Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 16, 2008
I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 14, 2008
» What Everyone Should Know About Working with Subject Matter Experts The Rapid eLearning Blog. Tips for working with SMEs: * Don’t expect SMEs to be experts at learning theory. * Present good examples of what you think will work. * Everyone is working for the organization’s success. tags: sme , instructionaldesign , e-learning.
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Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 30, 2008
If you read my blog much, you know that I use LinkedIn quite a bit to help me find experts and expertise. You can see how I do this in my posts/screencasts LinkedIn Searching for Experts and Expertise and LinkedIn Answers to Get Help. One of the techniques that I show in the first is that you can expand the reach of your search by choosing to search groups.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Last night I watched a fascinating documentary on the ABC called How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer. The title of the show alludes to the humourous yet intriguing trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon , which itself is based on the urban myth Six Degrees of Separation. In the game, players try to connect random movie stars to Kevin Bacon in as few steps as possible.
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Students standing outside of green building on MSIT island. Another question about virtual worlds and learning. How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., abstraction; synthesis; evaluation; experimentation; reflection) in a virtual world? Virtual worlds are ideal for placing a learner into a problem solving situation.
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2008
The third week of Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Free Online Course (you can jump in at any time) is all about Blogs for Learning. Interestingly, when I prepared the notes for this week, I was able to leverage what the course members had produced during the previous week on Social Bookmarks : [link] [link] [link] You can read in the link Blogs for Learning about my perspective on using Blogs for Learning and Networking.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 11, 2008
Models of Blogs: Blog as Participant in Conversation (3 of 3) on Flickr. CC-NC image of blogs as connectors of ideas in conversations. tags: visualization , blog , conversation , connection. Using Blogs to Enhance Learning – Some Helpful Tips - OpenEducation.net. Tips for using blogs as learning tools, including making sure they are actually the right tool for the task, using blogs to record the “learning journey&# and reflect, and using appropriate assessment. tags: e-learning , educati
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 22, 2008
George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand people from all over the world take part in the week-long conference. This year the conference has an incredible set of speakers and lots of opportunities to discuss the issues.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 24, 2008
I was reflecting the other day about a question my postgrad lecturer, Dr Peter Goodyear , asked me a couple of years ago: When did you first use the Internet? Of course, the “Internet&# is a potentially controversial term. For me, however, the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW), and I remember first browsing it with Netscape Navigator back in my undergrad years at UTS.
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Having recently been invited to speak in Las Vegas (see Keynoting in Vegas--Not the same as headlining but. ), I took some time to see a few shows and one of my favorites was the well known creative and innovative act know as the Blue Man Group. As the Blue Man Group's web site describes; Blue Man Group is a creative organization dedicated to creating exciting and innovative work in a wide variety of media.
eLearning Cyclops
OCTOBER 30, 2008
I was looking over the e-Learning Guild's 360 report on mobile learning, released several months back. What really jumped out for me was the survey regarding targeted devices. Granted the results are anecdotal and not from a scientific survey, but none the less it does reflect answers from 240 m-learning designers from numerous regions around the world.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 13, 2008
I'd like to ask your help. Can you please take a really quick survey - three questions only. Your age and then shows you two images and asks if you know what they are. I'll post the results up pretty soon (within a week or two) as I need them for an upcoming presentation. You'll likely get the point of the question based on the two images in the survey.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 9, 2008
Seven Habits of Highly Connected People ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes. A riff on Stephen Covey for living, working, and communicating in a highly connected world. Not just the intuitive common-sense advice you see other places–who else would advise you to quit wasting time playing phone tag offline when you could spend that time making real connections online?
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Getting to Good Enough "Dont let good enough get in the way of perfect." This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 29, 2008
I had used Jing several times recently to create screencasts. I have been pretty happy with it as a tool, but I got a message from Jing that told me that I had nearly used up my monthly bandwidth. Basically, with the free account you get 2GB of bandwidth and once that's used up you have to wait for the start of the next month. Whew, it's almost Nov. 1.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Story telling and instructional design have a lot in common and perhaps they are not thought of as having any overlap but they do. In e-learning we have instructional strategies, in a story we have a plot. In e-learning we have objectives, in a story we have a morale or an underlying theme or symbolism (good ones anyway, i.e. the Christ references in the original Matrix).
eLearning Cyclops
OCTOBER 28, 2008
My Ben Franklin MinuteBio is finally complete and now available at MinuteBio.com. As with the others, this is made in Flash Lite (FL 1.1). It is a quick intro to Franklin. This one uses quite a few imported graphics making the file size quite a bit larger than prior courses (533kb), but still a very manageable size even for my Nokia S40. Please take a look.
