December, 2009

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e-Learning Templates

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If you’re developing eLearning on your own with minimal help from a graphics team, you might want to check out e-Learning Templates.com. Put together by two guys who call themselves “The eLearning Brothers”, the site offers PPT templates you can use in your Articulate courses, along with complete course style kits to Flash based eLearning games and quizzes.

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eLearning Guild DemoFest Highlights #dl09

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Follow up to the eLearning Guild’s DemoFest held at DevLrn in San Jose this November. These are favorites of that event. (These are my live blogged notes from the presentation. eLearning Guild will make recorded presentation available on their website. [link] ) Brent Schlenker: This year a lot of great entries. This year didn’t do awards format – wanted it to be a sharing format for attendees to show what they do. iPhone App: Helping Parents Grades K-5 (Terri Gutierrez) Oregon Center for Applied

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Top Nine Posts of 2009

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Why not ten? I don’t know. 1. Essential Reading for Instructional Design? This post from February 2008 is still at the top, lists and links to books and articles, including Dr. John Curry’s post How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition. 2. Getting Started in Instructional Design Another oldie, from 2007. Probably simply popular because it’s on the sidebar list in my blog.

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A Year in Books (2009)

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2009 was a big year for me. New job. New company. Working full time from a home office. Oldest child in kindergarten. New challenges – and some old ones too. A great year, really. Thanks for joining me in this journey and for all you’ve contributed to my learning over the past 12 months. To try and hold on to – if just for a brief moment – some of what’s been going on in my brain this year, I thought I’d take a moment to catalogue the pile of topical books I’ve read.

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"Proven Instructional Design": Bingo!

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Have you ever seen the claim: "built using proven Instructional Design." (I just saw it. Some website. Ain't saying where. But I could equally have found it on the back of a cereal box.) Do you ever wonder how they proved it? Did they prove it? What are they actually talking about? It's one of those buzzword bingo terms people use. Needs to be added to Jane Bozarth's E-Learning Buzzword Bingo Card.

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When Accidental Instructional Designers Become Intentional

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There's been a great conversation going on around my last post " Accidental Instructional Designers ". Check out the comments, and also be sure to look at Sahana's response on her blog. Sahana is a practicing ID in India, where ID programs don't really exist yet. Instead people turn to 8 week ID certification programs to get started. Karl Kapp feels like I'm chewing his chaw a bit and was reminded of his own post from last year: We Need a Degree in Instructional Design (yes, the conversation has