Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 4, 2008
The Learning Circuits Big Question for April is. What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional? My overarching professional development goal right now is to improve the interactivity in the courses I develop. Because we’re a small company and a small team, any interactivity needs to be something I can do myself-there’s no Flash developer to pass it off to.
Kapp Notes
MARCH 31, 2008
This has been around for a while but is a great example of using technology to help teach and save resources. It is a lot of fun. So, if you have a few moments, try dissecting this virtual frog. Good for science and saves frogs! Go to Virtual Frog Dissection and start cutting.
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Learning Visions
APRIL 2, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, April 02, 2008 Hiring Women in 1943. You Go, Girl! This has very little to do with eLearning - although Im sure those of you with a creative mindset could think of something! Its certainly good for a laugh on a busy morning. A client sent this scanned page to me this morning.
Lars is Learning
APRIL 2, 2008
Just watched Jeremy Paxman do his usual combative stuff interviewing the US founder behind Brain Gym - in the words of the Newsnight blog: Brain Gym is a programme used in hundreds of schools across Britain - backed by the government. It's a series of daily physical exercises that are supposed to aid learning - by stimulating the vital organs. Many teachers - and many pupils - are convinced it.
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Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 4, 2008
TeacherTube - How to create a great PowerPoint without breaking the law. tags: copyright , presentation , education. 45 minute presentation from the eTech Ohio 2008 conference by Alvin Trusty. Half of the presentation is about creating good presentations, half about copyright law in education. Touches on color, contrast, font, and more. About Fire Vox. tags: accessibility , opensource , firefox.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 31, 2008
I saw a post by Christy Tucker that pointed me to a feature in Diigo - their site community. It feels like a combination of del.icio.us and MyBlogLog. The nice part is that you can see it for every site - even if the site owner hasn't done anything. So, I was able to look at the eLearning Technology's Site Community. While it shows me something about the people, what I found really compelling was looking at the Popular tab which gives a pretty good indication of what the best content is on my si
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 2, 2008
Spotlight: Free Science Resources Online : March 2008 : THE Journal. tags: education , free , lessonplans , science. Overview of free science resources from NASA, the Smithonian, and MIT OCW. First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning. tags: 21stcenturyskills , digitalliteracy , education , pln , web2.0. Kim Cofino’s suggestions for steps to take to build skills and a Personal Learning Network (PLN).
Kapp Notes
APRIL 3, 2008
Writing a book is a lot of hard work and, as an author, one always wonders whether or not the book has value. Sales can tell you a little bit but not the entire story. So I was delighted to read the wonderful review by Rupa of Writer's Gateway. Rupa is an Information Developer in SAP Labs,India and a post graduate in English Literature from Pondicherry University.
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Tony Karrer
APRIL 1, 2008
I was contacted by Mike Hogan, the creator of Flashcard Friends. This is an interesting little application and might imply a few things around where things are going. FlashCard Friends does a lot of what you'd expect in terms of creating Flash Cards for students. It's well designed and very easy to use. It also does some interesting things: Allows users to categorize flash cards, mark them as being associated with particular text books, and then helps with the sharing of content.
Vignettes Learning
APRIL 4, 2008
I grabbed this image from Alan Pepofsky's blog. One can not be the all time 24/7 police of content accuracy -- which many of us in learning and train oftentimes want to do. I am guilty of sometimes being a control freak. Unless we let go and trust others to be part of a self-policing community, we will be sad and overworked social networking leader.
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 1, 2008
Top 10 Worst Captchas | John M Willis ESM Blog. tags: humor , usability. These are just awful Captchas–great examples of failures for usability. Clive on Learning: PowerPoint accessibility. tags: accessibility , powerpoint. Discussion of accessibility challenges in PowerPoint presentations with suggested solutions for each. eLearn: In Depth Tutorials - Designing and Developing E-learning Projects: A Three-Tiered Approach. tags: e-learning , instructionaldesign , projectmanagement.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 4, 2008
Thanks to Tony O'Driscoll at Learning Matters! for pointing this out. He let everyone know on his blog posting The i-web Singularity Redux that at Virtual Worlds III this week the announcement was made that Second Life has worked out a deal with IBM to move Second Life behind the IBM corporate firewall. If this can be a standard business practice for Second Life (living behind corporate firewalls) it is a removal of a huge obstacle for entry into 3D worlds for many industries like Pharmaceutical
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Tony Karrer
APRIL 1, 2008
I've added BrowseMyStuff to my sidebar and particularly links to keywords found in my blog and those found in various eLearning blogs. Browse eLearning Blogs - [link] Browse eLearning Technology - [link] It's nice that it basically provides automatic categorization. For example, here's eLearning 2.0 related posts on my blog: [link] Let me know what you think.