Speaker: Tammy Rutherford, Ian McConnell
You invest a lot of time and energy into building training courses for internal use and for your customers and partners. As your reach grows, so does the number of LMSs you need to deliver training to, often both externally and internally. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that’s compatible with every LMS, manageable for administrators, and easy for learners to access.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 8, 2008
A client of mine (celebrity) would like to record video interviews they are going to be doing with people all around the country. We are thinking that we will be sending out some basic equipment (web cam + microphone) to the people involved in the interview if they don't have the right stuff. I'm trying to figure out what software we will use. It looks like ooVoo provides the split screen capability and ability to record and I've seen a couple instances on YouTube that look okay.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 9, 2008
In Groups Vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues , Stephen Downes makes this statement about assessment: I want to change the system of assessment in schools because right now we have tests and things like that that are scrupulously fair, particularly distance learning where we outline the objectives the performance metrics and the outcomes and all of that.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 29, 2008
"Don't let good enough get in the way of perfect." This adage works for me most of the time as I'm designing eLearning courses. Right now, I'm feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Client demands, project schedules -- sometimes all you can do is churn it out. Right now, I'm proofing a storyboard that's full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and there's really nothing I can do about it.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 29, 2008
I've read a bit from ( here , here , and here ) about Jet Blue's use of web 2.0 / social media tools to communicate between their staff of learning professionals. This is another great example of eLearning 2.0. Jet Blue University (their internal corporate university that I recently heard being discussed on Knowledge @ Wharton) is using Awareness Networks ' platform to work collaboratively on projects between employees in disparate locations and programs and to share best practices on how to tra
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Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Too often learning and development professionals (and practically everyone else) treats learning as an event. The assumption is that a person attends one class or takes one online course and SHAZAM, they instantly know everything they need to know about a topic, software application, new corporate policy or product. This is a lie. But we all buy-in.
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 24, 2008
One of the reasons that I started this blog was that it would force me to reflect more thoroughly, as describing something to others requires far more clarity of thought than telling yourself that you understand it. Here I reflect on the changes that I’ve helped make to the design of e-Learning Network conferences in the form of tips that you could use to freshen up events that you design, or perhaps even demand from conferences that you attend in future.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 6, 2008
The second week of our Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Course is starting and the topic is Social Bookmarks. Here's the great resource / assignment that Harold and Michele created for this week: Week 2: Free Your Bookmarks with Social Bookmarking This has sparked some interesting activity and makes me think that the net effect of this kind of open course is a bit more interesting than I had thought.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 7, 2008
IgnitePhilly — Five Minutes To Communicate - Practical Theory. 5 minute presentation (20 slides) by Chris Lehmann on school reform and what we need for School 2.0. Several good lines in here–a bunch of memorable ideas packed into a few minutes. Assessment should be projects, not tests. Data is what kids do every day, not what they do on a test.
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Lars is Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2008
Wired Magazine have run an interesting feature reminding us that with a functioning networked society the old assumptions of physically working alongside each other are rightly being challenged. But its interesting how slowly the notion of teleworking/telecommuting has moved into the mainstream.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this and I'm hoping that folks will chime in. First let me start with a couple of predictions: Prediction 1 - Online only conferences will rapidly increase and will slow down in-person conferences Prediction 2 - Smaller, targeted, short-burst, rapidly planned conferences will emerge.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Great presentation last week to a group of enthusiastic trainers. Group Three Group Two. Group One. Today I am doing a presentation called "Innovations in Technology And What it Means to Learning and Training" Here are some resources related to the presentation; List of Recommended Books Definition of Mnemonic Here is a copy of the presentation. Learning Technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.
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