Upside Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Last month our ID team got their feet wet with the learning campaigns in the Age of Empires II – Age of Kings. I’d recommended that all IDs play the game for a few hours to understand how different ‘gamey’ elements are from the conventional ‘interaction’ we use in conventional courseware. It was quite amazing to see Furrowed brows, a disinclination for conversation, intolerance for interruptions, and a general reluctance to stop playing at the end of the day; they were engrossed in the game-play

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 21, 2010

by AJ George. If you have tried to print handouts in PowerPoint 2010 that include the slide notes, you may have noticed a bit of a shortcoming. You can print handouts with multiple slides per page, or you can print handouts that include the notes. However, there is no way to combine these features and print handouts with notes and get more than one slide per page.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 20, 2010

This post is part of the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me. The other posts are: Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality , Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech , Using Text-to-Speech in an eLearning Course , Text-to-Speech eLearning Tools - Integrated Products , and seeming the most popular of the series so far: Text-to-Speech vs Human Narration for eLearning.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 18, 2010

All jokes aside (“I’m no grown up!” or “I’m still trying to figure that out…”), take a step back in time. I’m thinking back to that early teenage-young adulthood time when you were (perhaps) starting to get a sense of yourself and your aptitudes and hopes and dreams and schemes. What did you see yourself doing as an adult? What did you want to be? I’m putting this question out to the vast group of people who make up the eLearning profession – be you an instructional designer, an LMS administrato

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2010

How much does one hour of Level 2 elearning cost? and what about Level 3? If you have been involved with custom eLearning development you have either asked these questions yourself or have been asked these by a client. The concept of ‘ levels ’ of custom eLearning development is a commonly used standard matrix for comparing vendors; sadly, this is a much abused concept too.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Marcia Conner & Tony Bingham’s book The New Social Learning is, quite simply, a must-read if you are in either responsible for learning in, or running, a business. In short, eloquent, and yet highly readable chapters, they cover both the natural ways we learn, and how the new technologies both support and enhance these capabilities. The focus is clearly on organizational success.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 18, 2010

by Kevin Siegel. Wouldn't it be great if you could provide your learners with an opportunity to continue working with their eLearning lesson from the point where they left off? I'm thinking that a message similar to the following would be perfect: Believe it or not, you can add the message shown above to any Captivate project right now. All you need to do is add a Table of Contents to your project and explore the TOC Settings.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you know Kineo, you know we’ve been talking up Moodle for a number of years. To date we’ve implemented somewhere in the range of 80-90 Moodles for corporate clients. And now we’ve got something totarry cool to announce. I mean totally cool… …the formation of a joint venture company to develop a distribute a version of the Moodle Learning Management System for the corporate sector.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Recently, there has been a lot of calls for the death of PowerPoint especially from the US Army. From We’ve Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint where the article discusses perhaps the worlds most challenging PowerPoint slide. Complicated slide explaining inter-relationships, hard to read. The article states: Commanders say that the slides impart less information than a five-page paper can hold, and that they relieve the briefer of the need to polish writing to convey an analytic, persuasive

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2010

In many ways, it can seem like we revisit the same old ideas again and again. I’ve ranged over design, social, games, mobile, strategy and more in many different ways. I try to write when there are new ideas, but many times the same themes are reviewed, albeit extended. This might seem tiresome (more so, perhaps, to me than you :), but there’s value in it.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Companies must start shifting their focus from downsizing to worker retention, so says Jon Picoult in a N.Y. Times article. He writes, “A turnover storm is looming, and most businesses are ill prepared for it.” I agree and have blogged about this issue previously. Retention will become a serious problem for any company seeking high performance. As soon as the economy starts to improve substantially, many of the best employees will choose to leave organizations that have gone through cut-backs an

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Kineo, Articulate and ARAMARK will be facilitating a free workshop on rapid e-learning for the enterprise on November 9th & 10th in Philadelphia and New York. Liviu Dedes of ARAMARK will discuss how they’ve been implementing rapid eLearning at ARAMARK. Mark Harrison of Kineo talks about Learning Models. Cammy Bean (that’s me!) shares tips about writing for eLearning.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 21, 2010

There are many creative ways to leverage virtual world platforms from conducting job interviews over a distance to conducting training on critical incidents to machinima to teaching new military recruits. And here is another useful application. Teaching people how to drive. If you are like me, you are amazed at how bad a driver everyone else seems to be!

