As I mentioned in a previous blog , not even lists can be boring. Tags: Blog Plain English isn’t dull writing, and it’s not about banning new or long words. It’s all about using words that are easier to read and understand, and faster to write! Here are our top ten tips for writing an e-learning course in plain English. Think before you write. It’s crucial to plan the structure of an e-learning course. List the topics which need to be covered. Make a note of the points you want to cover on each screen. Focus on the learning objectives – and bear them in mind as you write! MORE >>

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Most bloggers no longer feel they must blog every day. One area that noobs fail to understand is that it is not cool to “scrape&# other people’s blogs. Every week I come upon sites that break one or more of these taboos: Do not re-post someone else’s blog posts in their entirety. I’ve been happy to share my thoughts in blogs and free articles for more than a decade. Several automated blogs repost my work with ads alongside. Tags: Blogging The web and social networks are evolving their own conventions of appropriate behavior. MORE >>

I came across an interesting concept today, which I’m sure many readers of e-learning blogs also read. The well known elearning Technology blog written by Tony Karrer , was reacting to a post on how to generate ideas for blogs. Now, according to Tony his blogs are mostly the results of conversations he has had, from which he learns something new. This is why he is suggesting we the blogging community go off and have some of those conversations ourselves and point him to them so he can benefit from the conversation without actually having it! MORE >>

The part that I would like to focus on in this blog is the neglected ‘kinaesthetic’ element – or what my dad was using to teach me about stars. My dad used to explain astronomy to me using salt pots and oranges. The orange generally represented the sun, whilst the salt pots, ketchup bottles and whatever else was on the kitchen table stood in for planets and comets. He would then make them all ‘orbit’ each other, enlisting my help when he ran out of hands and demonstrating why the moon seemed to change size each night, or how a solar eclipse worked. MORE >>