Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
Update June 2008 - added one free flash quiz tool based on a question I received. This tool is listed at the bottom. A client wanted to create online quizzes that would live inside of a larger site. They didn't really need tracking of user responses, instead they wanted them to be fun. I suggested a couple of tools, but then wondered if I had given them the best list of tools.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Our annual Corporate Advisory Council meeting is today and it promises to be an exciting event with student and corporate presentations as well as a lively discussion on the topic of being an independent contractor. For those of you attending, here are some important links. Panel Discussion Slide Show. CAC Member Survey (for meeting attendees only please.no big secret it just asks questions about the presentation and you, of course, need to be at the presentation to comment.
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Instructional Designers with ID Degrees = 25% Instructional Designers are still responding to the survey I recently posted, asking instructional designers to tell us about their educational background and ID training. Weve now got 32 responses. 8 people have advanced degrees in instructional design (25%).
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 26, 2007
As was revealed last Friday at the e-learning Network, vast numbers of free e-learning tools are available. For some of the most popular tools see Jane Hart’s Directory of Learning Tools. If there are all these great free tools, why are cost-conscious firms not adopting them faster? Based on the ELN discussions, here’s my top 10: Awareness: it’s difficult for L&D to keep up to date with and evaluate the sheer volume of new tools, hence it’s easier to wait to see what
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Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 29, 2007
Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects. However, the open aspect of OpenSocial likely will win out in the long run.
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Learning Visions
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Ken Carroll on Learning Ken Carroll of the-eLearning-takes-on-language-sensation ChinesePod is now blogging live from Shanghai on topics as diverse as RSS and Finnegans Wake. Stop by and say hi. Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:00 PM Labels: ken_carroll 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United S
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
I just wanted to alert folks that Learning Circuit's Big Question has been revived. We've lost Dave Lee's forms, but we are going back to the old manual approach. I hope you'll join the party and submit your thoughts on the question: The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? If you are new to blogging, this is a great way to get your blog noticed.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Phil showed a simulation, which you can view here. while talking about the development process and how it was designed to give specific feedback based on learner interactions with the simulation and how the simulation dealt with "failure." He talked about building an environment in which people interact and make decisions while receiving realistic feedback such as a change in the attitude or tone of voice of other characters within the simulation.
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Vignettes Learning
NOVEMBER 29, 2007
Future jobs, now, today! Collaborative Learning Specialists - of all types! Please let me know if you see these types of jobs or if you do these jobs. I pondered on what jobs, specializations, and careers we may eventually discover or are even starting to evolve in organizations. My exposure tells me that these general functions are starting to surface.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
For a person who I generally think is pretty smart Thomas Davenport (his book Thinking for a Living is generally quite good), I find him saying some pretty weak things. A couple months ago, I took him to task in Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong! In his book he tells us basically that blogs have detracted from productivity, not increased it.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Cliff Sobel and Rhonda Dorsett presented on a companion website that The Phoenix Group created for the PBS television program "Travels to The Edge" hosted by well known photographer, Art Wolfe. Rhonda Dorsett was the Creative director on this project. The site was so successful it was posted on Adobe's homepage because of its excellence in design and functionality (using Adobe's products).
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The Learning Circuits
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again. The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? To help you get started, you might want to look back at some discussions going on last year at this time with a similar kind of question: December 2006 : Past experiences.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
A recent post by Richard MacManus on 10 Semantic Apps to Watch discusses several semantic web applications. Richard explains semantic web applications as: A key element is that the apps below all try to determine the meaning of text and other data, and then create connections for users. For example, ClearForest provides a Firefox extension called Gnosis.
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Next, we had a panel discussion called Working Collaboratively and Independently Simultaneously:Independent and Contractor and Small Business Forum. The panel consisted of Robyn Defelice, Jennifer Pearson, Brad Keller, Jonathan Jones and Phil Charron and had great information about being an independent contractor/consultant. The discussion focused on non-compete agreements, intellectual property and other issues related to creating content and ideas for clients.
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Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
The dialogue is hotting up here at Online Educa Berlin. Yesterday there was a clash of opinion between two of the keynote speakers. Andrew Keen , author of the infamous anti-Web 2.0 book Cult of the Amateur, failed to make many friends with his somewhat embittered attack on bloggers, Wikipedia and user generated content. As I have said before on this blog, there is irony in his statement that user generated content is simply a whole load of monkeys with typewriters - he publicised his own blog d
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
In my last post on Flash Quiz Tools , I mentioned how I had used the eLearning Guild Research to streamline my effort of find the right tools. This post is probably long overdue, but the use of the data from the guild has been a really great resource and has lead to posts such as: Flash Quiz Tools LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Course Authoring and Rapid eLearning Tool Satisfaction Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) LMS Team Size and Time I personally get the most value by
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
We needed an ad hoc presentation and Louis Biggie stepped up to the plate and gave a great presentation on teaching conversational modeling which tells people not what to do.but how to do it. The learning modules provide different examples of a difficult conversation and provides people the chance to focus on practicing skills like empathy, dealing with negative emotions and other things that can't be automated or outsourced.
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Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 30, 2007
Second Life is much in evidence at Online Educa Berlin this year, much as I expected. Not only was our panel session - along with Helen Keegan, Graham Attwell, Steven Warburton, David White and Dai Griffith - very well attended with almost 300 delegates present in Potsdam I - but yesterday, an inspiring keynote by Sian Bayne , of the University of Edinburgh, demonstrated clearly to all those present how SL could be successfully deployed to create purposeful and open virtual learning spaces for H
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 26, 2007
The Edublog Awards just announced their finalists for 2007. Thanks to all of you for participating, talking, blogging, commenting, etc., helping me with ideas, nominating this blog as a finalist, and generally inspiring this. It was great to see the other finalists as well. Clive and Wendy, congrats! Mohamed and Susan as well (although I don't think we've exchanged as much).
Kapp Notes
NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Tom's topic was mobile learning and the importance of building solutions to match the needs of the client. InfoLogix follows a fiver step process to develop instruction which consists of: Assessment Change Management Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Application Continuing Improvement Tom talked about not everyone wanting mobile learning and gave an example of hand held devices being returned with screw drivers in them.
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Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 29, 2007
I love Berlin, and cannot believe it has taken me so long to come back here. It is truly magical at and around Christmas time, with many of the trees in the streets lit up with lights. I am at Online Educa and have just witnessed one of the best keynotes I have ever seen. Let me attempt to encapsulate some of the content from the first session. The first keynote was presented by Professor Sugata Mitra , seen above left, who is an Indian national who now works at the University of Newcastle.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 26, 2007
Found via Leonard Low. TechSmith is giving away SnagIt and an older version of Camtasia Studio for Free. SnagIt is a handy tool for capturing screen shots, especially portions of the screen. If you frequently do this (and then copy and paste into your graphics application to cut the portions you want), then go get this tool. It also gives you some nifty delivery options.
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