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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

It conjures memories of terrible 90s thriller movies featuring Sandra Bullock in the prime of her career. One friend mentioned that her company doesn’t allow her to use the internet, period, because they expect her full attention to be on patients for the entire day. And she felt this to be acceptable.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). If I see they still have that blank look in their eyes, I quickly mention the names of some of my clients and that usually gets there attention enough to explain further. And then they think Im a flippin genius!!!!

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Design Tutorial, Part 1: How to Make Your Own iPad-Inspired Icons (and a Free Template!)

Mindflash

Whether you come down on the side of iPad as hype or iPad as harbinger of our computing future, one thing is clear: there’s a shift underway and it’s in our best interest to pay attention! Case in point: my mother-in-law. She’s a pretty solid, if unsophisticated, PC user (sorry, mom!)

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Latest in Learning Fast: edu-Twittering

Marcia Conner

Before overloading corporate servers and attention spans, it catalyzed an international conversation about new ways to deliver information and help people learn. ” I enjoyed seeing what Howard’s reads, and the article itself reframed my thinking about IM. Downtime be damned. A little push, a little pull. Inspire us.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Writing Less Objectionable Learning Objectives

Learning Visions

Its like the opening credits of a movie. Belatedly, Im thinking that there are relatively easy ways to enable learners to have cake or to eat it as they see fit. Im not sure I suggested writing WIIFM learning objectives, but they probably have their uses. These are the ones we present to learners to help guide learner attention.

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Ten Tips for Instructional Designers

OpenSesame

She found that each worker went an average of 11 minutes on any given task before being interrupted by a coworker, email, IM or other demand for their attention. You need to design content to fit in the short chunks of attention that your learners are likely to have available to them. This probably sounds familiar to you, too!

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: This job aint dead yet.

Learning Visions

At least, this is what Im told. And as long as companies still pay for it we are all sittin pretty making some coin crankin out the Captivate movies sippin a cold pint. Can I, um, have your attention, please? These folks are described to us by their managers as wanting to do their jobs and then go home and crack a few beers.