Can I, um, have your attention, please? (eLearning Tips)
Learning Visions
APRIL 9, 2010
A short screen cast I made a few weeks ago about some simple ways you can get someone's attention in an eLearning program: Tags: elearning tips kineo tv.
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ATD Core 4 - July 24-26, 2023 - Washington, DC
Learning Visions
AUGUST 8, 2023
Sardek threaded his laws of attention and engagement through this session, with lots of application and demonstrations, including getting a room full of adults to suck on some really sour candy to demonstrate our perceptions to change…. ENGAGEMENT: The Law of Attention – attention goes where curiosity grows; attention increases with novelty.
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Using Game Design To Create Accomplishment Based Learning, Julie Dirksen #astdtk13 @usablelearning
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Let's start with attention. How long is the avg attention span? But there's really not a practical limit to our attention span if we WANT to pay attention. So for our learners -- I need you to pay attention now, but when are you actually going to need this? It's learning, but it doesn't feel effortful. I know, but."
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Creating a Virtual Leadership Academy: A Case Study #ASTDTK14
Learning Visions
JANUARY 23, 2014
Interactive – polls, chat and questions Engaging – keep their attention Visual – relevant graphics and video Effective Speakers - -make sure they’re strong and engaging Relevance Overall, people liked virtual and appreciated the convenience. No one will be offended by brevity). Easy – simple to access, log-on and learn.
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Joe Sabia – opening keynote at Brainshark #sharkmeet12
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
How do you present info in a way people will pay attention ? So how do we get people to pay attention ? Makes it so damn hard to pay attention to anything. Attention is a valued commodity. Use creativity to stand out and capture that attention! Not trips or tricks, but perspectives in grabbing attention.
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Emotional Experiences: The Underrated Key to Successful Online Learning, David Guralnick #ICELW Concurrent Session Notes
Learning Visions
JUNE 12, 2014
They take away our attention. Instrinsic (coming from within) People who had to eat radishes vs. chocolate chip cookies -- the radish eaters gave up on unsolvable puzzles more quickly then the cookie eaters. Baumeister, et al 1998) Acts of self-control and responsible decision making seem to interfere with actions that follow.
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Cammy and Connie in Podcast Form!
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Be sure to grab your copy of The Accidental Instructional Designer: Learning Design for the Digital Age.'
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Julie Dirksen, #DevLearn "Interface Design: Tips and Tricks for Designing for Learning Environments"
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 23, 2013
All the UI, etc -- that''s extraneous cognitive load -- it''s taking up time and attention that your learner should be spending on the content. Print out your screen and draw a line to show where the learner''s eye/attention needs to go. If a user interface is really hard to figure out, you''re maxing out the learner''s cognitive load.
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Six Psychological Tricks to Increase Recall #ATD2015 @MindGym
Learning Visions
MAY 19, 2015
It's easy to miss something you're not paying attention to. Situational attention. How to apply this trick: Use cues and prompts in the real world to focus attention Set specific missions built into the workflow Develop the participants mindfulness as part of the experience 6. How do you get drivers to notice bicyclists?
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How to Combat Cognitive Overload with Connie Malamed #ASTDTK12
Learning Visions
JANUARY 25, 2012
Streamline your multimedia – keep attention focused (avoid split attention: learners watch a video and then have to read separate text bullets…instead present words as narration rather than onscreen text! if not using audio, integrate text with animation or video)…you can’t have two different things going on the screen!
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5 Building Blocks to Better Beginnings with Carmen Taran
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
How do you get them to sit up and pay attention. Five important ways to hook your learner and sustain that attention throughout? When elements in an event are equal in skill – now you have somebody’s attention. Sprinkle these techniques throughout your session to sustain attention. Are you delivering an online webinar?
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Karl Kapp "The Case of the Disengaged Learner" #ATDTK
Learning Visions
JANUARY 14, 2015
New and different catches our attention. It''s the novel and new that we pay attention to. Now people pay attention, because they don''t want to have to do five more questions. The learner should have some control over their actions. Give them levels of choice, but parameters. Add novelty. Surprise works.
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Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work
Learning Visions
JANUARY 9, 2009
Motivation (why you should pay attention) Focusing Objectives (what you should pay attention to) Instructional Objectives for Developers: Instr. Today's focus: Focusing Objectives A statement presented before learner encounters material to help guide learner attention to the most important aspects of the learning material.
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Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do!
