Kapp Notes

APRIL 24, 2013

Had a great time last night with the wonder folks from the ASTD Mid-NJ chapter, lots of great questions and interactions. Within 24 hours, after the experiment, participants who were exposed to the avatar running that represented themselves exercised significantly more than those in the other conditions. Reference : Fox, J. &

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ASTD Simulations Resources Comparison 150

OpenSesame

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Performance demands regular exercise and practice at spaced intervals. Exercise and practice doesn’t only apply to the solutions we provide; we need to challenge ourselves to actively practice our craft to keep ourselves more fit to perform our work. This alone will shed a lot of unneeded weight. Learning Resolutions'

Exercise 76

Exercise ASTD Performance Support Coaching 76

Kapp Notes

MAY 14, 2013

In one study, users watched an avatar that looked like them exercising and losing weight in a virtual environment, the result was that those that watched the avatar of themselves subsequently exercised more and ate healthier in the real world as compared to a control group. Combining Zombies and Running…Gamification of Exercise.

ASTD 150

ASTD Simulations Resources Comparison 150

OpenSesame

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Performance demands regular exercise and practice at spaced intervals. Exercise and practice doesn’t only apply to the solutions we provide; we need to challenge ourselves to actively practice our craft to keep ourselves more fit to perform our work. This alone will shed a lot of unneeded weight.

Exercise 52

Exercise ASTD Performance Support Coaching 52

Kapp Notes

MARCH 22, 2013

Had a great time last night with the wonder folks from the ASTD DC Metro chapter, a full house with lots of great questions and interactions. Within 24 hours, after the experiment, participants who were exposed to the avatar running that represented themselves exercised significantly more than those in the other conditions.

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ASTD Simulations Authoring Tools Comparison 119

Learning Visions

JANUARY 28, 2010

This are my liveblogged notes from Thursday, January 28 Keynote at ASTD TechKnowledge 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. Built an exercise around Lego Mindstorms objectives metrics rules In his classes – need to learn about leadership and teamwork. Tags: gam astd gaming. People Lie… …but their actions don’t. Year long program.

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ASTD Metrics Simulations Google Docs 133

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2010

In a study, users watched an avatar that looked like them exercising and loosing weight in a virtual environment, the result was that those that watched the avatar of themselves subsequently exercised more and eat more healthy in the real world as compared to a control group. This as reported by Fox and Bailenson (2009).

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ASTD Resources Virtual World Exercise 133

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

Case studies, exercises, and simulations can be part of a continuum linking Levels 1, 2, and 3. Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss. with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program.

Kirkpatrick 168

Kirkpatrick Social Learning Social Networks Blogging 168

Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Gamification Strategies for Instructional Designers and Trainers skills seminar I led at the recent ASTD Chicagoland Chapter meeting at the DePaul University School for New Learning on September 18 th. Active participation from an enthusiastic group of attendees made the exercise a success. That was the main thrust of the Game On!

Gamification 239

Gamification Simulations Blended Learning Association LMS 239

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Arrived back from the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference late the other night (3:00am) but the conference was worth it. The final exercise was for them to create a mini-lesson in Second Life based on what we had covered in the session and some supplies we had given them. Matthew Monahan and I put them through the paces.

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TechKnowledge ASTD Second Life Meridian 100

mLearning Revolution

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One exercise in particular at the end of section 1 drew quite a bit of audience participation (you can see below), namely “ How has mobile impacted your life? ” My goal with this exercise is to get learning designers to take a moment to reflect on the impact mobile has had on their own lives. mLearning Workshop Exercise.

Mobile Learning 187

Mobile Learning Mobile Exercise ASTD 187

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Combining Running and Zombies, the Gamification of Exercise. Matching the Right Content to the Right Design Strategy (Must be an ASTD member to access.). Here is the audio version of my Training Quarterly article titled Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer. ZOMBIES, RUN! Blog Entry and Video. Related Blog Posts.

Slides 187

Slides Conference Resources ASTD 187

Learning Visions

JANUARY 2, 2013

The year started off with me wrapping up my stint as the planning committee chairperson for ASTD TechKnowledge 12. I helped facilitate two ASTD Learn Now Conferences -- one in April and the other in July -- where we focused on real application of social, mobile, and performance support. Well, exercise really does make me feel better.

