Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 26, 2007

A 26-minute presentation with just the right mix of theory, practical information and humor. Some notes (by writing these notes, I am creating an activity of repetition , arent I?) Since learners are bound to forget, its best to cover the high priority information. A lot of useful information in a short time.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 24, 2007

This has sparked a little exchange in the comments between myself and one of the active members of the of Renaissance Island community. Anyway, the team is sort of informal, although there are a couple of people from the Alliance Library system who are the primary team leaders, so working with us is perhaps part o their job.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Ellen Wagner says, " I Ds help transform intangible information assets into things of great business or epistemological value." Maybe thats my explanation, or maybe people are just becoming more informed these days :-), with the www and all ;-). Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). We move on.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Over the past year, Ive been focused on sales and marketing activities, project management, and content conversions -- "No ID needed, thank you." I havent worked with a SME and thought about appropriate learning activities and chunked out the content. But I havent "done" a course in ages. Can I, um, have your attention, please?

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

When time permits, my favorite lunchtime activity is to escape out to the woods and go for a walk. eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

But I will ask my dear readers (informally, of course) if you have any thoughts as to how I can make this blog better? Is there information that you would like to see more of? The more people who actively participate in the conversation, the more we can all learn from each other. I may join in then -- well see.)

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Funny, Im pretty active in SL, and would be moreso if my 1stL werent so dadburned bizzy. eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

MAY 12, 2009

Follow that up with some activities and let me go my merry way. Just after attending the Articulate user conference in March in Orlando, I wondered the same. " Alas, in my humble opinion, I think Americans are growing more and more accustomed to being "told" information, rather than having to read or research it.

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Learning Visions

MAY 9, 2007

Use multiple representations to provide the learner with multiple ways of accessing the information: visual or auditory. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

(See part one: Instructional Design as a Spectrum ) In eLearning Magazines predictions for 2008 , Patti Shank said this: Learning content, activity, and assessment authoring tools continue to improve. Tom Kuhlman is certainly providing this expertise to the Articulate user community and beyond with his Rapid E-Learning Blog.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2007

Anxious about the mental cost of aging, older people are turning to games that rely on quick thinking to stimulate brain activity. Games for the Brain Super-Close Google Map Zooms Rock On with e-Learning from ZVEX Informal/DIY Learning: Montessori School for Adul. “Women come for the games, but they stay for the community.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 23, 2007

Here are a few highlights: Sustaining Performance in Rapid e-Learning includes some great tips and ideas for how to create effective follow-up activities to ensure knowledge transfer on the job. This months newsletter is no exception. Get into the learners shoes. Can I, um, have your attention, please?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 10, 2007

"Wii Fit, which uses an innovative floor-based sensor to register body movement, takes players through a daily regimen of yoga, balancing exercises and other fat-fighting activities." So maybe the Guild Master Ceiling will get replaced with a Wii Ceiling? Check out the full story: Nintendos women gamers could transform market at Times Online.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We now have an abundance of information. I feel like I just downloaded a whole lot of great information! eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

He cites a USA Today article which says, Students "dont like it for activities that can be done in a real classroom, such as lectures or slide shows. But they do like to use it to visit new places or do group activities." Real concerns. Real victories." And thoughtful experimentation must continue.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Im not sure if there was a specific tipping point for me, but I was certainly amused when one of my friends informed me that Im personally responsible for making her waste more time on Facebook than she ever thought possible. Shes justifying it by arguing that playing word games will keep her brain active. I might be a little devious.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2008

Courses are divided into weekly modules, and students mostly complete the activities at the same time (although they have control over when in the week they do work). We started adding self-paced activities as part of courses last year. The courses themselves are primarily asynchronous, with the occasional synchronous chat.