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Get the Learner’s Attention We use a lot of “fake” ways to get people’s attention…fun flash movie and then slide into the boring content…but I got their attention! Yes, we need to sustain that attention.) Attention – ways marketers and game developers get our attention. Quickly produce short tips.
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Ian Bogost, #DevLearn “The Real Power of Games for Learning”
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Gamification hopes to capture more and more attention, while game design wants to capture a small bit of that attention to reshape the player’s behavior. With simple building blocks and tools you construct something large than the usual parts. Like Civ or SimCity. Transformation vs. Engagement.
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Live in NY! It’s Kineo…
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Maybe you need to rethink your programs… So let’s take a closer look at those models: Knowledge and Skill builder (a variation on Gagne’s 9 Events): Get attention Set direction Present info Exemplify and practice Assess and summarize Action and support See Kineo Design Hour: Learning Models presentation for more details.
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work
Learning Visions
JANUARY 9, 2009
Motivation (why you should pay attention) Focusing Objectives (what you should pay attention to) Instructional Objectives for Developers: Instr. Todays focus: Focusing Objectives A statement presented before learner encounters material to help guide learner attention to the most important aspects of the learning material.
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100 #LS2010 Sir Ken Robinson: The Element - How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Wed Keynote
Learning Visions
MARCH 24, 2010
Pay attention to what interests you. Pay attention to your own individuality. To be in your element, you need to love it. When you love it – you never work again. Practice what you love. Find the nexus of passion and aptitude. Our lives our created by our interests, our values, our imaginations, our senses of possibilities.
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The Two Faces of ePortfolios
Learning Visions
JUNE 18, 2010
Some research showing that schools are starting to pay to attention to social networks in terms of learning. Can hyperlink artifacts (assume all electronic) to a reflective journal (e.g., a blog) – many students are using their social networks as a way to document their life experiences (e.g., facebook and twitter). Providing feedback.
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181 danah boyd ASTD Tech Knowledge Key Note #astdtk13
Learning Visions
JANUARY 30, 2013
These people are trying to hack the ATTENTION ECONOMY. They mess with the flow of attention in society. Rickrolling started on 4chan – “I got rickrollled!”. A culture of pranking and punkstering. Anonymous emerged out of 4chan in response to Scientology. They play with the status quo and play with the boundaries of Internet culture.
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174 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Wills New Taxonomy for Learning Objectives
Learning Visions
JANUARY 29, 2008
Learning objectives are used to guide the attention of the learner toward critical learning messages. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Learning objectives are used to tell the learner whats in the course. They are used by instructional designers to guide the design of the learning. -- Kineo Moodle f.
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ID Live: What’s Fun Got to Do With It?
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
People don’t pay attention to boring things.” Stories and emotional connection, the unexpected – fun is one way of getting at those things. Especially on the corporate front – fun seen as a waste. But fun with intent and purpose to help achieve learning objectives!
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Ive Gone Pink For October
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 3, 2007
Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Wednesday, October 03, 2007 Ive Gone Pink For October Im not a pink-ish kind of a girl.
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Learning Visions
MAY 24, 2011
Motivation Theory – John Keller, ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) “Adult Learning Theory” – she doesn’t believe in it. John Dewey, Bruno, Vgotsky, Brent Wilson… Connectivism – from know-how to know-where. Find it yourself through networks and community. Downes, Siemens. Personal knowledge management.
Steve Rosenbaum – Curation Nation - #devlearn keynote
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
What things get your attention on a daily basis? Always publish things contextually – clarify sources, update headlines. Your readers need to know why contextually it matters to them, not just the link. Well-curated site tells a story. TechCrunch has a story – it has an edge, voice, perspective. Have a theme and embrace it.
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives
Learning Visions
JANUARY 25, 2008
These are the ones we present to learners to help guide learner attention. Bottom line: By using very specific words and phrasing, learners can use learning objectives to guide their attention to the information in the learning material targeted by the learning objectives. Can I, um, have your attention, please?
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Meeting Face to Face
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 25, 2008
But not only is it the way they can express themselves (non-verbally and verbally) and communicate outward, but being able to "read" their class and have a sense of whos paying attention. you get their attention again. you get their attention again. Can I, um, have your attention, please? For example.
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Pretesting: Why bother?
