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JUNE 29, 2010

I’m happy to announce that I will now be contributing to MoodleTuts , the Moodle blog that makes learning Moodle easy. If you’ve worked with Moodle you know it’s not easy to find what you are looking for in short easy steps.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I'm sure you will see more blog posts throughout the semester updating you on my progress on the projects. I'm hoping to keep the blog posts coming while juggling school assignments so hopefully the class will give me some hot topics to blog about.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

An assignment for my "Tech for Teaching" class at SDSU requires us to follow Ed Tech related blogs on our reader than write up a summary of what we learned from reading these posts and how these lessons apply to our professional goals.

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JUNE 11, 2008

Classes in the Ed Tech program at SDSU have me swamped on top of my work schedule so it's been tough to make the blog a priority. However, I have been learning some great stuff at SDSU and feel like I need to get back in the blogging habit so I can reflect on these lessons.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

If you liked the PBL posts on my blog you will like how this article brings it all together. With the help of Jill Duffy from eLearn Mag, I boiled down the key steps and tips for developing project based learning into one article covering it from head to toe. Click Here for eLearn Mag Article.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Until now I have held out from jumping on the Twitter bandwagon because of the overwhelming amount of information I am already taking in through Facebook , LinkedIn , Blogging and my RSS feeds in Google Reader. I am getting up to speed on Twitterisms with Michelle Martins blog post " Your guide to Job Search, and Personal Branding on Twitter."

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DECEMBER 14, 2008

You can actually dive in right here from my blog. In my sidebar you will see the eLearning Learning keyword widget which lists common topics I talk about on my blog. Tony Karrer has really done some amazing things with the keyword widget making it easy to dig deep into a research topic.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Just as I was looking into purchasing Camtasia Studio by Tech Smith I came across a blog posting on Tony Karrer's eLearning Technology blog just in the nick of time. Tony posted links to free downloads of Snag It and Camtasia. I have been a long time user of Snag It and love it for screen shots.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

One of the most frequently asked questions I get from blog readers is "Why did I choose to go with Moodle" over other Learning Management Systems. For more information on RFP's and samples to help you get started, check out this blog post about LMS RFP's by Tony Karrer. Why Moodle?

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

I stumbled upon Tim's Blog which is chock full of “One Page Guides” that are simple, one page job aids covering a variety of topics. Here are a couple of my favorite one page guides from Tim's Blog: Online Video Editing Introducing Wikis Browsing through these one page guides reminded me that simpler is better most of the time.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

This is my first post on my first blog. BTW - Check out Tony Karrer's blog. Well here goes nothing. Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking with Tony Karrer, and through this conversation I learned a couple of things in addition to some great information about LMS's. Outside of LMS's I learned how ignorant I am when it comes to Web 2.o

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APRIL 21, 2010

Create social learning activities such as Forums, Chats, Wiki's, and Blogs. Add a social activity such as a forum, chat session, wiki, or blog Post progress report Use the "Progress Report" forum on the course site Summarize what you have done so far, lessons you have learned, and any questions you have.

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MAY 26, 2010

Daveperso's Articulate eLearning Blog: Presenter 09 and Captivate 4 How to Create a "Zoom and Pan" Effect in PowerPoint. I also included a link to my previous post which describes a method for transitioning from a scenario into a software simulation by creating a "Zoom and Pan" effect in PowerPoint.

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MARCH 7, 2010

This post answers one of my most frequently asked questions from blog readers by walking you through the steps of using a SCORM based Adobe Captivate tutorial in Moodle. You could drive yourself crazy drilling down into the details of SCORM but the most important thing to know is how to make it work.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Before diving into this I thought these tools were just for cookie cutter eLearning and not as flexible as you see in the Screenr videos here and here and here.

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JUNE 21, 2009

I spend a lot of time skimming through blog posts in my Reader and only read the posts that catch my attention. It will be interesting to see how my time spent reading blogs from my Reader is affected by finding all the juicy information without the skimming on Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I look forward to hearing your ideas and sharing them in upcoming blog posts. I can't be the only one with something to say about it so help contribute by posting a comment with your thoughts or experiences with project based learning.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

I have found a few blog posts regarding Wikis in corporate settings but overall I am going at this blind. Through my research into Wiki implementations in corporate settings I have found that there is just not a lot of info out there.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Moodle friendly - If you've read this blog before you know I am using Moodle so it is important that whatever tool I use is Moodle friendly. I have a difficult time using SCORM with Captivate because of the added bandwidth. Keeping bandwidth to a minimum is a huge concern for me.

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JANUARY 7, 2008

I came across this link from a post on Brent Schlenkers blog Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development blog [link] Once I figure out a way to motivate sales people to submit questions to me I will be looking into expanding my game creating from just Quia to other resources listed at the link below.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Tom Kuhlmans post on the Rapid eLearning Blog inspired me to go the vector route. Although it can be rather time consuming to edit the points of the vector to get it just the way you want it but it's quicker than drawing the images in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Flash, at least for me it is.

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JULY 27, 2009

Hopefully this blog post will prevent another Captivate user from making the same mistake and having to waste time revising old projects. This small change has made my Adobe Captivate tutorials run much smoother and has dramatically reduced any kind of performance problems such as freezing.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Great blog post on starting a blog In particular I would like to use a Wiki for tech support questions and it will be easy to show a decrease in the number of tech support tickets opened. Our tech support staff tracks all of their tickets through a program called Bridge Track which should make this easy.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2008

After initially setting up the account, I did not revisit LinkedIn until recently reading a couple of articles praising linkedIn on Tony Karrer's blog. So that raises the question; how do you establish connections on LinkedIn? Here's what I did to start establishing connections whose expertise I might be able to tap into.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Tom from the Rapid eLearning Blog sparked my interest with his post " Create eLearning scenarios by bringing the virtual word into the real world." I decided to give up on my Avatar and try and explore all the great islands I have heard about it and could not get off of "Avatar Island" when my play around time expired.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

An Instructional Designers "Cheat Sheet" for Designing Project Based Learning Four blog posts ago I set out on a long strange trip to dissect project based learning in a corporate environment.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In my last post I set out on a quest to dissect Project Based Learning in the corporate world by starting some conversations and writing some blog posts. I believe that project based learning is ideally suited for adults in corporate training but sadly there is not much information available.

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MARCH 22, 2010

This blog post takes you through the development of this scene, and describes some of the lessons I learned along the way with a little help from fellow eLearning developers. Tools: The eLearning course was developed using Articulate so most of the work was done in Power point.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you would like more information on project based learning before looking at an example please review my series of project based learning blog posts. Enough talking about how to design project based learning, let's get down to the brass tacks and look at an example of a PBL lesson.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

Rick Nigol expressed his hatred for poorly written RFP's in his blog Breakthrough E-Learning. What not to do: How can you go wrong with an RFP. It's great for the shopper and the vendor, right? That's not what all the vendors say.

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