Upside Learning
APRIL 7, 2009
Adobe’s CS4 suite is the second major release since Adobe acquired Macromedia. The new Adobe CS4 suite has some new exciting and time-saving features in all its products. If you have been bugged by previous Flash versions not allowing you to publish for latest Flash Player there is some relief here. Flash CS4 allows us to finally publish SWF files for Flash Player 10 - the latest version of Flash Player.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 10, 2009
Last night we held the first #lrnchat , a Twitter learning chat. As mentioned before, it was an idea from Marcia Conner based upon her previous experience with other chats and enthusiasm for Twitter. It was an interesting experience, with it’s plusses and minuses. There were great topics, and some interesting technical issues. The latter first: I finally ‘graduated’ from TwitterFox (a plugin for Firefox , and a great way to start Twittering) to TweetDeck, an AIR application.
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Tony Karrer
APRIL 7, 2009
Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. Learning 2.0 - The Things How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need Why Doing Thi
Learning Visions
APRIL 9, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 09, 2009 Building Better Learning Games Interested in building casual games for your learners? Read on for notes from a webinar today, April 9, 2009: Building Better Learning Games: Leveraging Game Design and User Testing for Results Our hosts today: Enspire Learning (Ben Katz) Doorways to Dreams D2D -- financial entertainment.
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Upside Learning
APRIL 6, 2009
In Learning Circuits’ Big Question for March , most experts agree that social learning is here to stay, differing only in the degree to which it’s used. The workplace culture of an organisation is identified as the biggest challenge in implementing social learning. Leigh Duncan- Durst’s blog gives an interesting categorization of the users of social media.
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E-Learning Provocateur
APRIL 5, 2009
Following on from my previous article , below I share some of the key messages that I drew from Day 2 at the LearnX Asia Pacific conference held recently in Sydney… Personal Professional Development: I expected the keynote by Stephen Downes to be the standout session of the event, and I was not disappointed. Instead of focusing on supporting the learning of others, Stephen shifted his focus to how e‑learning professionals can support their own learning.
Making Change
APRIL 8, 2009
Here’s a cool way to help learners experience what would otherwise be boring data: Turn the data into a roller coaster ride. (If your organization blocks YouTube, you might be able to watch the video here on BlipTV.). This video introduced me to the world of roller coaster simulators, such as this inexpensive one for Mac and Windows. I unfortunately don’t have time to experiment with new software, but if you do, please let us know how it works for you in the comments.
Tony Karrer
APRIL 6, 2009
One of the best things about having kids is getting a Spring Break with them. I'm fortunate enough to be doing that this week. So, rather than doing my normal posts, what I decided to do was to go back and do a couple of best of posts during the week. Of course, I cheated and used eLearning Learning to help me come up with these. Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 eLearning Conferences Tool Set 2009 Remote Collaboration Better Memory Share Best Practices
Clark Quinn
APRIL 9, 2009
So I’ve been playing with rethinking my Performance Ecosystem conceptualization and visualization. The original had very discrete components, and an almost linear path, and that doesn’t quite convey the reality of how things are tied together. I believe it’s useful to help people see the components, but it doesn’t capture the goal of an integrated system.
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eLearning Cyclops
APRIL 10, 2009
I just completed my LinkedIn Power Tips page. The page contains interactive simulations for completing the following tasks. Using LinkedIn as a customer relationship management (CRM) tool Customizing your public profile URL Filtering connections Checking invitations sent All the sims were created with Adobe Captivate and include audio. These are "try me" sims , so you will have to make the correct clicks and/or text entries to complete the sims.
Upside Learning
APRIL 10, 2009
Here’s some good news…. We have been listed as an Emerging Leader in Training Industry, Inc.’s 2009 list of “Emerging Leaders in Training Outsourcing&#. This list includes 15 top companies worldwide who, based on Training Industry, Inc.’s assessment, “are recognized industry leaders that have demonstrated innovation and excellence in providing outsourced learning services in selected business process categories and are poised to increase their level of services to clients&#.
Learning Visions
APRIL 9, 2009
Interested in building casual games for your learners? Read on for notes from a webinar today, April 9, 2009: Building Better Learning Games: Leveraging Game Design and User Testing for Results Our hosts today: Enspire Learning (Ben Katz) Doorways to Dreams D2D -- financial entertainment. Work with and for consumers how to better manage their money.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 9, 2009
One of the available game engines. The folks at Wisc-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center) whom I've written about before in Library of Learning Objects have created a number of game shells that are inexpensive and available for use with students. They have: Baseball Hangman Jeopardy Match Build Your Fortune Bingo Tic Tac Toe LearningLand Case Study Quiz Game Show The games range from $1 to $3 each and provide unlimited usage for up to one full year.
