Thu.Jul 14, 2011

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eLearning & mLearning: Stop Motion & Time-Lapse Inspiration

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. Trond Kristiansen's eLearning Devcon 2011 session, Using Photographic Techniques In eLearning , really got the rusty gears of creativity in my brain churning about how to incorporate some photographic techniques into eLearning. I've previously covered how to easily manipulate stock images , but Trond's ideas were decidedly more high brow.and fun.

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Visualization Tool – Visual.ly

Upside Learning

In the course of work as an instructional designers, its routine to trawl the web constantly looking at ways people visualize ideas, concepts, processes. It’s an entire wonderland of variety out there on the inter-webs, in addition to the beauty one finds in various books on graphic design. Instructional designers then tend to be ‘inspired’ and apply those visualization techniques to whatever it is they seek to communicate.

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The Division of Wiki Labor: Wikis in the Working World

Dashe & Thomson

It’s often been said that one of the best ways to learn a subject is to attempt to teach it to others. Whereas a hazy, half-developed understanding of something might be good enough to allow you to squeak by on your own, to be able to teach a topic requires all-around mastery of the material. . While the truth behind this statement is well documented, its translation into the world of the busy worker is not always so cut-and-dried.

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Writing & Grammar: More on Checklists

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Last week I wrote an article about checklists. As I finish reading The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande , I have learned that in fields where the individual expert is seen as the key to success, resistance to the idea of using a checklist is rampant. Surgery and financial management are two fields where adoption of checklists has been slow, despite the fact that checklists work.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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A Storied History

Clark Quinn

Rothenburg ob der Tauber (RodT) is a charming small town that has retained it’s medieval nature through both design and chance. The story is interesting, but more interesting for my purposes here is how You can learn that story. One of the opportunities available in Rothenburg is the Night Watchman’s Tour, where a local dressed up as a night watchman walks you through various stops around town and tells Rothenburg’s history.

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Customized eLearning Game

eLearning Brothers

Today I thought I’d share with you an example of how our eLearning Game Templates can be customized in Adobe Flash. I took only about 10 minutes to come up with new look for the Marathon game. I just wanted to show you that all of the elements in these game templates can easily be modified. Here is a link to our Flash Game Tutorials page. Click each example below to demo.

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9 Warning Signs You Need a Sales Training Overhaul

Mindflash

Sales representatives can find themselves in a difficult position when it comes to training. All reps need it, but an ineffective sales training class provides little more than the kind of time-suck reps can hardly afford. Here’s what one should avoid when setting up training and how reps can clearly communicate to managers what they need to help them sell.

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How do you add friction to learning?

Usable Learning

After the last post, a few people discussed in the comments about how you actually go about adding friction to learning. Kathy Sierra in particular referenced Dan Meyer , a math teacher/blogger, who is my favorite resource on this. He doesn’t specifically reference friction, but he talks about how to “be less helpful&# for learners. This is a really nice short video where he explains some of things he does to create interesting challenges for his learners: [link].

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In With the Old

CLO Magazine

The face of the new economy is propelled by collaboration; I’ve told you this before. But there’s an aspect of teamwork that’s going unnoticed — sharing. I had a chance to speak with Meagan and Larry Johnson earlier this year for an article on desegregating an aging workforce, in which Larry commented: “The challenge is creating a multigenerational workforce that works well [together].

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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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Make eLearning for the iPad for FREE

eLearning Weekly

I feel some guilty pleasure when other trainers and elearning developers become jealous of my elearning app for the iPad. Because the Mac iOS doesn’t support Flash, many of my colleagues haven’t been able to take advantage of the best elearning tool ever: the iPad. My app did not cost that much ($7,000 developed in 2010 and $4000 for upgrades in 2011).

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Going the extra mile

Learning with e's

During my undergraduate degree programme, I remember assembling with a small group of fellow students in a room to start our new module on social psychology. We knew our new lecturer's name, but beyond that we knew very little about her. So we sat and waited for her to appear. And we sat and waited. Almost five minutes after we were due to start, we began to wonder if perhaps she was actually sat in the room with us, posing as a student, conducting some bizarre psychological experiment.

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