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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning to Work, Working to Learn

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PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlmans got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. This reminds me how much I like to make stuff. Just need to make some decisions and add them to the cart.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Go Read a Book

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In a recent book claiming that television and video games were “making our minds sharper,&# the journalist Steven Johnson argued that since we value reading for “exercising the mind,&# we should value electronic media for offering a superior “cognitive workout.&# ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

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This applies particularly where text and sound are likely to be used (notably the studies on PowerPoint and speech). In the US, where instruction remains completely teacher-directed, school controlled, instructors add audio as a method of trying to keep students awake through unbelievably boring exercises in PowerPoint abuse. -

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better

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Heres what I recall: They created a set of powerpoint slides. We used a real gunnery instructor to narrate all of the exercises, presentation sequences, and activities. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. For now, this is all heresay. Perhaps the subject matter expert had created them?)

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Plodding Along in Second Life

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Showed me the site of the chemical spill where the students had done a group exercise. Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f. I got stuck in a car on Nissan island. Couldnt get out.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Making Six Sigma Training Fun

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This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). Of course, we used rubber ducks whenever possible to create some fun graphics and exercises. But Ive tried.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

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Lively eLearning is a course that gets the learner involved - which one can do simply by writing in a more conversational tone, or by creating appropriate exercises and activities to help the learner think critically about the content and ensure better transfer. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.