bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I hope attendees recognize the app's activity feed as itself a valuable conference takeaway. There's a great lesson here for those wanting to encourage use of collaboration tools and those who have goals like seeing more completed evaluation forms.

DevLearn 40

DevLearn Lesson Mobile Conference 40

bozarthzone

AUGUST 9, 2016

The company keeps an eye on the activity and announces it will make adjustments to the product based on feedback gleaned from the community. Master trainers emerge: Some commenters try to game the system but are mostly shut down by the other trainers. Some post wrong information, but it’s caught and corrected.

Social Learning 58

Social Learning Social Forum Communities of Practice 58

bozarthzone

DECEMBER 30, 2009

tools (like Twitter & Facebook) with ideas and instructions for conducting specific training activities with each (see the post from November 9). One weekend I brought home a pile of activities-for-trainers books from the office, intending to do a quick sweep to see if I'd missed anything major (I had.

Attitudes 49

Attitudes Social Media Guidelines Social Networks 49

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Here is something that caught me short: "Use this activity to have a pleasant way to reprimand unpleasant behavior." And, "Don't give up when the participant hesitates to do an activity." I'm working on a new leadership training program and this morning was looking through some books of training games.

Behavior 40

Behavior Leadership Games Activities 40

bozarthzone

JULY 26, 2009

This item is one of the most useful I've seen, linking objectives to possible activities. Zaidlearn posted this the other day in the context of a longer discussion about Bloom's taxonomy.

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Job Bloom Taxonomy Discussion 45

bozarthzone

AUGUST 31, 2010

The publisher asked specifically for activities and ideas to help trainers and instructional designers develop an understanding of social media tools at "eye level": What are they, how are they best used, and how can we use them to extend and enhance current practice? Is the book right for you?

Social Media 55

Social Media Media Blogging Social 55

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Stop 2 offered comments from Karl Kapp's Kapp Notes on the variety of activities available to workplace training practitioners wanting to extend and enhance their practice with social media tools. Stop 3 was a guest post for Yammer with a discussion of using these tools for social learning in the enterprise.

Blogging 69

Blogging Elluminate Social Media Yammer 69

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Ideas for other activities? But there are plenty of strategies for using Web 2.0 tools to support instruction as well as inform formative and summative evaluation. Have workers create a map of an existing process, then work together to edit/create a new, better process. NOTE: This is copyrighted material to appear in Bozarth, J.

Social Media 49

Social Media Media Wiki Social 49

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

What role could music play in a banking scenario about fraudulent activity? What might suggest the mood created for the service rep during a difficult interaction? How could you use music to convey a sense of urgency about responding quickly to a safety issue? Important: We do not advocate for using music as auditory wallpaper.

DevLearn 40

DevLearn Music eLearning Guild Brain 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

Evaluation activity submtted by Michele St. Pierre; adapted from an activity in Pike & Solem's 50 Creative Training Closers (Pfeiffer, 1998). If you must undertake Level I evaluation, try to find something that will give you more meaningful information than "4.5" ratings with no explanation. And pay attention to the feedback!

Evalution 40

Evalution Metrics Synchronous Lecture 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

The cashier fumbled with the register, pressed a number of keys to no avail, said she "wasn't sure" if the card was activated, and finally called for a manager, who quickly took care the problem. The transaction brought the place to a halt, with the register giving off that dull 'thunk' sound as unhappy computers will.

Instructional Design 71

Instructional Design ADDIE Server Performance Support 71

bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2010

There's been a flurry of activity this week on the topic of snake oil: First Harold Jarche said : "“As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it."

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vendor Social Media Version Software 40

bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2009

While the site shows 4,000 members, I would guess that truly active membership -- lots of posting, interaction, some argument -- is in the range of 50-100. I have long been a subscriber to, first, the old TR-DEV listserv and its revised format as a moderated Yahoo group.

Communities of Practice 51

Communities of Practice Community Yahoo Social Media 51

bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Bentham developed the idea of the panopticon , a prison design that provided a single central point from which all prisoners/cells/activities could be observed. Should we be more explicit with learners that online activity can be tracked, and what effect might that have on learner interest and motivation?

Virtual Classroom 81

Virtual Classroom Simulations Blackboard Distance Learning 81

bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2016

I thought I knew a lot about my field—I’d been there a decade, after all, and was a voracious reader of trade journals and business books (back then it was EQ and the tail end of the TQM movement) and a member of a very active community of practice (CoP) for trainers.

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Journal Communities of Practice Articulate Community 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 16, 2009

They worked together to develop workshops and a lengthy train-the-trainer course; they used meetings as an opportunity to “dry run” new programs or activities and get helpful feedback from other practitioners; they learned by watching one another work and by working with one another.

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Communities of Practice Expertise Community Roles 40