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In Presentations and eLearning Visuals are worth a thousand Bullets on a Slide

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Whether you are a presenter or developing eLearning, our job is to engage our audience and no other things does the exact opposite more than a never ending list of bullet points on a Powerpoint slide. One of the best presentations I have ever witnessed in person was delivered by Seth Godin.

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A Mobile Learning Decision Path for Instructional Designers tasked with developing #mLearning [Download]

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What we ended up with is a 291 page PDF document Job Aid, that you can download below via ADL’s web site. Finally, here’s what Jason Haag from ADL wrote on his blog: New Job Aid Available for Instructional Designers: The Mobile Learning Decision Path (MLDP). Sample Project 1—Determining Type of Mobile Solution … 46.

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Happy 12th Birthday iPod! [The Beginning of the Mobile Revolution]

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Twelve years ago yesterday, Steve Jobs and Apple introduced the first iPod using the amazing tagline: 1,000 songs in your pocket. Apple iPod vs. Diamond Rio MP3 Player. With those words, a simple little device changed the way we listen to music, revolutionized an entire industry, and in my opinion launched the modern mobile revolution.

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Should Learning Designers Learn to Code? [Poll]

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There are many people in Instructional Design, who may dismiss coding altogether with the argument that we have excellent WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) rapid eLearning tools that do a great job at developing learning with little to no coding necessary and that are mostly based on the ubiquity of PowerPoint.

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Why the iPad and iPhone not supporting Adobe Flash is a Great thing for mLearning

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I have been and continue to be a big fan of Flash from my days when I worked at Macromedia and more recently at Adobe and was pretty ticked off when Apple posted Steve Job’s Thoughts on Flash.

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Do Learners on Mobile really know what they want in mLearning?

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One of my favorite lessons from Steve Jobs was that Apple didn’t do much in the way of Focus Groups in order to figure out what their next products would be. Only by becoming a mobile user yourself can you truly understand what the experience is like and begin thinking about how to deliver powerful mobile learning experiences.

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4 Ways Smartphones are helping People Learn a new Language

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According to Rare Job Daily News , mobile software developers are taking advantage of this trend, releasing their own tools to facilitate learning. Smartphone Applications. Compared to tablets , smartphones have a greater market penetration when it comes to speech learning and translator applications.