Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Earlier today, I stumbled on this bit of research on the Gartner site; while it dates back to August there’s some interesting speculation about the Future of Work. “People will swarm more often and work solo less. They’ll work with others with whom they have few links, and teams will include people outside the control of the organization,”. “In addition, simulation, visualization and unification technologies, working across yottabytes of data per second, will demand an emphasis on new perceptual

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. And it covers a broad range of types of topics. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

by Kevin Siegel. You've produced your Captivate project in record time. The only thing left to do is Publish the project. Anyone who has published a Captivate project knows it is a simple process of choosing File > Publish and setting the appropriate options. Of course, at some point you do actually need to click the Publish button. And what happens then?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

A while back, PBS did a series on video games called The Video Game Revolution and they created a companion web site. One article on the site takes apart some common myths about video games. Check out Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked for yourself, in the meantime, here is small sampling of the conclusions of the article. Myth is listed first then the rebuttal: 1.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

As always, the eLearning Guild puts on a great show and this year’s DevLearn in San Fran was no exception. Heading home completely exhausted and in dire need of a foot rub – good signs of all the action there was. Life as a booth babe At the Kineo booth, we were busy on the stand talking about Totara – the new open source LMS for corporates – and showing off some our custom eLearning projects.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

by David R. Mankin     I have written articles about Adobe's ever-growing Cloud which started with an application called Buzzword. Adobe then added Presentations and then Tables. Most of us are not tied to just one computer. It's likely that you use multiple devices throughout the day (a PC or two, a smartphone). It just doesn't make sense to have your valuable files sitting exclusively on just one of your devices.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I had the pleasure of edging Bob Glushko a couple of weeks ago, and finally had a chance to dig into a couple of papers if his (as well as scan his book Document Engineering). He’s definitely one that you would call ‘wicked’ smart, having built several companies and now having sold one, he’s only hanging around doing cutting edge information science because he wants to.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Oh, the humanity! Is your e-Learning turning out more like a horror show for zombies than a program that actually helps, gasp, people? Three tips for stopping the horror and putting the humanity back in: Start with the learner, not the content Get emotional Watch your tone For more of the meat on this one, read the full top tip on our website: Tip 44: Where’s the humanity?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

A movement in brewing to change all you do in your corporate and personnel life into a game. Check out this talk by the author of “The Art of Game Design&# and absorb his concepts of games and gamification. Of course there are always counter arguments. Here is a a Slideshare counter argument: Sixty-two Reasons Why “Gamification&# is Played Out.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

by Jennie Ruby Interrupting a sentence to explain a term or give examples of a concept is a way to get your reader to see immediately how the new information relates to the real world. But how to introduce the interruption is something many writers are shaky on. Should I use e.g.? Should I use the words "such as" or the word "like"?

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Upside has always prided ourselves on being tech and web-savvy. Our capabilities in both spheres reflect in our website. Our revamped website was recently featured in a CSS mania gallery. Our website uses CSS extensively, and now it’s recognized as being world-class in its use. We use our web-expertise for elearning just as effectively as CSS lets us tailor website content for a variety of devices and easy access.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In prep for last week’s DevLearn closing session, I ran a little survey on my blog asking eLearning professionals what they wanted to be when they grew up. Here’s the word cloud from those results: Very, very interesting… Granted, these results are surely skewed to those of you who actually read my blog…but nevertheless says something about who we are.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Dr. Phillips kicked off the CAC this year with introductions and advice for attendees. Dr. Phillips kicks off the CAC. The first presentation this semester is by Robyn Defelice who is discussing project management and the elements that contribute to effectively managing a project. Robyn Defelice discussing project management, instructional design and finding your inner PM.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

by Rick Zanotti Have you ever listened to an eLearning lesson and heard annoying popping sounds as the narrator spoke? I'm betting that you're nodding your head right about now. The popping sounds are called plosives , as in "explosives," or P-pops. If you've recorded your own audio for an eLearning project, I'm betting you're guilty of creating your own plosives at least a few times.

