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APRIL 9, 2013
'I attended the WEN 2013 Biennial Conference, April 3 - 5, 2013 at the Westin Memorial City Hotel in Houston Texas. Overall, it was one of the best conferences I have attended in years – lots of good information and sharing of ideas. About WEN: WEN was founded in 1994 by Karyl McCurdy Lawson with the purpose of fostering the development and advancement of women in energy by developing a strong network.
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JANUARY 16, 2013
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. Today (Jan 16), the doodle is a game puts you behind the wheel of a “Zamboni" in honor of Frank Zamboni’s 112th birthday. [link] Want to learn more about Google Doodles?
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JANUARY 8, 2013
Came across a great group of free white papers today including: How to Select a Learning Management System [LMS] Human Capital Insights: E-Learning Navigating Strategy Execution: The Case for Custom Business Simulations Check it out: [link] You can also get a free subscription to Chief Learning Officer magazine (if you qualify). https://humancapitalmedia.site-ym.com/store/view_product.asp?
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JANUARY 7, 2013
Where do you begin when designing a mobile performance app? What instructional design issues should you consider? Which design tools should you use and where do you locate important resources? Learn how to design a mobile support app that fits your users’ habits in next week’s complimentary Best of Learning Solutions webinar: Designing a Mobile Performance App, featuring one of the most popular, best-rated sessions from Learning Solutions 2012 Conference & Expo, newly updated and now availab
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OCTOBER 9, 2012
People are increasingly using video to provide technical information. From YouTube to free webinars and services like Lynda.com, recorded video training is a powerful medium. Join Matt Sullivan for a 4-hour workshop designed to help you implement video training using various tools. He will cover the following topics: * Developing a storyboard for your project * Writing a script for actions and voiceover * Practicing and recording your content * Editing the resulting video * Publishing to various
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AUGUST 24, 2012
Artisan E-Learning will be offering Articulate Storyline training in September! You can pick from a virtual format you can take anywhere, or an in-person format in Arlington, VA. Visit their website for more details. Virtual Training: September 6, 11, 13, 18 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. $495 Classroom Training (DC Area) September 20-21 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. $595 (Plus, they will be offering similar Captivate training in October.
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JULY 25, 2012
I was part of a learning team developing a new course for FEMA. The purpose of the course is to provide the participants with best practices including tools, techniques and a basic roadmap to build capabilities in the use of social media technologies in their own emergency management organizations (State, local, Tribal) in order to further their emergency response missions.
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JUNE 26, 2012
Inside Search: Become a Google power searcher : (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog ) You may already be familiar with some shortcuts for Google Search, like using the search box a.
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MAY 15, 2012
Social learning is an increasing part of organizational learning, and mobile learning brings a new dimension to social learning in important ways. What do we need to know to do this well? Find out on May 23 in How Mobile Enables Social Learning with mLearning expert Clark Quinn. Register now for this complimentary webinar. You do not need to be a member of The eLearning Guild to access this event.
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APRIL 23, 2012
May 8, 2012 10:30AM to 11:30AM Pacific Time Judy Brown Mobile Learning Analyst, mLearnopedia There is a lot of talk about mobile in our field today, and even more questions: What really is mLearning? Why is mLearning important? Who is developing and deploying mLearning, and what is working? How do I get started with mLearning? Judy Brown — a learning expert who believed in the potential of mLearning long before it was really possible — addresses common questions about mLearning and to explore op
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MARCH 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | 10:00AM Pacific Time Free Webinar, Membership Not Required This webinar showcases one of the most popular, best-rated sessions from mLearnCon 2011 Conference & Expo, newly updated and now available to all through this special online presentation. It is clear that mLearning presents a unique challenge for instructional designers.
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MARCH 26, 2012
What About Me? is a free social media infographic generator from Intel. The purpose of What About Me? is to create infographics based on your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube activities. The infographic created includes parts of your recent Facebook posts, when and what you post about on all three networks, and What About Me? even evaluates the average tone of your messages.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Topic: Creating Quizzes with Random Questions in Adobe Captivate 5.5 Date and time: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create quizzes with random questions using Adobe Captivate 5.5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2012
I recently read a Facebook entry by one of my “tween” relatives that disturbed me. She probably thought it was an innocent remark but to a predator it could have been interpreted differently. I wanted to find the right words to convey what I thought and provide some good education resources for her and her mom. In surfing the web, I found a website with some interesting statistics: Did you know that.?
