the social media training content to help service their customers. I'll likely have more to say about this downstream as it evolves, but needless to say, I'm excited. Interestingly (for me, anyway) I was asked at one point what it was that originally got me started down the path of being such a social media advocate. The interesting part for me wasn't so much the question, but rather my answer to it. My answer came out so quickly and with such emphasis that,…

  • I love the iPad! Though maybe not for the reasons you'd think...

    mel
    2 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am
    By now you've heard all the hubbub about Apple's iPad launch last week. You know me, Mr. gadget freak. But, on "version 1.0 products" I tend to be a little more circumspect. And as much as I love Apple's products, I'm probably gonna hold off myself and see what new versions come downstream. If the familiar skit below is any indication of what's in the iPad--or what's NOT in it--then my hesitation is right on the mark. (Warning: I'm giving the vid below a PG-13 rating for language... but I still find it funny.)Despite the disappointment I personally feel…

  • January's vBook open registration window has now closed.

    mel
    1 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    Shyooh... What a week.  Launching a new site always kicks my butt.  ;)Was it Dorothy Parker who said, "I hate writing, but love having written." (?)  Well, to paraphrase:  "I hate launching a new site, but love having launched it."  (Not as eloquent--nor original--as Ms. Parker, perhaps.  But you get the gist.)When I first opened registration for the vBook via MindBridj.com I wanted to keep it in a beta (pilot) format initially.  So I stuck to a 5-day launch window.  (January 27th through 31st.)  That proved to be a…
 
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  • Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour

    29 Jan 2010 | 6:30 am
    I have been asked by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll to participate in the Blog Book Tour for their new book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration. I’m actually stop #19 on the tour and the show is not expected in town until next Thursday. However, I won’t be anywhere to be found on that day because I’ll be walking in the Canary Islands enjoying a real immersive experience. Sorry, Karl, and you had such a well-planned schedule as well. Now I’m not going to pretend that the use of 3D worlds for learning is a specialisation of mine. I’m not…

  • Is it time for Learning Technologies to use learning technologies?

    27 Jan 2010 | 2:26 pm
    In one of many lively discussions with conference participants at Learning Technologies 2010 today, that most obvious of questions arose once again: why should you have to be at Olympia in London, live and in person, in chilly January, to participate in the event. Surely for every one of the 400-odd conference participants, there must be another ten who fulfil the following criteria: they want to attend but can’t justify travelling to London, or they are interested in attending just a small selection of the sessions, and they are prepared to pay to watch a live webcast or recorded video of…

  • British Telecom Dare2Share case study

    27 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm
    Here at Learning Technologies 2010 I chaired a fascinating session looking at the learning applications of social media, presented by Jane Hart and British Telecom’s Peter Butler. There was a lot of interest in the BT case study and we ran out of question time, but luckily there are plenty of web resources that will allow you to follow up. So, if you’re interested in a great story about how social media can take off in a major corporation, here are the links you need to follow: Written case study at Towards Maturity Podcast of interview on BBC Radio 4 YouTube video produced for the Becta…

  • Who writes web content?

    26 Jan 2010 | 6:59 am
    In the past ten years I have spent a great deal of time looking at the skills and competencies required to create good quality web content, including four years participating in European projects and defining role profiles, competency frameworks and curricula for a mysterious new profession that we called 'web content specialist'. Throughout these projects we never really came to terms with what a web content specialist did and the career path that might possibly lead them to this role. There was all this content out there, and yet the vast majority of people working in web design and…

  • For newspaper read classroom

    22 Jan 2010 | 1:35 am
    In a special feature on newspapers and technology in The Economist of December 19th, the following caught my eye: "The internet may kill newspapers; but it is not clear if that matters. For society, what matters is that people should have access to news, not that it should be delivered through any particular medium; and, for the consumer, the faster it travels the better." What this quote makes clear to me is how easily we get confused between the medium and the message. Yes, some of us may have become fond of a particular medium, in this case newsprint, but if it was to be replaced…
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  • Learning in 3D Review - Book Tour Stop #9

    Brent Schlenker
    21 Jan 2010 | 9:53 am
    Its no secret that I'm a big fan of virtual environments, interactive3D, or whatever you want to call them. My biggest frustration has been waiting to see the acceptance of Virtual Immersive training Environments. I've been waiting for 15 years now since I built my first virtual training app for the semiconductor industry. It seemed so brain-dead simple to see how powerful and effective the learning experience was and yet we couldn't sell the continuation of the project to management. My hope is that with this book we may begin to see the acceptance of VIEs in corporate training. And after…

  • Mobile Apps that build Mobile Apps - Is there room for an eLearning Authoring App?

    Brent Schlenker
    19 Jan 2010 | 8:09 am
    I have been following the UpsideLearning blog a lot lately because they have been focusing on mLearning. This Post pointed me to the RWW blogRWW blog and the PowerOne Calculator App for the iPhone. It reminds me a lot of what Wolphram|Alpha is supposed to do. Basically, for 5.99, you have the ability to create to your own calculations. This is great for real estate agents, and apparently nurses, and doctors and pharmacists who need to perform complex calculations. My experience with Bento has been similar. Many people have written it off as being too simplistic of a database system, or just…

  • True Mastery NOT possible without FUN! Take it from a 5 yr old drummer prodigy

    Brent Schlenker
    15 Jan 2010 | 9:16 am
    I don't often follow viral video trends, but sometimes I do it just to find inspiration. Yesterday I found the video below and it got me thinking. I thought the obvious thoughts at first, ya know, "wow, a prodigy", and "there must be something genetic", and "he's just naturally talented", etc, etc, etc. But then, knowing that my friend and colleague Aaron Silvers (@mrch0mp3rs) also appreciates heavy rock'n'roll (for lack of a better term. I hate to label), I sent him a tweet. I was right... from @mrch0mp3rs: oh... my... lord... The questions he asks, however, are different than mine. (BTW -…

  • The eLearning Singularity or The Inevitable Evolution of eLearning Development

    Brent Schlenker
    28 Dec 2009 | 10:25 am
    Its that time of year again where everyone wants to know what's coming up in 2010. Or we look back at 2009 and reflect. Both are excellent practices, but I think everyone has pretty much covered all of the bases. If you can't find any, then just leave me a comment and I'll see what I can find for you. This might not be much of a look into 2010 but I definitely feel a new trend. I'm not even sure what to call it. After years of thinking about it and talking about it, I finally found a blog pot hit me in the face with it. I'd also like to put this blog post up as my choice for eLearning blog…

