Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge. In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 11, 2011

One of the recurring questions I hear from those trying to start their instructional design careers is “How do you get experience in the field so you can get your first ID job?&#. It feels like a catch-22 for many people trying to get that first ID job: you can’t get any experience until you get a job, and you can’t get a job without experience.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 9, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. New Year's Day is the proper noun naming the day we celebrate the new year. That is why it is always capitalized. New Year's Eve is the night before, when all the partying really takes place. When wishing someone a happy new year, the phrase is capitalized and does not need the possessive apostrophe: Happy New Year! Occasionally, you may be using the phrase as an abbreviated form of the proper name of the day: Will I see you on New Year's?

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Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 7, 2011

Why Learning Professionals Need to Learn to Speak their Stakeholders’ Language The language we use is important. There’s no doubt about that. Human cultural development owes a great deal to our ability to communicate complex thoughts and be clearly understood by others so they can take actions. The problem is, like opinions, there are just so many languages to choose from at any one time.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 30, 2011

By Dean Hawkinson. Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. We also use tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media. In a lot of cases, we are using internal corporate social media tools to collaborate. However, how many of us have considered using these types of tools for collaboration in a training environment ?

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 31, 2011

Over the past 6 odd years, we have gained much more than experience and knowledge. We have grown quite well, from a 6 member team to 150+ professionals, today; from being just another provider of eLearning solutions to being a global leader in Custom eLearning Development, Learning Management System and Mobile Learning Solutions; and becoming a consistent performer with over 12 awards and recognitions.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2011

If I’m doing software application training, doing it as a webinar isn’t really my first choice. I’d rather create a bunch of Captivate tutorials and job aids to let people learn at their own pace, when they need to use the skills. Just-in-time, interactive training that supports or simulates actual tasks is my first choice. Application training via a synchronous tool like WebEx, Adobe Connect, or Elluminate too often ends up with passive learners.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 27, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. Who's Who books do have their grammar right. The proper usage is Who is who. But wait, you might be thinking, just last week , Jennie, you were telling us that we use who as the subject and whom as the object. Isn't the second who in Who is Who an object? If you can ask that question, you have reached at least the intermediate level in the game of correctly choosing between who and whom.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 11, 2011

I was just asked for some examples of eLearning. I had collected up eLearning Examples a couple years ago, but thought it was worth going back to look for more. The following are some very good lists of widely varying examples of eLearning. Elearning samples eLearning Examples Examples of E-Learning Where are Examples of eLearning? Lots Right Here! Two examples of elearning Elearning example: Branching scenario eLearning Examples 100+ Free Websites to Find out About Anything & Everything 100

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2011

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Web 2.0 Tool. Definition of the tool. Best Use of Tool. Examples. Wiki. A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software allows users to create, edit and link web pages easily.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Employees learn best when they have guidance, support, and performance feedback from someone they trust and respect in the organization. Ideally, this is a boss, supervisor, coach, or mentor who knows why that learning is important and how it aligns with strategic business goals. Managers, at all organizational levels, should have regular learning-focused conversations with the people who report to them.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 19, 2011

I spent most of my free time over the last few weeks reading Edward de Bono’s book, Six Thinking Hats , and thinking about how this thinking process can be applied to Instructional Design. Before I get to that, I’d like to give a brief overview of what the Six Thinking Hats are all about. Six Thinking Hats is a flexible and easy-to-use thinking process that leads to amazing results with innovative thinking, improved communication, and reduced meeting time.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2011

AdobeTV. Adobe tutorials on creating e-learning, including a collection on advanced functions in Captivate. tags: e-learning adobe tutorials captivate. Research: The Educational BS Repellent | Connected Principals. Highlights of what one principal has learned from Visible learning: a synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. Some of the ideas in education reform that we hear the most about (such as class size) maybe aren’t as important or have as much impact as other str

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 25, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Adding a Table of Contents to your published Captivate project is a great idea. you'll be giving your learners an easy way to navigate through the lesson.   Of course, adding a TOC to your lesson comes with a cost. you'll be adding a few hundred pixels to the overall width of your lesson. If your lesson is already quite wide, the TOC isn't going to help.     There is a way to have your cake and eat it too.

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Jane Hart

JANUARY 15, 2011

Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Listen to Jimmy Wales talk about Wikipedia over the last 10 years and has a call for action. Wikipedia is being celebrated all over the globe. Find out more about the events taking place here.