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JANUARY 24, 2012
January27th, 1:00pm ET Space isLimited Reserve Your Webinar Seat Now At: [link] You've tried every trick in the book to engage your learners. Everything fromsimple drag and drop to highly animated avatars but you may be missing out onone of the best and simplest forms of engagement, conversation. Learn how tointegrate interactive voice tools and audio based instructions to activelyengage the learner in a mobile application or a blended learning solution.
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JANUARY 11, 2012
Yesterday atCES, Microsoft announced the new Kinect forWindows hardware and accompanying software will be available on February 1 st ,2012. In a blog post, Craig Weiss wrote "Kinect technology and gesture free will equally make an appearancein 2012. I am projecting that the number of vendors who enter this space tostart slow, but gain steam – at least with some aspect, by the end of 2012.
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JANUARY 3, 2012
With Knovio, take your existing PowerPoint slides and quickly and easily add your own video to synchronize with the slide content. You can then share this new presentation out to your intended audience by email or social media. You don’t need any special software to use Knovio. From a standard web browser you simply upload your existing PowerPoint files.
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DECEMBER 5, 2011
Ten Technology Musts for 2012 Social. Mobile. Cloud. Virtual. 75%of enterprises are leveraging virtual solutions to serve customers, trainstaff and engage suppliers. 35%are leveraging social media for recruitment, marketing and collaboration. Which technologies should you embrace? What is the impact? Whereshould you start? Check out ELCE Encore and discover the ten technologies your enterprise must haveto drive results in 2012.
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DECEMBER 5, 2011
eLearningStock.com has royalty-free images and caters specifically to the eLearning industry. With over10 million images, selling for as low as 90¢ per image, and many specialtyimages, templates, and animations, eLearningStock.com is the go-to resource for the eLearning industry.
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NOVEMBER 30, 2011
University of Houston, College of Technology, Human ResourceDevelopment Program, Brown Bag Series Date – Dec 9 th , 2011 Time – 11:00 – 1:00 PM Location – University of Houston, Cameron Bldg., Room 109 Directions: 4200 Wheeler, 77204 (we will provide parking tags) Please RSVP with Consuelo at cwaight@uh.edu or 713-743.4086 The Challenge Redesigningtechnical training is a mandate for many companies.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2011
We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy, read, register, and take action of some kind. Designing without understanding about people is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. From her book, 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People , Dr. Weinschenk has picked her top 10 “things” that you need to know in order to design intuitive and engaging websites, applications and products that match the way people thin
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NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Apture is a free browser extension that works with most major browsers. When you highlight a topic, a "Learn More" bubble pops up but you don't leave the webpage you are viewing. Click the bubble to get a pop-up window with more information.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Did you know that there is a screen capture tool built into Office 2010? Access the tool in any Office application (Word, Excel etc.) by clicking the Insert ribbon and then clicking Screenshot.
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OCTOBER 25, 2011
SlideSharkis a free app that allows mobile professionals & educators to view and showPowerPoint ® presentations on the iPad ®. If you're an iPad user, you may have noticed that there isn't a PowerPoint orMicrosoft ® Office app for viewingPowerPoint files available in the App Store. In their absence, mobileprofessionals & educators have had to come up with "workarounds"that end up falling short.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
The AmericanPetroleum Institute (API) has a number of cool interactive games. Road Trip offers something new - an entertaining gamingexperience with helpful do's and don'ts for better fuel efficiency! In Exploration Nation, you will have to balance yourtime, money, Mother Nature and unexpected factors while you search forresources. Think you know your facts and figures on energy?
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Speaker: Jane Bozarth, Ph.D., eLearning Director of the State of North Carolina Session Description: "Social learning" and "informal learning" are among the training industry's hottest phrases these days. But there's so much confusion over what they mean, and what they mean to those of us in the business. A few truths: Social learning isn't new. Social learning isn't necessarily ‘managed', ‘launched', ‘controlled', or ‘measured'.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
There's a website designed for kids that you should explore for interactiveexercises for corporate training. The mission of the USA-SOS Internet Challenge is to promote cybercitizenship among students by engaging them in a fun, age-appropriate,competitive online program where they learn how to safely and responsibly usethe internet. One of the activities is a scavenger hunt.