  • Brain Rules - Getty Images - Vision Trumps all other Senses

    Brent Schlenker
    11 Dec 2009 | 3:21 pm
    In my humble opinion BrainRules should be MANDATORY reading for YOU and all of your eLearning colleagues. When the instructional design of 40 years ago was...well...designed, the only thing we could study was behavior. Today's technology looks inside the brain and tells us what that mass of cells is REALLY up too. If you are in an Instructional Design degree program of any kind and have NOT been exposed to the latest brain research then go get it for yourself...on the Internet. Its all over the place...and in books. Its these new findings that help us understand why we intuitively know that…
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  • Another MoE job opportunity

    derek.wenmoth
    7 Feb 2010 | 8:32 pm
    I’ve had several emails today alerting me to a re-advertised position with the New Zealand Ministry of Education – for a Programme Manager – Broadband in Schools. This position was advertised at the end of last year but failed to attract any suitable applicants, so is being re-advertised. Because of the importance of this initiative I have decided to use my blog as a vehicle for getting the word out there – please feel free to share this information. I am reliably informed that the MoE are also in the process of putting together a role of National Education Network…

  • What children think of the media

    derek.wenmoth
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    The researchers at Intuitive Media have produced some thought provoking stuff over recent years, and their latest report on ‘children, TV and the internet’ is no exception. Surveying a sample of 4347 children, aged 6-14 who are users of their SuperClubsPLUS & GoldStarCafe projects, the researchers asked a range of questions about children’s use of TV and the internet. The result is presented as a series of graphs summarising the key findings, and providing much food for thought in terms of the way in which attitudes about and behaviours towards the use of this media may…

  • Make the future

    derek.wenmoth
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:17 am
    Having spent quite a bit of time in schools at the beginning of this year talking and thinking about educational futures, I was interested this morning to view this new video from FutureLab titled ‘Make the Future‘, which looks at ideas drawn from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons (BCH) programme. BCH considered futures for education in the light of social and technological change over the next two decades. The video aims to inspire education leaders to think differently about the future of education and to consider the challenges and possibilities for 21st…

  • Professional or employee?

    derek.wenmoth
    2 Feb 2010 | 3:13 am
    I spent the day today with teachers from seven Nelson schools that are in their second year now of an ICT PD cluster programme, and then this evening, participated in the executive meeting of a professional organisation I belong to  (the Distance Educational Association of NZ – DEANZ). The cluster meeting affirmed my confidence in the professional integrity and ability of those teaching in our schools, and also affirmed my beliefs about the effectiveness of well designed professional development that is based on addressing both individual and collective goals. The DEANZ exec meeting…

  • Coping with change

    derek.wenmoth
    31 Jan 2010 | 5:30 pm
    Came across this interesting slideshow today titled 21 things that became obsolete this decade. Makes for an interesting browse – several of the things mentioned I’m sure will provoke responses like “but I still use that regularly!’, while others are things that I think there’d be common agreement are definitely a thing of the past. The thinking point here is not so much what the technologies are per se, but the behaviours associated with their use, and the direction things are heading – for instance, replacing maps and phone directories with up to date…
 
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  • Up in The Air – movie for Boomer airheads

    Donald Clark
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:44 am
    Up In The Air is every baby-boomer’s wet-dream. It’s narrative crack for the sentimental, story loving middle classes. A nasty, chemical concoction of conceits. Ingredient 1 – Implausibly good-looking ageing actors (Clooney & Farmiga).Designed to pull in star-struck boomer romantics. Two good looking executives have raunchy sex in hotel rooms and discuss joining the mile-high club (the scene where they compare airmiles’ cards and discuss sex on planes is just plain, bad writing). The film’s one saving grace is Clooney’s lack of redemption. Ingredient 2 – Sentimental (but…

  • iPAD: a baby boomer, narrative device

    Donald Clark
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:43 pm
    Narrative nimbiesThe iPAD puzzles me. What is it useful for? In the Steve Jobs launch we saw entire newspaper pages on the screen – but people don’t read entire newspapers online. I prefer online stuff because I don’t have to have contact with the fashion, style, food, sudoko, court circulars, minor sports and supplements that are of no interest to me. I want good articles, not entire newspapers. Similarly with magazines; I don’t want the full page ads, problems pages and topics I’m not interested in. The web allows me to click to the quick and not be a slave to the editor’s…

  • iPAD: ergonomic disaster – end of story

    Donald Clark
    31 Jan 2010 | 8:07 am
    Forget the functionality and the fact that it doesn’t have a USB or webcam it’s just the wrong shape. No consumer device can withstand ergonomic failure. It's just too awkward to use, hold and store.1. Pain in the neck. When I’m writing (typing) do I lie it flat on a table and peer at an acute angle at the text? You can’t hold the damn thing and type. Wait for the neck pain and eye strain.2. No feeling. Most writers prefer the haptic feel of a keyboard. 3. Touchscreens error prone. Research from the University of Glasgow Scotland [Brewster, Chohan, and Brown 2007] demonstrates that…

  • Beware of the happy campers

    Donald Clark
    30 Jan 2010 | 10:09 am
    There’s something odd about relentlessly jolly people, a sort of deep sadness. But this is nothing compared to the people who sell ‘happiness’ as a commodity – behind the smile lies a lie and a hefty daily rate. I have an instinctive distrust of motivational speakers, positive psychologists, life coaches, NLP fanatics and other happy-clappy types. Call me old fashioned, but I’m a sucker, not for pessimism, but for realism. Smile or Die That brings me to an astonishing book by Barbara Ehrenreich Smile or Die, a welcome shot of realism that shatters the cosy world of the happy, shiny…

  • 10 reasons why I don’t have a mobile

    Donald Clark
    29 Jan 2010 | 7:08 am
    I’ve worked with technology all of my adult life, built a business based on technology, written extensively about technology and evangelised technology, BUT I don’t own a mobile phone. How come? When I worked full time I had one but in August 2005, I threw it to one side and haven’t bought one since(sorry I’ve bought several for my teenage sons). Don’t get me wrong, my use of technology increased dramatically at this point as I had the time to blog, email, research, Facebook and eventually Tweet away and I did, with a vengeance. I was just fed up with random calls that led to random…
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  • Don Norman, Does design matter and Possible topic for #lrnchat?

    mark oehlert
    19 Jan 2010 | 11:17 am
    So one of the greats of design thinking, Don Norman (Design of Everyday Things, The Design of Future Things, etc) has really kicked over a design anthill. Last month (I think, the essay isn't dated) Norman published an essay entitled "Technology First, Needs Last." (image: Tim Brown)  Essentially Norman asserts that: "I've come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs. I reached this conclusion through examination of a range of…