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I read the book Switch some time ago. Change management is definitely one of my favorite fields! Even though I am now not using the field as consciously as when I was guiding organisational change trajectories, I feel when I work on introducing social media I may apply it too and could improve. But maybe I already do it unconsciously based on my experiences.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 21, 2010

by Jennie Ruby Teaching or writing training materials can sometimes feel like making students memorize a rulebook: "Never place a comma between the subject and the verb." "The verb must match the subject in person and in number." And so on. When teaching grammar, for example, I can sometimes hear myself sounding like a soccer coach teaching beginning soccer: "The game starts with a kick-off.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I haven't written a post in a long while.not because nothing was happening but because too many things were happening. Moreover, my topic of passion, Collaborative Learning in the Workplace , has plenty of thought-leaders writing about it, and I haven't felt that I had anything new to add. I have been reading, synthesizing, creating my own little PKM and left it at that.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Question: What can we do with mobile learning and smartphones? Terry McGinnis as The Batman. Answer: One application is that smartphones enable the concept of a Virtual Mentor to be employed to assist in a variety of settings. A virtual mentor is a live person who provides assistance to one or more individuals who are “on the ground” at a customer site working on a problem.

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eFront

OCTOBER 17, 2010

eFront News from the e-learning frontier 10/17/2010 Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I always was fun of open source software. Why? The answer is simple. Because I could use them as I wish, for whatever I wish, without long-term commitments and with the extra bonus of a community of professionals that use, extend and support them.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Mastering Track Changes in Word 2007. Track changes can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Make sure this powerful tool is on YOUR side.   In this half-day class, you will learn how to. Mark up a document with Track Changes. Compare two versions of a document. Combine multiple reviewers' comments. Change the formatting of tracked changes and balloons.

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Mindflash

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Continuing the recent trend of PowerPoint in the news , I stumbled upon an article in USA Today that provided some tips and advice for designing more engaging presentations. While the advice was good, for me, more dos and don’ts aren’t really helpful. Having moved beyond the basics, I’m looking for cool techniques and new tools to augment my PowerPoint designs and help me take them from good to great.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Yesterday, Philip Linden (AKA: Philip Rosedale ) stepped down as CEO of Linden Labs (yes again). He has done this before and then come back. He is staying on the board but not running day-to-day operations. Here is what he wrote on the Second Life blog. You can find the original here. After about four months as interim CEO, working closely with Bob Komin, the management team, and the board, we’ve decided we are ready to start the search for a new CEO.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Have you ever used Adobe Captivate widgets? Widgets can enhance the type of content you can create with Adobe Captivate. You can leverage the complete capabilities of Adobe Flash via widgets. Once created, widgets can be used any number of times just like any other Captivate object. This really helps in creating engaging rapid elearning [.]. Tags: Extending Captivate How do I.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 18, 2010

by David R. Mankin     Some things in life just get better with time. As a regular Acrobat user since version 2, I can tell you with great confidence that Acrobat 9 is better than Acrobat 8, which was better than Acrobat 7, etc.     Improvements and tweaks (and repair patches) are a constant component of the software industry.

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Mindflash

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Some food for thought: Is your training path full of traffic lights? Before you answer that, check out the following video from Rogert Ebert’s blog for the Chicago Sun Times. The question posed by the video: Does turning off traffic lights speed up traffic? Did you notice the reactions of the locals? I found it remarkable how stunned they were about the ability of motorists to navigate the intersection in an orderly fashion.

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Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I like syncing services like Dropbox because I can keep my files synced across multiple computers. And, if you’re an elearning developer or freelancers, Dropbox makes sharing files with your customers super easy. In fact, the community team here at Articulate uses it for all of our collaboration and file sharing. One of the challenges with Dropbox is that it requires the other person to download and install the Dropbox application.

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LearningGuild

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Social media and social learning are attracting a lot of attention, but don’t overlook the fact that it’s. not the technology that makes them effective. Here are the eight ingredients you need to make social. learning successful. Tags: Design Strategies Management Strategies Social Media.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 20, 2010

by David R. Mankin     Many Acrobat users also work with some of Adobe's other amazing products. For example, I use Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat nearly every day.   One of the nice Photoshop features that I have grown to rely on is the Navigator, a miniature window of the currently active file. I can use the Navigator to move around to different regions of the Photoshop page, and change magnification, all without having to switch over to the Zoom tool or Hand tool. �

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Learning with e's

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I'm at Colchester Institute on Friday to present a workshop entitled: Communities, Spaces and Pedagogies for the Digital Age. It's for a Learning and Teaching development day the Institute is holding where they will explore the theme of Transformational Learning and Teaching. I have spoken several times on transformation learning, and a few years ago actually brought out a book about the transformational power of ICT in education.

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