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SOCIAL LEARNING BLOG JUNE 28, 2011 The Death of the Traditional Web: Implications for Self-Directed Learning A friend of mine recently sent me a fascinating article titled “ The Shrinking of the Non-Social Web ” which contained some real eye-openers. A brief overview of the content of the article: Traditional use of the Web (i.e. non-mobile and non-video usage) is shrinking. Per-person consumption of traditional Web content fell by 3 percent between March 2010 and March 2011 in terms of minutes. | THE PEFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT BLOG JUNE 28, 2011 The Course Catalog Is (Should Be) Dead Recently, I was asked a very thought-provoking question by the director of HRD for a large organization. was explaining the “5As Framework” to her and she asked, “What are the implications for what we do here?” I immediately launched into my usual speech about getting managers of learners involved in actively supporting the learning process. What do you think? Can we throw out the course catalog? | BRAVE NEW ORG JUNE 28, 2011 The 4 Traits of a High Performing Team No, the answer isn’t simply “be more collaborative”. The word team itself is both interesting and loaded. You can use it as a verb (eg. teamed up with Kiran and Mario to design a video) or you may choose to use it as a noun. that Manchester United team was dramatically outplayed by Barcelona FC ). Quite frankly, the term ‘team’ is omnipresent. ve been mulling over the term for years. Thoughtful. | JAY CROSS JUNE 28, 2011 Working Smarter eFieldbook $12 We just cut the price of the eBook to $12. eBook , $12. Paper, $24. By Charles Jennings, Harold Jarche, ?Clark Clark Quinn, Jane Hart & Jay Cross. This is the first edition of the Fieldbook to incorporate QR codes. That’s what these funky-looking little bar codes are called. Point your smart phone at a QR code, and you’ll be led to a location on the net with more information. Excerpt. Contents. | | | | | | | | | -
ZAIDLEARN | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 Web 2.0 Tools in Education: A Quick Guide (Prof. Mohamed Amin Embi) Web 2.0 Tools in Education: A Quick Guide by Mohamed Amin Embi The best quick guide (230 pages) for 'Web 2.0 Tools in Education' that I have come across (Ever!). 230 pages sounds a lot, but when you are covering 20 learning tools with screenshots, it is pretty quick and lovingly light! Useful? certainly think so! learning Social_Media MORE >> -
I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 Adobe Captivate 5.5: Quizzes To Write Home About by Kevin Siegel You've always been able to create quizzes with Captivate. Of course, over the years the quiz features have gotten better and better. However, if you've spent any time with the quiz feature in Captivate 5, you are probably a bit disappointed with how bad some of the text formatting features are. For instance, when you add a multiple choice question slide, something simple like aligning the text horizontally is a real challenge. You'll be happy to hear that all is well in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5. and then some. When learners review a Captivate 5.5 feature. MORE >> -
MOODLE JOURNAL | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 The iPad have arrived Today I had first site and contact with our new iPad collection. This eLearning project has been a while in coming to life it seems, but I can certainly appreciate the constraints of wise prequrement, given the arrival of the iPad 2 at such a sensitive time for us. Our network support team are managing connection issues right now and this week we are going to be looking at how we will be deploying these resources beyond the initial project once it completes. Regards Barry MORE >> -
Tribes and networks coexist Tweet So the social networking utopia is not coming, writes Mashable’s Chris Taylor on CNN. He cites one Dunbar number (now all the rage) and concludes: Turns out we’re hardwired to get along best in tight groups of no more than 150, and have been since we were living on the African savannah. Armies take advantage of this hardwiring, as do the smartest corporations, not to mention wedding planners. Dunbar’s research looked at relationships among primates and didn’t take into account loose ties or electronically mediated & enhanced communications. MORE >> -
RAPID ELEARNING BLOG | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011 M-Learning 101: I’ll Take My Rapid E-Learning to Go Last week I spent a couple of days in San Jose at mLearnCon. Lots of interesting stuff. One thing that stood out was that most people haven’t jumped into the pool yet. Lots of interest, but not a lot of implementation. The challenge for many people is figuring out what mobile learning is and what they can do to get started. And they don’t want to spend a lot of money doing so. The cool thing is that while you’re still figuring things out, it’s easy enough to stick your toes into the m-learning pool. In today’s post, I’ll share some simple tips to help you get started with mobile learning. MORE >>
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- Shifting From the Schoolyard to the Workplace CLO MAGAZINE | TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011
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