Fri.Oct 21, 2011

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Book Review Pointer

Clark Quinn

In case you didn’t see it, eLearn Mag has posted my book review of Mark Warschauer’s insightful book, Learning in the Cloud. To quote myself: This is … a well-presented, concise, and documented presentation of just what is needed to make a working classroom, and how technology helps. As one more teaser, let me provide the closing paragraph: The ultimate message, however, is that this book is important, even crucial reading.

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2 of the Funniest Instructional Design Related Videos

Kapp Notes

I’ve posted both of these videos before but I am posting them again, any time I feel a little overwhelmed, they always bring a smile to my face and they are a bit ID related…especially the one about building a stop sign, I have totally experienced that meeting. Number 2: Death Star Help Desk Interview. Here is my original post on the Death Star Help Desk post.

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My life…in elearning

Learning Visions

20 years ago I was a struggling recent college graduate who had moved to Boston in the middle of a recession. I worked as the Assistant Aquatics Director at a JCC, teaching and coaching swimming. I had never heard of elearning and did not own a computer. I had never sent an email; I had never made a call on a mobile phone. 15 years ago I got a job as an instructional designer/multimedia producer at a company that created training programs delivered on CD ROMS.

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PowerPoint 2010: I Installed Lion and Now My Shortcuts Don't Work!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. Recently I updated my iMac to OS X Lion. I do a lot of work in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 on the Mac by using Parallels. In a previous article I covered how to move objects in PowerPoint less than the standard 6 points using the arrow keys. By holding down the [ Ctrl ] key in conjunction with a directional arrow key you can move objects 1.25 points at a time instead.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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The Power of Choice

Living in Learning

Is learning always about improving one's self? On the windward side of 50 years of age, I would argue it's not.and.I would argue it is never too late to learn. This post is the first in a new section of Living in Learning. It is dedicated to Learning About Living. For our teenagers' sake, some of us may have almost as much to learn as they do about living.

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The Power of Choice

Living in Learning

Is learning always about improving one's self? On the windward side of 50 years of age, I would argue it's not.and.I would argue it is never too late to learn. This post is the first in a new section of Living in Learning. It is dedicated to Learning About Living. For our teenagers' sake, some of us may have almost as much to learn as they do about living.

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3 Learning and Development Lessons From …. M&Ms

Mindflash

M&M’s, those delicious little candies with a mix of colors on the outside and great filling on the inside. Yum. Who would have thought they would provide a great lesson about hiring and developing employees? Today’s workplace in an intellectual or service workplace – much of manufacturing has moved offshore. Most employees are now face-to-face with customers, not hiding behind machines or out of view.

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Cases in custom content development: tentative suggestion 2 - never regard a job as finished

Clive on Learning

Some work has to be right first time. Let's take a feature film for example. With hundreds of people that need to be tightly co-ordinated over a relatively short period, spending millions of dollars in the process, a film shoot has to be prepared with extraordinary precision. It is unbelievably expensive and sometimes completely impractical to go back and re-shoot a scene that didn't turn out right.

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Challenging the myths surrounding informal learning

Jay Cross

Jane Hart just alerted me to this post on Blackboard Blog, 5 Myths About Informal Learning. My comment is awaiting moderation, so I’ll repost it here: Right on. I’ve found that optimists view these five things as benefits where pessimists see only red flags. I’m in the optimist camp. Here’s my take: “It’s too unstructured” = it’s open-ended, has room for growth, changes with the times, and let’s people be all they can be.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Preparing for elearning the first run

Moodle Journal

This week finally saw the launch of the third phase of our Moodle vle roll out at the college with the delivery of a new 2 hour cpd staff training session Preparing for e-learning. If you have been following the blog here then you will know that this centres on the use of Wimba Create , in the production of learning objects from otherwise standard materials or handouts produced in Word.

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