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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity. Properly d.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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Software tools such as Articulate Presenter or Adobe Presenter allow you to transition your current PowerPoint into a streamlined e-Learning modules complete with narration, interactive quizzes, and Flash-based output compression. This approach also encourages the collaborative and social learning experience. Properly d.

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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.

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Tools like Mindflash and Brainshark are quickly gaining traction in the marketplace, as ways to turn everything a company has “laying around,” like Powerpoints and videos, and turn them into training. Check out this article in Fast Company last week called How Mint Exec’s New Company is Going to Make Teachers Out of Us All. Properly d.