E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 30, 2009

Last week, AMP hosted its biannual innovation and thought leadership festival, which this year was billed AMPLIFY09: Convergence and Emergence. I was lucky enough to attend many of the speaking sessions, and even live blog some of them. While the topics were diverse, one of the principles in particular that resonated with me was “Everything big started small&# , which was workshopped by Dr BJ Fogg , Director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 3, 2009

Earlier this week, Michael Bromley , Head of Online Services at Telstra Business , visited my workplace to provide me and my colleagues with an overview of cloud computing. What is cloud computing? Michael defines “cloud computing&# as: …common business applications, platforms or infrastructure that are hosted on the internet (i.e. in the cloud) and are accessed locally from a web browser, while the software and data are stored remotely on servers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 20, 2009

Pictures… Diagrams… Charts… They don’t just look pretty. They can also be a useful means of delivering extensive information to your audience in a concise format. For example, how would you explain the GFC to your colleagues? Via a thousand words of text, or via one of these infographics: On the space of one page, these graphics do a good job of explaining the key concepts of a complex and convoluted situation.

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