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Adobe Captivate: System Date Variables

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

    For this example, let's say that today's date is Sunday, November 17, 2002. But what if I want the learner to see the current day of the week in a specific format ("Sun" for Sunday; "Fri" for Friday, etc.)? For my computer, it displays November 17, 2002.

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Audio in eLearning: Cultural Differences?

Learning Visions

As I'm ramping up in my new job, I'm talking with my new Kineo colleagues about everything under the sun. Is there some historical background here that I'm missing, like computers in the UK didn't have speakers until 2002 so they never bothered? We know to avoid narrating text word for word, for instance. You do know that, right?)

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Content That Lives Within a Story Lasts Forever - Tip #118

Vignettes Learning

What if the sun don’t come out for one month, how would it change your life?” Activate as many senses as possible Our brains “work better when more than one sensory channel is activated by incoming stimuli” ( Tom Reamy, 2002 ). Read: Provoking Learners with Story Questions 3. Good Question: Why Are Our Kids Obsessed With ‘Frozen’?

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2022 Turkey Awards

eLearning 24-7

One functionality that needs to be sent to the sun, with no return trip – So many to choose from, will we have a repeat winner? And in 2002, many more – I used Geolearning – it offered lots of informal options. One functionality that needs to be sent to the sun, with no return trip.

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What we don't know

Learning with e's

In February 2002, at the height of media speculation over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, U.S. Why is the sun 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times further away, thus appearing to be exactly the same size and producing perfect solar eclipses every time? Is there life on other planets?

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

Sun launches the SparcStation. Sun releases cross-platform Java language. 2002: TFT monitor prices drop. Microsoft announces Windows 2.0. 1988: Most PCs still running DOS, not Windows. Steve Jobs launches futuristic Next computer. 1989: Intel launches 486 chip, the first fast enough to run Windows. M/S ships Word for Windows.

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