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Web Courseworks

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jeff Cobb just released his most recent report on association eLearning called Learning 2.0. I have included Jeff in many of my blog posts because he is a genuine, down to earth guy who thinks deeply about the future of eLearning, especially for associations. In Learning 2.0 Jeff provides a better understanding of how professional development practitioners should view the latest trends on the Internet.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, Kineo hosted a live workshop in New York on rapid eLearning in the Enterprise. We started the morning with introductions, asking people to share their burning issues. Here’s some of what people shared: I’m a one-stop-shop – how do I learn more about tools? How do I speed up the process? Our sales team just wants text messages.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

This is a long overdue post that I have been writing in fits and starts and never got around to completing. This often happens with me.especially when I am on a learning spree. I tend to start on multiple things, create chaos in my mind, keep adding to that chaos till my mind somehow sorts them out, and helps me to see an emerging pattern. Till then, I don't try to write anything--hence my long absence from my blog.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Are you an eLearning developer planning to include voiceover audio in your eLearning lessons? Great idea. audio will enhance the learner experience. Good audio will enhance the learner experience. But what about bad audio? Well. bad audio might still work, but it could also diminish the effectiveness of your lesson. Looking to get a jump start on the road to creating quality audio for your eLearning lessons?

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Every year, as part of our graduate program, we run a three day event which includes one day of corporate presentations, one day of student presentations and one day of interviews, business meetings and education. This year promises to be one of the best ever as our first group of online students are presenting. Some of them have never even met each other until this week, everything has been on line up until today when they will meet face-to-face and tomorrow they present as a team for the first

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The eLearning Guild ‘s DevLearn was a blast, as always. I was so involved that I hardly got to see any sessions, but had great conversations. And afterward the Internet Time Alliance really solidified our plans. Exciting times ahead. And there’s quite a bit of travel coming up. On Wed I depart to La Jolla to attend WCET’s conference , where I’ll be talking on mobile learning.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Thanks to the fact that my transfer from Stoas learning to EasyGenerator goes in good consultation, I am able to transfer my work at Stoas this month to my successor and at the same time startup at EasyGenerator. Part of this startup is that we will visit our Ukrainian colleagues next week to get acquainted with them; so far we only spoke briefly in a conference call.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

by AJ George. Last week I showed you an easy way to extract audio and image files from a presentation. The problem with that method is that it only works on files created in PowerPoint 2007 or 2010. What if you received a file created in an older version that didn't have the updated file extension? This week I will show you an alternate way to do this in both PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over at Learning Circuits the Big Question is "What questions are you no longer asking? What are your new questions?" Here are my reflections on what I no longer ask. or do. Is adding levity to a course a good thing? Where humor is not appropriate I obviously do not include it in the design, but if it is appropriate I will enthusiastically run with it.

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Mindflash

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Looking to help promote safe behavior and reduce the risk of accidents in your workplace? Like a lot of employers, you might be inclined — perhaps required — to create safety training videos for all new hires. A word of caution, however, before you start scripting, lining up your staff “cast,&# and shooting video: Resist the temptation to play Tarantino and hire a pro.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". At the same time, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks that helps people communicate efficiently with their friends, families, coworkers, and classmates. 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

One of the reasons I like working independently and have done now for nearly 14 years is that I don't have to impress anyone with how hard I work. If I do work hard it's because I really have to to get a job done on time for a client or because I'm so enthusiastic about a project that I can't stop. I remember reading a book about the meaning of competence some 30 years ago now.

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Mindflash

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The more I experiment with PowerPoint 2010′s new features, the more I’m impressed. Here’s a quick video that nicely highlights some of the coolest new features. The New Features in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Cool, eh? And, those are just some highlights. My two favorite new features aren’t even featured in the video: the shape union and shape subtract tools.

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