Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties by Jon on May 11, 2011 in Informal Learning , Social Media , social learning While everyone seems to be expounding with great awe about the speed of change on the internet – especially the uptake of social media technologies like Facebook – it is interesting to note that there are really two factors being discussed: 1) The social

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Upside Learning

MAY 11, 2011

We’ve known this all along that Open Source is never cheap, leave alone free. We keep meeting prospects who are considering Moodle as their first LMS. The reason they say – it’s free or at best, comes at a low cost. The problem we find with it is that it’s often not a well researched decision and many of these clients may have to review their decision at a later stage.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 9, 2011

Accessibility Resources. Resources on Section 508 and WCAG accessibility, including a tutorial on 508 and a comparison of 508 vs. WCAG. tags: accessibility webdesign section508 WCAG. Online Education for Instructional Designers: Picking the Right Program by Lorna Collier : Learning Solutions Magazine. Learning Solutions Magazine article on online education programs for instructional designers.

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Jane Hart

MAY 12, 2011

Tweet I recently launched Share&Learn – a new collaboration platform where members can share links, resources, ideas, experiences, tips, etc about the use of learning and performance trends, technologies and tools, in order to learn from one another – both informally and formally. Anyone can become a member! What makes Share&Learn different?

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ by Andrea on May 9, 2011 in performance support Each month, Tony Karrer at The Learning Circuits Blog posts a “Big Question&# for the learning and development community (Twitter hashtag #LCBQ).

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Upside Learning

MAY 13, 2011

From transforming a classroom course to an online format to globalizing eLearning for a global audience to implementing QR codes in classroom, and more. We have covered it all here in our Weekly Digest – a collection of our top 9 links from the week gone by, each accompanied by a quick brief. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 8, 2011

by AJ George.   Have you ever been frustrated by an inability to trim audio in PowerPoint? Let's say you followed my instructions on how to play two songs sequentially in your PowerPoint presentation. The first track was 2 minutes long, but you trimmed it down to 15 seconds and set it to play across slides. Perhaps your plan was to play the first track when the presentation started, move to the second slide, let the track end and then have the second track start.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 13, 2011

Recently I have written a series of post on how to bring E-learning to the workplace. This week I was the keynote speaker at a seminar for companies that are considering to start with e-Learning or do more with e-Learning. I used this opportunity to bring these separate steps together in one comprehensive story. I include the part of my presentation in this post that explains the what and how: View this document on Scribd.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

MAY 11, 2011

This is a blogpost written for a half-day workshop for facilitators with Sibrenne Wagenaar. We thought of starting with a blogpost because it helps us think about the topic of the workshop, it is a light way of starting online, and it gives the chance for others to look over our shoulders (and give tips?). More and more often we meet trainers and facilitators who are working mainly face-to-face and would like to use the opportunity of social media to facilitate more online because it may enhance

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Upside Learning

MAY 9, 2011

Mobile Learning seemed to be the flavor of the past month at our blogging stable. I wrote about the key points to be remembered while deciding the target device for mobile learning, while we had a quick SWOT analysis conducted by Amit Gautam. Amongst others were articles on digital natives, Lego and creativity, multitasking etc. Without further delay, let’s get on to our collection of the top 7 posts for April, each accompanied by a quick brief. 1.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 10, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. During my Advanced Captivate class , we spend quite a bit of time creating a project template from scratch. Templates are simple enough to create via File > New Project > Project Template. Once you have created the blank template, you would go through the process of adding placeholders , master slides, object styles, actions and anything else you think you'll need in projects that would use the template.

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Jane Hart

MAY 13, 2011

Tweet. This is a guest post by Nic Laycock, Managing Director of Amos Laycock Consulting. Nic is actively engaged in interpreting the social media and social learning environments for clients. He assists them in their transformation to collaborative networked wierarchies. Nic blogs at Nic’s Discoveries and tweets at @alc47. “Since it was started in March I have been active in Jane Hart’s highly successful Social Learning Community which now has over 700 members drawn globally from

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MAY 12, 2011

Organizational culture affects the quality of decisions that are made by people who work in those environments. No place is this as obvious and as critical (life and death decisions) then in a hospital. Theresa Brown, oncology nurse and author, writes about the impact of hospital culture in a blog post titled, "Physician, Heel Thyself". She describes a recent situation in which a doctor blamed her for slow test results in front of a patient and how that kind of "bullying" is detrimental to patie

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Kapp Notes

MAY 12, 2011

In the introduction to the event, they announced a number of cool innovations. This year they announced EduM Mobile Learning Envionment, with iPad enabled training and announced more about how they partnered with The Phoenix Group to create exciting portals feature rich, interactive web experiences. They also spoke more about explaining what they are doing with the 3D virtual world vendor ProtonMedia which provides a highly interactive 3D environment focused on solving business needs in the life