  • Augmented ID - and the role of UI dsign for learning

    mark oehlert
    18 Jan 2010 | 2:10 pm
    Found this at Ewan McIntosh's blog. Here is the company site. I LOVE the way the company talks about creating rich and engaging user interfaces. As a historian (yes, actually have the advanced degree and yes, have actually been paid to be one), I know it bothers me when everybody who wakes up thinks they can figure out the lessons of history - I also know instructional designers who get frustrated when everybody thinks they can design relevant instruction. Well look, I want THESE people - these people that are EXPERTS in crafting engaging user interfaces tom come in and look at our…

  • Time lapse video of plane from "Miracle on Hudson"...The Unsung Hero

    mark oehlert
    18 Jan 2010 | 1:13 pm
    Exclusive unseen video footage of the Miracle on the Hudson, flight 1549 New York City from David Martin on Vimeo.

  • James Fowler on Social Networks (from Stephen Colbert)

    mark oehlert
    18 Jan 2010 | 12:54 pm
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  • This is why I'm excited about new tablets...

    mark oehlert
    18 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am
    ...now how would you design content to take advantage of this? If you say, "we could put a really cool 'Next' button in the corner" ..I'm coming after you!
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  • Are you better than Steve Carell at using technology in the classroom?

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:03 pm
    Most people have seen at least one episode of Steve Carell’s hit show, The Office. If you haven’t seen an episode then please go here to check one out. It’s very funny stuff!Lynn Schofield Clark in collaboration with her Innovation in Mass Communications class at the University of Denver have produced a very witty video as part of a class mini-project. It’s a parody video based on The Office. Only this time it’s not ‘The Office”, it’s “The Class”. Specifically, it is a class on the topic of integrating technology into the face-to-face classroom. There’s a beautiful write…

  • Are you a Tech-Savvy Teacher?

    22 Jan 2010 | 8:53 am
    Have you ever been asked if you are a tech-savvy teacher? Probably not. Have you ever wondered to yourself if you are a tech-savvy teacher? If you answered 'yes' then this link I am providing below was meant for you. In November 2009, Staff at Rasmussen College in the United States have compiled what they believe are the Top 100 Apps (50 for the Web and 50 for the iPhone) for Tech-Savvy Teachers. After looking it over, I must say it is a pretty good list.I consider myself a Tech-Savvy Teacher and I have used some of the applications on this list. My top four favourites from this top 100 list…

  • Do *more* with clickers to engage students

    19 Jan 2010 | 8:53 am
    It’s the beginning of term and I am planning against to use an audience response system in my class (i.e. clickers). If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will know that I like to use the student’s own cellphones as their clickers (see here). They love it!My twitter feed has brought me a few good tips and tricks about best practices for writing clicker questions, most of them from Derek Buff. He’s the author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments. He recently wrote two good blog posts on the subject. The first is a collection of…

  • Free PD - Focus on your Foundation

    15 Dec 2009 | 11:38 am
    As an instructional designer I routinely receive questions around common themes: course design, teamwork vs individual work, assessments, rubrics, best practices in conducting discussion groups, team-based learning, etc. So I am always on the look out for free resources that can be good references when helping instructors in their practice of teaching. A good resource just came across my desk this week from Queen’s University. It’s called their Focus on Foundations program. The objectives of the program are to:Promote conversations among instructors about teachingEncourage the exchange of…

  • 2009 Edublogs Awards

    8 Dec 2009 | 7:45 am
    The 2009 Edublog Awards are open for nomination!This is our chance to nominate and celebrate 'the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology.'Here are the categories that I would like to submit nominations for: * Best individual blog - Making Change by Cathy Moore(http://blog.cathy-moore.com/) * Best individual tweeter - Sydney-Eve Matrix @sidneyeve * Best resource sharing blog - Jane Knight - Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day (http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/) * Lifetime achievement…
 
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  • 27 Jan 2010 | 12:29 am

    David Wilson
    27 Jan 2010 | 12:29 am
    We've just announced some new research focusing on e-learning authoring strategies and tools, including the first of a series of three research papers. The first paper, titled E-learning Authoring: The Shifting Landscape analyses the the key forces driving changes to the way corporates are approaching the creation of bespoke e-learning, together with a high-level perspective of the new strategies for content authoring and new types of authoring tools. The next two papers, to be published in Q2 2010 will focus more specifically on a deeper analysis of the strategies and the…

  • Key learning trends 2010 - A quick response

    David Wilson
    21 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am
    The following was my short response to a recent question on the the key trends in learning in 2010. Any thoughts? - - - Overall, Elearnity sees 2010 as a transformational year where lots of changes in 2009 become more formalised.The biggest trend will be the reevaluation of the role and value of learning to the business. Training budgets were under a lot of pressure in 2009, with precedence given to mandatory learning that manages compliance risk but does not add real value or enhance performance. In 2010, companies will seek easier ways to automate their compliance agenda, and increasingly…

  • SAP, Sharepoint or specialist LMS?

    David Wilson
    3 Dec 2009 | 6:14 am
    The following is a response I recently posted to a question on the LSG discussion site concerning the use of SAP or Sharepoint as an LMS versus "well-known" LMS products (in the case of the question, he cited Moodle and Kallidus). Thought the response might be of interest to a broader community ...The short answer is "depends on what you want to do with your LMS"! Or "horses for courses" as the saying goes.In our experience, the selection of an ERP LMS solution (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft) tends to be driven by strategic IT issues rather than functional fit or the needs of learners or L&D.

  • The E-learning Debate - An Inside View

    David Wilson
    3 Oct 2009 | 4:21 am
    On the 30th September 2009, David was a main speaker in the E-learning Debate at the Oxford Union, alongside Professor Diana Laurillard, Marc Rosenberg and others. The motion: “This house believes that the elearning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow”.It's already clear from many conversations after the event, and in the days since, that this eventhas really captured the imagination of many people in the UK e-learning industry. And the result on the day was very interesting: 90 for the motion, 144 against.Here are David's thoughts on the debate itself and its…

  • SaaS Webinar - Link to Archive

    David Wilson
    18 May 2009 | 4:04 am
    Here is a link to the archived webinar featuring David's discussion of the impact of SaaS on learning & talent systems research:http://www.cornerstoneondemand.co.uk/landing/on24/files/lobby.html(updated link)
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  • Writing and the 4C’s of Mobile

    Clark
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:03 am
    As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning.  My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning, where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. This time is different. The prose actually does flow quite easily from my fingers,  but I find myself restructuring more often than last time.  This is a bigger topic, and I keep uncovering new ways to think about mobile and new facets to try to include.  As a consequence, as the deadline nears (!), I find myself more and more compelled to put all free time into the text. There’s a consequence,…

  • Down on the iPad?

