bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

I've heard from people who've been told games are "too much fun", "we aren't allowed to have anything light", and my favorite, to the student who knocked it out of the park on his final project for one of my e-learning development courses, "It's too entertaining ". Time to push past the fear and give something interesting a try for a change.

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APRIL 12, 2015

Much better than a hollow chocolate bunny, my metaphorical Easter basket this year held a review copy of Connie Malamed’s wonderful new Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning. It is hard, looking at an authoring tool, to refrain from wanting to start loading content and searching for templates and images.

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APRIL 4, 2013

New Learning Solutions column this week: “Work backwards. The content and activities you create should support eventual achievement of those goals.” Write the performance goals, decide how you will assess those, and then design the program. or k b See the full article at: [link]'

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JUNE 11, 2013

As I wrote in the May issue of T+D Magazine : " Sharing and showing what we’re doing and learning can ease several pain points for organizations. And it helps others learn about executing work not easily captured as a step-by-step process. Join me today, June 11, 2 pm ET, for " Show Your Work ", a webcast hosted by ASTD.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you're there, join me Wednesday for a Morning Buzz session on social learning, on Thursday for breakout sessions "What Managers and Executives Need to Know About Social Learning" and, with Kevin Thorn "DesignBoarding: Leveraging Good Treatments for Your Content". Should be a fun and meaningful time!

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JULY 7, 2011

This reader sees him- or herself as an educator or workplace learning practitioner interested in professional development, improving practice, and learning more about learning regardless of the vehicle. He regards professional development and lifelong learning as an obligation for any practitioner in any field.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 8, 2010

A challenge with writing a book about technologies—particularly those that are continually morphing and evolving – is keeping content as up-to-date as possible. Facebook offers many options for setting limits on who can see what: Be sure to learn about using lists and other privacy settings. July 30, 2010) 2.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Hundreds of people joined me for a whirlwind tour of my second book, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint. The session, hosted by the Training Magazine Network , came down to this: Plenty of horrible e-learning has been created with expensive tools.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

[Note: This originally ran on Training Magazine’s former “Training Day” blog on 2/12/2010] Discussion of objectives in training could be a topic for a book all by itself, but lately I’ve run across 2 excellent examples of problems with learning/performance objectives. They provide a good basis for looking at just a couple of common problems.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Every sale saw new staff, less and less knowledgeable about (or, as far as I could tell, interested in) workplace training and learning. Magazine work is just an add-on for me; I am among the fortunate in the training/learning business to have good, full-time employment complete with retirement plan and health insurance.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Here are some of the sacred training cows I tipped in Atlanta: --Much of what we call 'e-learning' would be much more useful if distributed as text documents. --The Good e-learning is about design, not software. How about the example in this post: relevant, or distracting?) --Boring content is no excuse for boring training. --The

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

As both a review and means of formative assessment, conduct an A-Z Summary of past class content, live or webinar session, etc. Ask each participant to tweet one thing they’ve learned.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 9, 2008

Based on the "Hollywood Squares" game, this was developed for a new-hire orientation program both as a way to cover fairly dry content as well as helping staff recognize people they'd need to know to both "get around" and "get along" in the office. (I

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

Next go round we may emphasize even more the need to incorporate games as they relate to content, not just as filler, I also see that we may have given the wrong impression about something: there's a comment in the lower right quadrant about self-paced learning, which we didn't discuss at all and certainly weren't casting aspersions toward.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Distance learning allows for a new level of observation/supervision, including simple lurking, for those who choose to use it. Should students have a right to say who should have access to the "content" they generate during the course? The university, the faculty teaching it, or the learners enrolled in it?

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