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JANUARY 30, 2012

Obviously the subject matter expert will need to check this too, but you should pick up any contradictions or any statistics that don’t add up, for example. Subscribe via email on the right to make sure you don’t miss my next post, providing three simple tips for efficient, effective QA.).

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APRIL 11, 2011

For example, you might have three sentences of text, highlighting the three key points from that screen, with an audio narrative that elaborates on those points. But even these three results provide interesting food for thoughts. Text and audio can be used together, as long as they present the same information verbatim.

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

Sometimes this is based on experience, sometimes it’s prescribed (if it’s a training course, for example), and sometimes it’s just a best guess. For example, at the start of a project spanning several months, I plot everything from the project plan into my Outlook calendar. There’s some flexibility required.

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Personal Personalization Calendar Storyboard 44

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

For example, I’ve gained a mentor who can help me build on my success and make the most of the opportunities available to me. Last but not least, don’t underestimate the importance of the confidence boost that winning an award provides. Quality network. Improved confidence.

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Benefits Write Blog Network Mentoring 66

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Don’t assume that all the ‘must have’ information provided by subject matter experts and stakeholders really is ‘must have’ Flex your editor’s elbow and be firm: if it doesn’t directly contribute to the learning outcomes, put it somewhere else. Stay focused. Image: ?????Salvatore

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Tips Compliance Training Virtual Classroom Voice 73

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

This beginners’ guide provides some basic building blocks to help training managers or subject matter experts wear their new instructional design hats with confidence! Instructional design isn’t easy (if it was, there’d be no such thing as bad e-learning), but the basics can be taught and easily adopted.

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Instructional Design Beginner Instructional Instruction 63

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We’ve all heard that ‘opposites attract’ and this applies to archetypes too – opposite archetypes often have common connections, for example in what drives them or their perception of time: The Sovereign works well with the Mystic, because both are driven by power and both tend to look ahead. ’ about it all.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Responses ranged from the pragmatic (professional or relocation reasons) to the personal (ancestry or in-laws, for example), as well as lifelong interest in some cases. Hank began by asking those of us in the room why we’ve chosen to learn second langauges. In other cases, materials might be at the wrong level or even just plain boring.

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Change Business Augmented Reality Exercise 58

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It provides novel entertainment, useful information (such as nutritional values of available food), and convenient assistance (during cooking, for instance). This film reminds me a lot of the young adult dystopian fiction that I’ve read over the past year or so (see a sample on my other blog ). Charlie 13. Watch the film here.

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Augmented Reality Microsoft Score Social Media 47

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Now those shoeboxes are replaced with my own albums and scrapbooks dedicated to particular things – the year I spent living in France, or my time at university, for example. This isn’t difficult, really, if you think about how many minutes you spend chatting while making cups of tea, for example.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It provides novel entertainment, useful information (such as nutritional values of available food), and convenient assistance (during cooking, for instance). This film reminds me a lot of the young adult dystopian fiction that I’ve read over the past year or so (see a sample on my other blog ). Charlie 13. Watch the film here.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We’ve all heard that ‘opposites attract’ and this applies to archetypes too – opposite archetypes often have common connections, for example in what drives them or their perception of time: The Sovereign works well with the Mystic, because both are driven by power and both tend to look ahead. ’ about it all.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

By letting the e-learning and compliance communities determine the content of the session, and then offering practical tips and examples, I hope that I delivered something that was itself engaging, relevant and effective!

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Compliance Training Tools Virtual Classroom Write Blog 91

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Responses ranged from the pragmatic (professional or relocation reasons) to the personal (ancestry or in-laws, for example), as well as lifelong interest in some cases. Hank began by asking those of us in the room why we’ve chosen to learn second langauges. In other cases, materials might be at the wrong level or even just plain boring.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Design an ongoing experience, including links to other reference points or learning resources and providing a well-designed crib sheet with key ‘dos and don’ts’ and contact points. You can see the slides from my session on user-focused design for gold-standard compliance training in my last blog post or on SlideShare.) Image: ?????

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Compliance Training Compliance Virtual Classroom Storyboard 66

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MARCH 7, 2011

According to Laura Overton at Towards Maturity , ‘award winners will have made every attempt to provide solid evidence that they have met each of the judging criteria set down for the category…Make sure that your submission clearly addresses each of the areas that the judges are considering, preferably in the order suggested!’

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

This last point is vitally important, whether you or someone else will be making the changes – it’ll help speed up the turnaround of the next iteration without misinterpretation or error, and it also provides you with a detailed audit trail of changes requested. My final two tips would be practise and spread the word!

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MARCH 3, 2011

but David Starkey provided the most wonderful illustration of the big and important difference between a subject matter expert and a learning expert, or indeed between a professor and a teacher. While that’s a great privilege, it’s not always everything it’s cracked up to be.

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Lesson Storyboard Virtual Classroom Write Blog 61

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

This last point is vitally important, whether you or someone else will be making the changes – it’ll help speed up the turnaround of the next iteration without misinterpretation or error, and it also provides you with a detailed audit trail of changes requested. My final two tips would be practise and spread the word!

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JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the things that sets the best conference tweeters (I was going to include some examples here, but got so many suggestions it’s become a separate post !) Yes, it makes sticking to the 140 character limit a bit more challenging, but it provides useful context for anyone dipping into the backchannel mid-session.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Took photos of key diagrams or slides provided by the speaker, rather than trying to copy down lots of text or describe graphics in a 140-character tweet! Prepare myself with links to session descriptions or speaker bios and add them to those start-of-session introductory tweets, to provide more context to followers.

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Conference Twitter Streaming PENS 58

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Took photos of key diagrams or slides provided by the speaker, rather than trying to copy down lots of text or describe graphics in a 140-character tweet! Prepare myself with links to session descriptions or speaker bios and add them to those start-of-session introductory tweets, to provide more context to followers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the conversations were just getting-to-know-you chit-chat, but there were also some more professionally-relevant threads about what makes an online community successful or our greatest frustrations about workplace learning, for example. On the first full day of the conference, we became ‘reverse mentors’ for an hour.

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Conference Mentoring Conversation Learning 61

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the conversations were just getting-to-know-you chit-chat, but there were also some more professionally-relevant threads about what makes an online community successful or our greatest frustrations about workplace learning, for example. On the first full day of the conference, we became ‘reverse mentors’ for an hour.

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