Upside Learning

JUNE 20, 2023

First, microlearning in either flavor – the ‘YouTube’ in-the-moment support or the drip-irrigation approach to learning over time – makes sense when either of those models characterizes your needs. However, when we look a bit deeper, we see that there are times when microlearning isn’t appropriate. Here, we unpack some of the issues.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 29, 2013

They are being told in books, on TV shows, on blogs, on YouTube and in varied forms, they are probably being swapped in your workplace too. The truth is, we are, but it’s not something that you are likely to find formalized in workplace learning. So where are the stories? In offhand conversations, water cooler gatherings and at lunch.

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Pedagogy Embed Attitudes YouTube 254

Upside Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Was tipped off about this interesting video on YouTube. A quick film/image montage give a glimpse of what students of XLRI which offers courses in social entrepreneurship experienced in several districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The images are very telling about the state of primary and secondary education in India.

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YouTube Images Education Tips 200

Upside Learning

MARCH 15, 2011

12 Great Ways to Download and Convert YouTube Videos for Your Classroom. There are many ways to download YouTube videos to your computer. Whether you use a Mac or a PC, here are 12 ways to download and convert YouTube videos for your classroom. 5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child’s Education.

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Flash to HTML5 Conversion iPad Learning Technologies Media 201

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Google may enter in hosted gaming via Youtube. ’ Get into the description and you find it’s about building games on top of video submissions, making it sound that Google plans to extend its YouTube site into an associated gaming site. MIT’s Scratch.

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Second Life eLearning Firefox Mac 171

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

YouTube – video hosting and sharing tool. I understand this list is more inclined towards tools that learning professionals use for their own learning as opposed to those used for creating learning programs or training sessions. I see great gains made by some of the tools while I have not even experienced them as yet.

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Social Networks Survey VoiceThread Tools 259

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Automatic captions in YouTube. Google has added the support of Automatic captioning in YouTube videos. Google is using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with YouTube to automatically generate the captions of video. Here is a short video of Kevin Lynch [CTO of Adobe] demonstrating the various Flash Player 10.1

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Flash Player Scanning Mac Social Networks 164

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2009

An educational YouTube for Kids. An educational YouTube for Kids… very impressive aggregation! This one is about how the iPod touch is a BIG player in mobile device market. It outstrips the iPhone; and is in the hands of a specific demographic. Are mobile learning companies developing applications for the iPod?

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Blended Learning iPod Mac eLearning 147

Upside Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

The idea of developing this game came from this YouTube video of similar AR application. Street Racing is a simple car controller ‘game’ (well, the game part is still under development) where you have to control the marker like a car steering to steer the car and avoid hitting obstacles. classes – FLARToolKit and FLARManager.

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Augmented Reality Flash Player Camera Flash 203

Upside Learning

JUNE 29, 2010

Similar to YouTube content, these videos can track who uploaded the content and when the videos were uploaded or updated and monitor the number of views.”. Further, while the system’s wiki resembles Wikipedia, the discussions section looks similar to LinkedIn group discussion pages.

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Brandon Hall Emergent LMS Wiki 236

Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

She lists four key additions to PLE that can enhance user experience, which, in brief, include: An interface that can be manipulated to meet end-user’s needs and preferences – like freedom to bring blog, YouTube, Twitter feeds, LinkedIn forms at one place for viewing – which they can utilize to develop and hone expertise anytime, anyplace.

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LMS Emergent Trends PLE 270

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2009

3. YouTube. It’s been created based on responses from 278 learning professionals worldwide and has taken several months to compile. The Top 10 Tools are: 1. Twitter. 2. Delicious. 4. Google Reader. 5. Google Docs. 6. Wordpress. 7. Slideshare. 8. Google Search.

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Google Docs Slideshare Tools PLE 178

Upside Learning

MARCH 8, 2010

Performance support – using microblogging organizations can provide real-time performance support with quick tips and links to resources [like pdf files, quizzes, YouTube videos, flickr/picasa photos etc.]. To make all this simple the organizations are integrating these tools into their eLearning courses/LMS.

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Case Study Yammer Webcast Twitter 252

Upside Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2012

User generated content is exploding on the internet, YouTube and Flickr are great examples of that. What is important is that we are now building enough computing and storage power ‘in the cloud’ to process and make sense of this data – sophisticated data mining.

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Mobile Learning Mobile Emergent Network 271

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

With more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets posted on Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views each day on YouTube, social media has become an integral part of our connected lives. This article by Tony Karrer lists and explains 7 things that have changed his thinking over the course of the year.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

High Def Video Libraries – High definition video is already a big part of our lives – YouTube, Vimeo and others support HD, having a handheld device the size of an iPad that’s capable of rendering HD video is special indeed. Workplaces can create their own HD video libraries.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

YouTube: This is a great source for some free video-based training resources – especially for soft skills like sales, negotiation, etc. I get a chance to learn from the gurus and sometimes interact with them. I have my favorite blogs (about 20 of them) on Google Reader which makes it easier to keep up with the latest posts.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

YouTube: This is a great source for some free video-based training resources – especially for soft skills like sales, negotiation, etc. I get a chance to learn from the gurus and sometimes interact with them. I have my favorite blogs (about 20 of them) on Google Reader which makes it easier to keep up with the latest posts.

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Tools Dreamweaver Adobe Flash 100

Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Buzz can also aggregate content from other social sharing sites, Flicks, Picasa, Twitter, and YouTube. Over a period of usage, as you comment, like or dislike buzz entries that come from those you follow, the buzz cloud adapts. Buzz emulates or rather brings some features of Google Wave to Gmail.

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