Kapp Notes

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Three Tips for e-Learning Dominance

Kapp Notes

Make it realistic, targeted and focused on actions and activity. Push back against time constraints and invest the time in a wonderful, learning-focused experience instead of an endless stream of PowerPoint-enabled screens with bullet after bullet of what you should or shouldn’t do. ONE: Make the learning meaningful.

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Ken Hudson’s Finland Keynote: They Became What They Beheld

Kapp Notes

The conference is running in Second Life and is streaming Ken’s (and other’s) presentation and the conference is displaying a live Twitter feed…so we have technology all around. Ken discussed how an avatar can impact a learner and how virtual worlds can be used to immerse learners in engaging activities.

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Educating Factory and Technical Workers

Kapp Notes

The provide educational materials for manufacturing and engineering and offer activity-based learning modules, faculty professional development and even students who graduate from the program and contribute to the manufacturing base in this country.

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A Conversation with Juliette Denny (Part One)

Kapp Notes

The focus when you login in is the dialogue stream where they can see all the learning activity from their team mates, and the leaderboards showing who has done what. “Does it make be feel good about myself?”. We want users to love it, so it needs to be current, relevant and personal to them and their world.

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3D Virtual Immersive Environment: Conceptual Orienteering

Kapp Notes

Conceptual Orienteering is a learning archetype where learners are given activities or situations in which they are presented with examples and non-examples of environmental or situational conditions for the purpose of discrimination and creating an understanding of key concepts.

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Class Meeting in 3D World of VirtualU

Kapp Notes

Last night the class ventured into VirtualU for a tour hosted by Jim and Steve Parker who have created a virtual platform build on Active Worlds. Both have the ability to experience the same event through Twitter feeds and streaming video. But there are many alternatives that are being deployed in a variety of applications.

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Gadgets, Games and Gizmos: Dad, Can I Download the Teletubbies Ring Tone

Kapp Notes

Downloading games is the most prevalent activity, while 25% of children watch downloaded movies, television, music videos, or streaming video content, the study found.

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