Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Technology around us is evolving at a rapid pace and is in turn affecting a speedy evolution of learning technology. Work is changing and, to keep pace with it, training is changing too. Which of these technology changes will impact training the most? I think mobile applications are the game changer for training. Let me explain why I think that way.
Experiencing eLearning
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Aaron Cayard-Roberts :: Blog :: Moodle + SSL. Detailed tips for using SSL with Moodle. tags : moodle. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. Filed under: Bookmarks. Tags: Bookmarks.
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Lars is Learning
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Many years back, I coined a phrase that neatly summarised my view on how to change current training design and delivery practice so that it can dramatically improve effective learning and performance. My phrase? "Less learning more often" (click to read the full article) Is it happening? Well, it's beginning to it seems. We are clearly recognising that the concentrated, content-heavy.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 1, 2010
by AJ George. Two of the coolest new tools in PowerPoint 2010 (especially if you like to make your own graphics) are the Shape Union and Shape Subtract tools. Previously in PowerPoint, if you wanted to join two shapes you would use the Group tool. The issue with grouping shapes was that if you then decided to add certain formatting options to the shape, grouping would add it to each individually element of the shape rather than to the new shape as a whole.
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Upside Learning
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
It’s been in the rumor mill for some months and was confirmed by Blackberry only recently. Now, they’ve gone ahead officially revealed the product and begun the marketing blitz. While it’s still early to say, this tablet seems a marked improvement over the iPad (which we were quite disappointed with). The Playbook comes with a camera, a fast processor that enables true multitasking and a fully featured browser.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Historical periods are often named for the influence of technology on the period. The Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Industrial Revolution and Information Age are all closely related to the influence of a particular technology or group of technologies had on livelihood, people and governments during that period in history. As technology evolves and changes over time, a culture will either change with the technology or disappear or, in some rare cases, the culture will shun the technology and r
E-Learning Provocateur
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
What’s your role in the workplace? How does that compare to what you do on a day-to-day basis? I ask you this because what we think we should be doing and what we actually find ourselves doing are often two very different things. That concerns me because I’ve been blogging a lot about a revamped learning model which relies heavily on Web 2.0 technologies to support informal learning.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
by Kevin Siegel When I teach my RoboHelp class , one of the RoboHelp features that most excites my students is RoboHelp's ability to import eLearning lessons published by Adobe Captivate. In this age of visual communication, incorporating interactive eLearning with your help content just makes sense. You know the old saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers is a wonderfully handy, and important, book. It succinctly introduces why you would want to think about social media to augment training, introduces several of the major social media tools that represent categorical differences, and, for each, focuses on practical explanations about the tools, pluses and minuses, and classic ways to use them before, during, and after learning events.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Perhaps a little too over the top for a job interview. You have probably been wondering what you should wear in case you ever went on a virtual world job interview. I know its been keeping me awake at night. In fact, I once went to a virtual interview to talk about the Learning in 3D book and was told to "put some shoes on" apparently even in the virtual world, "no shoes, no shirt--no service still applies.
ID Reflections
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
I have listed down a few books that have shaped my thinking over the last one year. I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. They are not predominantly directly related to learning or instructional design or theory (except for one or two); however, they all helped me to see the larger picture, to understand where workplace learning and training fits in, and why and where change is needed.
