These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at ASTD TK11 with Karen Wickre (Global Communications Team) and Ann Farmer from Google. Social Media @ Google Part 1: How Google manages external communicates to make news and info about google findable to the outside world Part 2: Internal communication and discovery Part 1: How Google communicates publicly: Don’t do traditional press releases 150+blogs!, Corporate Comms oversees the internal process for blogs, etc. This wasn’t a session to easily live-blog. astd tk11snappy or straightforward?, MORE >>

My live blogged notes from a session with Karl Kapp at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose: Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers. Karl’s blog: accidental learning and power of stories: [link] CONCEPTS At the end of your training, have a really hard scenario – now what would you do, how would you tackle this? astd tk11Sound instructional design techniques work for the new technology (gadgets, games, etc.) Think performance supports instead of instruction. MORE >>

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. Any one who is interested can leave a note on my blog and I will contact them. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? What would your "To Learn List" look like? MORE >>

My live blogged notes…ASTD TechKnowledge 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. Recap of her recent article for ASTD: e-Learning – What’s Old is New Again When you say you’re doing elearning what are you doing? didn’t ask about quality, efficiency, satisfaction) Step 2: Defined the options They constructed 26 snapshots (options derived from literature, conferences, blogs, etc.) – e.g., “Our programs are delivered in a virtual classroom. Tags: astd allison rossett Allison Rossett is a Professor of Educational Technology at University of San Diego and noted author. Web 2.0 MORE >>

Had a great Webinar with some wonderful people through ASTD. ASTD Gamification Webinar Slides from Karl Kapp. Blog posts discussing subjects covered in presentation: Consider Player/Game Interactions. The Webinar was about Games and Gamification. Here are the slides from the presentation. Here is some content and references. An experience as an avatar can change a person’s real life perceptions. Reference: Yee, N., & Bailenson, J.N. 2006). Proceedings of PRESENCE 2006: The 9th Annual International Workshop on Presence. August 24- 26, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 2005). 2009).Virtual MORE >>