    Clark
    31 Jan 2010 | 7:02 am
    At the Upside Learning Blog, this post (which I found through the CLO group on LinkedIn) proclaims that the elearning industry is down on the iPad.  I saw several flaws in the argument and had to write this response: I have to say I think this is partly or completely wrong. Depending on what you mean by the eLearning industry (corporate? Gov’t? Higher Ed? K12? other?), I see emotions running the gamut, but largely positive. I haven’t seen the universal bashing that your title implies. It’s not about supporting the mobile worker; that’s what a smartphone is for. This…

  • iLust? Changing the game

    Clark
    29 Jan 2010 | 7:09 am
    Yesterday, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Apple released their take on the tablet computer, the iPad.  Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying it’s “the most important thing I’ve ever done.”  And that’s saying a lot.  Like him or not, he’s changed the face of our digital lives several times: popularizing the GUI interface with the Macintosh, changing the music market with the iPod, and upending the mobile market with the iPhone. Briefly, it’s a network-enabled thin touchscreen midway in size between the iPhone and a laptop (e.g.

  • Accessorize your brain

    Clark
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:30 am
    It flashed on me last night.  Jeopardy-style, the answer to the question is the answer to the question “why do/will smartphones rule” is “because ‘there’s an app for that’”. Let me explain. First, you have to be clear on what a smartphone is.  David Pogue has tried to call the converged mobile platform which can be customized with applications the “app phone”, because he considers a smartphone to be a phone that can check email. Or, can surf the web, is data-enabled.  Well, Bob Sanregret told me that there hasn’t been a cellphone…

  • How I became a learning experience designer

    Clark
    25 Jan 2010 | 6:12 am
    Not meaning this to be a sudden spate of reflectiveness, given my last post on my experience with the web, but Cammy Bean has asked when folks became instructional designers, and it occurs to me to capture my rather twisted path with a hope of clarifying the filters I bring in thinking about design. It starts as a kid; as Cammy relates, I didn’t grow up thinking I wanted to be a learning designer.  Besides a serious several years being enchanted with submarines (still am, in theory, but realized I probably wouldn’t get along with the Navy for my own flaws), I always wanted to…
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  • Instruction in a Information Snacking Culture?

    Tony Karrer
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:48 am
    There's a trend that seems to be ongoing, but I'm noticing it even more recently. People seem to be spending less time going through information in depth and less willing to spend time on information. We seem to be snacking on information, not consuming it in big chunks.And it's been something I've been really wondering about on all kinds of levels. I've mentioned before Stop Reading - Skim Dive Skim and that seems to be how people consume blog posts much more these days. I've also noticed a trend towards more twitter mentions of blog posts, but less deep commenting behavior much less…

  • Predictions and Plans for 2010

    Tony Karrer
    4 Jan 2010 | 7:55 am
    Happy New Year!We had great response to last month's question - Learning 2009. It was a great opportunity to look back at 2008. This month we are going to look forward.Thus, for January the question is:What are yourPredictions and Plans for 2010?The goal here is to here what people see happening for them this year. What are your biggest challenges for this upcoming year?What are your major plans for the year?What predictions do you have for the year? You might want to take a look back at last month's posts and as well what people talked about in:Challenges Plans and Predictions for…

  • Learning 2009

    Tony Karrer
    1 Dec 2009 | 1:13 am
    We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ...The Big Question for December is:What did you learn about learning in 2009?If you are a blogger, I would highly recommend taking this as an opportunity to go back through your blog posts over the year and looking for any "aha moments" or highlight the posts that you think were the best/most interesting.If you happen to be a blogger who is part of eLearning Learning, there are some tricks you can use to help you find your best stuff for the year - see Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on producing a post…

  • 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…
 
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  • Conferences Go Paperless -- How Learning, Remembering, and On-the-Job Application Suffer

    Will Thalheimer
    30 Jan 2010 | 9:57 am
    Last week I spoke at one of the major conferences in the workplace learning-and-performance industry to a room filled with about 150 people. I am not including the name of the conference organizer because I don't want to single them out. They are not alone in the going-paperless practice.Unfortunately, two of the conference decisions---(1) not to provide participants with paper handouts---(2) not to allow electronic handouts to include sufficient pages to provide images of the slides that are shown---may have hurt learning results. Perhaps ironic in a conference devoted to help people…

  • Great Educator Dies. Links to Howard Zinn Tributes

    Will Thalheimer
    29 Jan 2010 | 9:22 pm
    If you don't know Howard Zinn's work, you should. At least read yourself at least 50 pages of his book, People's History of the United States. You will be enlightened. (You can purchase it below.) History usually tells the story of the powerful, of wars, of great intellects, of popular athletes and celebrities. History shines a light on those who fly above the hazy smoke that haunts the human hive. History rarely tells us about regular folks. It rarely tells about workers fighting for better lives, for fair treatment, for moral principles. It rarely tells us about powerful…

  • Acknowledging Annie's Career -- A Thank You Note

    Will Thalheimer
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:58 pm
    It’s not every day that a valued client “retires” from a company to which she has devoted a good part of her career. I’ve known Annie Laures for almost half a decade in my role as an outside consultant and work-learning auditor. I’d like to take a moment and acknowledge her work at Walgreens—and wish her well as she begins a new adventure as a consultant to chief learning officers, training directors, and learning professionals. Annie retired as Walgreens Director of Learning Services after a 32-year career helping Walgreens’ pharmacists, store managers, service clerks,…

  • Training to Prevent Back Injuries. Is it Effective?

    Will Thalheimer
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:52 pm
    A review of research on training to prevent back injuries offers disappointing results.The authors conclude:In this systematic review we found no evidence that training with or without lifting equipment is effective in the prevention of back pain or consequent disability. Either the advocated techniques did not reduce the risk of back injury or training did not lead to adequate change in lifting and handling techniques. (p. 5)As the authors say, it could be the design of the training interventions. What I wonder is whether this is a motivational or information issue. Or if the design is just…

  • Journalism's Death Spiral--A Disaster for Learning? A Disaster for Democracy?