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
Interested in the new product from Articulate? Attend this free webinar! Speaker: Ray Jimenez, Ph.D., Chief Learning Architect of Vignettes for Training, Inc. Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011. Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session).
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AUGUST 30, 2011
One of today's tips from the Smart Workers Guide to Social. Media online programme: [link]. search-cube is a visual search engine that presents web search results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. It shows previews of up to ninety-six websites, videos and images. Check it out: [link]. Other Search Engines: [link].
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AUGUST 29, 2011
I'm enrolled in a program called "The Smart Worker’s Guide to using Social Media – in 30 days (Autumn programme)". I'll be sharing tips from the program - and how I've been improving my use of Social Media. This program is a part of the Share&Learn platform - a collaboration platform (set up by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies [C4LPT]) where members can share links, resources, ideas, experiences, tips, etc about the use of learning and performance trends, t
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AUGUST 29, 2011
From Share&Learn: Google Guide. Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial that helps make searching easier. If you don’t have time to work through the whole tutorial, try the Cheat Sheet , which is also available as a printable PDF. A Google a Day. A Google a Day – agoogleaday.com - is a daily puzzle from Google; there is no right way to solve it, but there’s only one right answer.
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AUGUST 19, 2011
This free event will highlight the latest in IT Process Management, Adobe, Cisco and Microsoft Technologies. You'll be able to choose your own learning path by attending educational breakout sessions that are relevant to your specific needs. Also enjoy a complimentary lunch and be eligible to win terrific prizes! Topics covered include: Microsoft Office 2010.
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AUGUST 17, 2011
Living in Houston, the heat index is always a concern - especially for those who work outdoors. The OSHA Heat Safety Tool allows workers and supervisors to calculate the. heat index for their worksite, and, based on the heat index, displays a risk level to outdoor workers. You can get reminders about the protective measures. that should be taken at that risk level to protect workers from heat-related. illness—reminders about drinking enough fluids, scheduling rest breaks, planning. for and knowi
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AUGUST 2, 2011
Here is a free, Open Source eBook from The MASIE Center: Learning Strategies! Including articles from CNN, CIA, Farmers Insurance andothers. 104 Pages - Edited by Nigel Paine. Download: [link].
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JULY 7, 2011
Speaker: Judy Brown, Mobile Learning Strategic Analyst, Advanced Distributed Learning Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session) The ADL Mobile Learning Team recently released a mobile version of their mLearning Guide on the web and in various mobile platform stores. Join the webinar for discussion on the single development for deployment on multiple devices and choices made in development.
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JUNE 10, 2011
OnGuardOnline.govprovides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industryto help you be on guard against internet fraud, secure your computer, andprotect your personal information. The websitehas lots of great games that can be downloaded and included in your training -the download includes both published and source files! The Internet Education Foundation, through GetNetWise.org , has contributed videotutorials for OnGuardOnline.gov.
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JUNE 7, 2011
Check it out: [link] Preface - Sarah Hawk (Community Manager) Chapter 1 - Anatomy of a Website by Ralph Mason Ralph's chapter looks at the building blocks of a website, from hosting through to favicons, with everything in between. If you are new to the world of web, then this is the article for you. Chapter 2 - Designing in the Dark by Alex Dawson Alex examines the ideas of web accessibility and talks you through the process of identifying your audience and ensuring that your sites meet their ne
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JUNE 6, 2011
Y ou might notbe able to teach a snake to fetch your paper, but people do keep them as pets.People keep other reptiles, too, like turtles – as well as frogs and otheramphibians. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says reptilesand amphibians can carry Salmonella bacteria – and thousands of people a yearget infected from them.
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MAY 18, 2011
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health released Partnering to Heal: Teaming Up Against Healthcare-Associated Infections , an interactive computer-based video-simulation training program. Healthcare-associated infections harm many patients, causing injury and raising costs. On average, 1 in 3 patients admitted to a hospital suffers a medical error or adverse event and at any given time about 1 in every 20 patients is affected by an inf
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MAY 2, 2011
Get a free ebook copy of the book written by Andrea White (former Houston mayor Bill White's wife). WINDOWS ON THE WORLD is science fiction set in a post-apocalyptic world in which an orphan girl, Shama Katooee, is summoned to an elite military academy in order to travel back in time to New York City on September 11, 2001, to save the future.
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