Making Change

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

When should elearning be narrated? I think we should rephrase the question as, “When is it a good idea to force all learners to go at the same pace?&#. That’s what narrated material does. The pace of the narration controls the pace of the material. When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

TED has released this video of Dr. Sugata Mitra in which he talks about his experiments with education for children. He talks about some of the issues with education in developing countries. There are some interesting insights, check it out. Tags: eLearning Education For Children Learning.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It’s another round of the ID Live Show on EdTechTalk! Join us this week on Friday, September 10 for a chat with Jane Bozarth, author of the newly released Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. Put it on your calendars and join us at this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008093&password=M.38BC2EDAB739D8E635ACBE1D093746 About Instructional Design Live: A weekly online talk show, Instructional Design Live is based around Instructional Design rel

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

When should elearning be narrated? I think we should rephrase the question as, “When is it a good idea to force all learners to go at the same pace?&#. That’s what narrated material does. The pace of the narration controls the pace of the material. When you’re learning from narrated material, you can’t easily skim stuff you already know, or slow down and concentrate on the challenging parts, because the voice continues relentlessly at a pace that someone else established.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In my articles Online courses must die! and The ILE and the FLE in harmony , I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration. Heeding the advice of Bill Brandon , I will now flesh out that idea with an illustration of how it might be implemented in a real organisation.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

by AJ George Last week I covered a couple ways to ensure that you get as much life as possible out of your Droid's battery. This week I bring you a few more battery saving tips. Monitor What's Using Your Battery By choosing Settings > About Phone > Battery > Battery Use you can monitor what exactly is eating up your battery life. If your Display percentage is higher than your Android System percentage, you should definitely consider turning down your screen brightness.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If you are thinking of creating an educational game but don't want to invest a lot of money, you can try out these free software programs (or free for 30 days in some cases), some are 2D and some are 3D. Also, if you are in a large organization and thinking of implementing a "serious game," you may want to develop a prototype using one of these software programs to see how it plays before sinking a lot of money into the project.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. &# – William Arthur Ward. Since times immemorial, teachers have held a prime position in our lives. In India, they have been respected and idolized, followed and worshipped. While the names used to refer to them may have changed over time, but the role that they play continues to remain the same.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

An Appalachian Mountain Proverb goes: It’s not what you don’t know that’ll hurt you, it’s what you do know that ain’t so. I thought of this proverb when reading Benedict Carey’s New York Times article, Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits. He reports on a survey of learning-styles research that appeared in the journal, Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

by Kevin Siegel I'm a big fan of working as efficiently as possible. With that in mind, I teach students who attend my live, online RoboHelp classes how to create Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on the first day of class. And then I teach how to create master pages on the second day. Of all the wonderful features you'll find in RoboHelp, CSS and Master Pages are arguably two of the most important things to learn and use if you want to work more efficiently in RoboHelp.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

So this is wild for me, first time I am a tour stop on a blog book tour! I've been an author on blog book tours but now I get to be a stop on a tour and I couldn't be happier to be a stop for my friend and prolific author, Jane Bozarth. Social Media for Trainers is a great book for understanding the ways to leverage social media to extend training beyond the traditional four walls.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Two recent events converged to spark some new thinking. First, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Dave Gray , who I’d first met in Abu Dhabi where we both were presenting at a conference. Dave’s an interesting guy; he started XPlane as a firm to deliver meaningful graphics (which was recently bought by Dachis Group, and he’s recently been lead author on the book Gamestorming.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Check out my latest eLearning top tip offering on our site: Tip 42: Bring the learner into the design Who’s at the heart of the eLearning design process? Why the learner, of course! And yet, the dear learner so often lies lonely and forlorn amidst the piles of binders, the loads of text bullets and the pages and pages of content. So how can you bring them front and center?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

by Barb Binder When I produce a book in FrameMaker I usually begin by importing Word documents that have been sent to me from a variety of authors. These files will frequently contain colors that float into my FrameMaker template with the Word files, but I rarely notice them until I get around to updating my book. When I do click the Update button, I am frequently stopped short by a notice via the Book Error Log about inconsistent color definitions: This message shows up when two or more f

