Sat.Aug 06, 2011 - Fri.Aug 12, 2011

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eLearning Surf Wax

eLearning Brothers

I’ve recently been trying to learn how to surf. I’m such a computer nerd… the first place I look is YouTube. I watched nearly every video I could find. I bought my first board last Saturday and hit my first waves Monday. Not to brag, but I think I did better than I thought I would. I was able to catch a few waves and was surprised when I could stand up and actually maintain my balance.

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Weekly Bookmarks (8/7/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Thinking Frameworks. Review of Bloom’s Taxonomy, including problems and the revised version, with information about the differences between factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. tags: bloom learning education. Those teachers who keep a list of question prompts relating to the various levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy undoubtedly do a better job of encouraging higher-order thinking in their students than those who have no such

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The Promise Of 3D Learning

Upside Learning

Every now and again I wonder about the multi-user 3D environments, or virtual worlds that were all the rage just a couple of years ago, the finest example being Second Life. Second Life itself was a promising collaborative 3D learning platform. Yet, as I trawl the web looking for successful implementations of such 3Dverses for learning, I find very little substantive information about companies implementing such systems with any reasonable success.

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PowerPoint 2010: Animating a Venn Diagram

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. A typical Venn diagram has two or more related topics. To depict the similarities and differences of these topics, you might create a diagram like the example below.  If you find yourself in need of a Venn diagram, there are a few basic Venn diagrams available via PowerPoint's SmartArt. If you don't like those available via SmartArt, you can easily create your own.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

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.

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Adobe Presenter 7.0.7 is HERE with ActionScript 3.0 Support

mLearning Revolution

'Today I’m happy to report that our much anticipated update of Adobe Presenter with full support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. In case you are not familiar with Adobe Presenter, it is a Plug-and-Play Rapid eLearning development tool for Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Educause Review: “This Game Sucks”

Upside Learning

This article by Sarah “Intellagirl&# Smith-Robbins is quite interesting. She does a great simple description of gamification, something I’ve written about before. “Education has been a system of status and points since the dawn of the Industrial Age.&#. She also espouses three fundamental small steps to take in higher education – make goals clear, make progress transparent, think about your game-play.

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Writing & Grammar: Comparisons and Pronouns. The Results

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Jennie Ruby. Results are in for last week's question about the meaning of this sentence: My boyfriend loves soccer more than me. The choices were A and B: My boyfriend loves soccer more than I do. My boyfriend loves soccer more than he loves me. By a large margin, you readers said it means B. Literally, in print, that is the official meaning.

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Technology as a Scapegoat

Kapp Notes

Recently, technology has been blamed or credited for a number of things: Arab Spring Uprisings. Riots in London. The end of the debit ceiling debacle. And countless other evils and goods…are we serious? Technology is not the cause of the uprisings in London or Arab counties and it didn’t solve the debit crisis…the real issues are unrest, distrust of government and general economic malaise.

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Creating a Smart Next Button in Lectora

Integrated Learnings

by Jonathan Shoaf. Reducing the number of objects in your development project saves time to develop and makes project maintenance easier. Most e-learn development tools provide some sort of object reuse through inheritance or master pages. While not everyone is a fan of the next button, it is a common object found in e-learning. Its appearance on many pages makes it a prime candidate for reuse.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Psst.wanna gossip about elearning?

Learning Visions

"Did you see the elearning that that team created? You know the one that was really boring and no one could remember a thing about? Remember how every screen was packed with information and endless text bullets? And how the learners were completely bored but had to sit through it because it was compliance training?". You did? Hopefully you weren't the designer on that one!

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Adobe Captivate 5 & 5.5: Add Some Status to Your TOC

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Kevin Siegel. When you add a Table of Contents to a Captivate project ( Project > Table of Contents > Show TOC ), the default settings include Show Duration. With this option selected, the duration of each slide in the lesson will be shown to your learners. The Duration column is perfectly useful if your lesson is a simple demonstration. However, if your lesson is an interactive simulation, it doesn't make much sense to show a slide duration since the exact amount of time spent on t

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2 Strategies for Teaching Facts

Kapp Notes

One of the types of content instructional designers and training professionals need to teach often are facts. Items and information that require simple recall. Here are two strategies that work well for teaching facts. One is Chunking content: This is the breaking down of content into small pieces of information that can be easily memorized. Studies indicate that the average adult learns best if presented with information in a logical group of approximately five to seven items.

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Need to Change Behavior? Just Follow the Wizard

Dashe & Thomson

Sometimes it’s hard to take something seriously that promises to solve an age-old, complex human problem. If a product or service promises to “Burn Off Pounds Fast!” or “Eliminate Stress Now!” most of us are, justifiably, skeptical. The challenge of changing human behavior for positive business outcomes is a similarly elusive pursuit. That’s why I was skeptical when I first encoutered BJ Fogg ’s Behavior Wizard.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Competition vs. Collaboration

The Performance Improvement Blog

In many organizations today we need less competition and more collaboration. Ron Ashkenas makes this case in a blog post for HBR titled, Learning Not to Compete. He gives examples of organizations in which collaboration, not competition, has become the way to success. He writes: As organizations have become more global and more reliant on cross-functional processes, teamwork and collaboration are increasingly becoming the currency of success.

