Adobe Captivate
AUGUST 21, 2010
This week’s eSeminar was chock full of solutions as we discussed ‘how to’ start developing eLearning based on the kind of face to face classroom content educators already have prepared for the courses they teach. The session examines the growing phenomena of online courses and online supplemental eLearning modules for courses that remain face to face or are becoming blended online and offline instruction.
Making Change
AUGUST 25, 2010
What happens if you don’t set any boundaries in your relationships? You wear yourself out doing everything for everybody and the next thing you know, you’ve cursed everyone out, grabbed a couple of beers, and slid down the escape chute. The same thing can happen to your course. If you don’t set any boundaries and try to cover everything for everybody, you end up with a stressed-out course that can’t do anything for anybody.
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Upside Learning
AUGUST 31, 2010
John Hegel lll and John Seely Brown have written an article titled ‘ Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work ’ on HBR blog. The article summarizes the ideas from their new book – The Power of Pull. The six shifts they talk about: The Red Queen was optimistic – The red queen in Through the Looking-Glass said – “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.&# However as it turns out we are running ever faster but still losing ground.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 5, 2010
I was recently asked me about my recommendations for conducting effective online conferences (virtual conference). They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. This conference has been run for a few years now and is tentatively scheduled for November 15-17 this year. This is my attempt to collect some of what we’ve learned over the years doing those conferences.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 12, 2010
by Jennie Ruby. Short answer: yes. You can change the width of the balloons, the color, which margin they appear in, whether that margin has background shading, whether the balloons have lines connecting them to text, and the typeface and type size of the text in the balloons. The shading of the comments margin is called the Markup Area Highlight, and is controlled by the Show Markup drop-down list.
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Kapp Notes
AUGUST 11, 2010
An Avatar in a Virtual Immersive Environment is a rendering of a computer user as an interface technique. Instead of moving around a computer interface as a mouse, one moves around as an anthropomorphic figure. Recently, there has been some research released which indicates that moving through a computer generated interface as an avatar provides powerful learning stimulus.
Making Change
AUGUST 30, 2010
I’ve been tweeting a daily idea to spark your instructional design creativity. To get your daily ID idea, follow me on Twitter. (I don’t say much!). Some recent tweets in the series: Ask your SME, “What are the 3 most common mistakes people make?&# Turn them into branching scenarios. Using a story? What challenge is your character facing?
Upside Learning
AUGUST 12, 2010
As we move more and more into the mobile space, we’ve found that there are several things very different from conventional courseware. One of the things that come to my mind right away is that in mobile, we are doing away with storyboards. Content is viewed differently, it’s data that has to be managed and rendered within the limitations placed by a variety of mobile devices.
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 10, 2010
I wanted to follow-up 19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences with some additional resources that relate to this topic. I primarily used the eLearning Learning and Communities and Networks sites and used Conference , Online Facilitation of Conferences , Online Interaction in Conferences , Moderating Online Interaction , and others. 28 Web Conference Training Tips - eLearning Weekly , July 10, 2009 Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but there is a lot more to training vi
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The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 24, 2010
The social contract between employer and employee has changed dramatically in recent years. Loyalty has been the loser. In commenting about a post I wrote last year, Milan Moravec presents the case that long- term loyalty is no longer part of the implied understanding between management and worker. He writes: Employee loyalty and retention: It's not what you think!
Learning Visions
AUGUST 30, 2010
A lot of people write to me asking for advice on how to break into the ID field or where to go get themselves a fancy graduate ID degree. As a non-formally schooled ID, I can’t really help with this last question other than some vague direction. (For part one of the question – well…I’ll come back to that another day). So – to those of you who do have a degree or a certificate would you be willing to tell us your story?
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 30, 2010
As schools adapt to new technologies and hardware and software, curriculum changes need to reflect more than just the inclusion of technology; changes needs to impact methodology, approach and instructional activities. Yet, even today, instructional methodologies are heavily influenced by the instructional models and cultural influences of teachers and administrators, not the students.
Making Change
AUGUST 30, 2010
I’ve been tweeting a daily idea to spark your instructional design creativity. To get your daily ID idea, follow me on Twitter. (I don’t say much!). Some recent tweets in the series: Ask your SME, “What are the 3 most common mistakes people make?&# Turn them into branching scenarios. Using a story? What challenge is your character facing?
