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eCombat: Lessons from the Interactive Battlefields of Afghanistan

Vignettes Learning

According to the writer, this upgraded version is far better than previous Army digitized books. The book version of the Vanguard of Valor is free and can be downloaded from iTunes. Of this, Ackerman writes, “It’s the first immersive, interactive Army e-book, replacing the simple PDF-style scans with dynamic animations of the warzone.

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Writing & Grammar: Nauseated by Nauseous

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Just as software experts have to keep up to date with the latest versions of software, professional writers and editors have to keep up with the latest versions of English. That hard line was changing, even in the year 2000. by Jennie Ruby. Here is a pair of words that have been undergoing some of these changes: nauseated.

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Six PowerPoint Add-Ins to Help Educators Create Sleek Slideshows

Raptivity

As on today, this add-in is free and works with PowerPoint version 2010 and above. ShapeChef’s trial version comes with a limited number of shapes and can be downloaded here. To access the entire shapes’ library, you may check out their full version pricing here. You could take a free trial here , or buy the paid version.

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70:20:10 Primer

Performance Learning Productivity

1] 70% (Tough, 1971, 1979); 70% (Bruce, Aring, and Brand, 1998); 62% (Zemke, 1985 and Verespej, 1998); 70% (Vader, 1998); 85-90% (Raybold, 2000); 70% (Dobbs, 2000); 75% (Lloyd, 2000) [2] McCall, 2010 - For More Detail For some time I have been working with two friends and co-authors on a practical book titled ‘ 702010 Towards 100% Performance’.

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In games and learning interfaces, strive for an interactive conversation interface

Kapp Notes

They report; in a set of five experimental studies involving a computer-based educational game on botany and multimedia lesson on lightning formation, researchers (Moreno and Mayer, 2000) compared versions in which the words were in formal style with version in which the words were in conversational style where the content was presented in a personalized (..)

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Best Ways to Convert Your PDF Files to XML

Kitaboo

and later OS versions. Compatible with all versions of OS X from 10.6. Open XML is another great PDF to XML conversion tool that is compatible with the earlier versions of Mac. The main advantage of this is that compatibility with earlier versions will not be an issue. The software works on OS X 10.3

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Let us take a trip back to the late 90s and 2000. Now, go back to the late 90s into the early 2000’s, with instructional designers developing WBT courses (Web-Based Training) and e-learning developers. To understand how the storm came about, we have to go back to the mid 2000’s. Dinosaurs roamed. It’s large.