Learning Visions

DECEMBER 18, 2007

You ARE a geek! :-) Whats lighting up my life this week is "Beyond Bullet Points" which Im using to structure the PPT that Im going to use for my webinar on time management next month. Im having fun taking more of a story-telling/visual approach to the topic, which frankly bores me to tears, but is what the client wants.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Karl sites statistics that "Seventy percent of the players of the social interaction game The Sims are women under twenty-five," and that the number one game from May 2004-July 2006 was Princess Fashion Boutique. Im concerned that women will be excluded if such a focus is put on gaming skills -- or at least the gamer label.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Microsoft in India, just hires content development managers, whose core skill sets is ID, but their role turns out to be that of a vendor manager and content reviewer, as Microsoft (in India) outsources elearning work to 3rd parties.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Over the past year, Ive been focused on sales and marketing activities, project management, and content conversions -- "No ID needed, thank you." Im excited. Im nervous. If youve read my current job description , you know that I do a lot of other things for this small company.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

Friday, May 01, 2009 Name That Tool I just got a FaceBook query from someone and I thought you all could help: Im looking for a tool you might have come across, but I dont even know what product/programming group it belongs to. Im sure I could do a better job describing this, so let me know if Ive been clear. Can you name any names?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

A Guide to Breakthrough Learning for Managers/Participants. (A A manager can make or break a training investments; must get managers involved in a training initiative to get the maximum return.) Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?)

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 5, 2007

Im just about to kickoff a new project with a manufacturing organization to produce some custom courses. Im gonna call them an "immature e-Learning organization." Hi Cammy--if its any consolation, I used to be an internal instructional designer and management STILL thinks they have all the answers. Thats mature e-Learning.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. Brand and Reputation Risk Management 5. Ive been exploring the use of Second Life for a client for whom Im developing an e-Learning strategy. Theirs is an audience comprised only of women and Im not convinced Second Life will feel appropriate to them.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 9, 2007

Im a touchy-feely-people-kind-of-person. CoComment is another commenting tool out there to help you manage all those conversations. Making the time to engage in conversations online does seem to move towards greater abundancy thinking and Im really enjoying the opportunities it is presenting. Its awesome.

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2008

Im not disconcerted, though probably youre wreaking havoc with administrative systems. Im grateful to Baby Girl that she came a couple days early. As you know, Im a big fan of baby girls! At this point, us grown-ups in the family are completely used to having our lives and time managed by other people. Congratulations!!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 12, 2007

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.) Most of what Im doing outside of work these days involves the care and feeding of two small people, ages 2 and 4.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

Cammy: Although I like to think Im good-humored, I am leery of "humor" or "fun" (scare quotes are deliberate) injected into training like salt water into a frozen turkey. If they were an info services company, Id focus on how we land and manage the Acme Rubber Duck outsourcing business. Im glad youre on board with my ducks!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Im still a really hands-on person. Or maybe Im just too lazy and poor. Now, Im not linking to John just because he is full of praise of me (which is nice and somewhat embarrassing, I must admit.), Im with you, Maria! An inquiry class Im taking takes me into the mind of Sherlock Holmes. People respond to jargon.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

3) I went to the same high school as presidential candidate Oback Barama (although Im 7 years younger and have never laid eyes on him in person). I used to speak it fluently; these days Im pretty rusty. Except for the occasional sales call, Ive managed to get away without wearing nylons. 4) I speak German. Danke sehr.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

AUGUST 27, 2006

as well as what I call lifestyle logistics; e-mailing, IMs, calendaring, travel planning, time/task management, and more. The Web is the fabric upon which an ever increasing amount of our lives is woven into. This is now most media including newspapers, TV, radio, entertainment, music, arts, etc.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

JULY 23, 2006

E-mail losing ground to IM, text messaging - MSNBC. I've seen it lots of times before, sometimes dashed out on whiteboards by IT managers in a state of near religious ecstasy, sometimes on the powerpoint slides of ECM/DMS system vendor salepersons. E-mail is so last millennium. Building Information Neighbourhoods - Green Chameleon.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Im a linear reader in recovery and have been actively learning how to skim books and not feel guilty about it. Although Im not in active instructional design mode for any projects right now, I did jot a bunch of ideas. those born between 1991-2000), Im a bit of an ape (no offense to apes, mind you). Do They? ) No boomers here.

