Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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Captivate 5 for University Educators

Adobe Captivate

This week’s eSeminar was chock full of solutions as we discussed ‘how to’ start developing eLearning based on the kind of face to face classroom content educators already have prepared for the courses they teach. The session examines the growing phenomena of online courses and online supplemental eLearning modules for courses that remain face to face or are becoming blended online and offline instruction.

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Why you need to set limits

Making Change

What happens if you don’t set any boundaries in your relationships? You wear yourself out doing everything for everybody and the next thing you know, you’ve cursed everyone out, grabbed a couple of beers, and slid down the escape chute. The same thing can happen to your course. If you don’t set any boundaries and try to cover everything for everybody, you end up with a stressed-out course that can’t do anything for anybody.

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Weekly Bookmarks (8/22/10)

Experiencing eLearning

Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers – Cat’s Pyjamas. Matrix showing how different types of activities can be completed with different tools in Moodle. The focus is on the activity and end result, not on the tool–the guide shows what tools fit the outcome you’re looking for. tags : moodle education e-learning tools. Posted from Diigo.

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Seth Priebatsch Talks About the Game Layer On Top of the World

Upside Learning

You need to take the time to listen to what Seth Priebatsch says about the emergence of the game layer. He also talks about four game dynamics, very interesting. “…we like to joke, with seven game dynamics, we can get anyone to do anything.”, “school is a game” makes some very powerful statements with serious implications for designers and developers of learning.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Advice to Teachers in Florida: Don't use Facebook with Students

Kapp Notes

So rather than teach teachers or students how to intelligently use social media tools to communicate(like people do in corporations or in everyday social interactions), a school in Florida decided to advise against such silly and dangerous Web 2.0 behavior without supervision. According to the article Teachers asked to 'unfriend' students on Facebook "Everyone knows that there are teachers nationwide that may have inappropriately communicated with students through email, text message or Facebook

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eLearning & mLearning: Everything You Need to Know About Graphics, Part V

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George.   Over the past few weeks we've covered whether you should use static or dynamic images, what kinds of static images promote learning, image resources, and easy image manipulation for those images that are good, but just not quite right. So what if after all of that, you still can't find the exact image you're looking for?

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Mobile Learning: An Upside Learning Point of View

Upside Learning

Upside Learning has moved into providing solutions that include mLearning in some form or the other. In some cases, the solution revolved purely around mobile technology. We often answer the same questions repeatedly – where do we use it? How do we use it? What devices are suitable? While the answers depend a lot on the context in which the question is asked, there is a fair bit of common ground in each answer.

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Want to Teach Math, Science and Engineering to Kids? Think Guitars

Kapp Notes

Check out www.guitarbuilding.org If you think math, science and engineering are boring subjects, you need to re-think the topic and pronto. Check out this cool curriculum designed by The National Center for Manufacturing Education. In the curriculum, students build an actual guitar learning all about CAD, electronics, acoustics, general guitar terminology, scale lengths, wave lengths, wiring, grounding, jacks and other valuable information.

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Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points

Learning Visions

I’ve been slowly making my way through Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. While it’s geared toward the live, stand-up presentation (e.g., the sales presentation, the keynote, a lawyer’s opening arguments at a trial), there’s a lot to apply towards self-paced, asynchronous eLearning programs.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Adobe Captivate: Slide Numbering Made Easy

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Lori Smith.   If you're using Adobe Captivate 5 there's a handy dandy SlideNumbering widget that lets you put the slide count on any/all of your project slides using the format you like (e.g. slide x of y, this is page x, etc). What's that you say, you're still using Adobe Captivate 4? Sorry, but the SlideNumbering widget uses AS3 and is only for use Adobe Captivate 5.

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21st Century Education From New Learning Institute

Upside Learning

Thanks to a tweet from @ChrisLAtkinson I reached this blog post and from there the 21 st Century Education website. The site features 12 videos by educators explaining what works and what does not in our education system. They argue what should be done to actually deliver 21 st century education. Below are a couple of those videos. Educating the Mobile Generation.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

I was asked about approaches for eLearning for Sales People. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with this and actually one of my very first projects was creating a pretty incredible eLearning solutions for Lexus sales people. Of course, it’s such a big topic that I decided to cheat and quickly point the person to eLearning Learning and particular to eLearning Sales , eLearning Sales Metrics , Sales eLearning Case Studies , and Sales Performance Support.

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Rapid Prototyping Advice for Simulation Software Courtesy Thinking World

Kapp Notes

Here is some rapid prototyping advice courtesy of simulation developer, Thinking Worlds. Use a stock environment with the same general characteristics that the final environment will have. For example, select one of the stock offices in Thinking Worlds if your final game will be in an office. For characters, use several stock characters that have the same general look-and-feel that the final characters will probably have.

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Wake Up Your Customer Education Strategy With a New Approach to Content Sharing

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.

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Designing Social Processing

Clark Quinn

In reflecting on the presentation I gave earlier this week, I realize that I didn’t make it clear that just making it social will make activities lead to better processing. Of course, my goal was evangelizing, but I reckon I should followup with some clarity. There are some design principles involved. First, the assignment itself needs to be designed to involve valuable processing activities.