    Will Thalheimer
    6 Jan 2010 | 7:25 pm
    You've undoubtedly heard that newspapers are in trouble. But think about it this way--this means stories aren't being written--or are being written by (1) amateurs who largely do a poor job and (2) financially-motivated people who often do a biased job. When less information is uncovered, or when more information is biased, we have a recipe for disaster in a citizen-governed democracy. Read this article from the Los Angeles Times to see the extent that journalism is crashing.In order for a democracy to work, its citizens have to be learning from good sources.Some say that the…
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  • Vintage Stamp Social Media Icon Pack

    Jan Cavan
    3 Feb 2010 | 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.Inside this Icon Pack are 23 Free Vintage Stamp Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.You can also Learn to make your own Vintage Stamps in a tutorial Jan wrote over at Dawghouse Design Studio. Download Vintage Stamps Social Media Icon Pack

  • Creative Bookmarks: Best of January 2010

    Tim Smith
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Happy belated new year Creative Bookmarkers! We’re well on our way into twenty-ten, and have a handful of outstanding resources to share from January.Quick Nav:Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate a Clean Blue Portfolio Design in PhotoshopThere are a couple of nice photoshop layout tutorials from around the web in January. First up is simple portfolio design by Tomas Laurinavičius. How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in PhotoshopTo compliment the clean style, our friend and Tutorial9…

  • 27 Free Wooden Badges – Social Icon Pack

    Jan Cavan
    27 Jan 2010 | 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.Inside this Icon Pack are 27 Free Wooden Social Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio. Download Wooden Social Media Icon Pack

  • Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

    Constantin Potorac
    25 Jan 2010 | 6:00 am
    In this tutorial, we are going to get creative with layering, lighting, and texture to build fantastic abstract piece. More specifically, we’re going to employ some unusual techniques to make a fan poster for the band Omega Code, but you’ll quickly see many different applications for what is taught here.Before starting, it’s we must download and thank Moonchilde-Stock and SXC for their wonderful stock images.Final Image PreviewBefore you start take a look at the final image you will be creating.Step 1 – Preparing the sceneStart by creating a new document. The canvas…

  • Inspiration in Light Art: Photos, Videos, and Guides

    Matthew Kammerer
    21 Jan 2010 | 6:00 am
    As designers we are always looking for inspiration. Sometimes it is hard to find a source of inspiration outside of the internet and in the real world. Today I’ve brought to you a form of inspiration I love, light art.Light art is defined by Wikipedia as a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a light source or by moving the camera.Quick Nav:Photo InspirationVideo InspirationTutorialsPhoto InspirationVideo Inspiration Mount Hood, Highway 35 Time Lapse from blaine franger on Vimeo. Stars and Planes from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
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  • Twellow ASTD TechKnowledge 2010!

    badsquare
    24 Jan 2010 | 4:01 pm
    With so many training folks on Twitter, I created a “Hello my Name is” Twitter sticker for attendees to wear and make the Twitter name exchange must faster. Jeff Tillett and I will be handing these out at our presentation on using rapid video with training (session TH305TI), which will include three hands-on workshop stations with real equipment and props. Feel free to download and print this 3”x5” Twitter sticker to write your Twitter user name. See you at ASTD TechKnowledge 2010!

  • DevLearn 2009 eHandouts | Session 114 Low Cost Mobile Learning

    badsquare
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pm
    Thanks to everyone who could make our DevLearn09 session (#114) on delivering low cost mobile solutions. Please find the session (embedded slideshare) handouts below. There were many amazing presentations to catch, so if you missed it, check out a nicely written summary from the eLearning Weekly blog (BJ Schone rocks!). Looking forward to staying in touch with the many familiar and new peers online. See you on the cloud!

  • 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,…
 
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  • Institutions and Openness

    jonmott
    21 Jan 2010 | 8:38 am
    There has been lots of great discussion at ELI 2010 about openness–what it means, why it’s a value we should embrace, and what it means for institutions. As I’ve contemplated all of this, I was reminded of Whitman poem: “I Hear It Was Charged Against Me” by Walt Whitman I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions; But really I am neither for nor against institutions; (What indeed have I in common with them?–Or what with the destruction of them?) Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and…

  • The CMS and the PLN

    jonmott
    19 Jan 2010 | 10:28 am
    It’s a been a long time since I blogged. Between sending my son off on a mission to Brazil, celebrating my 20th anniversary with my sweetheart, working on some offline writing projects, taking some time off for the holidays, getting back into the swing of things with the New Year and the new semester, and launching our loosely-coupled gradebook at BYU . . . Well, let’s just say I’ve been a little busy. During my blogging hiatus, I did manage to get a paper published with my friend and colleague David Wiley. In the paper, we catalogue what we believe are the fundamental…

  • 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…
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  • Content: Incident Management Training

    Greg Friese
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    One of my 2010 projects is writing quiz questions for a monthly EMS knowledge challenge at EMS1.com. The quiz questions are loaded into the C3Softworks Bravo software and can be delivered in a variety of training formats. Some user comments: Enjoyed the review…. Good review of responsibilities on a disaster scene Great for remembering skills I haven’t used for awhile This was great! Test your Incident Management knowledge and response capabilities. Contact me if you want more information on how to use games for training.

  • Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilations CE Lesson

    Greg Friese
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:23 pm
    Visit RapidCE.com to enroll in your free lesson or to subscribe to all lessons. Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilations: Prehospital Use of CPAP and BiPAP Fortunately, for EMS providers and their respiratory distress patients, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NiPPV) treatments are becoming widely adopted. NiPPV comes in two forms, C-PAP and Bi-PAP, and has been shown to be a safe and effective prehospital treatment that greatly improves patient vital signs and comfort by emergency department arrival. In this lesson for CentreLearn and RapidCE.com users learn about relevant…

  • Non-Visulaized Airways CE Lesson Part 2

    Greg Friese
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm
    Visit RapidCE.com to enroll in your free lesson or to subscribe to all lessons. Non-Visualized Airways Part 2: Anatomy, Difficult Airways, and King LT and LMA insertion In this two part lesson we review the indications and insertion techniques for three non-visualized airways – the Combitube, laryngeal mask airway, and the King LT. Part one reviews airway anatomy and explores difficult airway situations. Part 2 is mostly focused on the indications, contraindications, and insertion of the King LT and LMA. Learn more at RapidCE.com.