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". And now Im here -- "Manager of Instructional Design." But at this point, Im here to stay. If youd like to learn more about what Im doing these days, check out my current job description. My point is this: I dont think Im that unusual.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 2, 2007

It has intelligent margin, table and image formatting options as well as a sophisticated lists manager. Im on the press page, so I think I should get at invite, dont you? I did send an email and got a response that Id be included in the "next round of invitations", which Im told will be in the next day or so.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Im curious what other folks experiences has been. Im so happy to see you post this up. Im struggling with this right now. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. I fill a support role and bide my time trying to finish a degree Im not really interested in. 12:20 PM she said. ".bide

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Im getting a Masters Degree in Instructional Design. But Ill have the knowledge and the confidence that I know what the hell Im talking about for once. But Ill have the knowledge and the confidence that I know what the hell Im talking about for once. And Managers to report to. Because its out there. And its free.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Now, maybe Im just jaded and want to get to an approved storyboard. Maybe its the fact that Im recovering from pneumonia and just dont have the energy to fight the fight. When I was at Utah State, two others and I designed and developed Syllabase, an online course management system much like BlackBoard or WebCT (at the time).

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

In Rapid Project Management Techniques for e-Learning presented by Coates & Hill of Deloitte, they outlined their approach to creating a big enterprise-wide training program in an extremely aggressive timeframe. If youre providing SMEs with the templates, Im not sure theyll be altering them. 2:04 PM Cammy Bean said.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 18, 2007

His concern, of course, is that now that the information is not stored centrally its harder to manage. Now I see that you can publish a Google Doc right to my blog, so Im going to try that now. And the fear that someone who shouldnt get to it will. Aah -- corporate control. Always the issue.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 15, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007 ADDIE: Its a Process This is probably an argument made in any Instructional Design 101 class; I dont think Im saying anything new here. To me its an instructional design process -- or even higher level than that , its a project management approach. You could apply the ADDIE model to software development, right?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

And by asking this, Im not suggesting that design isnt important, for it is - its seen by some as part of the pedagogy. LMS support, LMS training, Asynchronous software support and Management jobs Ive seen all require an ID degree, however the duties dont seem to warrant a degree in ID. Karl, Of course Im trying to bait you!

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 7, 2007

Already I can tell you that Im just going to skip this step. Im not trying to make money off this blog. I think I need to go back over mine again reflecting on how well you manage to get across information. Well, thankfully, Im no George Lucas! Ive sort of done that already today, but I think Ill do it again.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 15, 2008

While Im already an expert diaper changer and dont need to learn much more on that subject, I do expect to have to learn a lot of new skills. I will learn how to take a maternity leave and learn about managing even greater work/life balance issues. Particularly, how to parent when outnumbered by children.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 1, 2007

These folks are described to us by their managers as wanting to do their jobs and then go home and crack a few beers. At least, this is what Im told. Not the maintenance guys working on the line in manufacturing (and for whom Ive been creating a lot of e-learning these days). Although that describes most of us, right?)

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

It turns out that Im not alone. Now -- if I can just get back to actually doing instructional design from all the project managing Ive been doing. Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Confessions of an Instructional Designer I failed Will Thalheimers Learning Research Quiz. I was mortified. How can I even call myself an instructional designer?

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Learning Visions

MAY 15, 2007

But similarly, in my old job as a training manager we vowed never to replace the induction with elearning (we hoped to expand on it, but not replace) and nor would we allow it to be devolved to the regions precisely because the face to face element was important for reasons well beyond the training. 7:58 PM Cammy Bean said. I love blogs!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 2, 2008

This has very little to do with eLearning - although Im sure those of you with a creative mindset could think of something! Given the female employee a definite day-long schedule of duties so that theyll keep busy without bothering the management for instructions every few minutes. Manage cognitive load. You Go, Girl!

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

There seems to be a mix between contract and full time positions, and Im not sure how to read into that. I thought it most interesting that your professor was calling for a need to train IDs more in project management. Basically, they want an expert to tell them how and what to train. John.thanks for the musings. 11:36 AM Dr. John H.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

DECEMBER 20, 2007

You might ask, what do I think about when Im shoveling? Well, its a bit out of my budget for the moment; however, Im going to Hawaii in another sense this spring. There is about 3 feet of snow outside and I have been shoveling dutifully for several days. Well, this morning, I was thinking about Hawaii. Where theres no snow!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. is because the learning environment has to be managed by someone. We march backwards into the future." Wireless vs. The content could be Web 2.0, or the Declaration of Arbroath.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Michael Allen says in Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning : "Learners think, Im supposed to do my best to learn whatever is here, so I might as well spend all my time learning it rather than reading about learning it." (p. And yet one could argue that most learners dont even bother reading them. 11:21 PM Cammy Bean said.

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The Learning Circuits

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

· Knowledge Management does not work. Contextual Collaboration (IM, chat, webconferencing, expertise mining or presence awareness) 40-50% of knowledge needed is on the heads of other workers. Simulation - Gartner estimated by 2006 over 70% of elearning would be simulation. · eLearning does not work. But it's still snake oil.

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