With all the commotion with opening up Moodle to iPhone (and now some android driven phones, but still in the initial try-out phase), I was not keeping up with my blog lay-out. But now, I finaly got the retweet button for blogger embedded in my blog html template, as well as a facebook button. In order to do this, I relied on the blogger plugins blog: here is the link for the retweet button and this one for the facebook button. But to make things easy, I wrote down what I chose. Once I got the code, I followed the steps below: How to install the Retweet Button on your blog? MORE >>

Whatever we might like to think, our corporations are not isolated from the surrounding society. In the developed world the brand names, web sites, and tools shown as examples here are playing a major part in how our society operates, consumes, communicates and learns. Key trends in society. In the past few years, the following seem have been some of the major trends: Internet use, and particularly broadband (2Mb/s or above) has grown phenomenally. In the UK, in 2009, 70% of households had access to the internet. Mobile phone use has grown hugely. Knowledge is being democratised. Many are free. MORE >>

Visual Design Basics View more presentations from sumeet.moghe. I'm sorry I'm not doing a weekend blogpost, because I'm busy hosting RubyConf India. That said, during my spare time I put together some slides for a lunch-and-learn session that I'm planning next week. The topic of the talk is 'Visual Design Basics' , and while I understand you won't glean much information from the slides, you can try and get a flavour for what I'll bark about! I'll try to do a slightly more detailed blogpost about this in the future. Sumeet Moghe, 2009. MORE >>

Earlier this month, Tom Kuhlmann talked about 10 things to do before your eLearning course goes live. His post makes great sense but what really caught my attention was the statement he began with. It’s amazing how fresh eyes can find things you might have overlooked during production. So, before launching your elearning course, it’s a good idea to have others review it.  You want to discover any hidden issues before the big launch.”. This is true. review by a separate review team/individuals is very important for any eLearning course. in Flash Based eLearning Development? MORE >>

My live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at Learning Solutions in Orlando. Heidi’s intro: When our learners are taking courses, they are making decisions about what they are learning… _ Jonah Lehrer author of How We Decide and blogger at The Frontal Cortex. Paralysis Analysis” – we get paralyzed by everyday decisions like buying a box of cereal or a tube of toothpaste. Plato: the way to make decisions is to be as rational as possible. the human mind is like a chariot with a rationale rider who needs to control the wild horses.” Veneration of reason and the denigration of emotion. MORE >>