Tue.Oct 18, 2011

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How to Use PowerPoint

The Performance Improvement Blog

Having viewed many TED presentations, I had the mistaken belief that leaders were finally learning how to use PowerPoint (and other presentation tools) effectively. Recently, however, I’ve attended presentations by very smart people (doctors, lawyers, CPAs, professors, etc.), who are leaders in their organizations, who insist on putting as many words and numbers on a slide as possible.

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Great Gamification Video by Sebastian Deterding

Kapp Notes

Recently, I have been having a great conversation with Kathy Sierra and Sebastian Deterding about Gamification…what it means, what it doesn’t mean and the implications, it was been a wonderful discussion. You can follow the thread, and add your own comments at In Defense of the Term “Gamification” as used by Learning Professionals. All three of us basically argued, in our own way, for a focus on elements of games that make real impact, the elements of story, challenge, and relevance

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Adobe Captivate 5.5: The Hidden Font Size Menu

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. Changing the font size of selected text is a simple thing to accomplish in Captivate. All you need to do is select a text caption (or highlight some text within a text caption). On the Properties panel, Character group, type the desired font size and press [ Enter ] on your keyboard. Have you noticed what's missing on the Character group?

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CLO Thinking (& Measurement)

Clark Quinn

I attended the CLO Symposium with my ITA colleagues Jay Cross and Jane Hart. It was an interesting event, with a theme of “ Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal “, held at a classy venue on the beach, and was well-organized. (You can see Jay’s writeup here.) And the keynotes that I saw were in synch: Stephen Covey talked about the need for trust and Jon Katzenbach on how to build culture were both excellent, as was Dan Pontefract’s story on making col

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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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The Seven Learning Challenges and Trends for 2012

B Online Learning

Share. Tweet. Pin It. This week I watched a webinar presented by Elliott Masie, titled, “The Seven Learning Challenges and Trends for 2012″ One of the most interesting elements of the presentation was that Masie used all photographs or images and barely any text. He explained his reasoning behind this was related to research that he had just read [.].

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Google+ Hangouts: Six Practical Uses for Online Education by Jeremy Vest

LearningGuild

Google+ Hangouts is a video group-chat feature that Google added to its offerings this summer. In addition to video chat for up to 10 people, Hangouts provides most of the features of expensive online meeting Websites. Here are six quick applications that you may find useful as elements of your design inventory.

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Get an E-Learning Job with these Simple Tips

Rapid eLearning

I’ve been on the road quite a bit this year. One of the most frequent questions I get is how to find an elearning job. While the rest of the economy seems to be stuck in mud, this seems to be a good time to consider a career in elearning. It’s still a relatively new industry and technology is making it easier than ever to get a foothold. In a previous post I talked a bit on how to prepare for opportunities by getting experience and maintaining a portfolio.

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My date with Adobe Captivate 5.5 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3… at HTML5 Restaurant!

Adobe Captivate

Photography is one of my hobbies and I’m sure it’s the same with some of you reading this post. When I thought of creating some content in HTML5 for my iPad, the first thing that crossed my mind was Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. I not only appreciate it but have also seen a lot of my photographer [.].

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Collaborative Consumption in Corporate Training: Make your Learning Department a Profit Center

OpenSesame

In these difficult times, it’s essential to find innovative ways to do more with less, to repurpose or recycle existing resources and to find creative solutions for workplace challenges. These economic pressures are driving the growing trend toward collaborative consumption : Sharing or renting instead of buying. Car sharing services like ZipCar and rental sites like Airbnb are examples of the growth of collaborative consumption platforms in the marketplace.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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MT2 Announces 2011 Top Simulations & Training Companies

The Learning Circuits

With Ben’s expertise in simulations and games, I thought it might be worth mentioning that Military Training Technology (MT2) magazine recently announced its listing of the 2011 Top Simulation & Training Companies. Although companies making the 2011 list come from around the world and have made a significant impact on the military training industry across the spectrum of technologies and services, many produce non-military-based offerings as well.

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Collaborative Consumption in Corporate Training: Make your Learning Department a Profit Center

OpenSesame

'In these difficult times, it’s essential to find innovative ways to do more with less, to repurpose or recycle existing resources and to find creative solutions for workplace challenges. At OpenSesame we believe there’s an opportunity for collaborative consumption in the corporate training sector.

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Free E-Learning Podcast 17: Social Media for Learning

e-Learning Academy

Episode 17 e-learning tutorial looks at what social media is, technology trends that are or will influence our practice, and things we need to think about before implementing social media into our organisation. Why not download this free e-learning training from iTunes Or read the Transcript Or watch the entire free e-learning tutorial series on [.].

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Moneyball comes to Human Resources: Data Science Matters

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

While you may not be a baseball fan, you have to admit that this movie (and book) is really all about Human Resources. Billy Beane learned that by using data shrewdly he could build a high-performing team at a fraction the cost of his competitors. Isn’t this what strategic HR is all about? I’ve had. Read more» The post Moneyball comes to Human Resources: Data Science Matters appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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le congé a Palm Springs

Jay Cross

Palm Springs Air Museum. (Relive World War II). Pigging out at Lulu. I wouldn’t have said this five years ago, but America has become a better vacation deal than Europe. A dollar buys twice as much as a Norwegian Kroner — and you have a whole lot more to chose from.

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Moneyball comes to Human Resources: Data Science Matters

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

While you may not be a baseball fan, you have to admit that this movie (and book) is really all about Human Resources. Billy Beane learned that by using data shrewdly he could build a high-performing team at a fraction the cost of his competitors. Isn’t this what strategic HR is all about? I’ve had. Read more» The post Moneyball comes to Human Resources: Data Science Matters appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Open Sesame

Accord LMS

Now that you’ve got a great LMS that does everything you need and then some, what next? The hard part – pulling all of your content together.

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Foching up social media

E-Learning Provocateur

Aviation is a good sport, but for the army it is useless. So declared General Ferdinand Foch in 1911, merely 3 years before the outbreak of World War I. To be fair, we shouldn’t forget the context in which the statement was uttered. It wasn’t even a decade since Orville Wright managed to keep his engine-powered Wright Flyer in the air for 12 seconds.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Open Sesame

Accord LMS

Now that you’ve got a great LMS that does everything you need and then some, what next? The hard part – pulling all of your content together.

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How would you go about converting a face to face course to an eLearning format?

eFront

Joan T. Cook raised an interesting question at the Instructional Design and eLearning Professionals' Group " How would you go about converting a face to face course to an eLearning format?" Several professionals in the Learning industry want to convert their f2f courses into an eLearning format. However, several of them do the same mistake again and again.

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Foching up social media

E-Learning Provocateur

Aviation is a good sport, but for the army it is useless. So declared General Ferdinand Foch in 1911, merely 3 years before the outbreak of World War I. To be fair, we shouldn’t forget the context in which the statement was uttered. It wasn’t even a decade since Orville Wright managed to keep his engine-powered Wright Flyer in the air for 12 seconds.