May, 2012

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Nancy Duarte: Creating Stories that Resonate #storytraining

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These are my live blogged notes from an eLearning Guild/Citrix presentation with Nancy Duarte, author of Resonate and Silde:ology. The story: a likeable hero, she encounters roadblocks, she emerges transformed (the perfect three part story structure) Organizations need to keep creating ideas to continue to reinvent themselves. The lifecycle of an org (start, grow, mature, decline)…so we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

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Learning to Fly

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A few weeks ago, after an Easter candy sugar fueled meltdown, my six year old daughter learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. In about 20 minutes. Here’s how it went down: “Hey, let’s take off those training wheels and see what happens…” “Really, mom? OK…” I held onto the back of her back a couple of times and then just let go. She was off.

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Going Social

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If you know me, you know I'm a bit of an extrovert and I crave social interaction. And, like most of us, I like to learn through collaboration and conversation. (Ideally, while roasting marshmallows around a campfire.). So last month when I prepared for my LearnNow conference presentation on "Implementing Social Learning", I reached out to my social networks.

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Updates from the Road (April ASTD Events!)

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As you may remember, April was my ASTD month, with bi-coastal appearances at the ASTD New England Innovations in Learning Conference outside Boston and the LearnNow event in San Francisco. Here's a recap of my comings and goings.

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Karl Kapp Book Tour: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction #gamiLI

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It’s the Cammy Bean stop on the blog book tour for Karl Kapp’s newest book: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education Karl Kapp is a professor of instructional technology in Bloomsburg University’s Department of Instructional Technology in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He’s one of my favorite professors that I've never actually studied with (although he has taught me a ton).