Compliance Training 178

Compliance Training Design ASTD eLearning Guild 178

LearnDash

JANUARY 6, 2014

They have a nice amount of free training programs with interactive exercises. If you are interested in some more specific courses related to elearning, then you can’t go wrong with the ones offered by ASTD. If you are interested in programming, check out Codecademy.

eLearning 142

eLearning ASTD Exercise Site 142

Web Courseworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Gamification Strategies for Instructional Designers and Trainers skills seminar I led at the recent ASTD Chicagoland Chapter meeting at the DePaul University School for New Learning on September 18 th. Active participation from an enthusiastic group of attendees made the exercise a success. That was the main thrust of the Game On!

Gamification 138

Gamification Simulations Blended Learning Association LMS 138

Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Kaizen Leadership Learning Rebel Rebel Technology Tips ASTD ATD Change Communication Culture Generation Gap innovation Learning Learning Culture Organizational Culture status-quo' Let’s focus on creating collaboration areas for people to share experiences. Focus on the people, not the year they were born.

Culture 263

Culture ASTD Leadership Learning 263

Knowledge Guru

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Sharon Boller and Karl Kapp gave their first joint session in May of 2013 at ASTD International in Dallas… and the gaming goodness continued in Indianapolis on August 28th. I assisted Sharon and Karl at this workshop at ASTD ICE, but this was the first time I actually got to experience it as a participant.

Games 160

Games Design ASTD Learning 160

Learning Visions

MAY 7, 2014

These are my live blogged notes from a concurrent session at the ASTD International Conference & Expo, this week in Washington, D.C. It must be exercised often. Getting Russians to exercise. Ticket booths that you get your ticket for free by doing exercise! Forgive any typos or incoherencies. So what do we know?

Behavior 175

Behavior Change Design Cognitive 175

Kapp Notes

AUGUST 7, 2013

Had a great time last night presenting to the New York ASTD chapter, great folks and great dinner afterwards…made it home by mid-night so that was a nice unexpected treat. Virtual self-modeling: the effects of vicarious reinforcement and identification on exercise behaviors. Standing with ASTDNY banner. Reference : Fox, J. &

Resources 165

Resources Simulations Comparison Games 165

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2012

Kapp's ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 Presentation. In one study, users watched an avatar that looked like them exercising and losing weight in a virtual environment, the result was that those that watched the avatar of themselves subsequently exercised more and ate healthier in the real world as compared to a control group.

TechKnowledge 198

TechKnowledge Simulations Resources Comparison 198

Learning Visions

JANUARY 27, 2012

My live notes from today’s closing session at ASTD TK12 in Las Vegas. VAAA’s IDs use VA work to create scenario driven exercises, case studies, etc to expose learners to the actual job environment Job rotations are critical – so they can be added bench strength – in medical centers and hospitals throughout the US. 300,000 employees.

Case Study 166

Case Study ASTD CLO Leadership 166

Web Courseworks

JANUARY 27, 2011

When developing a basis of my evaluations, I derive some of my factors from the ASTD Certification Institute’s, E-Learning Courseware Certification Standards that was released in the early part of the century. I do not think the ASTD quality certification program exists. Are learning objectives clear to the learner?

Evalution 145

Evalution eLearning ASTD Courseware 145

Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2013

Alumni Stacey Bennett, a Senior Instructional Technologist at Aetna describing how her team used ideas from last semester’s exercise to help a project they are building. A recent alumni and person who worked on some special projects with me, Vanessa Bailey, has published a series of blog entries at the ASTD Learning Technologies Blog.

RFP 189

RFP Director Simulations Sun 189

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 6, 2009

ASTD's Big Question for January is, again, a series of questions. I teach a wonderful class but I feel it has too much lecturing even though I have been working to eliminate the lectures, we have group exercises, group assignments, student presentations, good discussions but still.can I totally eliminate lectures.not sure I can.

