Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience. We train our clients’ employees on new systems, processes, and ideas, with the intention of helping them maximize their productivity while simultaneously minimizing disruption.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

When was the last time you were so involved in what you were doing that you forgot yourself? You lost track of time? You were ‘in the zone’? All of us can recall such moments – while reading a book, listening to music, playing a sport, in an online computer game. But I wonder how many of us have felt this during an online course, or inside a classroom when being taught?

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I’ve been recently working on lots of eLearning strategy consulting engagements and one of my colleagues asked me to provide a set of resources around this topic. I went back and looked at what I had written before on eLearning Strategy and saw that I had said at the time: I've spent several hours this morning trying to find good resources on eLearning Strategy development and particularly looking for examples to use in this post.

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Performance Learning Productivity

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Arthur Koestler’s masterpiece ‘The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe’ is a book that I have re-read every 10 years or so, and have regularly given to young people – usually for 18th or 21st birthdays – in the probably mistaken belief that it will help them understand their world a little better. Together with Joseph Conrad, Koestler is one of those rare people.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

John Seely Brown has given the leading keynote to the DevLearn conference with an inspiring talk about how the world needs to move to scalable capacity building using collaboration (we’re totally in synch!). Tags: meta-learning social strategy.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I was invited to a Melbourne Cup business lunch today. (Thanks C.S., that was very generous!). In Australia the Melbourne Cup is affectionately known as “the race that stops a nation&#. As a cultural event, I imagine it’s similar to America’s Kentucky Derby and England’s Epsom Derby. Every year, however, more and more cynics seem to come out of the woodwork.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

by Rick Zanotti One of the key elements in multimedia and eLearning development is sound. Without it, the content is bland, boring and often forgotten. If you're not using audio in your eLearning you are losing more than half your audience, and that is never a good thing. If you think audio is too expensive to use, think again! The first step to consider is whether you do your own audio or hire a voice talent to do it for you.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the context of having my own book on mobile learning in press, I’m well-primed to review Gary Woodill’s The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams. It could be awkward as well, as I could be considered to be a competitor, with no vested interest in helping. So, accept the potential for bias, but I feel, fortunately, this is not a problem.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 5 posts for October, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1. Moving To eLearning. Lists and explains some of the key change factors that lead organizations to adopt eLearning, stand-alone and as a part of the training blend. While some of these factors simply translate to ‘Business Needs’, others determine the ‘Readiness of the Organization’ to adapt to eLearning. 2.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Eager to learn more about the new open source learning management system Totara? The website is now open and ready for browsing: [link] And if you’re going to be a DevLearn this week, we’ll be demonstrating Totara in all its open loveliness. Stop by Kineo Booth #100. San Francisco, see you soon! Tags: open source totara LMS.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

by Kevin Siegel If you have ever used Microsoft Word to record or write a macro using Visual Basic, you already appreciate how much time macros can save you by automating repetitive tasks. While RoboHelp does not support macros, scripts (which are coded instructions) provide the same functionality. RoboHelp ships with a few helpful scripts and if you are an application developer, you can create your own scripts from within RoboHelp or import them.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

TED just has the greatest stuff. Here is an interesting video with a shout out to Matt for sending me the link. Tags: Content Guide.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Learning occurs in "informal" (another term that I don’t like but is gaining traction) settings and online, as well as in the classroom. How can we know what is learned informally and what difference that learning makes to the success of an organization? Some of the methods being used in informal science education could be applied more broadly to informal and online learning in business, nonprofit, and government settings.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

These are my live blogged notes during the Wednesday keynote at DevLearn (non-edited version – apologies for any typos, etc.!) – I didn’t get through the whole keynote – had to get to our booth as the Expo starts while the keynote is still going…and my loud typing was just too annoying. Clark Quinn has done a nice mindmap of the entire keynote -- worth checking out.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Adobe's Mukul Vinay Lele has written an article that includes a workaround for bloated project sizes that you might encounter in your Captivate projects. According to Lele, "Adobe Captivate customers have always been very active on the forums. It has been a great place to interact with customers, resolve their issues and learn more from them.

