rapid_intake_instructionally_effective_powerpoint_conversionInstructionally Effective Use of PowerPoint Conversion for eLearning
Simply converting PowerPoint presentations can be harmful to your e-learning initiative’s health. This white paper discusses how you can still use PowerPoint as the basis of your training and create amazingly interactive courses with less effort and time than you might expect.

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Growing demands for eLearning require a combination of methodologies, tools, and technologies to effectively scale by e-learning development throughout the organization.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Should online communities have a better reputation?  Should Should you join and participate in one more online community?  Are online communities profoundly changing the world for the better? Here are four examples of how online communities have changed my world: I was organizing a conference in London UK for a client. 
 
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
This podcast by Teemu Arina effectively illustrates the imperative for change and how social media are shaping our future workplace. Tagged: social media.
 
Thursday, June 17, 2010
As a learning and development professional you are probably always on the lookout for ways to create more value – particularly for any ideas that don’t take a lifetime to develop and cost the Earth! But not all learning solutions of value need come at a great investment. Is it safe to use social media for learning? Guess what?
 

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I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System&# appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training. Please feel free to share your ideas and suggestions.
Premise :  Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities.  Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows. Please share your comments and ideas to guide me through my next steps. Role Description. Key Skills and Capabilities. Creator.
Why is it so difficult to quickly find someone in my organization to answer a pressing question, provide advice about a procedure, explain how to use some software, or tell me where to find an expert, course, or document? rely on my network to connect me to other people and information because I cannot know and will not try to know everything. 
Should online communities have a better reputation?  Should Should you join and participate in one more online community?  Are online communities profoundly changing the world for the better? Here are four examples of how online communities have changed my world: I was organizing a conference in London UK for a client. 
Learning or professional communities are “healthy” and beneficial to the organization when its members are intrinsically motivated to participate and contribute. Members of a learning community must have a desire to network, collaborate, and share information or the community will not thrive and will not drive business value. Dan Pink.

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Friday, September 3, 2010
Tween's playing a video game. Most of them do on a regular basis. In 2007, when children's marketing research firm KidSay asked boys what virtual worlds or online games they had visited in the past two weeks, 35 percent of boys aged 8 to 11 replied "none." That's a big increase. Here are some other statistics from the M2 Research Report.
 
Friday, September 3, 2010
Tweet Here are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES: @EskoKilpi “Control means being able to predict (if A then B); if we can’t predict, we can’t control.&#. via @4KM Complexity is necessary … confusion & unnecessary complication should be eliminated. Don Norman ). **. And the debate goes on.
 
Friday, September 3, 2010
David Grady’s highly amusing observations on the problems inherent in conference calls definitely grabbed my attention, not only because I can relate them to my experiences of running regular meetings on the phone, but also because of the similar issues that can be faced in online meetings. Ideas?
 

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Most would agree that Twitter was one of the social networking phenomena of 2008, and has enjoyed exponential growth in popularity. The microblogging tool has obvious potential to be used in formal learning, both in traditional online classroom settings and - through mobile technologies - for mobile learners. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar).
In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool.
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Web 2.0: Web 2.0
Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Comments are very much welcome. Topics eLearning 2.0
Second Life truly is a phenomenon. It is exactly what the name and vision imply: an example of a parallel "multiverse". People will learn much in it, as they might alternatively learn via participating on a real -world sports team, running a real-world lemonade stand, or walking around a great real-world city. Supporting mentor/supervisor/guides.