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Writing & Grammar: Less than or Fewer?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Many people who know that "10 items or fewer" is correct and "10 items or less" is wrong still get confused by amounts of money and time. Is it "They gave me less than 10 minutes to fill out the form" or should that be fewer ? Usually, you should use fewer with things you can count: I have fewer CDs than my roommate.

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Join us for ID Live this Week

Learning Visions

This week on ID Live! Zuochen Zhang and Rickard F. Kenny will be joining us to discuss their article: Learning in an Online Distance Education Course: Experiences of Three International Students. Join the conversation, Friday at noon eastern at EdTechTalk. About Instructional Design Live: A weekly online talk show, Instructional Design Live is based around Instructional Design related topics and is opportunity for Instructional Designers and professionals engaged in similar work to discuss effec

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World Texting Message Smashed!! (I guess this is good news)

Kapp Notes

A 27-year-old British woman has smashed the world record for typing the fastest text message. Apparently, she was able to text a message in 25.94 seconds. But not just any message. The official message for the world record is: "the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human ".

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Powering Learning Platforms for Personalized Learning Journeys with Generative AI

Explore the transformative synergy of education and technology in 'Powering Learning Platforms.' Uncover the magic of Generative AI shaping personalized learning, revolutionizing your educational journey.

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Recap: ASAE 10 and PD Council Meeting

Web Courseworks

Upon returning from the annual meeting for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), I wanted to reflect on my whirlwind experience at the conference. First of all, I took the bold move of staying at a hotel in Redondo Beach instead of downtown Los Angeles, and, with fear and trepidation, rented a car and decided to venture onto the LA freeway system.

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Delivering Social Learning (Cartoon)

Upside Learning

Tags: Humor Cartoon Social Learning UL Fun Cartoon.

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Inserting Flash Games and Interactions into Articulate

eLearning Brothers

Do you have a Flash file that you’ve inserted into Articulate Presenter and it is doing “weird&# things? Does it skip the first frame? Does it just keep playing and seem to ignore the stop actions? We have many Articulate users that use our Flash Games and Interactions to build courses. I often get questions about how to make the Flash files work properly in Articulate.

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Some Interesting Business Simulations/Games

Kapp Notes

Here are some interesting Business Education Simulations from Realityworks. The Business Education Simulations apply key business concepts taught in a traditional instructor-led class to a series of three online games that test students’ knowledge of successful business strategies. Students create their own company and product, and participate in simulations, including The Business Game, The Entrepreneurship Game and The Finance Game.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Elevate your member education initiatives This eBook will explore: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? You’ll discover why measuring content consumption is pivotal for program success and explore effective tactics to boost overall engagement.

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What’s in a Moodle

Saffron Interactive

A lot of people in e-learning and beyond have been asking us about Moodle recently. They’re curious about this funny word because what was once a little-known verb is now a global movement: forty million users in 216 countries and fifteen books written about how to use it so far. And it’s no longer just universities, colleges and schools which are using Moodle-based online learning environments.

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Outrageous alternatives

Learning with e's

What is the most outrageous alternative education scenario you could imagine? Children not attending school, but instead learning from home? Done it. Got the t-shirt. Distance education in the outback of Australia and other large area countries has been there for years, and so has home schooling in all its hues and colours. OK. What about no school at all then?

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37signals’ Idealogy Meets Online Training (Part 1): Meetings are Toxic

Mindflash

[ Editor’s note: Simply put, we at Mindflash are big fans the 37signals’ ethos. Usefulness, simplicity, and ease-of-use are principles we strive for. We also think that these principles apply to online training, whether you are building a full blown LMS or developing a simple eLearning courses. In this blog series, guest blogger Lee Graham will explore a few of 37signals’ concepts and discuss how we can apply them to the online training realm.

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Patch for Adobe Captivate 5 to resolve Upgrade related issues

Adobe Captivate

Install this patch to fix the issues that occur while upgrading Adobe Captivate 4 projects to Adobe Captivate 5. Installation Steps: Windows: Take a backup of the file VeelaUpgrader.dll. Download the Zip File. Unzip the contents and double-click on the extracted set-up file. The patch gets installed, replacing the old VeelaUpgrader.dll file with the new one.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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A short history of spam

E-Learning Provocateur

Tags: cartoon spam humor humour.

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The ivory towers are crumbling

Learning with e's

Intellectual property is a strange and difficult concept. It's also increasingly anachronistic. The Law journal has this definition of IP: "Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognised - and the corresponding fields of law". Some academics are aggressively protective of their so called intellectual property and many others jealously guard their course notes, slides, and other content.

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37signals’ Idealogy Meets Online Training (Part 1): Meetings are Toxic

Mindflash

[ Editor’s note: Simply put, we at Mindflash are big fans the 37signals’ ethos. Usefulness, simplicity, and ease-of-use are principles we strive for. We also think that these principles apply to online training, whether you are building a full blown LMS or developing a simple eLearning courses. In this blog series, guest blogger Lee Graham will explore a few of 37signals’ concepts and discuss how we can apply them to the online training realm.

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