Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Books. What are some ways in which you create a more realistic environment for your learners? What’s working? And more importantly, what’s not working?

Blended Learning 141

Blended Learning Social Networks Social Learning Blended 141

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In Malcom Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point , Gladwell introduces several influential personality types, one of which is the Connector – an individual who knows large numbers of people and is in the habit of making introductions. Outlook, address book, contact list). Your business networks can be your most valuable resources!

Social Networks 145

Social Networks Network Social Learning Blended Learning 145

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 31, 2009

According to the BBC: Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5bn in the next five years, experts predict. Additonally, "Virtual goods is the whole story in the world of social games. What could be the implication for enterprise-focused virtual immersive environments?

Virtual World 113

Virtual World Second Life Streaming Enterprise 113

Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2010

Here is a press release about one big virtual world event where Tony and I will be speaking about Learning in 3D. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL).

Virtual World 100

Virtual World Linden Second Life Social Networks 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Here are the great stops for week 4 of the blog book tour. Tour Stops Day Sixteen 02/01/10 Gordon Snyder's blog Information & Communications Technology Blog Day Seventeen 02/02/10 Koreen Olbrich's Learning in Tandem Day Eighteen 02/03/10 Bart Pursel at Virtual Learning Worlds. Blog Book Tour Recap Week One: Awesome!

Blogging 140

Blogging Brandon Hall Virtual World Director 140

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 9, 2010

Predictions for 2010 Check of the predications and add your own! Virtual Immersive Environments (VIEs) for corporate use will gain additional traction in 2010 with some major announcements concerning integration with more traditional enterprisewide software systems such as MS SharePoint.

Predictions 100

Predictions Technology Corporate eLearning SharePoint 100

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Here are the great stops for week 5 of the blog book tour. Day Twenty-Five 02/12/10 eLearn Magazine will have a review of the book. Live Web Stops Tuesday SOLD OUT Tony and Karl are presenting free webinar called Enterprise Learning and Collaboration in 3D Virtual Worlds courtesy of Booz Allen Hamilton. Can you help?

Blogging 168

Blogging ASTD Podcasts Podcaster 168

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise Learning? Facebook allows you to create a dynamic environment within its Fan Page infrastructure. Maybe a handful of people in this world hate learning.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Facebook Blended Learning Enterprise 100

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Facebook or Kanye West: Which Pop Icon Has a Future in Enterprise Learning? Facebook allows you to create a dynamic environment within its Fan Page infrastructure. Maybe a handful of people in this world hate learning.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Facebook Blended Learning Enterprise 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 31, 2010

Had an entry titled Welcome to 2b3d 3D Learning Blog Time where he talked about the fact that "3D virtual learning is about the experience" and not about the technology. Take a few moments to view the video at A Blog Book Tour, Thinking Outside the Box. Her entry Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d. Here is the re-cap.

Blogging 145

Blogging Brandon Hall Case Study Mash-up 145

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2010

Here are the stops for week three of the Blog Book Tour. Also on this day of the tour we will have a special guest blog post by Mark Copeman at Being Smarter discussing the book tour itself, how the idea came about and how it is progressing and advice for authors who want to do a similar tour. Tags: 3D Book Tour.

Blogging 100

Blogging Virtual Classroom Brandon Hall TechKnowledge 100

Learning Visions

JANUARY 29, 2010

When Karl Kapp invited me to join the blog book tour for Learning in 3D, he dangled a little carrot in front of me. So I am reading this book as a scavenger hunt (leave it to Karl to turn it into a game!)…my I get the virtual worlds immersive learning environment thingie. Apparently, I make a cameo appearance.

Blogging 133

Blogging Second Life Social Networks Case Study 133

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2010

Week two of the blog book tour was hectic. If you missed last week's blog book tour recap, here it is. As a writer, himself, Mark thought that rather than writing about the book, he asked us about the writing process. One of the first questions he asked was "What parts of the book did you best like writing?"

Blogging 100

Blogging Instructional Design Diversity Training Write Blog 100

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 11, 2010

An Avatar in a Virtual Immersive Environment is a rendering of a computer user as an interface technique. Here are some points from an article titled Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance by Amy Baylor. This as reported by Fox and Bailenson (2009).

Virtual World 208

Virtual World Exercise Environment Behavior 208

eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community. => Dunlap Protocols for Online Discussions Joanna C.

Blended Learning 112

Blended Learning Free Authoring Tools eLearning Guild 112

Kapp Notes

MAY 24, 2010

Digitell is company that owns VirtualU a 3D virtual immersive environment that has been used for everything from meetings to rock concerts. I think these two activities signal a real "serious" look at moving 3D virtual immersive environments into organizations at the enterprise level.

Linden 184

Linden Simulations RWD Virtual World 184

eLearning Learning Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

October 2010 did not disappoint! 4 Free Tools to Help Get Your PowerPoint from Good to Great , October 21, 2010 Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. Here is the best from this past month.

Compliance Training 111

Compliance Training eLearning Strategy Custom eLearning Development Corporate eLearning 111

Kapp Notes

JUNE 9, 2011

Walk a mile in digital shoes: The impact of embodied perspective-taking on the reduction of negative stereotyping in immersive virtual environments. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. See Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance.

Simulations 204

Simulations Resources Innovation Comparison 204

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Here are the slides: Why 3D Immersive Environments. Here are some points from an article titled Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance by Amy Baylor. 2009) found that behavioral changes originating within a virtual environment can transfer to subsequent face-to-face interactions.

ASTD 133

ASTD Resources Virtual World Exercise 133

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 29, 2010

Here are the resources for the Learning in 3D presentation at ASTD TechKnowledge 2010. Web site for the book Learning in 3D. If you would like to purchase the book, you can receive a 20% discount directly from the publisher. You can read Chapter One of the book to get a sense of what the book is about.