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Making Change

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last week, I presented on action mapping at the lively and thought-provoking Learning Technologies conference in London. It was great to meet and share ideas with passionate advocates and critics of elearning. Thank you, Don Taylor and the hard-working conference team, for bringing us all together! As some readers requested, here are the main points that I hope people took from my session: The goal of action mapping is to design experiences, not information.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2011

I was reading through the May 2008 Harvard Business Review and came across a fascinating article called “The Science of Thinking Smarter&# –a conversation with brain expert John J. Medina. Here are two questions and his responses that I thought were insightful especially when he talked about the convergence of memory and learning and the ability to recall information better when it is recalled in a similar environment in which it was learned.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 28, 2011

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill. Many of my friends and ex-colleagues usually dislike training. They dread entering the training room, the way they would dread entering a torture chamber. In most cases, Training is reduced to an exercise in futility and the prevailing emotion is “Let’s just get this over with!”.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 30, 2011

Tools for Freelance Instructional Designers « Design Doc. Collected tools from a LinkedIn eLearning Guild discussion on must-have tools for freelancing. tags: instructionaldesign tools freelance. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Filed under: Bookmarks.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 18, 2011

by AJ George. Another year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has come and gone. What did this year's CES bring to the table for the eLearning industry? Tablets Many have coined 2011 "the year of the tablet" and I believe it. The iPad has been well received among educational institutions. I think this trend in tablet computing will continue, moving beyond fad and into what could potentially make tablets an essential educational tool, and perhaps even a major money-saver for coll

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 10, 2011

We all need our privates places. A secret garden on a summer day for quiet meditation. A quiet armchair to retreat to with a cozy book with the cell phone turned off. These are the places where we refresh and reflect. Even in the midst of social interaction, we crave private conversations. A whispered hallway conversation with a colleague away from the bustle of the water cooler.

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Making Change

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last week, I presented on action mapping at the lively and thought-provoking Learning Technologies conference in London. It was great to meet and share ideas with passionate advocates and critics of elearning. Thank you, Don Taylor and the hard-working conference team, for bringing us all together! As some readers requested, here are the main points that I hope people took from my session: The goal of action mapping is to design experiences, not information.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2011

This post should have made its appearance a few days back—at least a day back—but procrastination sometimes overtakes me. This time, it was compounded by the lure of spending more time with my daughter (since I am in Mumbai after quite a few months) and the writing of the post just never got done. But I have promised myself that this year I will turn more ideas into actions and will not let procrastination rule.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 3, 2011

A very popular myth surrounding game-based learning is that it involves learning through video games. This article showcases The Healing Blade , a card game which is slowly gaining popularity among medical students in the United States. The Healing Blade is a card game that teaches budding Med students the ins and outs of infectious disease. It was created by two doctors, Francis Kong and Arun Mathews, who founded the game company Nerdcore Learning.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2011

By Shelley A. Gable. We know that Robert Gagne’s nine events of instruction is a helpful guide for designing engaging eLearning. But are you applying the model to design active training? At a glance, it may seem as though the first five events are telling-oriented, or invoke passive learning tactics. That we must spend a lot of time presenting information before skills practice occurs.

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HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 13, 2011

by AJ George. In previous versions of PowerPoint, converting presentations to movies  could be a bit of a laborious task. PowerPoint 2010 has a new feature allowing presentations to quickly and easily be saved directly to.wmv (Windows Media Video) format. Open the presentation within PowerPoint 2010.   Do a run-through of your presentation to make sure there is an adequate amount of time between slide transitions and any animation effects you may have added and make any necessary cha

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 4, 2011

In these days of Social Media, many of us live increasingly in the public eye. What I write here can be viewed by anyone. What I say on Twitter can be viewed by anyone. What I update on my Facebook status can be viewed by lots of people (not anyone – I have designated my FB friends and set my privacy settings, but 300 people isn’t really a private place, is it?

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Jane Hart

JANUARY 28, 2011

My husband, Philip told me about this game, which allows you to set up an airline and manage it. As President and Director of your company, you’ll have to buy your planes, define your destinations and the sale price of your tickets, or even sign contracts with various providers that will help your company grow and prosper. You will negotiate with one or more bankers (real humans!

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