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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
8226; Place the text in the infographic as close as possible to the corresponding point in the picture. In my previous article , I proposed a Taxonomy of Learning Theories to organise a few of the myriad of theories into some semblance of order, and to assist instructional designers in using theory to inform their work. In this article, I go one step further by listing specific, practical instructional design tips that are informed by those theories.
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
The helicopter goes up a layer or two to get the “big picture” or a wider vision. Getting good at social interactions is vital for social learning. We live in a social world. Every action taken that involves more than one person arises from conversation that generates, coordinates, and reflects those actions.
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
You can see a little bit of my rooftop in this picture from Alexander’s The Nature of Order. Pattern Language ? A concept invented by Christopher Alexander , award-winning, renegade architect despised by most other architects, but wildly popular among designers and software authors. Alexander used to live in my
 

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Pictures… The power of pictures has been recognised in educational psychology for a long time. consider these results important because, not only do they support the idea of pictures enhancing learning, but they also suggest that an infographic can achieve similar learning outcomes whether or not it is accompanied by a relatively large amount of text. However, I still feel that pictures can be a useful pedagogical Diagrams… Charts…
In my quest to realize a Star Trek-ian society within my lifetime I wish to promote free tools, eLearning tools at that. One of the great recent repositories is Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Everyone could build a repository with free eLearning tools, but she did it by distilling the top 100 tools that were provided to her by expert eLearning colleagues from all around the world.
However, the real point of the post is the way Crammer and Wasiak's book is designed -- pictures fill up the pages just as much as the text, if not more. While I like a good picture to help understand or reinforce the text, it seems that Change the Way You See Everything goes beyond this. Many of the photos do nothing to help understand the book. Change the Way You See Everything Perhaps the one book that pulled Crammer and Wasiak's Change the Way You See Everything is about "Asset-Based Thinking" -- increasing your focus on what is right, rather than what is wrong (deficit-based thinking).
It can also add Flickr photos, so if you are having a multimedia presentation, you can ask people to send their pictures immediately to a dedicated flickr-account and .... those pictures will show as the background of the tweets (a bit busy though). It is Friday, my head is already moving into weekend-drive and so I was looking for something small and nice to share. Twitter is used by a lot of people at this point.
am also conscious that the mind can easily wander with just the spoken word to concentrate on, particularly after I read in The Business of Memory (see the power of pictures - part 1 ) that we "tend to listen at 800 to 1200 words a minute, whereas most people speak at about 150-200 words per minute. A few years back I co-authored an e-book/CD-ROM called Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint . Not wanting to appear a hypocrite, I have tried my best to obey my own rules ever since.
was surprised at the power of the picture. That's right, another trip to London, another book. This time it's The Business of Memory by Frank Felberbaum (I must get myself a name like that!), published by Rodale (2005). I
When you don't meet someone in person, you still paint a picture of them in your mind. I had to keep staring at each of them hard as I replaced my old pictures. The bonus of so many of the social media tools we use is that our pictures are attached. Yesterday I had the pleasure of working on-site with a client for the day. This is a group I've been working very closely with for the past year.
Her blog features an abundance of eLearning tips and tricks and why I wanted to put her in the picture right now is because of a recent post that got me into design thinking mode . Tags: research person in the picture instructional design eLearnin Over the years I have been enjoying Janet Clarey's blogpost s very much. They are insightful as well as practical.
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