How Many Accelerated Learning Phases Are There? In the training world, the optimum number seems to be “four.”  There are four learning styles, four stages of competence, and a four-level evaluation model. There is also a four-phase learning cycle. There are different ways of thinking about the learning cycle and different numbers of phases.  Some educators have proposed four phases, while others have proposed five or even six.  There are also different names for these learning cycles. He calls it simply the “Four-Phase Learning Cycle.”  This is what it is: Preparation: Arousing Interest. MORE >>

by Kevin Siegel. If you'd like to repeat an object over a majority of your slides, one of the easiest ways to proceed is to select the object and, on the Properties panel, Timing group, select Display for rest of project. Alternatively, you can create and use master slides. However, working with master slides involves multiple steps (creating them and then using them). The rest of project option is compelling because it's so simple. By using the rest of project option, the object you selected will appear on every slide following the slide containing the original object. MORE >>

Branching scenarios can be a pain to design. Happily, you can use a simple tool called Twine to easily draft the scenario and produce it. In this post we’ll look at a scenario that I wrote to demonstrate Twine’s basic features and to make a point about teaching through stories. In the scenario, you’re a journalist in a hurry to get to a hot story in Zekostan, and your “guide&# can’t speak English or drive. You have to quickly learn the necessary Zeko terms to navigate the roads and respond to events along the way. Twine. Link scenes using simple text. MORE >>

Everyone has one - a personal learning environment, that is. Just look around when you are next sat on a bus or train, and you will see people sat listening with earbuds or using their mobile phones. Some will be reading books, or Kindles. Others will be discussing current affairs with their friends, or reading newspapers. It's quite simple. We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn. Personal learning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own communities of interest and practice. Unported License. MORE >>

In my work I sometimes need to schedule meetings with people, all at once, who live around the globe: New York, LA, Sydney, London. As I am math-challenged even on the best days I find the time zone issue confounding and almost always get something wrong. I'd tried a number of time zone converters but none displayed multiple cities in just the way I needed. So I was delighted to find out about World Time Buddy , which displays time by cities all at once. Here's the thing: World Time Buddy is useful to me. It is the tool that solves my problem. It is what I need. like the Beluga phone app. MORE >>