Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. I’ll be seeing it again! Properly d.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.] John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Or don’t.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.] John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Or don’t.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? I think social learning must be informal and fun. Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine. Thanks for a thoughtful post!

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MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Train Your Client On Training&# Elfreda Chenauls March 5, 2011 at 2:27 am # Hello this is a unique article. He ends the blog with this key message: The goal is to build a course appropriate to your client’s needs. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Without throwing him completely under the bus, I’ll describe him as being late to the social media party but definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to openness to using informal learning elements like social media in his undergraduate courses. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. I learned that the Target Center in Minneapolis is the 28 th busiest building in the nation via Facebook today. That’s right, FACEBOOK! That’s right, FACEBOOK! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Without throwing him completely under the bus, I’ll describe him as being late to the social media party but definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to openness to using informal learning elements like social media in his undergraduate courses. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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MARCH 11, 2011

In his recent Wired article (March 2011) “Better Living Through Games,” Clive Thompson describes how editors at UK’s Guardian newspaper created a web app videogame to involve the public in analyzing millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses filed by British politicians. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general. Beth’s experience looking for work as a private contractor exposed her to the current temporary staffing boom. Should I use it?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Before you commit to delivering a project based on these ratios (or buying services from someone based on them), it is useful to keep a few things in mind about eLearning Development Ratios: 1. More often than not, however, these guidelines can be dangerously misleading. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A truly excellent article by Matt Thompson, titled An Antidote for Web Overload , addresses the reasons behind Wikipedia’s increasing replacement of traditional news sites as the go-to source for breaking news items. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Here is the best from this past month. Tool #1: Oomfo for Charts & Graphs.

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JULY 7, 2010

Introduction to Social Networking - Learning and Working on the Web , June 21, 2010 As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy , I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. Introduction to Social Networking. Makes no sense.

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APRIL 20, 2023

In this article, I’ll be going into 12 strategies that many people seem to overlook; or write off for a variety of reasons. It stands to reason: when the globe was required to stay physically separated, social networking helped to act as a bridge as well as keep us linked to our loved ones, friends, especially companies.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Check out this article in Fast Company last week called How Mint Exec’s New Company is Going to Make Teachers Out of Us All. Facebook), eventually find its way into the corporate environment. This de-evolution of expectations will, like most on-line consumer trends (e.g., What do you think? less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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