Sat.Jul 23, 2011 - Fri.Jul 29, 2011

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3D Tips for the Part-Time eLearning Freelancer

eLearning Weekly

One of the best pieces of advice my father gave me was, “Discover what you’re good at and then learn how to make money at it.” Just like most obedient young boys, I totally ignored my father’s advice. Even though I’ve been drawing and cartooning my whole life and developing elearning for the past ten years, I never put the two together. I’m a decent artist but most artists are their own worst critics, and even though I was passionate about it, I never once considered earning a living doing it.

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Weekly Bookmarks (7/24/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Share Google Reader items on Google+ | David Vielmetter. I assume at some point Google will add Google+ to the “Send to&# options in Google Reader, but until then, here’s a workaround in Firefox. tags: google+ howto. ID and Other Reflections: Lurking is Not a Static State. Perspectives on lurking as an active act in part of the cycle of participation, pulling together quotes from multiple sources. tags: community lurking.

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The Smart Worker : needs job aids rather than courses

Jane Hart

Tweet. This is the third in a series of posts about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning. The two previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learning continuously with social media. The Smart Worker : needs immediate access to solutions to performance problems.

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e-Learning shouldn’t be fun #LCBQ

Challenge to Learn

Because it is the holiday season we decided at the LCBQ to take on a light subject for this month: “How do you make e-Learning fun&#. Well I think that you shouldn’t. In the eighties I wrote a series of textbooks on bookkeeping (I know that there isn’t much fun in that). After I wrote the first book I sent it to the publisher, they corrected it, illustrated it and I got a printed draft version back.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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Memorable Ways to End an eLearning Course

Integrated Learnings

By Shelley A. Gable. The recency effect tells us that people are more likely to remember information from the end of a sequence. In other words, when taking an eLearning course, learners are most likely to remember how the course ended, although the stuff in the middle might blur together. Why? Cognitive theorists believe that as new information enters the working memory, earlier information is pushed out.

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The Smart Worker : needs immediate access to solutions to performance problems

Jane Hart

Tweet In the second of a series of blog posts on helping L&D move forward, I look at how we need to help workers gain immediate access to “learning&# that solves their performance problems. Jeff Bullas pointed out in How the iPad is changing our lives , that. “The “Now&# generation wants their news, entertainment, information and access to online stores instantly whether that is on the bus, bedroom or even on the beach.&#.

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Future of elearning industry looks Bright!

Kapp Notes

Reports, factors and the current market conditions strongly indicate that elearning is going to be a growth industry over the coming years. As Tony Bingham, president and CEO of ASTD states, “Today, we actively pursue content based on search terms and our preferences [while in the future]…content will find you – rather than actively seeking it, your activities and interests will determine what finds you, be delivered how you want it, and to your preferred channel.

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Winners are grinners

E-Learning Provocateur

It is with much pride that I share the news that I have won the LearnX Best Learning Leader Blog award! This is a very prestigious award in the Asia-Pacific region, and I am honoured to nominated let alone be selected. Congratulations to my fellow winner in the category, Ainslie Hunter, who authors the excellent blog Courses That Matter. I wish to thank everyone who nominated me.

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PowerPoint 2010: Change the Picture, Keep the Animation

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. You've just completed a very slick PowerPoint presentation. On one slide you have an image fade in. After it fades in, it pulses for emphasis. After it pulses, text appears above. Then when you click the image, it hyperlinks to another slide. Everything looks and works great. But then the client contacts you and says they'd like to swap the image with another.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The Smart Worker : learning continuously with social media

Jane Hart

Tweet. In the first of my blog posts on helping L&D department move forward, I want to focus on how we can help others learn continuously using social media. As I have mentioned in a number of places, L&D just won’t be able to provide everything that their people will need to do their jobs, and as Conrad Gottfredson in an article in Learning Solutions magazine, The other side of learning: performance is everything explains. “today’s work environment doesn’t toler

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Third Summer 2011 “Learning in 3D Class”

Kapp Notes

Monday night in class we had the opportunity to check out VirtualU and see how it functioned. Here we are gathering to begin our journey to different worlds within VirtualU. It was a fascinating virtual environment that provided a number of great examples of how virtual environments can be used for instruction. The tour was led by Digitell CEO James Parker who expertly guided us through different uses of virtual worlds.

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Levels of analysis

Clark Quinn

When I was a grad student, a fellow student did an interesting study. In analogical reasoning, what helps is abstracting from the specifics to the more general (and folks are bad at generating good analogies, though okay at using them, according to my PhD and other research). Folks had made efforts at getting abstraction, and failed. What my fellow student did was to control the abstraction, and got useful outputs.

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What is Your Training Plan B?

Dashe & Thomson

In Minnesota we say that we have two seasons—winter and road construction. Added to that is the extreme congestion during morning and evening rush hours and the building of a light rail system between Minneapolis and St. Paul. All of this, of course, adds inordinate amounts of time to my drive between the two cities and to and from the suburbs. Last winter I decided to take my life back and come up with a Plan B.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell

You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.

