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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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For an excellent illustration of this problem, check out this great example provided by the always-interesting Cathy Moore (click the image to launch the Flash player): Courtesy of [link] So, why does narration in eLearning frequently do nothing more than parrot back what’s written on the screen? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

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After a game is complete, the coach will break down the film, showing players what they did right and wrong. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Then, to prepare for the next opponent, the coach will show film of that opponent in action. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d.

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Is Your Measuring Stick Allowing You To Manage For The Better.

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Players ultimately developed, and their stats reflected that. There would be little argument as to how good a player was and what a player was worth. If baseball statistics had not developed to accurately evaluate a player or team, the game would have fallen out of favor with adults and returned to its original farm boy state.

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Can Games Transform the World? | Social Learning Blog

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The game randomly presented the players – the public – with the questionable receipts. If a receipt looked suspicious, players could write a description and hit an Investigate This! To add an element of competition, a leaderboard tracked and displayed which players had made the most finds. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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Social Media Libraries for Flash

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about the content of a learning module and get answers/opinions from others following the course tag. These social media elements can also be integrated in the elearning courses or applications developed using Flash technologies. Facebook – The most commonly used class for Facebook integration is facebook-actionscript-api.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

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Military | Social Learning Blog - May 19, 2011 [.] Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Development: Total storyboard development time was apparently in the range of 20 – 40 hours, which isn’t bad given the number of interwoven pathways. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! The Army even [.]

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