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

According to Fortune , Bill Gates (yes, that Bill Gates) his favorite teacher is named Sal Khan. Sal teaches at his own online university called khanacademy.org which is a vast digital trove of free mini-lectures all narrated by Khan. See the article Bill Gates' favorite teacher The Khan Academy is the most popular educational site on the web. As Fortune says, "by any measure it is the most popular educational site on the web.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

What other ways can you cut elearning to fit? Tags: Humor Budget eLearning Custom eLearning eLearning eLearning Development.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Here’s the recording for this week’s ID Live Show with very special guest, Jane Bozarth author of the newly released Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. You can access the recorded session here. Tags: social media jane bozarth edtechtalk ID Live.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

by Kevin Siegel Last week I wrote about how Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting method for posting quiz data instead of an expensive LMS: Acrobat.com and the free Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer. To recap, you can set up Acrobat.com to receive your learner's posted quiz data. Once posted, you would then use the Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer to create reports and charts.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In many organizations, people need to receive training for unlikely but possible events (such as a blow out on an oil rig or the blow out of two engines on an airplane because of bird strikes.). These are critical incidents and 3D learning environments can help people prepare and train for these events. Training in the MMORPG America's Army The critical incident learning environment in 3D is when the learner is placed into an environment or situation similar to the real event in which they must

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Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I recently had lunch with an old acquaintance from the University of Wisconsin, Kathleen Paris, Ph.D. She has, over many years, been involved with the University’s efforts to improve quality and promote strategic planning. After reading her book, Staying Healthy in Sick Organizations: The Clover Practice™ , I have found that many of the principles and methods that she has developed and laid out in her book, can be applied in our own eLearning departments to improve our work environment and the q

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Great photos help create fun and engaging training. We have recently put together packs of eLearning stock photos to help you design better training. Here are some layouts that we created to “get your creative juices flowing&#. The examples are a combination of PowerPoint course styles , Cut-Out People , and eLearning stock photos. Tags: eLearning eLearning Tips People Pictures power point backgrounds stock photos.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

After Tuesday's blog post , I've heard a few requests for a PDF of the list of Camtasia Studio's hotkeys. You can download your own copy of all the hotkeys here. Enjoy! Any other requests for printouts? And, a special thanks to Fred Grover and Donald Smith for making PDFs as well. I appreciate it! Tags: Camtasia Studio Time Saver Tuesday Tips and Tricks 26 59 63.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn't seem like much unless you are one of the.1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the last 20 years. As a faculty member of Bloomsburg University--a stated owned University, I am a Pennsylvania state employee.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

“Instead of trying to outspend, outsell, or outsponsor competitors, try to out-teach them.”. Think about it this way: There will always be a competitor with more money for advertising, marketing, and expensive client dinners. But if your competitor is in that mindset, what are the chances they are thinking about building their clients by educating them on how to do their jobs better, how to be more organized, or how to save $100 per month by using this special type of light bulb over that one?

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eLearning Brothers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Many designers use PowerPoint to create eLearning courses. Here are some simple tips to think about when building an online course: Don’t Cram So Much Text onto a Slide. It is widely known that people don’t read online, they scan. If a user sees a bunch of text on the slide they will almost always ignore it. They need to be “enticed&# to read it.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

"If I save time, when do I get it back?" Too bad it doesn't work that way in life! :-). It's time for another Time Saver Tuesday! We had a request during our recent Camtasia 24 Screencasts in 24 Hours about publishing all the hotkeys in one place (they're listed in a various sections of our Online Documentation here ). I thought this was a great idea!

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Labor Day is here, traditionally, many people in the US consider it the last day of summer. And to celebrate they usually cook out on the grill and have a picnic. Well, the celebration doesn't have to end even when the weather gets cold, there are plenty of fun and exciting cooking games that you can play to stay sharp. You can even challenge the Iron Chef if you feel up to the challenge.

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