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MARCH 15, 2018

This month in Learning Solutions I offer ideas for a "crash course" in learning design for those who may find themselves thrown into the role. Whatever the reason, it happens.

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JULY 21, 2015

I do love fun, original ideas. Here's the image Jane sent: My first thought was that this is a wonderful metaphor for reaching for -- and finally getting to -- that ah-ha "lightbulb" moment that changes our perspective, or clarifies a concept, or illuminates an idea. What is it? Just make sure the images aren’t too rude.

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MARCH 31, 2013

I agree we have to go in having some idea of what ‘good’ is, at least enough to keep us away from all text or bedtime-reading narration of that text, or seductive but irrelevant elements. Finding an explicit performance need, getting clear on assessments first, and sticking to a plan that helps the learner learn.”

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eLearning vendor Assessment Ideas 67

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MARCH 8, 2015

Key ideas include trimming the fat, editing ruthlessly, finding your 20%, and playing the old "classified ads" game. This month''s Nuts & Bolts column looks to extend Cammy Bean''s great session on writing better elearning scripts. Check it out!'

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bozarthzone

MAY 5, 2015

In my social media workshops I find that participants struggle most with ideas for supporting serendipitous, accidental, and spinoff learning. This month's Nuts & Bolt's column offers tips for that. Among them? Be a curator & connector, encourage reflection, and put rocks in the path. We can’t schedule accidents.

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Social Media Tips Media Environment 40

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Participant @MichelleOckers took away this idea for keeping up with conference learning. Devlearn Bloggers Update: The September 24 #lrnchat focused on learning from conferences. It’s a template she’s shared with us as a Google doc. Looks like a great tool, and I love the final colum's reminder to share learning with others.

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Templates Conference Google Docs DevLearn 40

bozarthzone

JANUARY 31, 2012

New "Nuts & Bolts" column today: Watch for opportunities to quickly solve a performance problem or encourage use of a new idea, approach or tool. Warning: this may not have a thing to do with your job.

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Instructional Instruction Problem Ideas 56

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

This month's Nuts and Bolts column is the first in a series updating ideas around using social media for learning. I'm looking especially at the rise of new tools for user-generated images and video: “L&D is great at creating and delivering content.

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Social Media Media Social Support 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 6, 2017

I've done a lot with ideas around working out loud over the years and if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that people love to talk about their work. We had a great night and if the idea appeals to you I’d say go for it. Nothing formal. Come hungry! Not their jobs, necessarily, but their work. But “What do you do?” Some advice?

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bozarthzone

JULY 19, 2016

This month's column explores some common issues and ideas for overcoming them. And often they complain that the sessions are good, but not quite realistic, or not always relevant to their needs. In the classroom, a good trainer can adjust on the fly, a luxury not available to the eLearning designer. What's Happening in the Classroom?

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Classroom Online Customer Service Convert 56

bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I'm especially interested in hearing what ideas readers are applying/what new ideas the book may have sparked, so please comment here or find me on Twitter ( @janebozarth , @SoMe4Trainers ) or on my Facebook pages ( Bozarthzone , Social Media for Trainers ). It's much appreciated.

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Blogging Elluminate Social Media Yammer 69

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The idea appeals to me, and I admit I’m even more interested and optimistic about it given the recent events in Egypt. Shepherd’s idea that, "You build a learning culture by building an appetite to learn. Shepherd offers a nice overview of the field, with useful suggestions for current practice and provocative ideas for the future.

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eBook Learning Articulate Culture 58

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JULY 27, 2010

I'm offering daily tips and ideas on social media for trainers via Twitter @SoMeTrainers and weekly-ish tips via a Facebook page. Amazon has just added the "look inside" feature for Social Media for Trainers so be sure to go take a look! Check "Where's Jane?" at right for my speaking schedule.

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Social Media Media Social Social Networks 61

bozarthzone

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In looking for value in online interactions, try to get past the idea of a magic metric. I can’t tell you that my spending x hours on LinkedIn and tweeting y times per day will get you the result I got in the example above. I can tell you that my choice of when, with whom, and how to engage is what helped drive that result.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 9, 2016

People report glitches and offer ideas for improving the product, but the developers are not members of the communities, so the feedback never reaches them. Few people participate, and when they do they’re usually just posting a hint or two, complaining about a problem, or asking for help.

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Social Learning Social Forum Communities of Practice 58

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JUNE 14, 2016

A follower who'd attended my "Tips for the Positive Deviant" webinar asked on her Facebook page how ideas around Positive Deviance (PD) might be applied specifically to L&D. I answered in this month's Nuts & Bolts column. “In In every group there is a minority of people who find better solutions to the challenges at hand.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

It’s all around us every day, from water cooler conversations to asking a co-worker for an opinion. What are some ways to help support the new learning as people work to implement it?

