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#TK11 Keynote: Google’s Karen Wickre and Ann Farmer

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at ASTD TK11 with Karen Wickre (Global Communications Team) and Ann Farmer from Google. Google has a social media toolkit: Wtools to use when (they serve diff purposes) Style guides – a blog style is the voice you’re writing in, Twitter has space limitations – how do you stay brief?

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Getting Started With Gamification

ATD Learning Technologies

The series is written by Karl Kapp, professor of instructional technology and internationally known author of two books on gamification , both co-authored by ASTD. Don’t think of it as adding technology to solve a problem; think of it was a way to redesign your instruction to be more game-like. Where do you start?

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2009 Predictions How Did I Do?

Tony Karrer

Of course, the problem with predictions, especially written predictions, is that you can look back and see how you did at the end of the year. So, it’s a far richer problem than indicated by my prediction. Grade: C #4 - Quick Wins & Toolkits With the tough economy, everyone will be looking for quick wins. Grade: ???? #9

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

4 - Quick Wins & Toolkits With the tough economy, everyone will be looking for quick wins. The answer for many organizations will be less training and more performance support in the form of toolkits. The fact that this is one of the general sessions at ASTD TechKnowledge is interesting way to start 2009.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Essential Reading for Instructional Design?

Learning Visions

They might refer to theory, but they dont get bogged down in it: e-Learning and the Science of Instruction by Ruth Clark and Richard Mayer Michael Allens Guide to E-Learning by Michael Allen Gadgets, Games & Gizmos for Learning by Karl Kapp Last May, I started a bit of a list in this post: Beginning Instructional Designers Toolkit.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Blogging is the new Graduate School

Learning Visions

Twentysomething: Blogging is the new Graduate School It’s ironic, though, because blogging is a way to deal with the biggest problem at the beginning of one’s career: No expertise. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. This is why more young people should blog. The eLearning Salary Gender Gap Phew!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

Learning Visions

The point is to provide more than one way to initially get it, more ways to trigger activation when its seen in practice, and more frameworks to apply to solving the problem. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr. 10:03 AM Cammy Bean said. Thanks, Clark. Thats a helpful explanation. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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