Given my fascination with YouTube and things like 50 Lessons , this is a topic I'm quite interested in. They provided this education during new hire orientation and it used to be a 30 minute lesson delivered all in Powerpoint and the fact is that it didn't work. The tools they used were digital cameras, Flash, Photoshop, Sound Booth and After Effects. I've just run into Joseph O'Malley's session on Micro-Learning. So I'll just liveblog what I'm learning. Joseph seems to be a very entertaining guy, given the conversation he's striking before the talk begins. Not good, eh? MORE >>

Meanwhile, it's our young people who are growing up in a world where it's clear that you need to question everything, and absorbing the lessons that go with that experience as they grow. It's kids who recognize that you can Photoshop a picture to look like "truth," in part because they've actually done it themselves. Stephen Downes points to a column by Larry Magid on the need for today's young people to develop critical thinking skills that will help them better evaluate what they read online. With the proliferation of media in the Internet age, this has changed. MORE >>

Many times, I couldn't find the right graphic or model that I needed, so I learned to create one.    I literally spent thousands of hours in Photoshop and Fireworks to become proficient.  . VIDEO >>   DRAWMore - Fireworks #1 - Brief lesson to get you drawing and using Adobe Fireworks.  . I remember the first time I created a transparency or PowerPoint slide, and I was happy to see there was clipart to help me fill in the screen. However, as I began to develop CBT and online courses, I needed to improve my graphics skills. VIDEO >>   Are you just filling the page? DEVMore Videos MORE >>

I’ve been playing around with the idea of accomplishment-based learning — using accomplishments as the fundamental organization of content and learning experiences, so that the very structure of the course is about learners accomplishing thing (*real* accomplishments – not finish-the-lesson or pass-the-test accomplishments).  For example which photoshop course would you rather take? This is excerpted and expanded from a post that I wrote for the Tin Can blog  . We’ve talked about WIIFM (What’s in it for me?) remen, doctors, etc.), How about WCIDWT? Thoughts? MORE >>

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