Integrated Learnings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. Stephen Covey is a well-known organizational consultant, perhaps especially well known for his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I was thinking about the book the other day, and I also started thinking about how those habits might translate for instructional design specifically. Here’s what I came up with…. Habit 1: Be proactive.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. You're in the middle of recording a Captivate simulation. It's a fairly complex series of steps that you're recording and now would be a really bad time to stop. If you do stop the recording process, you'll likely need to spend the time to undo everything you recorded (which could be a painful process) and re-record the lesson from the beginning. The unthinkable happens.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Just announced: The 4th annual Blogging Scholarship worth up to $10,000 for a student scholarship. Here are some details. College Scholarships.org is giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually. Scholarship Requirements: Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
If you want to achieve meaningful outcomes in the space of the important work, you need to ensure that the process is optimized. This means that you want to streamline formal learning, maximize the utility of resources, and facilitate optimal interaction. This is the realm of learning experience design. Learning experience design can, and should, operate at several levels.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 1, 2010
To all of my local Massachusetts colleagues and readers, be sure to put this event on your calendar and then get yourself there! I’ll be there with bells on – and not just because the workshop is being held five minutes from my house, but also because Bob Mosher is an amazingly dynamic and engaging speaker with lots of practical ideas for your learning organization.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 1, 2010
by David R. Mankin. I see folks fall into the same hole over and over again in my Acrobat training travels. They are zooming in on a page, and forget to drop the Zoom Tool when they're done using it. Each successive click to adjust the view only zooms them in more and more, eventually leaving them looking at a white part of the page. They are zoomed in to 6400%, and they are lost.
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Kapp Notes
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Later this week, I will be presenting at the Southern Interactive Entertainment and Game Exposition better known as SIEGE. Here is a description of my presentation: Why 3D Matters for Learning and Collaboration? Do 3D graphics and interactions really make a difference in how a learner interacts with content or other learners? Is a 2D environment as effective for serious games as a 3D environment?
Web Courseworks
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Of course it’s very trendy to proclaim our eLearning departments utilize an iterative process for developing eCourses or simulations. Prescribing to an Agile development process is all the rage. For the most part, these processes generally do work. In fact, if done right, an Agile software development process is user centric and encourages innovation through good team member collaboration and increased learning transactions amongst stakeholders.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Whenever this particular eLearning Guild announcement hits my inbox, I blush a little and feel very, very special: Hope you’re coming to DevLearn this year and be sure to connect. I’ll be hanging out a lot at the Kineo booth, and obviously mingling with some other REALLY SPECIAL eLearning types at Friday’s “Perspectives on Learning” keynote session.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
by Barb Binder I love paragraph numbering in FrameMaker, mostly because no matter what numbering style a student shows me, I can make it happen by mixing and matching the building blocks in Numbering properties. Today, a former FrameMaker student asked me to help her fix paragraph numbers. Here's what she wanted: Chapter 1. ChapterTitle text here. 1.1.
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Moodle Journal
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
I was invited to attend a meeting to look at the expectations that we should be adopting for the coming academic year in the department, where I must say, I did seem to attract a somewhat disproportionate number of action point, but no matter. Toward the end of the agenda of items that we were covering that day, I was asked to put into place a proposal for a department ILT strategy.
eLearning Cyclops
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Adobe now has a preview of its Adobe Museum of Digital Media. This is a virtual museum dedicated to digital media. As Adobe describes it, The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM) is a unique virtual space designed to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and to present expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society. ( see full description ) It will be online and always open.
eLearning Brothers
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 1, 2010
by Jennie Ruby Proofreading is a quality control check of text and layout that many of us are asked to do with little or no training. Yet marking corrections clearly and unambiguously with no specialized knowledge is not as easy as one might think. For example, how do you indicate that you want the space between words to be closed up? The text reads: tooth paste.
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Mindflash
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
From the New York Times to the US Military , 2010 may go down as the year PowerPoint-hating went mainstream. The ongoing Death by PowerPoint debate resurfaced last week when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison delivered a keynote address featuring PowerPoint slides that had a distinctly 1987 vibe, delivered in a style that was as passionless as it was mind-numbing.
Adobe Captivate
SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Sometimes Captivate 5 fails to open a project file (.cptx). This might have happened due to some corrupt data structure. The preferred way to avoid data loss is to enable project backup in captivate through Preferences (Edit (on Windows)/Adobe Captivate (on Mac) > Preferences > Global > General Settings > Generate Project Backup). This will create [.].
eLearning Brothers
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Awhile back I had some videos that were loading slowly in Articulate. So after a bit of research I found a post on how to preload media files in Articulate. Basically you create a.swf flash file with a list of files that you want to preload. You then insert the.swf in the logo panel. Pretty slick! Check it out. PowerPoint Styles for Articulate. Games for Articulate.
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