Dashe & Thomson
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Five Project Management Maxims We All Know (But Often Forget) by Jim on December 8, 2010 in Project Management/Project Delivery Thesis: Keeping a team happy and humming along on a project is often as simple a matter as balancing the urge to ov er-manage or under-manage.
Upside Learning
DECEMBER 8, 2010
As our services in game design and development advance, we’re often asked how ‘social gaming’ paradigms can be used in learning games. My instant response to those would be ‘yes’ it’s possible; but faltered on further details. I’ve been doing some thinking about social games; what makes them tick. Some thoughts: We must bank on the capital sins – wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony; while these are ‘no no’s in the real world, social games seem to capitalize on them to a la
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Making Change
DECEMBER 7, 2010
Here’s a short video that shows how we can break our addiction to the course and move training closer to the job. It shows how we can use an instructional reference to help people learn by doing at work. Click the video once it’s playing to see it bigger on YouTube, or watch a Flash version. My point: If you’re teaching a process or other practical action, consider creating an instructional job aid that helps learners apply the new process immediately to a real-world task.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Gamification – making things that don’t seem to be a game into a game is growing in popularity. Game mechanics, scoring, points, time elements, pattern seeking, item matching, content ratings are quickly working their way into almost every element of life. One huge proponent of the movement is Jesse Schell, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Dashe & Thomson
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Five Project Management Maxims We All Know (But Often Forget) by Jim on December 8, 2010 in Project Management/Project Delivery Thesis: Keeping a team happy and humming along on a project is often as simple a matter as balancing the urge to ov er-manage or under-manage.
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Making Change
DECEMBER 7, 2010
Here’s a short video that shows how we can break our addiction to the course and move training closer to the job. It shows how we can use an instructional reference to help people learn by doing at work. Click the video once it’s playing to see it bigger on YouTube, or watch a Flash version. My point: If you’re teaching a process or other practical action, consider creating an instructional job aid that helps learners apply the new process immediately to a real-world task.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 8, 2010
by Jennie Ruby. To the great joy of my colleague AJ at IconLogic, who tipped me off about this change, and to the relief of writers and editors everywhere who use the Associated Press Stylebook , the 2010 edition has declared website to be one word and lowercase, instead of the official spelling listed in Websters: Web site. And the AP--as editors affectionately call the style guide--has also released an AP Stylebook application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Dashe & Thomson
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Jeffrey Gitomer’s Reciprocation: The Old Give and Take…and Take by Paul on December 10, 2010 in sales Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week I attended Jeffrey Gitomer’s sales seminar here in Minneapolis. For those of you that don’t know Jeffrey, he’s one of the foremost sales speakers and writers in America today; author of The New York Times best seller
Upside Learning
DECEMBER 7, 2010
In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1. Taking Cues From Industry: Using Casual Games For Learning At DAU. The use of games in education and training is quickly becoming a mainstream practice. This article talks about Defense Acquisition University (DAU) where games have grown from being closely aligned with both the learning objectives and the contex
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Challenge to Learn
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Before I joined EasyGenerator we had a series of discussions about a number of topics. One of them: open source. The question was: should EasyGenerator become open source or should it stay proprietary. In the end we decided not to go for the open source model en in this blog I will try to explain why. Note: With open source software you share the source code of your software with everybody and everybody can contribute to it.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 10, 2010
I've heard from several Captivate 5 developers that they do not have the Adobe Captivate Reviewer 2.0 on their systems. That's strange because the Reviewer is usually installed when you install Captivate 5. If the installer is not on your system, you'll find that the download link isn't easy to find via a Google search. In that case, here is a direct link to download the installer.
Dashe & Thomson
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Jeffrey Gitomer’s Reciprocation: The Old Give and Take…and Take by Paul on December 10, 2010 in sales Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week I attended Jeffrey Gitomer’s sales seminar here in Minneapolis. For those of you that don’t know Jeffrey, he’s one of the foremost sales speakers and writers in America today; author of The New York Times best seller
Upside Learning
DECEMBER 10, 2010
I found this talk by Jason Fried about how we work in an office quite interesting. “The real problems in the office are the M&Ms” – managers and meetings make employees unproductive. All the more reason for eLearning, anytime, anywhere; let people decide what’s appropriate to learn and when to learn it. You can’t do that with scheduled training.
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Learning Visions
DECEMBER 8, 2010
With the holidays upon us, let’s string out the sparkly lights and dazzle our eLearning program with lots and lots of clicky-clicky bling-bling!!! (This is my new, patented eLearning term. Y’all can use it, too.) What is clicky-clicky bling-bling? It’s eLearning with lots of whiz, lots of bang, lots of clicky-clicky in a lame attempt to add pizzazz to dry content and to make it more engaging.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 7, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. The two most popular types of eLearning lessons created in Adobe Captivate are simulations and demonstrations. Captivate is also used to create soft skills lessons (lessons that teach a life skill such as interviewing for a job), but I'll get into those another day. With a simulation, the recorded mouse is hidden and the lesson contains copious amounts of interactive objects in the form of buttons, click boxes and text entry boxes. With a demonstration, there
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 10, 2010
In the course of the past month, I’ve attended (and spoken at) 4 conferences: DevLearn, WCET, VSS, and Online Educa. Each was from a different area: DevLearn is mostly corporate, WCET is largely higher ed, VSS is mostly K12, and Online Educa is more academic (and European). As a consequence, I’ve had a somewhat biased (mostly US) but reasonably broad exposure to the state of the industry.