  • Non-Visulaized Airways CE Lesson Part 1

    Greg Friese
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:15 pm
    Visit RapidCE.com to enroll in your free lesson or to subscribe to all lessons. Non-Visualized Airways Part 1: Anatomy, Difficult Airways, and Combitube In this two part lesson for RapidCE.com and CentreLearn users we review the indications and insertion techniques for three non-visualized airways – the Combitube, laryngeal mask airway, and the King LT. Part one reviews airway anatomy and explores difficult airway situations. It focuses on the indications, contraindications, and insertion of the Combitube.

  • Content: New CE Lessons for EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters

    Greg Friese
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    EPS creates online CE lessons for EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters that is distributed through the CentreLearn LMS and RapidCE.com. Several new courses authored by EPS subject matter experts have been added to the continuing education library. New courses include: Non-Visualized Airways Part 1 1. Review airway anatomy 2. Explore difficult airway situations 3. Describe indications, contraindications, and insertion of the Combitube Visualized Airways Part 2 1. Review airway anatomy 2. Explore difficult airway situations 3. Describe indications, contraindications, and insertion of the King L-T…
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  • Seven Ways to Use the iPad for Workplace Learning

    Abhijit Kadle
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    The iPad is here. After all the hype, which it didn’t quite live up to, there was a lot of commentary web-wide on whether it’s suitable for elearning, or a specific type of learning. Here at Upside our camp is divided, there are iPad lovers and there are iPad baiters. The lovers are typically Apple fan-boys who are crazy about anything Apple, so their devotion to any bit of technology that Steve Jobs throws into the market is taken for granted. The baiters are mostly alternate technology lovers and who will hate pretty much anything that Apple develops; simply because of…

  • Graffiti at Upside Learning

    Abhijit
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:50 am
    A large blank white wall is an invitation for creative individuals to express themselves. Some call it graffiti, some call it art, all in all its great fun. We had just such a wall at our offices in Pune. We decided to make the best of it and let graphic designers and artists from the team have a go at it. The results speak for themselves. There was no theme, no predetermined style, only the artist’s imagination at work. It was an effort that saw a different type of team activity. Much enjoyed by all, those who participated, and those who walk past the huge painting each morning and are…

  • eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #10

    Sushil Kokate
    6 Feb 2010 | 1:09 am
    1. ELIPS Studio 3 ELIPS Studio 3 is a cross-platform mobile application SDK based on Adobe’s Flex Builder. Now software developers and creative designers can quickly develop for rich, connected or non-connected applications for mobile devices and deploy them on any mobile platforms they want. ELIPS Studio 3 is based on native compilation. It will automatically generate, optimize and package your Flex applications as native code for industry-leading platforms, including iPhone, Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. 2. Open Classroom Servers The OpenClassroom Server (OCS) places the…

  • The LMS and SNS – A Fine Balance

    Abhijit Kadle
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:32 pm
    That the LMS needs to incorporate social learning elements is no longer a point of debate but both a question of survival for the LMS itself and also a test of how the LMS handles the balance of both the elements of training and the ‘networkedness’ of the social learning.  We’ve been hearing of experts commenting that LMSs today don’t come with appropriate social media technology built in. We’d like to differ; the UpsideLMS comes with a unique social learning framework that lets users actually access such social tools from within the LMS in a robust and secure environment for…

  • Learning Technologies 2010 – Day 2 Recap

    Amit Garg
    4 Feb 2010 | 9:38 am
    After having a great first day at the Learning Technologies 2010 I was looking forward to an exciting second day. Apart from the sessions at the conference that I recap below, there was an opportunity to interact with practitioners from the domain. Discussing their current concerns around learning and development gives us a glimpse into their world and that’s valuable. Here’s a summary of the sessions I attended on Day 2: 1.    Key Note by Josh Bersin Josh is the President at Bersin & Associates– the research company. They focus on the learning & training market and Josh sure…
 
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  • Reminder – Lisa Gillis On Online High Schools

    mkbnl
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:32 am
    A reminder of this event later today. Tuesday, February 9th, 5pm Pacific Time (US) / 1am (next day) GMT/UTC (international times): Join me for a live and interactive interview of Lisa Gillis, co-author of Virtual Schooling: A Guide to Optimizing Your Child’s Education. LearnCentral Link: http://www.learncentral.org/node/55267 As I have been promising to review this book for some [...]

  • USDLA 2010 National Conference Virtual Classroom!

    mkbnl
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:02 pm
    This is from my Facebook inbox. USDLA 2010 Virtual Classroom! Can’t join us in St. Louis? This year, USDLA is excited to announce that it will offer a portion of its 2010 National Conference virtually! By registering as a Virtual Classroom attendee, you will have complete live access to our Opening and Closing Keynote speakers, a pre-conference workshop, 11 [...]

  • Dissertation Advice: Gaming And Student Retention

    mkbnl
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:13 am
    To begin the week this week, I thought it would be useful to post an e-mail I received from a doctoral student about ten days ago. I am a school counselor for an online high school program in a suburban county. I have around 1000 students each year. I have records on student achievement and [...]

  • Article Notice – An Examination of Rural Secondary Students’ Post-Secondary Education Decisions

    mkbnl
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:02 am
    I saw this posted on Dale Kirby’s blog – Adventures in Canadian Post-Secondary Education – a few days ago and after some interacting with him, we found the article posted online: An article I wrote with my long-time collaborator Dr. Dennis Sharpe, titled An Examination of Rural Secondary Students’ Post-Secondary Education Decisions, has been published in [...]

  • Final Reminder: Virtual Schooling Blog Carnival – Call For Submissions

    mkbnl
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:47 am
    A final reminder that the call for the February Blog Carnival edition reads: virtual schooling – http://blogcarnival.com/bc/eprof_26744.html Description – This is a carnival that is focused upon the use of online learning and distance at the K-12 level. Please submit items that are related to the field of K-12 education – elementary or high school – and [...]
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  • Top Criminology Programs & Schools

    Get Degrees Staff
    27 Jan 2010 | 3:13 pm
    Criminology and criminal justice have become interchangeable terms for many academic institutions. The discipline lends itself well to online education and there are many top-notch distance learning options for criminology degrees. There are also several excellent career options in criminology within the criminal justice system. Kaplan University has a range of bachelors and masters criminal justice degrees, many of which are focused on management opportunities in the field. Herzing University offers a bachelors in criminal justice both on campus and online. Virginia College also has a…