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Adobe FrameMaker versus Microsoft Word

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

I use FrameMaker as the main authoring tool when I write my skills & drills books. I am often asked why FrameMaker is the better choice over Word. While Word is great for word processing, nothing touches FrameMaker when it comes to creating technical documentation. Chris King of RIMS, Inc. has put together a great document that compares FrameMaker to Word.

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A Text-Book App for Facebook well…mostly for iPad

Kapp Notes

Kno (pronounced “Know&# ) is a company that produces an application to for digital text books for downloading onto iPads, eReaders, the web and now for Facebook. The application allows you to Highlight any text on a page. Zoom in on any picture by double-tapping (iPad only).Create stickies for a highlight or any page. Preview any page from an entire book (iPad only.

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My Twitter Weekly Links Digest for 2011-08-07

Jane Hart

RT @ bigthink : Is 16th Century Teaching the Future of Education? [link] #. The limits to what you can learn online or alone [link] (HT @ GautamGhosh ) #. Sharepocalypse Now [link] via @ mashable <Exactly! #. Thanks for sharing great news! [link] @ bschlenker , @ moehlert & @ mashable #. RT @ mashable Chrome Overtakes Firefox to Become UK's Second Most Popular Browser [link] #. "New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures" [link] (via @ frankcalberg , @ aross

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Buy Every Learner an iPad? – NOT!

Web Courseworks

I wanted to take a moment to recap the happenings at last week’s UW Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, WI. My week started by appearing on a panel in front of 180 first-time conference attendees. My platform was encouraging distance educators to not get hung up with technical bureaucracy and silos that create [.].

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Recent changes patroller

E-Learning Provocateur

Apologies in advance to the good folk who toil altruistically to mop up Wikipedia for the rest of us.

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Final 2011 Learning in 3D Class

Kapp Notes

It was a great but quick summer semester for Learning in 3D. The last class we took a tour of some well known Second Life locations and discussed the educational implications while sitting around a camp fire. So the final questions are: What is the potential of 3D virtual immersive environments for learning? How far off do you think we are from wide spread adoption of 3D virtual worlds for learning?

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My Twitter Weekly Links Digest for 2011-08-07

Jane Hart

RT @ bigthink : Is 16th Century Teaching the Future of Education? [link] #. The limits to what you can learn online or alone [link] (HT @ GautamGhosh ) #. Sharepocalypse Now [link] via @ mashable <Exactly! #. RT @ mashable Chrome Overtakes Firefox to Become UK’s Second Most Popular Browser [link] #. “New Service From Harvard Aims to Replace Classroom Lectures&# [link] (via @ frankcalberg , @ arossett & @ alc47 ) #.

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Decision Tree: Should You Let Your Employees Work From Home?

Mindflash

Today, many companies offer their employees the option to work from home, even if they live relatively close to the office. But common sense tells us that for some employees, this may not be the best option. As you can imagine, some unsupervised employees would sooner fill their day playing World of Warcraft than actually working. This decision tree will help you decide if you should let your employees work remotely, or if they should be required to work in-house.

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Capturing Video from Your Tablet

TechSmith Camtasia

Hi everyone, my name is Kelly and I'll be your guest blogger for today! Recently, I read a feature request in our online discussion community asking TechSmith to develop a Camtasia-like product for capturing tablet video. This got me to thinking of a few things: Most tablets have a way to push video out from the device (either directly through HDMI on many Android tablets, or through the use of an adapter with the iPad).

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Feed My Fish Please

KnowledgeStar

Place and click your mouse anywhere in the pond to leave food … Watch the fish learn. Advertisement.

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Adobe eLearning Master Class: Cathy Moore on Saving the World from Boring eLearning

Adobe Captivate

I’m thrilled to share with you all that early next month I’ll be hosting another Master Class; Adobe eLearning Master Class: Cathy Moore chats with Allen Partridge on Saving the World from Boring eLearning. The session is scheduled for September 07, 2011 from 8-9 AM US Pacific time. Award-winning instructional designer, Cathy Moore will sit [.].

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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Practical Ways to Design Social Media Into Your Training Programs

Mindflash

There is a lot of talk about using social media in training or about social learning in the workplace, but frankly there is not a lot of action. There are many reasons for this inaction, but anyone who has worked in an organization knows there is an incredible amount of inertia keeping things the way they have always been done. Learning experience designers need to break free from the gravitational pull of “we have always done it this way&# and try something new.

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Thank You ScreencastCamp Supporters.

TechSmith Camtasia

We're just a few days away from the first ever ScreencastCamp. There are still some spots left if you'd like to attend - register here. And, the price is right - it is free to attend! Come make history with us! Several companies have generously sent some great items for ScreencastCamp attendees to use this weekend. And, a few lucky Campers will get to take some items home as prizes!

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Product or process?

Learning with e's

Picture the scene. You walk into the reception area of your local primary school and you see the wonderful displays of artwork created by the children. There are paintings and drawings, and there are mobiles and models made from cardboard, silver paper and other materials, all resplendent in their vibrant colours. It is a bright celebration of learning and it showcases the creative talents of the children.