Clive on Learning
MARCH 31, 2008
One of my clients is considering using PowerPoint as a development tool. Although they will probably convert the PowerPoint to Flash and distribute in this way, they also want to make the PowerPoint files available for users who wish to make modifications to the materials. In investigating the various issues associated with PowerPoint, they uncovered this list of accessibility issues and some suggested solutions; they are happy that I share these with you: Accessibility challenge Disability Solu
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 31, 2008
I just realized that Diigo lets me see everyone who has bookmarked my site and what they saved. They call this the “User Community&# around a site; there’s also communities around tags. Here’s Site Community for my blog; you can enter your own URL there to see your user community. If you’re more interested in the people than the pages and tags, the People Search By Site is a better tool.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 2, 2008
A few days ago, I presented a webinar titled " Second Life in Education " for NETWORKS which is is a National Science Foundation Resource Center that is focused on the advancement of semiconductor, automated manufacturing, and electronics education. NETWORKS has a Digital Repository that contains classroom ready resources that are current, relevant, and easy to implement into a curriculum.
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Tony Karrer
MARCH 31, 2008
There has been wonderful discussion with a few folks around my post: Life is an Open Book Test. The most recent was a comment by Bill Brantley who generally agreed, but added: In Boy Scouts, I use to teach wilderness survival which required a lot of memorization. You couldn't count on having the Boy Scout Manual with you during a survival situation so I had the students memorize what plants were edible, different ways to purify water, and first aid techniques.
Learning with e's
APRIL 4, 2008
Well, now that the dust has settled on this year's Plymouth e-learning Conference , it is time to reflect. The verdict was that Plymouth rocks! It seems from the many positive comments we received that it has been a great success. 80 delegates attended the event today, to hear Professor Mark Stiles give a keynote on the tensions between institutional and student control over learning.
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 31, 2008
Classroom Management Quotes. tags: education , quoteable. Some good quotes on classroom management and education. The Bamboo Project Blog: Guide to Using Free Tools to Create an Online Portfolio. tags: career , portfolio , tools. 6 steps to create your online portfolio (something I really should start working on one of these days). Site Community for christytucker.wordpress.com, tags: community , diigo , socialbookmarking , socialnetworking.
Vignettes Learning
APRIL 4, 2008
Listing of Business and Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking and Collaborative Applications Ringsidenetworks [link] Enterprise Facebook [link] SharePoint (Wiki, Social Network Systems) [link] SocialText (Wiki) [link] LinkedIn [link] Widgets [link] Cisco and TribeNet [link] Leverage Software [link] IBM's Lotus Connections (Profile, Blog, Wiki, Social Bookmarking, Social Network Systems) [link] ConnectBeam (Social Bookmarking) [link] Bea Pathways (Social Bookmarking) [link] Awareness (Social Network S
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Clive on Learning
APRIL 4, 2008
This week has been a good one for April fool jokes: First the BBC screened a trailer for a documentary purportedly showing a rare species of flying penguin. I fell for it, I'm afraid. It's available for a few more days to view online at BBC iPlayer. Then, Tom Kuhlmann had me going with his hilarious five secret tips from an e-learning pioneer , a certain Dr Werner Oppelbaumer.
Learning with e's
APRIL 3, 2008
We're all set for the Plymouth e-Learning Conference tomorrow at the University of Plymouth. The weather here in Plymouth is glorious today with clear blue skies and a very comfortable temperature of 16 degrees. Mark Stiles will be presenting his keynote tomorrow, so for those who can't make it to the event, here's an extract: Whose sandpit? Whose toys?
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 29, 2008
I’ve mentioned Diigo a number of times in the past (including earlier today ). Kristin Hokanson asked me how I create my Daily Bookmarks posts. I’ve been meaning to actually play with Slideshare, so this gave me an excuse to do so. Here’s my quick directions on how to do a daily links post like mine. Hope this helps explain it! Technorati Tags: Diigo , socialbookmarking , Kristin+Hokanson , Slideshare.
Vignettes Learning
APRIL 2, 2008
This is an interesting article from Wired Magazine on " How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong" - how Steve Jobs' leadership style is often in contrast to traditionally accepted norms. The part that interests me the most is that Apple has successfully focused on the user experience rather than the winning business clients. The author, Leander Kahney says: "When hardware and software makers were focused on winning business clients, price and interoperability were more important
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Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning
APRIL 1, 2008
This week I had a call with five financial services clients to understand the impact of the economic slowdown on their learning, talent, and systems investments. How are HR, talent strategies, and enterprise learning investments being affected by the credit crunch and slowdown in the US financial system? . (The clients included companies in banking and.
bozarthzone
APRIL 1, 2008
My new big red (very red) book ships next week, chock-full of tools, templates, checklists, worksheets, guidelines, tips, rants (well, only on problems with evaluation and "ROI"), most of them also available as printable/editable items on the CD. The long list of contributors reads like a who's-who in contemporary training, including folks like Karl Kapp, Jennifer Hofmann, Jean Barbazette, Don Clark, Patti Shank, and Ruth Clark, and includes some lesser-known trainers with good stuff to share.
Experiencing eLearning
MARCH 30, 2008
21st Century Learning: 9 Principles for Implementation: The Big Shift Annotated. tags: change , digitalliteracy , education , k-12 , orgculture. 9 principles for implementing transformational change in education, changing the culture to support 21st century learning. Principles include “People before Things (or test scores)&# and “As the Individual Grows so Will the Collective Wisdom of the Community&#. 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider. tags: blog.
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