  • Best Sports Psychology Schools & Colleges

    Get Degrees Staff
    27 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm
    Sports psychology is the in-depth study of the behavioral factors that influence and are influenced by participation in exercise, physical activity and competitive sports. The science is applied to many everyday settings beyond sports, settings that include health and wellness pursuits, fitness in general, performing arts and in some cases, business. Argosy University offers the Master of Arts in Sport-Exercise Psychology degree at three California campuses, in Atlanta and in Arizona. Online courses are also available. Capella University has a Masters in Psychology study track with…

  • Top Performing Arts Schools & Colleges

    Get Degrees Staff
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pm
    The US News and World Report annual survey of top colleges and universities breaks out schools by many different academic disciplines and ranks them based on peer opinion, research programs, teaching quality, etc. They avoided ranking the best performing arts schools however, and simply listed them as they rose to the top of the overall list based on respect from professionals in the field. Other sources include arts foundations and websites where opinions from former students and current teaching professionals can be found. What follows is a list of schools that provide top flight education…

  • Best Computer Programming Colleges & Schools

    Get Degrees Staff
    26 Jan 2010 | 3:57 pm
    A software engineering degree, in some cases studies in network analysis and the many courses and certificates available in software language (C++, Microsoft, Javascript, COBOL, etc.) can often lead directly to employment opportunities. So while the best ranked schools overall for software engineering, computer engineering and computer science are the usual expensive and highly competitive schools like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, there are many other schools with IT departments that have a high level of excellence in computer programming. Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology:…

  • Best Law Schools and Rankings 2010

    Get Degrees Staff
    19 Jan 2010 | 12:55 pm
    The top school rankings published by US News and World Report is the most widely utilized guide to educational excellence. The annual report includes top law schools rankings along with comments on student results for completion, for passing bar exams, etc. The Top 10 Law Schools for 2010: 1.Yale 2.Harvard 3.Stanford 4.Columbia 5.New York University 6.University of California/Berkeley 7.University of Chicago 8.University of Pennsylvania 9.University of Michigan 10.Duke It seems that there are few bargains in law school tuition. There are two public universities in the top ten, and tuition for…
 
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  • Advisor2U (Dr.Kumuda Gururao) features in Who is Who of ‘Asian Admirable Achievers’

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    2 Feb 2010 | 1:23 pm
    ‘Asian Admirable Achievers’ by  Rifacimento International is ‘dedicated to remarkable people of Asia for their meritorious work and selfless service’ ‘Asian Admirable Achievers’ Voume Fourth (2010): Who’s Who. ‘Presents about 500 capsule profiles of personalities identified in various fields of activity’ Gururao (Ms) Kumuda is featured as Social Media Learning / Marketing Consultant at Advisor2U.com Dr. Kumuda Gururao’s Achievements include:  First Prize Winner of the BOLT (Broad Outlook Learner Teacher) Award for Chennai, India organized by Air India. The…

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    2 Feb 2010 | 7:44 am
    Hi All, Advisor2U (Dr.Kumuda Gururao) features in Who is Who of ‘Asian Admirable Achievers’

  • Real-time Search Using Bing Twitter and Twoogle

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    12 Jan 2010 | 8:39 am
    I had been saying in the past that using Twitter for establishing branding, dialogue with the customer is a must as it offers real-time way of interaction with your users. Similarly in higher education sector too, various studies have confirmed the usefulness of Twitter as an educational tool.   The section ‘Using Twitter in the Classroom’ in the article ’50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers’ confirms the above point.   Since BING and Google have decided to include tweets from Twitter in their search results, the search results for keywords would yield real-time…

  • Mobile Solutions for Corporate Sectors

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    27 Dec 2009 | 1:30 pm
    In this blog, I want to point out that wireless mobile technology along with internet enable people to access and exchange information with others easily. This concept when exploited properly would allow work force to be more knowledgeable resulting in better interaction among themselves with customers and clients.   Areas requiring training through mobile devices   How can this technology be used by corporate sectors? This technology can be used for   Finding opinion of people before launching a new product, modifying existing product. Getting feedback about the service…

  • Curriculum Designing and Evaluation for Autonomous Colleges

    EduTek_SocialMedia Consultant
    5 Dec 2009 | 1:17 pm
    I recently participated as Resource Person in a workshop organized by Center for Educational Research, MKUniversity, India. The workshop was conducted at V.V.V.College for Women (Autonomous)   I explained the following topics:   Concept Map as the Basis for Curriculum Development Curriculum Development Models The main points I covered for both the topics are:   Concept Map as the Basis for Curriculum Development   ·   Steps for creating Concept Map ·   Uses of Concept Map including Curriculum Development (CD) ·   Steps involved in developing…
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  • Gateway to Electrical Engineering | Distance Learning Information

    30 Jan 2010 | 3:34 am
    An electrical engineering distance learning program is designed to help students to comprehend the core fundamentals on a broader scale. A diversified teaching approach is what's needed to increase... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • How to Earn a Scholarship for Father

    26 Jan 2010 | 1:04 am
    This one is dedicated to all the hard working parents going back to college! Thanks to College scholarships for fathers; free money for education is now easily available during this time of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Comprehensive List of Educational Sites for Students

    23 Jan 2010 | 4:31 am
    With information at your finger tips, the Web/Internet has revolutionized the way we access education.  The online world has grown beyond limits, so much that it is very difficult to find... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • How to Get a Pharmacist Degree | Pharmacy School Requirements

    19 Jan 2010 | 6:55 pm
    Online pharmacist degree is ideal for students seeking a high salary job after graduation. Attending an accredited pharmacy college will open up several career opportunities while also securing a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Earn the Best Associate Degree at Home | Careers Guide

    4 Dec 2009 | 5:09 am
    You can now earn associate degree at home without attending college campus courses. Unlike traditional colleges, accredited associate degree online offers a unique way to go back to school and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • Augmented Reality Has Surpassed Virtual Reality

    Tom Werner
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:14 am
    “Augmented reality” has surpassed “virtual reality” as a search term in Google. Augmented reality is a digital overlay onto the real world (versus the complete digital immersion of virtual reality). Don’t miss the video of Parrot AR.Drone. (TW) Augmented Reality Vs. Virtual Reality: Which One Is More Real? | 6 January 2010

  • Excellent Technical Resource for Mobile Learning

    Gary Woodill
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Robert Gadd, the CEO of OnPoint Digital, has one of the best blogs available on mobile learning, even though he has only started blogging at the beginning of the year. Robert has a great technical grasp of what is needed at the present time to make mLearning work. Recently he started a 7 part series of posts on helping his readers to understand the different content types available to developers of mobile learning. Here are the links to this series: mLearning Content Types – Overview and Intro mLearning Content Types – Level 1: Messages mLearning Content Types – Level 2: SMS…

