Kapp Notes

AUGUST 16, 2010

The company provides consumers with easy-to-use avatar animation, facial morphing and voice lip-sync solutions for real-time 3D filmmaking and previsualization for professional post-production. Reallusion --Creates D cinematic animation tools for consumers, students and professionals.

Software 187

Software Productivity Product eLearning 187

Kapp Notes

JULY 13, 2010

2) Technical problems arise, not everyone could hear my Voice over IP. During the debrief a number of conclusions where drawn: 1) Throwing learners into a virtual 3D world is a big step, navigation needs to be clear, goals need to be clear and directions need to be clear. So I had to resort to typing so everyone could "hear."

Second Life 215

Second Life Classes Virtual World Instructional Design 215

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Plus, with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services like Skype and Google Hangouts, it is possible to make this venture more personal despite being totally virtual. They can maximize this medium to seek consultations, reading recommendations, and expert’s advice.

Mobile 221

Mobile VOIP Scanning Lecture 221

Kapp Notes

APRIL 27, 2010

Students practice breathing exercises to learn how to "throw" their voices to the back of the room. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide. Below are students in my class doing breathing exercises as they learn about preparing for presentations.

Instructional 139

Instructional Instruction Technology Kaplan 139

Kapp Notes

MAY 11, 2011

That is why I always chuckle to myself when some executive or manager voices a concerns that 1) games aren’t serious enough for “real learning&# 2) and that games don’t work for learning. They do war games with actual units and soldiers, they use game techniques to conduct briefings. In short the military “knows games.&#

Problem 215

Problem Gamification Player Games 215

Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2010

They continue to push consumer companies for more connectivity, more ways to create their own content and more access to information through instant messaging applications and voice activated internet search. Society and culture is responding to the needs of these youngsters (like it or not).

Social Networks 197

Social Networks Education Change MySpace 197

Kapp Notes

MARCH 14, 2007

Jellyvison products lead with sound and voice. In most e-learning, sound and voice overs are an after thought. You can learn so much by listening to the tone, pacing and pitch of a person's voice. The power of voice must be placed into e-learning. The secret to Jellyvision is. The iCi interface captures this.

CD-ROM 100

CD-ROM Games Voice Sound 100

Kapp Notes

MAY 31, 2010

Offer an Alternative For Sound Many users do not have a headset or are behind firewalls that do not allow them to connect to the Voice Over IP channel required for most virtual worlds. This technique forces the selected content to enlarge and float in reading position within the 3D environment.

Virtual World 173

Virtual World Tips VOIP Movie 173

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Kapp And Daniel Bliton Discuss The Role Of Audio With Elearning , the topics we discuss include: When To Use Audio in e-learning; The Affective Domain Of Audio, The Role Of The Voice And Many more tidbits. We discuss Cue Summation Theory and other theories of using audio in e-Learning.

Audio 160

Audio Cognitive Theory ASTD 160

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 22, 2010

(shouldn’t all our training be based on actual situations, events and locations and not on the facing forward rows of seats set up in a classroom or the mind numbing virtual classroom with a PowerPoint slide and a disembodied voice?).

PowerPoint 169

PowerPoint Games Virtual Classroom Video 169

Kapp Notes

JULY 16, 2008

Sun employees can accomplish their real work, share documents, and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. MPK20:Sun's Virtual Workplace "Wonderland" The MPK20 virtual world is also known as Wonderland.

Second Life 100

Second Life Alternatives Sun Virtual World 100

Kapp Notes

APRIL 8, 2010

Once there, they can text chat and voice chat with each other. Many of the virtual environments being demonstrated have the same basic functions. An avatar can be created, dressed and can come in-world.

Virtual World 172

Virtual World Games IBM Webcast 172

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 29, 2009

Then instructor and learners have the ability to speak with one another through text or voice-based chat. Synchronous learning tools allow for real-time interaction on a computer among learners separated by great distances. At a designated time, an instructor logs into the software as do the learners. This is similar to the Web 2.0

Virtual World 100

Virtual World Social Networks Centra Wiki 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 29, 2007

Communications tools such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and/or text-based chats. Social Interaction: The environment allows learners to exchange information and ideas with each other through voice and text chats. Controls specifically for the instructor/facilitator.

Learning Environment 100

Learning Environment Environment Wiki Online Learning 100

Kapp Notes

JUNE 16, 2011

The Product Owner represents the business or the client, they are the voice of the customer. The scrum process starts when a stakeholder who is called a Product Owner develops or is handed a vision or idea for a new product or update. From that vision or idea, a bulleted list requirement is created, this is known as a product backlog.

Instructional Design 167

Instructional Design ADDIE Emergent Project 167

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

He talked about building an environment in which people interact and make decisions while receiving realistic feedback such as a change in the attitude or tone of voice of other characters within the simulation. Phil showed a simulation, which you can view here. They are allowed to experience failure.

Simulations 100

Simulations Performance Develop Attitudes 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

We spend a lot of time in the blogosphere talking about the future of learning, making predictions and lamenting formal instructional design but rarely is the voice of the "gamer generation" heard.the voice of the learners who will be demanding that we design instruction differently.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks MySpace Social Network Multitasking 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The two different platforms and not using Voice in Second Life made it a little unfair for the SL attendees, I am hoping they were listening via WebEx but I don't think everyone was. Anyway, it was a great session and here are some images from the webinar.

Second Life 100

Second Life ASTD WebEx Voice 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The calming power of voice and of understanding the person’s concern and genuinely trying to problem-solve with the person. Here is a blog entry 3 Barriers to adoption of Serious Games/Immersive Learning Simulations that answers this question.