TechKnowledge 154

TechKnowledge ASTD Resources Second Life 154

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 10, 2010

What I like about Lesley's presentations about Cybergogy are that they are informative from the perspective of thinking about teaching in a 3D environment but that they also incorporate aspects not possible in the 2D world. Tags: virtual immersive environment. By the end of the presentation, you can see the model in 3D.

Tools 154

Tools Virtual World Second Life Conference 154

Kapp Notes

JUNE 21, 2010

Event By now you've probably already heard that the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award 2010 has gone to a project that uses a 3-D virtual environment to hold a virtual scientific poster session. To learn, collaborate and exchange knowledge. life sciences industry solutions director, Microsoft. “By see Pfizer's $2.3

Conference 146

Conference Virtual World Virtual Classroom Microsoft 146

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2012

Walk a mile in digital shoes: The impact of embodied perspective-taking on the reduction of negative stereotyping in immersive virtual environments. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. See Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance.

TechKnowledge 198

TechKnowledge Simulations Resources Comparison 198

eLearning Learning Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best of eLearning Learning in September 2010. As always, great stuff found in the eLearning world in September. Examples and Samples of Game Design Documents - Kapp Notes , September 15, 2010 Here is a collection of several game design documents and information about game design documents. These samples will give you some ideas.

Blended Learning 98

Blended Learning PLE Text-to-Speech eLearning Consultant 98

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 14, 2010

While the online blog book tour for Learning in 3D is going extremely well, it is important to note that the authors can be seen live and on the web talking about virtual immersive environments for learning as well. Learn more about the Life Sciences 2010 event here. The session will take place from 9.00-10.00

Diversity Training 113

Diversity Training Online Virtual World TechKnowledge 113

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Here are the links and resources from my presentation at the “Learning in Different Worlds&# conference in Lahti, Findland and a small recap which will be expanded later. And, I got to hang out with people who have been impacting virtual immersive environments in a big way for a long time.

Resources 182

Resources Virtual World Second Life Exercise 182

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Some interesting things are going on with the folks over at Linden Labs , the developers of the virtual immersive environment of Second Life. First, they are sponsoring a contest called The 2010 Linden Prize. It has been undercover with the code name Nebraska but it will be announced formally at at Metanomics in-world event.

Second Life 100

Second Life Linden Firewalls Virtual World 100

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 30, 2013

The “Immernet”: Immersive Learning through Games, Gamification and Virtual Worlds from Karl Kapp. Walk a mile in digital shoes: The impact of embodied perspective-taking on the reduction of negative stereotyping in immersive virtual environments. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

ASTD 228

ASTD Simulations Resources Comparison 228

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 3, 2009

As you may know in January 2010 (around the 19th or so) my new book co-authored with Tony O'Driscoll is being published. The book, Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration is about using 3D virtual immersive environments for learning and collaboration.

Social Media 100

Social Media Virtual World Enterprise Tagging 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Walk a mile in digital shoes: The impact of embodied perspective-taking on the reduction of negative stereotyping in immersive virtual environments. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. Virtual self-modeling: the effects of vicarious reinforcement and identification on exercise behaviors.

DevLearn 242

DevLearn Simulations Resources Comparison 242

KnowledgeOne

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) is a fascinating technology that allows the user to be transported into a synthetic world they perceive as real and in which they can move and interact. The impressive potential of VR goes far beyond entertainment. VR: the ultimate immersive technology. ” The first is immersion and the second is presence.

Management 98

Management Cognitive Virtual World Brain 98

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Walk a mile in digital shoes: The impact of embodied perspective-taking on the reduction of negative stereotyping in immersive virtual environments. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. See Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: role of visual presence and appearance.

Resources 154

Resources Simulations Comparison Press 154

eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

- Clive on Learning , November 8, 2010I came fairly late to the multi-touch iOS/Android/W7 Mobile world, having been stuck on a 2-year contract with a Nokia smart phone that was great compared to the phones I’d had before, but which I now realise was hopelessly behind the game. How can this be? Enough said. Instructionally Grounded.

eLearning Strategy 85

eLearning Strategy Simulations Corporate eLearning eLearning Consultant 85

Jay Cross

JANUARY 21, 2010

Here: February 15-19, 2010. Tony O’Driscoll and Karl Kapp have a book coming out next month – Learning in 3D : Adding a New Dimension to Collaboration and Learning. I haven’t read the book yet (maybe this weekend), but I’m intrigued by the way Tony and Karl are publicizing it. Promote Your Page Too.

Virtual World 40

Virtual World Social Networks Facebook Web 40

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 2, 2009

In January: Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaborati on at 10:30 AM PST on Tuesday January 19, 2010 as part of the eLearning Guild's Thought Leader Series. Here is a description of the webinar: Virtual Immersive Environments (VIEs) are gaining attention but are they effective or a fad?

Case Study 100

Case Study eLearning Guild Online Virtual World 100

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

JANUARY 21, 2010

Its no secret that I'm a big fan of virtual environments, interactive3D, or whatever you want to call them. My biggest frustration has been waiting to see the acceptance of Virtual Immersive training Environments. My hope is that with this book we may begin to see the acceptance of VIEs in corporate training.

Case Study 49

Case Study Virtual World DevLearn Player 49

Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

web.alive is an enterprise ready, network secured virtual world platform designed to solve business problems of working together over distances in real time and the costs associated with travel and training on complex equipment or in hazardous areas. This is a "mirror-world" so it mirrors real places.

Second Life 100

Second Life Alternatives Virtual World Flash 100