  • L & D Myths

    Janet Clarey
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    You only remember 10% of what you read. Myth? The right side of your brain is the creative half. Myth? You only use 10% of your brain. Myth? Informal learning is highly efficient. Myth? And more Links to thoughtful questioning about some statements frequently made by those in L&D. You be the judge if the statements are myths. (JC) Learning Myths | Donald H. Taylor | 8 February 2010

  • Tom Kuhlmann on adding personality to your e-learning courses

    Janet Clarey
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Handwritten fonts can draw attention to important parts of the screen, add a sense of personality, and speak to the user in more personal and informal tone. It’s as if the instructor is letting you in on some personal notes, giving you extra information. Kind of like the director’s commentary on DVD. Because of this, handwritten fonts can add value to your elearning course. Read Tom’s post for a list of when to use handwritten fonts. (JC) Here’s How to Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses | The Rapid E-Learning Blog |  Tom Kuhlmann  9 February  2010

  • Parameters for Opening PDF files.

    Janet Clarey
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Many of us use PDF documents on the Web as resources for a course. If you want to link to a specific page within the PDF, instead of having it open to the first page, you can use a page parameter. Adobe has a list with several other parameters you may find helpful. Via Jane Hart on Facebook. (JC) Linking to a page within a PDF (and more!) | The Doc Fox | Samartha Vashishtha | 9 February 2010
 
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  • What is being a curator of digital microcontent? Or, the one with the big stuffed animals at Wal-Mart.

    Janet Clarey
    6 Feb 2010 | 11:31 am
    Microlearning as a term reflects the emerging reality of the ever-increasing fragmentation [emphasis mine] of both information sources and information units used for learning, especially in fast-moving areas which see rapid development and a constantly high degree of change. (Langreiter & Bolka, 2006) I see the micro thing (small units of rapidly changing user-generated content, consumed by others in a short time period) becoming more fragmented especially within some of the sillier websites out there (one of which I’ll share in a moment). Lucky you! Maybe *you* already see it…

  • “Results not typical”

    Janet Clarey
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:07 pm
    Did you ever see the “results not typical” comment at the bottom of an ad for some product? In the US, it once was* a legal loophole. Something like this: “This miracle powder worked for this genetically engineered buxom red head with six-pack abs but probably won’t work for fat brunette cows eating Chicken McNuggets in front of the TV.” It’s (1) potentially damaging (I almost tore my rotator cuff hurling a McNugget at the TV screen) and (2) costly (people blow a ton a money buying “results not typical” products and subsequently consulting with…

  • A peak at “Learning in 3D”

    Janet Clarey
    27 Jan 2010 | 3:22 pm
    I was happy to be asked to participate in a Blog Book Tour for the newly released book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration by Karl M. Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll. The idea of a book tour is to build a discussion around the concepts in a book and to bring thinking about 3D virtual worlds for learning and collaboration into the forefront of discussions in the e-learning space. This is stop #14 on the tour. When it comes to virtual worlds for learning, I’m most frequently asked, “who’s doing it?” and “is it…

  • Here’s a Quick Way to Get Into Design Thinking Mode

    Janet Clarey
    21 Jan 2010 | 5:30 am
    The D.School (at Stanford) Bootcamp Bootleg free download is a curated collection of material developed by teaching teams throughout the design world over the last five years. Inspiring, motivational, and easy to apply to real-world ID. Enjoy! (hat tip Venessa Miemis). Download here.

  • Thinking about twenty-ten

    Janet Clarey
    7 Jan 2010 | 6:38 am
    In 2009, I did not have to search for food, go to war, or otherwise suffer or sacrifice as so many did. I did not have to look for work and I’m feeling pretty lucky to have a good job right now with great co-workers and thousands of connections with some of the best minds in the business. So, my “problems” are way, way insignificant but, they provide opportunities for making things even  better in 2010. Suffice to say that looking back on 2009, I’m not chomping at the bit to re-live it.  It was much too chaotic for me and I’m not really the type that has to…
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  • Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #10 – Color Settings

    Crystal McCullough, executive editor
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:40 am
    The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techie, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees, too.

  • Web site strategy and planning course stresses the importance of meeting client needs

    Crystal McCullough, executive editor
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 am
    In Web Site Strategy and Planning, Jen Kramer shows that there’s more to building a web site than just implementation. From creating a plan that will ensure the end product meets the clients needs and is as efficient and scalable as possible, to how to identify the right technology for the design, Jen explains how to organize content and graphics and create a project proposal that includes pricing and milestones that demonstrate to the client that work is being done. She also discusses how to measure the success of the design through analytics and user feedback.

  • Jen Kramer’s new Joomla! book and release party

    Megan O. Read, author relations manager
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:37 pm
    Jen Kramer's book, Joomla! Start to Finish lynda.com author Jen Kramer’s first book, Joomla! Start to Finish, is now available on Amazon.com. Congrats, Jen! Jen’s book covers the downloading and Joomla! installation process, creating a site map, tracking content and images, how to perform backups with JoomlaPack, creating customized templates from the ground up, advanced styling tricks with CSS, and lots more. There will be a book release party on March 5th from 5:30-8:30pm at the Marlboro College Graduate School in Brattleboro, VT. The event is hosted by the New England Joomla!

  • Keep your iPhone secure by keeping it clean

    Garrick Chow, senior trainer and evangelist
    4 Feb 2010 | 6:36 am
    Recently a colleague of mine set down his passcode-secured iPhone on the desk we were sitting at. As I was marveling at how smudged the screen was from his constant use, I noticed that among the various smudges I could clearly see four distinct fingerprints, whose positions I realized revealed the four numbers he used for his passcode lock. The passcode lock is a feature of the iPhone that, when enabled, requires the user to enter a four-digit code to unlock the phone. It’s a great feature to keep your contacts, email, and account secure should your iPhone get lost or stolen. But…

  • Résumé building and interviewing tips from the lynda.com human resources team

    Megan O. Read, author relations manager
    3 Feb 2010 | 5:50 am
    The job market has been on many of our minds lately. You may have already checked out Laurie Burruss’ course on creating an online résumé to help you get prepared for an upcoming career change. I spent some time with the lynda.com human resource team and asked them to share a few tips on successful interviewing to help you in your job search. Here are their top four interviewing tips. 1. Do Your Research on the Company Before going to an interview with a potential employer, always know as much as you can about the company. Find out what drives the company. How long have they been in…
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