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eLearning Cyclops
APRIL 8, 2009
I was looking for some new online training to add to my Free e-Learning page and found these gems. For anyone who urgently needs to learn how to effectively kickflip your skateboard, these are a must. All kidding aside, both of these guys make good use of YouTube for delivering instruction. Kudos guys!
Tony Karrer
APRIL 8, 2009
Since I'm out, I'm thinking this is a good time to point you to some past posts. The last post was what I've been writing this year that social signals say is good reading. Today, I want to point you to some posts that you may have missed along the way and a bit about why it might be worth reading. #1 Social Learning Models and LMS and Social Learning I've changed the title of the first post to make it more enticing.
Learning Visions
APRIL 8, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, April 08, 2009 Ellen Wagner: eLearning Roadtrip Are you an instructional designer or interested in instructional design? Are you reading Ellen Wagners blog eLearning Roadtrip yet? Well you should be! The former Senior Director of Worldwide eLearning at Adobe (plus a whole bunch of other impressive sounding gigs), Ellen recently formed Sage Road Solutions.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 8, 2009
With newspapers failing right and left, the Associated Press decided the best way to fight the web is to sue it. Sounds like the record industry and we all know how well that turned out. The Associated Press board voted recently to "pursue legal and legislative actions" against aggregators who use content without permission, a new shot across the bow of internet news sites in the war over how little use is "fair use.
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From the Coleface
APRIL 6, 2009
It feels a long time ago since the Clementi review, but now the legal regulators have given tangible recognition that the best people to lead law practices might not be pedantic professional arguers. The pool of talent for leaders has been broadened so that there is less emphasis on partners having to come from within the profession. This sounds like good news for L&D practitioners within the legal sector.
eLearning Cyclops
APRIL 6, 2009
I have slowly been moving onto the cloud. Thus far, I have starting using Google Docs and Picasa Web Albums (also Google). My motivation for using Picasa is to put all my graphics in one place. I have one too many computers each with too many graphics. This includes family photos and e-learning graphics. So, what better than to consolidate and organize on the cloud.
Learning Visions
APRIL 8, 2009
Are you an instructional designer or interested in instructional design? Are you reading Ellen Wagner's blog eLearning Roadtrip yet? Well you should be! The former Senior Director of Worldwide eLearning at Adobe (plus a whole bunch of other impressive sounding gigs), Ellen recently formed Sage Road Solutions. If I were in charge (but sadly, I'm not), I'd put her in the Who's Who of eLearning.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 7, 2009
This post is inspired by Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases and Wayne and Garth. I thought and thought but still came up two short.please.help me out with the last two annoying tech phrases, please add. 10. No, no move your mouse to the left (or right or anywhere "Back-seat computer driving") 9. Are you a Mac or a PC Person 8. I thought I sent you an email about that!
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Upside Learning
APRIL 5, 2009
Keeping generational differences in mind while designing learning is something we practice consciously. While we strongly believe in these cognitive and perceptive differences, occasionally we have data that throws a lot of our assumptions out of gear. Accenture has published exactly this sort of data about the adoption of consumer technology by Boomers and Gen X and Y.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 6, 2009
Blame it on Marcia Conner (@marciamarcia), who’d been participating in Twitter chats for journalists and editors. She found them educational, and prodded a couple of us that maybe we should create the same sort of thing to talk about learning. We visited a few other chats, and it seemed worth experimenting with (it’s our duty, after all!).
TechSmith Camtasia
APRIL 9, 2009
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Kapp Notes
APRIL 6, 2009
Teaching young doctors to work with others is yet another skill that can be taught in a virtual world. In an article titled Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? According to the article: After the avatars enter the computer-generated hospital, they check in at a reception desk, put on an access badge, and then stop by professor Martyn Partridge's office to get their assignment.
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Rapid eLearning
APRIL 7, 2009
I’m a doodler. It helps me think. When I present or talk to people I like to use a whiteboard. I feel like I’m better able to get my ideas across as I map them out visually. Not only does this help me express my ideas, it kind of forces me to lay them out in a manner that’s easier to understand. Dan Roam talks about this in his book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 5, 2009
I’ve been reading John Taylor Gatto lately, and one of his points is interesting to me from the perspective of social media. His claim about schools is that they’re dehumanizing (deliberately). He claims that many of our institutions (and he means more than schools, but groups, organizations, etc) are really networks, not communities, and can’t provide the nurture we need from others: “Networks do great harm by appearing enough like real communities to create expectatio
Skilful Minds
APRIL 6, 2009
The topics discussed at Skilful Minds fall in a range of challenges involved in translating strategic business goals, and the complex needs of people, into exceptional experiences, for employees who provide products and services and those who consume them, whether the latter are customers, users, learners, or just plain people. Commentators and practitioners of experience design tend to focus on the latter while largely ignoring the former.
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