Learning Visions

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Julie Dirksen, #DevLearn "Interface Design: Tips and Tricks for Designing for Learning Environments"

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So for a drag and drop exercise have: Read:, Click:, Drag Here. Prototype in simple tools: Use PowerPoint to hyperlink -- build a prototype in 10 mins. Screen instructions = cognitive instructions -- where do I need to go -- how can you bring that down to the fewest words possible (that you could read in one eye blink). User Testing.

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Learning to Work, Working to Learn

Learning Visions

PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlman's got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. Audio : I've been learning the basics of using Adobe Audition for sound recording and have been creating narration for a course we're currently building.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Go Read a Book

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In a recent book claiming that television and video games were “making our minds sharper,&# the journalist Steven Johnson argued that since we value reading for “exercising the mind,&# we should value electronic media for offering a superior “cognitive workout.&# What do you think?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning to Work, Working to Learn

Learning Visions

PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlmans got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. Audio : Ive been learning the basics of using Adobe Audition for sound recording and have been creating narration for a course were currently building.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

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This applies particularly where text and sound are likely to be used (notably the studies on PowerPoint and speech). In the US, where instruction remains completely teacher-directed, school controlled, instructors add audio as a method of trying to keep students awake through unbelievably boring exercises in PowerPoint abuse. -

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer"

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Lively eLearning is a course that gets the learner involved - which one can do simply by writing in a more conversational tone, or by creating appropriate exercises and activities to help the learner think critically about the content and ensure better transfer. 11:46 AM Carolyn said. Thanks Cammy, I completely agree with your clarifications.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Plodding Along in Second Life

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Showed me the site of the chemical spill where the students had done a group exercise. He gave me a firefighters uniform, which I figured out how to put on after a few false starts. When we were done, I took off the uniform and tried to revert to my original appearance. I got stuck in a car on Nissan island. Couldnt get out.