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Blog-o-the-month: your vote counts

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If you believe we should win, head off to the Blogger’s Hut yourself and ‘click the appropriate square on the polling object’. Seems Clive on Learning has been nominated for Blog-o-the-Month at the Blogger's Hut on Second Life at ISTE Island.

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Six ingredients for the successful virtual classroom

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And you think your poll went well early on in the session. You wonder what you could do about it – the session lasted an hour and you were the only speaker. You’re pleased to see that you were getting a few questions and comments in the text chat. But you can’t help feeling that you weren’t doing enough to keep the audience’s attention.

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Six ingredients for the successful virtual classroom

Clive on Learning

And you think your poll went well early on in the session. You wonder what you could do about it – the session lasted an hour and you were the only speaker. You’re pleased to see that you were getting a few questions and comments in the text chat. But you can’t help feeling that you weren’t doing enough to keep the audience’s attention.

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Harvard ManageMentor goes social

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Polls, discussion forums, comments, and ratings spark informal learning across an organization. And users of the new version can more easily share and apply concepts and tools with others in the context of their specific organization.

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Digital learning content does not have to mean CBT

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I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety.

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Renewed hope for better PowerPoint

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In the demo contained in his post, he shows how PowerPoint can be used to run a branching scenario (taken, I am proud to say, from the script for the 30-minute masters ) and how a PowerPoint-based rapid e-learning module can be integrated with collaborative tools such as polls, surveys, wikis, etc.

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A first look at Sakai 3

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The system includes a variety of widgets, such as polls, which can be built into content pages. " The VLE can appear anywhere through gadgets and applications appearing in other software environments (iGoogle, Facebook, etc.) and on different devices such as smart phones.