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The future of L&D department debate continues

Jane Hart

Tweet. The EPIC Social Learning debate (which I spoke about yesterday ) continues. Today I am posting another contribution in favour of the motion. This one comes from Nic Laycock: “First, social learning is not a fad, it is not something new and it is not something that since the evolution of humankind has ever had a date on it. It is a fundamental part of our humanity.

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Add Clouds to Captivate or PowerPoint Projects

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Adobe's Allen Partridge has documented the steps necessary to add Clouds to both Captivate and PowerPowerPoint projects. "I love word clouds. You know, those cool clusters of words that give instant summary of concepts by making words bigger and bolder the more times they are used somewhere," said Partridge. "I thought it would be fun to show you how you can make wicked cool word clouds based on your Adobe Captivate (and even Microsoft PowerPoint) projects in just a few minute

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Facebook for Educators

Moodle Journal

I have in past postings made both positive and not so positive remarks regarding the use of Facebook as part of course delivery. In one particular year, I certainly managed to get pretty much wholesale agreement with using the social network for both easy contact and handing out achievement comments’ and graphical badges and general course information.

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The Three Critical Success Factors for Successful ERP Deployment

Dashe & Thomson

Over the last two decades, the ERP market has grown by leaps and bounds. The ERP system has become an integral part of any large, successful enterprise. Analyst reports suggest that the ERP market is currently about $40 billion in total revenue, consistently ranks among the top IT spending priority for enterprises, and is expected to grow to over $50 billion by 2013.

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The DNA of Online Learning

This white paper examines how organisations can get the best out of online learning, via a deep dive into how it works and how to apply it in order to achieve specific objectives.

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Cruella speaks …

Jane Hart

Tweet. The discussion around this summer’s Epic Debate hotted up over the weekend. As Clive Shepherd, who is speaking against the motion points out in his latest blog posting, Give Cruella a chance , the motion has been written in an obscure way in order to provoke such debate. For me, the debate hangs on the interpretation of just a few key words in the motion.

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Writing & Grammar: Comparisons and Pronouns: Is She Taller Than Me or Taller than I Am

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Comparisons involving pronouns are a trouble spot in English. The trouble arises from the fact that when speaking, we hear the comparison words than , as , and like as being prepositions. After a preposition, you use the object form of a pronoun, like this: *She is taller than me. *My nephew sneezes just like him. *Jason is as tall as him.

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How Different Employees Survive a Workplace Meeting

Mindflash

The dreaded workplace meeting brings all sorts of communicators to the same table, and unfortunately each party present has their own unique way of surviving with the discussion. Let’s examine some of the most common employee profiles. (Click image to enlarge).

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Chomp, chomp chomp! Welcome ScreenChomp and TechSmith Labs!

TechSmith Camtasia

Being an evangelist, by definition, means that I get to be the bearer of good tidings. Today I get to do that! I'm happy to share with you a new iPad app that we've been working on at TechSmith. Meet ScreenChomp! ScreenChomp is a digital whiteboard that users can write and draw on with the touch of a finger. You can draw using twelve different pen colors.

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7 Steps to Consider When Implementing a LMS

How Do You Choose the Right Learning Management System? Choosing the perfect Learning Management System can be complex for organizations. Initially, you might ask questions like, "When is the right time to adopt an LMS?" or "Which LMS is the best fit?" Once you've made your LMS selection, your next query is likely, "How do I go about implementing it?

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Three things all teachers need

Learning with e's

Last night I took part in a 3-way Skype podcast recording for TeacherCast.ne t , which was hosted by Jeff Bradbury, who is based in Philadelphia, USA. My co-panellist was Mark Greentree , who was speaking from Sydney, Australia. One of the scheduled questions which we never got around to addressing was: What should a parent expect from a teacher in the 21st Century?

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Creating Custom Mute/Unmute Audio Button using Advanced Actions and Variables

Adobe Captivate

Scenario: Many times having a custom button to mute or unmute the sound being played helps a lot. In this post we will discuss how to do that step-by-step. BTW, there is mute/unmute audio button is available in the Playbar as well. This one is to have just this button when we don’t want to [.].

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Michael Allen's new eLearning Books

eFront

A few months ago I had the honor to talk with Michael Allen , Chairman and CEO of Allen Interactions. Michael told me about two new eLearning books that he was writing at the moment. Recently Michael told me that he just published his two news books. As you can understand I am super excited!!! What I really like about Michael is that he offers free chapters from these books.

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Dev Corner - Customing the Internet with Greasemonkey

TechSmith Camtasia

It's time for another Dev Corner update! We recently had an internal conference, DevKhan, at TechSmith for our technical staff. It is a great way for developers, the web team, and others to share their knowledge with each each other. Glen Hoeppner did a session called "Customing the Internet with Greasemonkey" We thought it would be useful for others to watch.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr