Learning Visions
AUGUST 17, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, August 17, 2007 Plodding Along in Second Life In the spirit of plodding along , I had another positive experience in Second Life. Friday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to have been given a guided tour by non other than Abbott Bundy (aka Karl Kapp ).
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 16, 2007
Just completed the Learning in 3D Class in which students were able to experience Second Life , ProtonMedia's ProtoSphere and several Web 2.0 tools. Graduate students in instructional technology were required to post on this blog, contribute to a wiki and post a machinimia project on YouTube and TeacherTube. One of the most amazing things to me is the reach of the student's work through the Web 2.0 tools.
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From the Coleface
AUGUST 13, 2007
Hiding stealthily in the August issue of Accountancy is a story stating that Ernst & Young have created 200 new graduate jobs in India for UK tax compliance work over the next 2 years. People will seize on this story as evidence of three entirely different trends: 1. The End is Nigh. Firms will continue to offshore increasingly added value services until only the UK jobs are account management and emptying the bins.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 17, 2007
You may or may not be affected by the turmoil in equities and other markets, but you will be interested to read of the parallels with the run on the banks in Second Life, as described in the article Trouble in Paradise in this week's issue of The Economist. There really is nowhere to hide.
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Learning Visions
AUGUST 16, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, August 16, 2007 Keeping Your Fingers on the eLearningPulse Thanks to Google Alerts, I stumbled across another everything-eLearning feed aggregator: eLearningPulse. eLearningPulse is "Your daily source for all things eLearning ". This site provides free resources to the eLearning development community, including news, discussion forums, job postings, and more.
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 17, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Quote of the Day | Main | VisualComplexity.com: A Resource on the Visualization of Complex Networks » August 17, 2007 Thoughts on the Use of the Word Ethnography Im working on a more complete post about the Adaptive Path conference, UX Week 2007 , that just finished up yesterday.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 17, 2007
The 30-minute masters originated from a discussion between Cammy Bean and myself at the Boston eLearning Guild Annual Gathering earlier this year. We set out to develop a curriculum that could teach subject experts and generalist trainers the essentials of instructional design in just 30 minutes. Well, with the help of many of you and a MediaWiki workspace, we have developed that curriculum and, based on this, I have now gone on to create a script for the first deliverable implementation of the
Learning Visions
AUGUST 16, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, August 16, 2007 31 Days: Days 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 The 31 Days of this challenge is definitely dragging on. Im losing my steam, but trying to stay somewhat on target. Day 12: Introduce Yourself to Another Blogger Darren Rowse of ProBlogger says, "I find that the most fruitful interactions that I’ve had with other bloggers don’t come as a result of me asking for something - but o
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 13, 2007
Over at Money.com , they have a great article called Real $3.1M mansion causes a virtual stir. To quote the beginning of the article "Flipping through the real estate section is so yesterday -- touring an exact replica of a home for sale in Second Life is what's in store tomorrow." Is your training so yesterday? While instructor-led training will always have a place in corporate and academic institutions.isn't it time we seriously looked at other alternatives like 3D worlds, including gadgets in
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 17, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Thoughts on the Use of the Word Ethnography | Main | Quote of the Day: Geertz on Defining Ethnography » August 17, 2007 VisualComplexity.com: A Resource on the Visualization of Complex Networks Manuel Lima has done a fine service here. His site, visualcomplexity.com is a great resource - a great compilation of a ton of resources related to visualizing complex networks.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 16, 2007
Thanks go to Brent Schenkler who recommended this book. A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster (Paraglyph Press, 2005), is aimed at games designers, but as Raph reminds us "games serve as fundamental and powerful learning tools", so I guess all of us in learning and development are games designers to some extent. A Theory of Fun is a fun book to read. Raph is an excellent communicator with a real passion for games.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 13, 2007
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, August 13, 2007 Second Life Backlash and Controversy The Second Life naysayers seems to be gaining ground lately. And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. As you may know, Ive only been there once. 1) Donald Taylor provides a little summary of some of the recent talk in Second Life Backlash: After all the hype Second Life has had, there is bound to be some push back.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 17, 2007
I'm constantly trying to figure out ways to make blogging faster for me. I see so much stuff that I want to share with the eLearning community that its hard to get all my thoughts into blog posts about it all. I tried the email option from Google Reader which seemed like a great idea at first. I can scan the world and instantly post to my blog all from one spot.