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 15, 2007
Will points out the validity of pretests and prequestions, arguing that "prequestions function as learning objectives" guiding the users "attention toward some aspects of the learning material and away from other aspects of the learning material." Can I, um, have your attention, please? Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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100 Andy Whitaker "Matching Learning Paths w/Performance Using Tin Can" #ATDTK
Learning Visions
JANUARY 15, 2015
Cammy''s note on this -- there''s no verification of this event, however, so you could make up whatever you feel like and recording that you went to the event doesn''t mean you actually learned anything or even paid any attention. ." -- that''s a real world activity that can be tracked. Perhaps you were too busy gambling!]
"Why Learning is the New Work" with Melissa Daimler @mdaimler - opening keynote @ATDCore4
Learning Visions
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
We have shorter attention spans; we check our phones XX times a day. Learn more intentionally To have a more meaningful learning experience, both the teacher and the learner have to be present. We are overwhelmed all the time. The world is becoming more dynamic. Josh Bersin wrote an article that said 2/3 of employees are overwhelmed.)
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Learning Visions
JANUARY 29, 2010
I’ve taken pages of notes and clipped many a standout quotes, but especially wanted to share this quote from Randy Hinrichs of 2b3d : “It’s Not About Instructional Design, It’s About Experiential Design -- Yes, we must gain the learner’s attention, inform them of learning objectives, stimulate recall, present new material, provide learning guidance, (..)
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133 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Styles as Fortune Telling
Learning Visions
MAY 21, 2007
Vary activities to maintain interest and attention. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Harold Stolovichs take on the subject of learning styles, is that, yes, we all have different styles and approaches, but that these arent the main thing we should be focusing on as designers of learning.
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186 Learning to Work, Working to Learn
Learning Visions
MARCH 16, 2009
My attention has admittedly wandered to shinier, more gripping things. Articulate Guru Awards 2009 Clive Shepherd's 60-Minute Masters What else should I be looking at? What are you looking at? Reading I'm still in the midst of The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles et al. I've got a long wish list going in Amazon of books I'd like to read.
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Learning Visions
MARCH 16, 2009
My attention has admittedly wandered to shinier, more gripping things. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Articulate Guru Awards 2009 Clive Shepherds 60-Minute Masters What else should I be looking at? What are you looking at? Reading Im still in the midst of The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles et al.
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100 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning from Observation
Learning Visions
MARCH 14, 2007
The brain does indeed pay attention. Can I, um, have your attention, please? It goes to show, weve got to make sure that were putting the right content into our courses -- so that the learner knows that he or she is actually going to be using this information later. Weed out the fluff. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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100 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Myths with Dr. Will Thalheimer
Learning Visions
JANUARY 23, 2009
Can I, um, have your attention, please? Given that the Business side holds some myths as self-evident, what can we as learning professionals do about it? -- Kineo Moodle f. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. ► March (11) eLearning Geeks on Spring Break and New Skills for.
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Learning Myths with Dr. Will Thalheimer
Learning Visions
JANUARY 23, 2009
Given that the Business side holds some myths as self-evident, what can we as learning professionals do about it?
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ASTD Keynote: “People Lie” Richard Hilleman Electronic Arts #tk10
Learning Visions
JANUARY 28, 2010
Pay attention to the results iterate for effect Demonstrate and callibrate progress through metrics Pursue new markers and correlations for the insight they provide Example of using technology in a more traditional education environment (teaching kids how to spell better, improve vocabulary). Stop guess, start measuring!
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
We need to pay attention. We need to be aware of what the big companies are trying to do…they want to shut down the free internet. www.Savetheinternet.com an open free internet transforms our lives. We are the ones who need to do that. Geeks need to be the ones to stand up and be counted.
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100 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: More on Learning Styles
Learning Visions
AUGUST 10, 2007
The Telegraph article that Downes refers to shows how much attention the topic still garners. Can I, um, have your attention, please? The whole Learning Styles controversy just wont go away; its an entrenched theory at all levels in the education and e-learning field. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo e-Learning Development Survey
Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Can I, um, have your attention, please? -- Kineo Moodle f. 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. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Kineo Webinar on Webinars!
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 7, 2009
Can I, um, have your attention, please? -- Kineo Moodle f. 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. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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100 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Interview with Tony Karrer on Informal and Social Learning
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Can I, um, have your attention, please? -- Kineo Moodle f. 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. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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100 Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Jane Bozarth Follow Up
Learning Visions
AUGUST 12, 2009
Can I, um, have your attention, please? -- Kineo Moodle f. 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. Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.
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