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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

"How many sales deals do sales reps close in the classroom? How many process decisions by managers prevent creation of material waste while taking an on-line training course? How many impactful customer complaints are resolved in training role-plays or simulations?" If your answers range from “none” to “nada”, then another question looms large – “Why are we still pumping up to 80% of our training/learning resources into a learning context where no tangible business value is generated?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On Friday, I’ll be in the big o’le state of Texas speaking about the future of technology for community colleges. I do a lot of work with community colleges and know first hand the innovative technologies and first class hands-on education that community colleges can provide. I am going to do my part by helping community college educators to expand the four walls of the classroom beyond even what many are doing today.

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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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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Most e-learning developers assume the availability of the free Flash plug-in on the learner's browser. This works fine on desktops and laptops. When you get mobile, the world changes rapidly. Some mobile devices may support Flash, others don't. The Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod are examples where your Flash elements simply won't work. Apple proposes that you use HTML5 instead, to build rich interfaces.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

by Jennie Ruby Track Changes in Microsoft Word is an indispensible tool for editing, but it is not the best tool for the job in every editorial situation. You may find that both tiny details and big-picture edits cause you-and your reviewers-to want less tracking, not more. For example, what if you are editing the text when you notice that PowerPoint has been spelled incorrectly as Power Point.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Night before last, I had my ITA colleagues over for dinner. We’ve been conversing for close on two years, but other than Jay, I’d met each only once: Jane, I’d met last year when she was here, and Harold and Charles I’d each met several years ago briefly. I don’t think Harold and Charles had met before. So how was it that if felt like old friends getting together?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Here are links to some articles which discuss, in more detail, the concepts and ideas addressed in the keynote and here are the slides from the talk. Keynote at Texas Community College Technology Forum. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Here is the list of important links. Are we taking into account the culture surrounding our students? Smartphones, Batman and Virtual Mentors.

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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

"Whoa.Mon.maybe it should be." But then I ask myself - "Self, is that a knee-jerk reaction I alone hold as truth? I think any training organization needs to assess whether it is indeed a knee-jerk or a reality startle moment. Tags: Continuous Learning Rants & Ramblings Video Learning LinkedIn Video in learning video readiness.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

by Kevin Siegel. Captivate developers have been able to add background audio to their projects since Captivate was known as RoboDemo. The process of adding background audio hasn't changed much over the years. In Adobe Captivate 5, you simply choose Audio > Import to > Background and open the audio file (wav or mp3). One of the options missing from RoboDemo and older versions of Captivate was the ability to control the volume of the background audio on slides that already had audio (voi

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2010

As it turns out, I’m heading to Europe at the beginning of December to speak at Online Educa in Berlin, and then for an engagement in Maastricht with the Internet Time Alliance on the 13-14 before another ITA event in London on the 16th (join us?). What that means, however, is that for a limited window, essentially between 4 and 11 December, I’ve rare availability.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The other day, I was speaking with virtual world learning expert Anders Gronstedt about teaching in a 3D virtual immersive environment. For those of you who don’t know, Anders Gronstedt (anders@gronstedtgroup.com) is president of the Gronstedt Group , which custom develops immersive learning programs for Fortune 500 clients, and host of “Train for Success,” a weekly Second Life speaking series that has been ongoing for several years.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Brent Schlenker kicked things off here at the DevLearn key note – talking about the new face of learning. Which is you and me. It really is! Brent explained the DevLearn logo is made up of images of eLearning Guild members. And he said my name out loud to everyone – along with Clark Quinn and Tom Kuhlmann. Holy cow! I’m right above the woman’s left eye.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

by AJ George. As an eLearning developer, sometimes you're given a completed PowerPoint project and told to "fix it" or you need to use it in another program (such as Captivate). Often the presentation is given to you as a.ppt or.pptx file and does not have separate audio or image files. While there is no way from within PowerPoint to directly extract audio and image files from a presentation, there is a workaround.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Skip to content Homepage Kasper Spiro Change to learn “ On a mission to make EasyGenerator the best and most successful e-Learning authoring tool in the world ” ‹ When learning is the answer, what then is the question? Generating an Easy startup › November 3, 2010 I’m leaving Stoas learning because I found a new challenge at Easy generator After four years I have decided to leave Stoas, I found a challenge I could not resist at EasyGenerator.

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