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 17, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TagCrowd and What It Can Tell us | Main | New Web 2.0 Visualization/Explanation from Ross Dawson » August 17, 2007 Blogger/Blogspot Will Not Resolve To *.mil domains Anybody know anyone I can contact about this? As many of you know, I now work for the Defense Acquisition University.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 14, 2007
Back in 1997, when I left Epic to go freelance, I decided to set up my own limited company as a vehicle for my consulting work. In doing this, I made some awful mistakes. One was to call this company 'Fastrak Consulting'. Why was this a problem? (1) because nobody can remember the wierd way I decided to spell 'fastrak'; (2) because the URL is so long - [link] - that people give up half way through typing it to have a breather; (3) because I could have just called it Clive Shepherd Ltd and not tr
Big Dog, Little Dog
AUGUST 11, 2007
Reschooling Society and the Promise of ee-Learning - innovate. The term is a hybrid one that brings together two kinds of learning: electronic and experiential. The Gobbledygook Manifesto - Change This. The winner was "next generation," with 9,895 uses. How Will Millennials Manage? - Working Knowledge. Nothing seems to set off managers I talk with more than the topic of managing Gen Yers, otherwise known as "millennials," those born beginning in the late 1970s. e-Learning Market to hit $52.6B by
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 16, 2007
I like to spread the gospel according to Raph whenever I can. IMHO, A Theory of Fun is one of the BEST books on learning, elearning, whatever you choose to call what we do. Sent to you by brent via Google Reader: A Theory of Fun via Clive on Learning by Clive Shepherd on Aug 16, 2007 My apologies but I can't remember who it was in the edublogosphere who recommended this book, but whoever it was, my sincerest thanks.
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 17, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Blogger/Blogspot Will Not Resolve To *.mil domains | Main | Quote of the Day » August 17, 2007 New Web 2.0 Visualization/Explanation from Ross Dawson I find it interesting that even as we stand hip deep in the curved corner and pastel colored waters of Web 2.0, we continue to search for explanations that resonate some sense of capturing what is really going on here.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 13, 2007
There were some interesting stats in the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's People Management magazine last week, in an article entitled Face to face with social networking. Apparently, in the UK: 20% of firms use social networking sites to research applications. 68% use search engines to check candidates. 70% of London firms block the use of Facebook at work. 51% of recruiters think social networking poses a challenge to traditional recruitment. 60% of firms would check a can
Rapid eLearning
AUGUST 14, 2007
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 15, 2007
Here's a thought! I wonder what it would look like if I posted to my blog using the little email feature at the bottom of an item in Google Reader? Okay.here it goes. WAIT! If this works, then check out read this cool post by Christy Tucker reviewing a great presentation at Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching. Sent to you by brent via Google Reader: Online Networking in Courses via Experiencing E-Learning by Christy Tucker on Aug 15, 2007 These are my notes from the presentation MySpace
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 17, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « New Web 2.0 Visualization/Explanation from Ross Dawson | Main | Thoughts on the Use of the Word Ethnography » August 17, 2007 Quote of the Day " Oneis not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor.To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.
Clive on Learning
AUGUST 13, 2007
My postman was only too pleased to offload Nick van Dam's The e-Learning Fieldbook (McGraw-Hill, 2004) from his bag, because in hardback format and at 330 pages, it weighs a ton. This book is far too heavy to take with me on my travels, so I skimmed through it sitting on the sofa, looking only occasionally to check the score in the England v India cricket match.
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development
AUGUST 15, 2007
Well, its about time. You know you're in the right space when the hype wagon tips over. I like Dr. Kapp's thought on this here. Here's to "plodding along".and I'll drink to that! Thanks Cammy.for getting back in there and giving Second Life a second try. Knowing where to go and how to get there is half the battle. One thing that helps, but is HIGHLY underutilized is SL links: Special URLs that take you directly to a certain location "inworld" from a normal webpage or email.
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Mark Oehlert
AUGUST 12, 2007
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Mindmapping Mindmaps by Using a Mindmap (and additional aliterations) | Main | Live from Adaptive Paths UX » August 12, 2007 The Tool Kit Edition Alright.lets clear out those tabs Ive been holding on to for too long now. 100 websites you should know and use (via the TED Blog ) 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design (via CSS Juice ) GoWare (personal mobile portal) Article on Bitlet (Bit Torrent extension
eLearning Weekly
AUGUST 16, 2007
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