Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I have written over 1100 blog posts since I started this blog in 2006. This was the top post on my blog for many years, and still ranks highest of my instructional design careers series. The free open source tool Twine makes planning, writing, and creating branching scenarios easier. These are my top 10 posts for 2020.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 14, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. These suggestions for providing constructive feedback apply just as well to workplace training as they do to classroom environments. This is an interesting concept, and I can see the value for things like summaries or course descriptions based on content provided.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 13, 2021

I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on instructional writing, identifying strengths, project management tools, design principles, and more. Instructional writing. The before and after writing example shows what a significant difference it can make. Writing robotic speech.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 23, 2021

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is the first time I have compiled a complete list like this. I’m linking to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts. Blogging to Build Your Business.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2024

You can choose to prioritize reducing the cost and time, or you can choose to prioritize providing the highest quality solution possible. This dashboard provides feedback to the user at each step in the process. I’ll write more about that process of creating images in a future blog post. What do you think?

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. The scenario itself is about using ChatGPT for writing multiple choice assessments. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. This post includes links on using tech with scenarios: AI, xAPI, and VR.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. If you are moving beyond automatic captions to provide additional accessibility options in meetings and training with Zoom, read this article to find out what’s possible and what pitfalls to watch for. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2014

Therefore, your link text should still make sense on its own (or at least provide users with a clue as to the content). ” This applies to blogs, wikis, and pretty much any other online content, not just formal e-learning. Write more effectively to link on stronger words. What To Do. ” Standards.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. Tracy Hamilton writes Discovery through eLearning. E-learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. We’re still using those tools for some courses, depending on the content and activities, but we’re starting to integrate this internal blog into our activities.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2018

The books are a series in three volumes, with information expanded from his blog posts on freelancing. I struggled to name my business , and my professional brand is still split between this blog and my company, Syniad Learning. Richard Watson published his ebooks on the practicalities of freelancing in the elearning field last fall.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Build Your Branching Scenario isn’t a course just about the theory behind writing scenarios. For an example of the process, check out my blog post series on creating a branching scenario from start to finish. For an example of the process, check out my blog post series on creating a branching scenario from start to finish.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 14, 2019

One of the coolest things about writing a blog is seeing how others use my work. Her post draws from How to Get Started Writing Branching Scenarios and What to Write First in Branching Scenarios. Consider this my blanket permission if you’re interested in translating my posts for your own blog.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

technologies now provide extraordinary opportunities for enhancing student learning. It will provide you with greater understanding of why educators are engaging in the projects while increasing your skills for empowering your students’ learning. A 12-year-old student reflects on blogging after 6 months. My notes in italics.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

It’s been a somewhat slow start, as I had no computer for the first two weeks, but hopefully I’ll have some more to write about soon. These are my top posts according to the social signals measured by eLearning Learning : Blogging in a Walled Garden. Why a Wiki? Google Wave in 10 Minutes. Sakai 3 Development Process.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a previous blog post, I explained how to start writing branching scenarios with AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard. Coming up with alternate paths and plausible wrong answers is always one of the most challenging tasks in writing branching scenarios. Ideal path In my last blog post, I used ChatGPT to draft two decision points.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Those tasks are ones where your focus should be on providing documentation and checklists to help them remember. This list will hopefully be pretty long, so you’re mostly focusing on writing up clear checklists of procedures. I don’t have much here for feedback and evaluation, for example. sosaudio.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2009

I’ve been blogging for just over 2 years now; my first posts were on December 26, 2008. I’m still quite pleased with the growth I saw in 2008 over my first year of blogging. WordPress quit providing statistics in June of 2007, instead recommending people switch to Feedburner. Views and Subscribers. 2007: 16799.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We need to do aanalysis, writing, working with SMEs, visual design, etc. Tech writing and software training While I don’t think ID is going to go away, I think jobs designing software training will be affected. Sometimes it would take more time to edit and improve AI-generated content than to just write it yourself.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 12, 2024

One-to-many interactions include: Writing blog posts Podcast interviews Free webinars Low-cost webinars (like local ATD chapters) LinkedIn and other social media Local ATD chapters sometimes charge a little bit for webinars and special events, or it’s covered by their member fees. That boundary is pretty clear.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 14, 2009