Predictions 100

Predictions ASTD Big Question Write Blog 100

Vignettes Learning

JUNE 11, 2008

These are comments I received during my presentation at the ASTD ICE. I summarized these at the ASTD ICE presentation. "We have 100,000 members, and we want to jump on board and use Web 2.0 for Learning.""Top Top management directed me to see how we can launch Social Networking and Learning to 45,000 of our employees."These

Micro-Learning 40

Micro-Learning ASTD Social Networks Wiki 40

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2011

an eLearning strategy workshop), Laguna Niguel for the CLO Symposium (with Jay and Jane from the Internet Time Alliance ), both in October, and then DevLearn in Lost Wages (running a mobile strategy workshop), DC for a local ASTD Chapter event (mobile talk & social workshop), and Toronto for CSTD’s annual conference in November.

iPad 145

iPad ASTD DevLearn eLearning Consultant 145

Learnnovators

MAY 29, 2014

Today, while we are in the midst of up-skilling our learning designers, we set out on a quick journey to revisit our most precious resources on this subject in order to see how to leverage these in our up-skilling exercise.

Social Learning 167

Social Learning Social Informal Diversity Training 167

Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I'm at the ASTD Tech Knowledge 2013 Conference in San Jose, California. I know I should exercise, but. These are my liveblogged notes from a concurrent session with Julie Dirksen. Apologies for typos and incoherence. The elephant has a hard time waiting. Your elephant is really concerned with what is happening RIGHT NOW. "I

Cognitive 237

Cognitive Games Create Design 237

Rapid eLearning

MAY 24, 2011

This exercise was one of the best learning experiences for me. Tidbits: I’m at the ASTD International Conference & Expo this week. Here’s a list of some of my other upcoming speaking events and conferences: June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. Are there things you’d take out?

Rapid eLearning 87

Rapid eLearning ASTD Help Summary 87

Learning Visions

MAY 24, 2007

Scientists are finding ways to change the brain through intellectual exercises. People who are socially clumsy can be given exercises that improve their brain’s ability to read nonverbal clues. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. Im a believer in this stuff. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Brain Rapid eLearning Moodle 100

Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 15, 2013

Here’s an exercise we do at the workshop. Here’s an exercise for you. If you’re interested in seeing one in your area, have your local ISPI or ASTD chapter contact me. Each one of us has a visual voice that we can hear and learn to build better looking elearning courses. The secret is learning to hear the voice. Which fonts?

Voice 89

Voice Movie Help ISPI 89

Learnnovators

MAY 29, 2014

Today, while we are in the midst of up-skilling our learning designers, we set out on a quick journey to revisit our most precious resources on this subject in order to see how to leverage these in our up-skilling exercise.

Social Learning 100

Social Learning Social Informal Resources 100

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Top Topics and Posts As part of this exercise, I went back to look at my top posts and hottest topics for the year via eLearning Learning. 6) iPad (5) SkillSoft (2) Social Learning (15) Virtual Classroom (5) ASTD (8) eLearningGuild (2) And here were my top posts based on social signals.

Text-to-Speech 200

Text-to-Speech Compliance Training Diversity Training SharePoint 200

Rapid eLearning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

At the recent ASTD conference we demonstrated a bunch of elearning tips and tricks. This post shares 10 visual design tips with a great mindmapping exercise. Vermont ASTD on September 17 from 9:00-12:00. Baton Rouge ASTD on October 12. They’re full of practical tips that you can use. Handpicked E-Learning Tutorials.

Resources 79

Resources Rapid eLearning ASTD Tutorial 79

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Learning Circuits – ASTD’s Online Magazine Covering E-Learning. Related posts: Upside Board Game Exercise – Download the Winning Game Adopting Digital Game-based Learning: Why and How The Spymaster Game on Twitter. Serious Games: Slideshow of examples from an event at Harvard Business School, December 13, 2007.

Games 280

Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Learning Circuits - ASTD’s Online Magazine Covering E-Learning. Related posts: Upside Board Game Exercise - Download the Winning Game Adopting Digital Game-based Learning: Why and How The Spymaster Game on Twitter. Serious Games: Slideshow of examples from an event at Harvard Business School, December 13, 2007.

Games 280

Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Mindflash

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

It is a healthy exercise to first start with a review of the unique abilities in the employee base before sourcing experts from outside the organization. Jay is a member of SHRM, ASTD, the National Speakers Association and the Florida Speakers Association. He is the author of Fire Up! Follow him on Twitter.

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Expert Diversity Training Expertise Teach 72