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Upside Learning
AUGUST 30, 2010
Some days ago, I wrote about some basic design principles pertinent to the presentation of information. Taking that forward, this post specifically addresses the issue of ‘ Usability ’. In eLearning, usability is simply about designing interfaces to the content that learners find convenient and practical to use. The courseware we design need to be logical, intuitive, and clear to the learners who take the course.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 19, 2010
In a conversation with my ITA colleagues (we keep a Skype channel open and conversations emerge daily), we revisited the idea that there’s a higher perspective that needs to be highlighted: social media is a business engine, both internally and externally ! Jane Hart’ s been helping clients with social media marketing, and this has been an entree to talk about social media for working and learning.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 31, 2010
by Kevin Siegel. In the past, if you created an eLearning quiz and needed to track the results, your only option was to use a Learning Management System (LMS). Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting option to using an LMS: you can create a free account on Acrobat.com, and set the reporting preferences in a Captivate project so that the quiz results are uploaded to Acrobat.com.
Learning Visions
AUGUST 11, 2010
Another book for the to-read list: Open Source Instructional Design by Nathaniel Eckel (with a nice forward by our old friend, Professor Karl Kapp ). I’ve just started in on this one, so can’t give you too many details on this self-published book by Eckel, a Philly-based ID type. Eckel’s premise: that traditional methods of ISD have created an adversarial relationship between the ID and the SME.
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How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 23, 2010
So rather than teach teachers or students how to intelligently use social media tools to communicate(like people do in corporations or in everyday social interactions), a school in Florida decided to advise against such silly and dangerous Web 2.0 behavior without supervision. According to the article Teachers asked to 'unfriend' students on Facebook "Everyone knows that there are teachers nationwide that may have inappropriately communicated with students through email, text message or Facebook
Integrated Learnings
AUGUST 31, 2010
By Shelley A. Gable. In listing the benefits of eLearning, training folks often cite its flexibility – it’s available on-demand, allows learners to progress at their own pace, is easily deployed to a geographically dispersed audience, etc. eLearning’s flexibility can be especially handy when it’s included as part of a blended learning approach. Below are a few ways I’ve seen eLearning used to complement other delivery methods in projects I’ve worked on. -1- Pre-work for instructor-led training.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 20, 2010
Right now, everyone wants to develop applications for mobile devices and in particular for the iPhone, as it has changed the way we look at mobile devices. There is lots of material available about iPhone development on the web but very little about how to go about it. While working on IPhone development I have collected some links and we thought of creating a training plan for iPhone development for other Upsiders.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 30, 2010
In all the excitement about empowering learners by providing rich information and social environments, it’s too easy to think that “if you build it, they will learn&#. Yet the evidence is to the contrary. While there are numerous components, including a culture that tolerates diversity and doesn’t punish honest mistakes, one that is easy to neglect the actual learning skills of employees.
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The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 24, 2010
by AJ George. Over the past few weeks we've covered whether you should use static or dynamic images, what kinds of static images promote learning, image resources, and easy image manipulation for those images that are good, but just not quite right. So what if after all of that, you still can't find the exact image you're looking for?
Learning Visions
AUGUST 27, 2010
I’ve been slowly making my way through Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 to create presentations that inform, motivate, and inspire. While it’s geared toward the live, stand-up presentation (e.g., the sales presentation, the keynote, a lawyer’s opening arguments at a trial), there’s a lot to apply towards self-paced, asynchronous eLearning programs.
Kapp Notes
AUGUST 25, 2010
Check out www.guitarbuilding.org If you think math, science and engineering are boring subjects, you need to re-think the topic and pronto. Check out this cool curriculum designed by The National Center for Manufacturing Education. In the curriculum, students build an actual guitar learning all about CAD, electronics, acoustics, general guitar terminology, scale lengths, wave lengths, wiring, grounding, jacks and other valuable information.
The Performance Improvement Blog
AUGUST 4, 2010
Is KM dead? John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison , all with Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, argue that passive repositories of organizational information (i.e., Knowledge Management) have failed to advance learning. They write: The best KM systems succeeded at capturing and institutionalizing the knowledge of the firm. But for the most part the repositories and directories remained fragmentary and the resources didn't get used.
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Upside Learning
AUGUST 4, 2010
This is the 3 rd and final post of the series on creating successful m-learning strategy based on the workshop I attended at mLearnCon. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here. In this part I am covering the Tool and Techniques discussed in the workshop. The moment you start thinking about tools the varied platforms and their differences come up as real challenges.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 31, 2010
On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat , I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist. I don’t always assume people know what that means, but for that audience I figure they can infer what it means. However, I think the idea is worth exploring, because increasingly I think that not only is that what I do, but it also is important.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
AUGUST 4, 2010
by AJ George. So far in this graphics series we've covered whether you should use dynamic or static images and then how to best use static images if you so choose. This week I'm going to share my favorite free image sources. Recommended Free Image Sites There are many great resources for stock photos and images. I'm going to focus on those that are free and do not appear to have many use restrictions.
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