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 12, 2011

Adobe recently announced the immediate availability of an update for RoboHelp 9. The update, version 9.0.1 , fixes several bugs and is available by choosing Help > Update from within RoboHelp. Click here to learn about the specific fixes. You can also download the update directly from the RoboHelp Support Center.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 9, 2011

The question at the Learning circuits blog in May is: How do we need to change in what we do in order to address learning/performance needs that are on-demand? My answer is context, context, context! I think that we as e-Learning professionals should change our game drastically. Our innovation lacks behind if we compare it to the development of the internet.

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mLearning Revolution

MAY 9, 2011

'UPDATE. In case you missed this eSeminar, the recording is now available here: [link]. This week I’m hosting a webinar on how to use our free Adobe cloud (i.e. Acrobat.com) with Adobe Captivate 5 as a lightweight Learning Management System (LMS) for publishing and tracking Learners’ Quiz Results. The functionality is included in Captivate 5 out-of-the-box and the cloud service doesn’t cost anything to you, or the Learners.

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Personal Learning

Kapp Notes

MAY 9, 2011

One of the great things about my travels is that I get to speak with all kinds of interesting folks who are thinking about learning is new and innovative ways. Here is a summary of a great conversation I had with Reuben Tozman who I met one night at a conference (actually, we weren’t at the conference venue we were out getting a bite to eat and something to drink).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 12, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. You are writing step-by-step instructions for an on-screen process. You need to get your learner to each tool quickly, but you also want the learner to remember that tool and where it is. Do you start with the name of the specific tool, and then tell where to find it? Or do you lead the learner to the tool by starting with the location, then the tool?

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 11, 2011

I have read the book ‘ Behind the cloud ‘ by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce and I liked it a lot. He describes in 111 plays how Salesforces grew from idea to billion dollar company. For me as the CEO of a company that offers a Saas solution it is interesting reading. Surprisingly the most interesting parts where not about Software as a Service, but about marketing.

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Integrated Learnings

MAY 11, 2011

By Shelley A. Gable. Most instructional design models (and several posts on this blog) state the need for on-the-job reinforcement of newly learned skills from training. Examples of reinforcement include (but are certainly not limited to): Partnering with managers to set goals and coach Holding people accountable for stated expectations for using new skills Celebrating and recognizing successes Sharing success stories Incorporating key skills into monitoring processes and performance measures.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 13, 2011

Everyone had a great time last night, we went on a cruise and today we are going to have a keynote by WIRED editor Thomas Goetz. He spoke on the topic of “How to Get better at anything&# Thomas Goetz making a point about technology. He opened with a great story about Coach John Wooden. He said the coach was carefully studied and they found out that the coach would provide targeted directives rather than praise or criticisms to improve his player’s performance.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 12, 2011

If you've published EXE files using Adobe Captivate 5, the EXEs might not open on machines that do not have Adobe Captivate 5. Instead, learners might see the following message: "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem." Click here for the fix.

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Jane Hart

MAY 9, 2011

Five Best Apps to Send Group Text Messages on the Cheap [link] #. 42 Fresh Facts About Twitter & Facebook… | Bit Rebels [link] via @ bitrebels #. Challenging the status quo from @ hjarche [link] #. Social Media Interaction Pattern Library – how people interact with social media [link] #. The story of myThoughtWorks – A social intranet: [link] #. 2011 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award Up to 6 prizes to be won by teams & indivs – closing date Thurs 26 May [link]

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 10, 2011

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Kapp Notes

MAY 10, 2011

E-learning courses seldom, if ever, have any surprises. The learner always knows where to click, what to do next and how many screens until the end. Nothing random occurs in an e-learning course, not on purpose anyway. The Game Adventure. Did it have the first video game Easter Egg? But look at a distant cousin of e-learning and you’ll see randomness and surprises everywhere.

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Mindflash

MAY 12, 2011

It’s a perilous and sometimes chaotic world inside the mind of a sales manager. Take a journey from the “negotiation node&# to the “training video ganglion&# and see just what it takes to master the art of the sale. (Click image to enlarge).

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Jane Hart

MAY 8, 2011

@mauilibrarian2 It is already set up at [link] Remember that is digest of tweets of those that I follow #. 10 Educational History Podcasts To Subscribe & Listen To [link] via @ makeuseof #. The C4LPT Daily is out! [link] #. Streams Are A Better Place To Talk About Work Than Email [link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools.

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