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MAY 18, 2012

The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.

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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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MAY 14, 2012

Great website for kids. and everyone else. This interactive site offers many online and offline activities for students to learn about energy conservation from the U.S Department of Energy. View some popular excuses we hear over and over about why we don't save energy. Find videos and other resources under Energy Extras. Click on Posters to create your own energy conservation poster or to see posters created by others.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Karl Kapp’s new book “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” launched this week – I was able to preview the book. It’s available on the ASTDBook store and Amazon. Make sure to use your Chapter Code when ordering the book to support your local ASTD Chapter - the Houston ASTD Code is CH7032. From the book - The engagement achieved through games means that gamification is a concept that needs to be a part of every learning professional's tool box.

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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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APRIL 23, 2012

If you are attending the ASTD International Conference in Denver May 6-9, download and start populating the ASTD Events app - Android or iOS (iPhone/iPAD) available. You don't have to carry around a paper schedule! Only drawback I see is I loaded the app on both my iPhone and iPAD and it looks like they don't sync up. Features include: Native universal app : Great for iPAD and no wifi connection required to access the conference program, visual schedule or animated maps.

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MARCH 28, 2012

TomPeters has distilled down thousands of slides from over 2,500 presentationsthat he has done on organizational and personal excellence into 23 separatepresentations that you can download. Peters say, “Use this material as you wish andplease 'steal' all you want.” Includes both a PDF and PPT - he is releasing onea week so you'll want to bookmark the site and go back!

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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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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 5, 2012

Did you miss Learning 2011 (Masie Conference)? If so, here's the scoop on available content - lots of great information, videos and a free eBook! Learning Wiki: Content, video and participant perspectives on the seminars and keynotes at [link] Watch interviews with Inventor Dean Kamen, learning leaders from Walmart and Starbucks, and much more. The interviews are rboken into segments focused on key questions; you can use them or pass them along.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

Thursday, January 12 • 2:00 p.m. ET Presenter: David Kelly Twitter is an excellent tool to leverage for both personal and professional learning and growth, and more and more organizations are harnessing its power as part of learning programs. And with that, many learning professionals are encountering the same challenges, such as: How can I use Twitter in my learning programs if I don't even know how to use Twitter myself?

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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 19, 2011

The findings of ASTD’s 2011 State of the Industry Report showthat organizations are just as committed as ever to learning and development(L&D). This report, ASTD'sdefinitive review of workplace learning and development trends, includes datafrom ASTD BEST Awards Winners, ASTD Forum members, and other organizations from2002 to date. The 2011 State of the Industry Report is freefor ASTD national members.

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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 8, 2011

Handbrake is an open-source program (free) thatconverts video.It is available for PC, MAC and Linux platforms. I discovered Handbrake when I was convertingPowerPoint presentations to video for iPAD distribution. The PowerPoint Saveand Send as Video function converts the PPT to a WMV file. I used Handbrake toconvert the WMV to MP4 format. Start by selecting your source file (or files).

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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 7, 2011

Tue, Nov 8, 2011 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CST This webinar will deal with the latest trends around Learning & Talent Systems and Services. They will share a portion of a clip from the ELCE show, where they asked the “founding fathers” of the LMS industry, “With the growing trend towards social and informal learning, what do you think the role of the LMS will be in the future.

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2011

October26th, 1:00pm ET Space isLimited Reserve Your Webinar Seat Now At: [link] As a trainingdeveloper, you're no stranger to budget cuts. Companies everywhere are turningto e-learning and mobile learning as a solution to improve performance whilecutting costs. But how do you create engaging, high-quality content for youronline training courses? How can you make simple adjustments to images andrecordings without having to spend thousands of dollars on a suite of products?

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

About once per month,The University of Chicago Press offers a free e-book. This month's book is "Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America". "Before there was Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Your local library (Houston Public Library for me) may have access to the online Mango Language program. If so, you can probably access the training classes for free. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept 19th). HPL will let you access the pirate lessons for free without a library card - [link] To access any of the other courses at the Houston Library website, you will need your library card.

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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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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 17, 2011

Receive a constant stream of free business and technology related resources such as eBooks, white papers, downloads, magazines, and analyst reports. All are absolutely free!

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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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APRIL 30, 2011

TalkingVillageManagement is a free community allowing managers to learn from each other. Youcan join for free and post any content related to management education. Have aproblem to solve? Just ask the community. Do you have a solution or an idea?Just post it for everyone to see!

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APRIL 21, 2011

The Story of Bottled Water , released March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces.

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