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Here goes: 1) The Google Brand iGoogle My starting point for just about every online activity. eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Create pauses in the activity to get the learner to stop and think; apply the content to their own world; make their own connections. Designing courses to repeatedly expose learners to information in a variety of ways is one of the reasons online training can be effective at transferring information to long-term memory for later recall.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Tom Kuhlmans recent post on passive vs. active. eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B. Ive also been meaning to go back to B.J.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B. My mission statement will have to include some key words on e-Learning, instructional design, web 2.0 Task in progress.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 17, 2009

Had I not encouraged and required early interest in those activities it would have been a lot easier for him to just want to play SPORE all day long. My son LOVES computer games, but he also voluntarily chooses to play his guitar, shoot hoops, and ask me to throw a ball with him. I will say this. I know my kids very well.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 29, 2007

To create credibility and market value for myself -- on a professional level as an active member of the e-Learning industry. Games for the Brain Super-Close Google Map Zooms Rock On with e-Learning from ZVEX Informal/DIY Learning: Montessori School for Adul. To share thoughts, to learn, to grow: professional development (for free!)

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Learning Visions

JUNE 22, 2007

An active FaceBook user -- she logs on in the morning when she gets to work and leaves it open all day. "I I try to do an informal survey of students when I go to campuses to deliver orientations to our online courses. I guess your informal survey results are no surprise. I probably check it about 5 times a day."

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 2, 2007

Havent done that yet, but I was inspired to make sure I am actively commenting on commenters comments. eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

A key discovery most people make when learning about styles, whether its learning styles, DISC or MBTI, is that people may be different from they way they are in the way they take in and process information. They process information internally and intuitively making connections. Getting an Informal M.Ed Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Learning Visions

APRIL 21, 2008

He proposes that a strength is, “An activity that makes you feel strong.&# eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

From passive receiving interactive activities and collaboration Mashups, SOA, and Services: Welcome to Web Hybrid Applications (from the e-Learning Guild) Physical Technologies vs. Social Technologies: Products change first, followed by processes Classrooms as technologies Now we have physical technologies and social tech is trying to keep up.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

But very few of them were/are active game players and, as a rule, did not consider themselves gamers. I would expect that we will find people who dont actively participate in social media to hit a ceiling before non-gamers do though. Recently, I conducted a series of interviews with college-aged women. 6:37 PM Karl Kapp said.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 16, 2007

eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B. One days worth of data doesnt show you that much when youve got a little blog like mine with a fairly compact readership.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 17, 2007

I obviously need to do more of that basic SL 101 activity). eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B. The computer model at Dell is pretty cool.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 29, 2007

Definition of mLearning: "An activity that allows individuals to be more productive when consuming, interacting, or creating information, mediated through a compact digital portable device that the individual carries on a regular basis and has reliable connectivity and fits in a pocket or purse." Reusing your content in flexible ways.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

activity and one that really has educational implications.so eLearning Guild’s 2010 Salary Report ID Live with John Graves ► April (5) Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate Book Review: Love is the Killer App Kineo Insights Webinar: Aligning eLearning with B. So, I am a gamer 2.0 But not much higher.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Im a linear reader in recovery and have been actively learning how to skim books and not feel guilty about it. Although Im not in active instructional design mode for any projects right now, I did jot a bunch of ideas. They desire instant (or almost instant) learning delivered in an informal manner. Tom beat me to the punch.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

So lets get the tools and information out there to support folks like me. Would it not be better for us to consider what the customer is asking for and then working with that information come up with a viable approach that in the end meets the needs of the learners? My point is this: I dont think Im that unusual. Whats your story?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Providing more opportunities for learners to “accidentally&# discover your content and get the information they need to do what they need to do. It’s about combining formal learning events with social learning, informal learning, accidental learning, and whatever else it might take. Its a campaign. Photo credit: Risk!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 18, 2007

Mixed visual-auditory stimuli have an underadditive effect, so that if you have to do both at the same time, total brain activation goes down. So its interesting to think about this underadditive effect where "total brain activation goes down" if presenting in both visual and auditory at the same time. Thats my research for the day.

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