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Daily Bookmarks 06/19/2008

Experiencing eLearning

“The animation is a way of them developing the picture so they relate that to the writing, to what they hear, what they see, what they feel.&# “If you start with … hands-on activities and things that are fun, their attention is focused.&# Nine Notable Uses for Social Bookmarking. tags: socialbookmarking.

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10 Ways To Design For Emotions (Part III)

The eLearning Coach

Both pleasant and disturbing pictures elicit a physical response in the body and speak directly to emotional centers in the brain compared to neutral pictures. When instructionally appropriate, emotional pictures are an effective way to pique curiosity, gain attention and engage the audience because they evoke emotion.

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eLearning Learning - Best of June 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Learning Adoption Success: First Steps? The power of pictures - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , June 20, 2009. The following are the top other items based on social signals. Ultimate Guide to Delicious Social Bookmarking , June 8, 2009. Road to Learning , June 27, 2009. Top Other Items.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Pages and pictures and some sound and we turned the pages and took a test. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID. "Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. A big explosion in the last 2 years. This was "e-Learning 1.0".

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Now paying more attention to editing and sequencing on television and movies. Continued to get my social network act together: Flickr /jaycross. Del.icio.us /jaycross. In this article, we call this big-picture, longer-term viewpoint meta-learning, and we call upon all CLOs to become Chief Meta-Learning Officers.

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Content Organization Cheat Sheet

The eLearning Coach

Because learners usually pay the most attention to the beginning and end of a topic, you have quite a few options for arranging the content. An excellent approach to organizing content is to introduce the big picture or system view first and then to delve into the parts of the system. Share this on Facebook Share this on del.icio.us

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Theory-informed design tips

E-Learning Provocateur

. • Place the text in the infographic as close as possible to the corresponding point in the picture. • Avoid bright decorations and looped animations that compete with the substantive content for the learner’s attention. • Create a social bookmarking account. • Encourage social networking.

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