Virtual World 169

Virtual World Case Study Metrics Simulations 169

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Come on, a disembodied voice with endless PowerPoint slides.any alternative has to be better.right. So virtual immersive environments that allow a person to create an ideal image of themselves is an alternative that many people like. Enter virtual immersive environments.

Virtual World 205

Virtual World Virtual Classroom Centra Alternatives 205

Kapp Notes

JULY 10, 2012

You can play the researcher’s voice and hear about the research in his or her own words. Here Jim Parker explains the colloborative benefits of the virtual poster sessions and explains how it has been used by researchers and coporations to spur collaobration and innovation. Checking out some of the 60 virtual poster sessions.

Classes 145

Classes Virtual World VOIP Environment 145

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 23, 2007

This interactive 3D environment was built for learning with Voice Over the Internet (VoIP), application sharing, whiteboards, and virtual meeting spaces. Recently, I was given the opportunity to play with a product created by a company called ProtonMedia. The product is called the ProtoSphere.

VOIP 100

VOIP Games Second Life IBM 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 18, 2012

The X-Box has created a new form of input interaction with hand gesturing and voice controls, all of these advancing our notions of 3D technologies aka – Virtual Worlds. Sometimes the interface will be 3D, in which the objects have dimension, and sometimes the dimension will be the collection in our inner eye.

Virtual World 168

Virtual World Wiki Metrics Augmented Reality 168

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 15, 2006

This seamingly simple step will have a major impact on productivity and in giving the Learning Group within the organization a larger voice and bigger impact. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide

Wiki 100

Wiki Create Voice Coaching 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 30, 2007

Don't just train about the one new product.conduct a new product training campaign with quick email "commericals," postings on a blog, a wiki dedicated to the product, testimonials from sales folks and customers, class room training, voice mail messages, text message reminders and even some old fashion e-learning.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Wiki Attitudes Mac 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 3, 2010

OLIVE-based virtual worlds bring together physical presence, action, voice, data, and media in a realistic, context-specific simulated environment that can run in an organization’s IT environment to enhance collaboration. With OLIVE, organizations can host their own virtual world tailored to their needs, processes, culture, and industry.

Simulations 140

Simulations Virtual World Cognitive Portfolio 140

Kapp Notes

MARCH 16, 2011

Text and voice chat capabilities. Available features include: Games such as parachute jump, basketball shoot out, flight simulator and others. Clues throughout the virtual campus to teach students about the school. Trivia questions, answered with the help of the clues. Avatar customization. You can see this at: [link].

Conversation 194

Conversation Simulations Virtual World Augmented Reality 194

Kapp Notes

MARCH 18, 2008

It also gives me verbal turn-by-turn directions from a female voice named “Jill.” It has eliminated both my need to print directions from the internet and the danger of trying to read instructions at 60 miles an hour. Technology has replaced the need to teach people how to read (and fold) maps and it made my car neater.

Education 100

Education Lesson Internet Classes 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The present study examined the impact of peer-like and expert-like agent stereotypes, as operationalized by agent’s image and voice, on learners’ agent perceptions, task-related attitudes, and learning achievement. In Experiment 2 the embodiment effect was found when the agent spoke in a human voice but not in a machine voice.

Study 227

Study Journal Cognitive Voice 227

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

Moving Beyond Music or Voice As with any new technology, at first there is unbridled enthusiasm or irrational exuberance quickly followed by fear and loathing and then the technology settles down into an every day tool. Click on the link if you'd rather listen to the podcast of this post, Beyond iPoding , you can find it here.

iPod 100

iPod Games Podcasts Podcaster 100

Kapp Notes

APRIL 10, 2007

It also gives me verbal turn-by-turn directions from a female voice named “Jill.” The GPS has eliminated both my need to print directions from the internet and the danger of trying to read instructions at 60 miles an hour. Technology has replaced the need to teach people how to read (and fold) maps and it made my car neater.

Big Question 100

Big Question ILT vendor Lesson 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Usually can pick out their mother's voice. In fact, children are learning all the prerequisite skills to "instantly" say their first word or sentence all the time. Let's break down the process of learning to speak. Less than 1 month. Babies listen to the rhythm and melodies of speech. 1-4 months.

Compliance Training 105

Compliance Training Diversity Training Sound Cognitive 105

Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

Then the training department either doesn’t know anything about gamification (because learning and develop professionals refuse to use the term and its not talked about by the major voices in the field) or they say “no” we don’t do gamification under any circumstances.

Gamification 264

Gamification Blogging Instructional Instruction 264

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 10, 2007

In fact, what most often passes for rapid e-learning is a poorly designed slide show presentations developed at a moment's notice with bullets and a bad voice over from a rushed trainer or developer. A good example of the forces at work to push rapid e-learning is given by Howard Cronin.

Rapid eLearning 100

Rapid eLearning Case Study Write Blog Instructional 100

Kapp Notes

JUNE 8, 2015

Stefanic: This is actually an interesting area, we are focussed on tools that can allow rapid and easy authoring of content for immersive experiences, giving avatars a voice is fantastic, but we’ve found the technology has excellent application in existing elearning authoring also. It is called ‘Responsive Voice’ (beta site).

Authoring Tools 100

Authoring Tools Conversation Text-to-Speech Virtual World 100

Kapp Notes

APRIL 21, 2012

Then the training department either doesn’t know anything about gamification (because learning and develop professionals refuse to use the term and its not talked about by the major voices in the field) or they say “no” we don’t do gamification under any circumstances.

Gamification 100

Gamification Blogging Instructional Instruction 100

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Lync server is a software product that unifies enterprise voice, instant messaging and web-, audio- and videoconferencing into a, connected communications experience. The integration (first of its kind that I know of) provides echo-free sound every time one or more people communicate via voice with ProtoSphere.

Integrate 160

Integrate Analysis Virtual World VOIP 160