Kapp Notes

MAY 6, 2010

Today and tomorrow I will be at the 7th annual Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit. I have been to many EduNeering Knowledge Summits and always have a great time. I'll be doing a book signing, facilitating a video interview about the strategic relationship between ProtonMedia and Kaplan-EduNeering with Lisa Clune and Ron Burns and generally mixing with a great group of folks.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 26, 2010

Earlier this week, I had a chance to hang out with Allison Rossett and my co-author Tony. I've worked with Allison before for an ASTD event about Rapid eLearning. I always enjoy hanging out with her and gaining insight from her ideas and perspectives on learning. Karl Kapp, Allison Rossett and Tony O'Driscoll talking about learning. We were all in Chicago for the Corporate University Technology Assisted Learning Conference.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 17, 2010

The other week, I had the privilege of being able to interview two very interesting people about the future of 3D Virtual worlds for collaboration and training in the compliance space. It was an exciting interview with some really interesting answers to my questions. Here is a link to the interview of ProtonMedia's blog: What the ProtonMedia-Kaplan EduNeering partnership means for life sciences companies Ron Burns, CEO of Proton Media, Lisa Clune, President of Kaplan EduNeering and Karl Kapp (ju

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Kapp Notes

MAY 13, 2010

Recently I have been doing a number of lessons on the topics of "Avoiding Death by PowerPoint" and by far, one of the most requested parts of the presentation is how to take an image that no one can read, you know one where the presenter says."I know you can't read this but" and make it readable. Here is one method that I use. Step one: Take a small image that no one can read, like a flow chart.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 5, 2010

Here are five products on the market today that allow you to escape the 2D environment of your laptop and add a third dimension to your file structure, navigation and functionality. 3D interfaces are starting to appear everywhere for your laptop, iPad or other portable computing devices. Check them out. One: Recently, Google has purchased a 3D interface that is pretty slick for the desktop called BumpTop.here is a video showing how it works: Two: You can do a semi-3D search with SpaceTime 3D whi

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Kapp Notes

MAY 28, 2010

When asked about the value of video games Daphne Bavelier, an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester said "People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition." Bavelier also said games could be developed that would harness the positive effects of the first-person shooter games without the violence.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 19, 2010

At the ASTD Conference, I had the privilege of interviewing a couple of folks who are pioneering the use of 3D virtual environments across the enterprise. As indicated in this blog earlier in the week , RWD has entered into a partnership with ProtonMedia to make ProtoSphere available to its clients. I was lucky enough to be at the conference and two interview people from RWD and ask them about the partnership.I spoke with Mal Poulin, Enterprise Market Director for RWD, and Paul Bejgrowicz, Princ

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Kapp Notes

MAY 16, 2010

Here at the ASTD international conference , you can learning a lot just by listening and talking to folks. So, here is an exclusive piece of news (a couple of days before the "official announcement") Protonmedia and RWD are teaming up in a strategic partnership. RWD and their focus on human and operational performance improvement solutions is partnering with the 3D virtual learning and collaboration company, Protonmedia, to create an engaging and exciting solution that will provide their clients

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Kapp Notes

MAY 14, 2010

It has been a busy few weeks and May continues to be busy as I have a couple of presentations with my co-author Tony O'Driscoll coming up. We are co-presenting at the ASTD 2010 International Conference & Exposition May 18, 1:00-3:30 in Chicago, Illinois on the topic of " Learning in 3D " we are looking forward to the presentation We are then doing a workshop together at the Corporate University Technology Assisted Learning Conference on May 24th called " Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimensio

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Kapp Notes

MAY 4, 2010

A colleague of mine, Dan Bliton asked me to help promote this survey, I think it is a worthwhile endeavor and would invite you to take a few moments and participate. Here are the details. Please complete the survey on Effective Approaches for e-Learning and share it with others. [link] surveymonkey.com/s/effective- elearning. We need at least 100 survey responses from e-Learning developers for an I/ITSEC conference paper.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 3, 2010

Here are some presentation resources that might be helpful when creating an exciting PowerPoint presentation. PCAR Presentation Resources Resource for Presentations Learning Circuits Big Questions: Avoiding Death by PowerPoint Here is an example of a presentation using some techniques to avoid bullets, lists and other PPT distractions. Learning Technology View more presentations from kkapp.

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