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Wiki ASTD Customer Service Leadership 70

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The publisher asked specifically for activities and ideas to help trainers and instructional designers develop an understanding of social media tools at "eye level": What are they, how are they best used, and how can we use them to extend and enhance current practice? Is the book right for you?

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Social Media Media Blogging Social 55

bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

We’ve worked hard to identify ways of keeping the best of the last 10 years while looking for new areas of focus and ideas for reaching a broader community of readers. Here is part of my welcome message: "I’m thrilled to be coming on board as Editor in Chief.

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Virtual Classroom Case Study eLearning Virtual World 64

bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Readers of Social Media for Trainers will appreciate the challenges of trying to keep print text updated as new approaches and ideas evolve. The episode's called "don't deceive me please don't go" so keep an eye out for it on subversive channels everywhere. Keep me posted of new things you run across and I'll do my best to spread the word.

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Twitter Training Train Social Media 63

bozarthzone

MARCH 9, 2008

I give both of these ideas a lot of coverage in my books, but here's a quick example in practice. The real program is proprietary but I dummied up a reasonable facsimile in PowerPoint this morning-- enough for you to get the idea. photos of real people, and, 2. multiple choice questions recast as games.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I recently threw out an idea to organizers of a large conference, saying that I'd like to host a 'Twitter event' during the conference. lrnchat gives me all-at-once access to some of the best minds in the field, directs me to new ideas, provides alternative points of view, and sends me looking for a new book or article.

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Ustream Twitter Conference Social Media 45

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Don't be surprised if you learn that someone has harvested your email address, or used Google street view to get an idea of your income, or allowed some third-party app to access data it shouldn't. Here's something to help clarify, from Dave Makes: ( [link] ) So: If you want it to truly be private, don't put it online.

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Privacy Social Networks Facebook Movie 109

bozarthzone

DECEMBER 30, 2009

tools (like Twitter & Facebook) with ideas and instructions for conducting specific training activities with each (see the post from November 9). I've just finished up the first draft of my latest book, Social Media for Trainers , due out from Pfeiffer in summer 2010. It's pretty much a quick explanation of some Web 2.0

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Attitudes Social Media Guidelines Social Networks 49

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

See the whole article for ideas on ways of better equalizing participation. All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background."

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Social Networks Wikipedia Social Network Community 40

bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

I push back against the idea that university education should be reserved for some elite group of knowledge-makers and thinkers. And while vocational training may indeed prepare a person to enact a particular work role, those with university educations experience more employment flexibility.

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Virtual World Alternatives Education Learning 52

bozarthzone

MAY 23, 2011

Participants share ideas for generating content, growing readership, that kind of thing. Something really interesting happened on Twitter last night. The backstory: There is a regularly scheduled discussion, #blogchat, that happens on Sunday evenings at 8 pm ET (oops--update, correction: 8 Central).

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Social Learning Social Social Networks Twitter 97

bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2010

There's been a flurry of activity this week on the topic of snake oil: First Harold Jarche said : "“As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it."

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

How do we resist (or help others resist) the idea that the initial event – training – is the end when it is only the beginning? How do we link/pair the training intervention with extended support for performance improvement? Why is training (as an intervention) almost never enough? All learning is about relationships.

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DevLearn Performance Support Long Tail Performance 40

bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect in terms of submissions, and was somewhat surprised at what did not arrive. Dozens of authors and training practitioners were invited to contribute to it, and were specifically asked for tools they were using in their own work.

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Media Instructional Design ADDIE Communities of Practice 40

bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Ideas for other activities? Invite course participants (and then, perhaps, the rest of the organization) to contribute tips for things like: Retaining top performers; improving existing processes; recruitment strategies; success stories. Have workers create a map of an existing process, then work together to edit/create a new, better process.

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Social Media Media Wiki Social 49

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APRIL 29, 2010

I've resisted the idea of so many devices, advocating for consolidation into one, but now am rethinking that. Once the Kindle is dropped, or stepped on by the pool, or gets wet, or something, it could stop working altogether, whereas a paper ,book unless set on fire, will probably always be there. Overall, though?

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White Label iPad iPhone Predictions 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

What other ideas do you have for evaluating at this level? If you must undertake Level I evaluation, try to find something that will give you more meaningful information than "4.5" ratings with no explanation. And pay attention to the feedback! Evaluation activity submtted by Michele St.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

So how often does this happen?

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Problem Creative Commons License Instructional Design 40

bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2016

So in the spirit of “Nuts and Bolts,” here are some ideas for exploration: This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in Learning Solutions Magazine. You can read the rest here.

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Journal Communities of Practice Articulate Community 40

bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Bentham developed the idea of the panopticon , a prison design that provided a single central point from which all prisoners/cells/activities could be observed. Foucault wrote at length of the pervasiveness of the idea -- the need to observe and regulate -- as it extended to other institutions such as hospitals and schools.

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Virtual Classroom Simulations Blackboard Distance Learning 81