Kapp Notes
DECEMBER 7, 2010
Recently I did a presentation titled for the Drug Information Association. Here are the slides and some related links. Beyond Four Walls. View more presentations from Karl Kapp. Related Links: Key Advantages of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations. What it means that MS LifeScience Award Goes to 3D Virtual Conference Design. Fighting Phobia’s with Augmented Reality.
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.
ID Reflections
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ~ William Blake We read this poem in school where our teachers tried to explain the significance to the best of her/his ability. And my mind would conjure up visions of a tiger in a zoo, and the essence of the poem was lost to me. But now I know that I never understood the essence of the poem, never really visualized the power, the strength, and the grace of a tiger as it truly
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 9, 2010
RJ Jacquez of Adobe has posted videos of the next versions of FrameMaker (10) and RoboHelp (9). According to Jacquez, "With version 9, we are taking RoboHelp and RoboHelp Server to the next level by helping our customers incorporate important Industry trends taking place today into their TechComm workflow. Trends like User-generated content, Community-based User Assistance, Rich Internet Applications, Content Personalization, Rich Media, Mobile publishing, the Cloud and others.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 6, 2010
I’ve talked before about how mobile ‘ accessorizes ‘ the brain. Well, here I am in Europe, and I’m suffering brain damage. In short, the situation with cross-border data access is inexcusable. It’s been several years since I lasted traveled overseas, and since then I’ve become increasingly mobile-enabled. I’ve got navigation apps, information apps, map apps, and app apps (ok, well maybe not that last one).
The Performance Improvement Blog
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Organizational leaders often misinterpret social science data. That might be okay on a quiz show like “Whad'Ya Know?” , but not when making important organizational decisions. The problem is that executives, like all human beings, are wired to see causal relationships between behaviors and events that happen at approximately the same time. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons talk about this problem in their new book, The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
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E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 8, 2010
I’ve finally bitten the bullet and added those social media sharing icons to my blog posts. I was fiddling around with a few alternatives, but WordPress doesn’t seem to like foreign code. Only today did I realise that WordPress provides its own solution. It’s under Settings > Sharing Settings. Go figure. Anyway, I’m curious to see if the icons make much of a difference to my readership.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 9, 2010
by David R. Mankin Help. it's one of the first things I teach in any Acrobat class. The Acrobat Help System is available with a quick press of the F1 key, and it's been that way for as long as I can remember (regardless of the version of Acrobat). What varies from version to version is the type of Help file that ships with Acrobat, and therefore the program in which Help opens.
Moodle Journal
DECEMBER 6, 2010
One of my courses this year is in Website Production, and I was interested to see that the design stage included a moodboard, I was a little unclear about exactly what that meant exactly, so I decided to make a start with Wikipedia. OK that is a lot clearer now, but I need to see one really, so try YouTube and up comes this really instructive tutorial on making a moodboard for a website, really nice, and thanks to David Perel for that.
Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning
DECEMBER 7, 2010
My first book ever is out, written with Sibrenne Wagenaar (see picture). I even had a dream last night of a smooth delivery (of a baby). Probably because the publisher told us the book was born on November 29th at 15.00 pm. and we continued using this analogy. If you speak Dutch and you are interested you may order it here or here or buy the e-book Or follow En_nu_online on Twitter for your daily tip about learning through social media.
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eLearning Cyclops
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Over at the eLearning Guild they posted the recorded DemoFest 2010 Highlights Webinar. I was lucky enough to attend the webinar last week and it was great to see the winners show off their work and learn about the design and development of these great courses. FYI: If you are an Articulate user, Kevin Thorn (a.k.a. LearnNuggets ) provides some great tips and tricks during his portion of the webinar (Mission: Turfgrass).
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
DECEMBER 9, 2010
by AJ George. Sometimes it would really save time if you could reuse a slide from an existing presentation rather than have to copy and paste all of its elements to a new slide. Here's how to do that. In Normal view, decide where in your presentation you would like to reuse a slide and select the slide directly before it. (PowerPoint will insert the slide after whatever slide you have selected.) From the Home tab, choose Slides > New Slide > Reuse Slides.
eFront
DECEMBER 5, 2010
News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 12/05/2010 e-Learning Glossaries Think about e-Learning. e-Learning applications and processes are constantly changing and evolving, and the e-Learning community has members all over the world. These two facts make communication and common understanding of e-Learning issues hard to follow.
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