“Video mashing, game modding, Youtube, wikis, blogs, and the communities that rise up around them are becoming yet another facet of our communication landscape. This research used Sims 2–provides a framework for storylines. Digital literacy–being able to write using 21st century tools. Research in Sims 2.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 12, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog: Privacy, Social Media and Learning. Rather than simply captioning or providing transcripts, this author proposes more sign language translations. The premise here focuses on how this affects writing, organizing information, and sense-making. tags: web2.0 , orgculture , privacy. Registration required.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2021

My Storyline development times aren’t especially speedy, but I do tend to write branching scenarios quickly. Time to plan and write. As noted above, these are my actual examples; your time to write may be different. The actual writing took under 5 hours. The actual writing took under 5 hours. hours to write.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 4, 2023

While I often share those recordings on my blog as they happen, this is a more comprehensive list, compiled into a single post. Within this post, I have mostly linked to blog posts about the presentations rather than directly to the recordings because I often include links to resources or further information in my posts.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 29, 2019

How to Copy Text from Flash Courses When You Don’t have the Original File | The Rapid E-Learning Blog Images and audio files are relatively easy to recover from a published SCORM package, but text is hard to get from courses if they were published in Flash only. It wasn’t designed for writing learning objectives.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2009

This workshop will provide participants with new concepts and augment their skills to current guidelines on the accessibility of emerging technologies. Or just use something that provides it automatically–I wouldn’t want to mess with this regularly. Posted in Accessibility, Higher Ed, Read/Write Web. Many others.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2013

It was a lot of creative writing and storytelling to put learners in a real context. Managers who are familiar with ID will also review courses and provide feedback. Chad Udell’s Learning Everywhere is a good book on this topic, and there’s lots of blogs you can read for free.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 25, 2023

How can you use AI to write scenarios for learning? So far, I have found these tools helpful in generating ideas, writing first drafts, and summarizing. They work better for general knowledge tasks than really specific topics unless I provide more details to them, which makes sense. I’m using the free ChatGPT 3.5

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 16, 2019

These are some of my favorites, plus recommendations from readers of my blog. It provides a model for the range of skills that fall under the umbrella of “instructional design.” Patti Shank’s Write and Organize for Dee per Learning is about how to write to better support learning. Instructional Design.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 7, 2016

One way I stay connected with the community and what’s happening in the field is by reading blogs by instructional designers, elearning professionals, and educators. If you don’t want to subscribe to all these blogs individually, check out eLearning Learning. This is my favorite blog aggregator in the field.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 9, 2019

I have been reading Ashley Chiasson’s blog for years, so I was excited to get to meet her as well. This is a larger topic than I can address here; it needs its own blog post. In fact, the first demo Joe provided was of a chatbot between a doctor and patient providing a brief intervention.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 5, 2021

Easier to write conversationally. It can be challenging to write a single narrator delivering content in a conversational style though. On the other hand, if you write dialog, you’ll naturally stay away from bullet point lists. That makes it easier to distinguish the voices, plus it provides equal gender representation.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 14, 2020

I share these links periodically here on my blog. The estimate for discussion board questions seems a little low to me (a good discussion question often takes more than 5 minutes to write and refine), but this is a good starting point. These make good backgrounds; I have used similar patterns for blog posts. Branching scenarios.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 11, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. Ranting on the Gender Pay Gap in e-Learning An old blog post from Julie Dirksen about the gender pay gap in the elearning field. Who: Descriptive transcripts are needed to provide audio and video content to people who are both Deaf and blind. Registration required to view.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

These are my live blogged notes from Clive Shepard’s presentation titled The New Learning Architect , part of the eLearning Guild’s Thought Leaders Webinar Series. On demand: we can’t possibly provide everything that people need, so giving people opportunity and confident to use tools like search, wiki, forums, is important.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Easier to write conversationally: You probably already know that a conversational tone is better for elearning. It can be challenging to write a single narrator delivering content in a conversational style though. On the other hand, if you write dialog, you’ll naturally stay away from bullet point lists. Coming Next.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Blogs, wikis, and Twitter weren’t designed as learning tools, but lots of people use them as such. interaction with the practitioners, will begin to practice by replicating what has been modeled, with a process of reflection (the computer geeks would say: back propagation ) providing guidance and correction.

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