Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 5, 2011

E.gg Timer – simple online countdown timer. Type a time and it starts a timer in your browser window. Useful for showing break times in online synchronous training. You can bookmark a specific URL for a time if you regularly use the same length of time. tags: tools productivity. Creating Accessible Flash Course – Course Introduction – 1 of 7. Free resource on how to create accessible content using Flash, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. tags: flash captivate section508 accessibi

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mLearning Revolution

JUNE 9, 2011

'I’ll keep this introduction short and to the point and get to the video quickly. One of my favorite new features in Adobe Captivate 5.5 is publishing to YouTube. However before you hit the new YouTube button in the toolbar, I recommend you watch this short video where I share some best practices for you to consider, in order to get the most out of this feature.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2011

One of the perks of being involved in a sales role is the interesting and enriching conversations with clients and prospects. I find such interactions extremely rewarding as they give an insight into whatthe real customer demands are and what we need to focus on. It also helps in creating material that educates customers and addresses their needs in a more organized fashion.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 9, 2011

Once again, hats of to Chris St. John and the group for a wonderful conference at George Mason University. The Innovations in E-Learning Symposium is really a top notch conference, small, intimate but with great attendees and speakers and I really like how both industry old timers (like me) and Ph.D. candidates both get a chance at the podium, good mix of professionals in our field.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

Participants rated the management training program 4.3 on a five-point scale. Sixty percent said that they have applied the training to their work. What do we know about effectiveness of the program? Not much. We cannot determine from this data if the management training program made a difference for the organization. If it didn't make a difference, there is little reason to continue to offer the program to managers in the same form.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 6, 2011

Those of you who visit the Social Learning Blog frequently will know by now that I’ve been on something of a “games-in-learning” kick for a while. One major reason, of course, is that games represent one of the cutting-edge aspects of our industry, and our blog seeks to explore anything that’s new and exciting. Another reason, though – and this coincidentally helps to explain the appeal of games to learners in the first place – is that it’s such a fun topic to write about.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 7, 2011

I spent most of my time at ASTD ICE on the Expo floor. Our booth was in eLearning Alley – along with Allen Interactions, Articulate and the eLearning Brothers. There were a lot of new authoring tools on the show floor this year. Here’s a quick run down on the tools I checked out and some of the buzz: Articulate Storyline Tom Kuhlmann and Dave Anderson of Articulate were showing off their new tool, Storyline, which goes into beta this summer.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2011

Tweet. I’m getting unundated with blog spam on this WordPress blog although Ido have an anti-spam plugin in place. I am going to have to close posts for comments temporarily whilst I sort it out. I’m sure this question has been asked many, many times before, but if anyone can recommend a really effective, free, anti-spam plugin for WordPress, please let me know.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 7, 2011

by Kevin Siegel One of the shortcomings with working with objects in Adobe Captivate has always been the inability to control the rotation of a selected object. Beginning with Captivate 5, you could flip or rotate an image via the Properties panel. In fact, there are four tools in Captivate 5 and 5.5 allowing you to flip an image horizontally or vertically, as well as rotate right or left.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 7, 2011

How do we break down organizational walls when it comes to learning? That’s the Learning Circuits Big Question for the month of June. I’ve thought about this question off and on for about a week now, and it is time to put pen to paper, or rather hands to keyboard. As I considered this question, my thoughts kept returning to two of my long-term clients.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 9, 2011

I’m really proud and honored to have a feature article in the current online view of eLearn Magazine: “Clicky-clicky bling-bling (CCBB) is elearning with lots of whizz and bang and clicking in an attempt to add pizzazz to dry content and to make it more engaging.” Read the article here: Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling (Part 1) Look for part 2 coming soon.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 6, 2011

The Serious Play Conference, taking place August 23-25 at DigiPen Institute of Technology, has announced the International Serious Play Awards , a program to recognize and certify exemplary products for training or learning in the education, corporate, government/military, healthcare and consumer markets. In addition to being eligible for the competition, all titles entered into the 2011 Awards Program will be eligible for Serious Play Certification.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 9, 2011

by Jennie Ruby. The results of last week's redundancy contest were astonishing. We received several replies, all of them excellent improvements on the original redundant (and wordy) example. To judge the contest, we had to be brutal.   Contestants were asked to send in a list of the redundancies in the following paragraph, along with a rewrite:   You walk up to an ATM machine and enter your PIN number.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 10, 2011

. For the last couple of summers I’ve played in an “over 40” adult soccer league. Last summer, I scored my first and only goal. It’s not that I’m skilled by any means; I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time and had the presence of mind to aim and kick toward the goal. Unfortunately, the rest of the time I run around the field like a chicken with my head cut off (a metaphor that I can picture all too well after spending summer days as a youth on my aunt’s farm).

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 8, 2011

Chris Dede opened the Innovations in eLearning keynote with a speech that very much resonated with me and reflected things I’ve been blogging about here since Learnlets started, but has had the opportunity to build. His closing comment is intriguing: “infrastructures shape civilization&#. He talked about teaching skills to deal with wicked problems and developing new literacies, using MultiUser Virtual Environments.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 7, 2011

One evening you sit down to play a game and you become so involved, you lose all track of time, you are finding and defeating the bad guys effortlessly, you are easily finding the clues and you are engaged in the challenge. As you play, you are nervous but confident that you can move forward and achieve the goal of this level. Nothing is going to stop you.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 9, 2011

Question: I'm a certified Captivate trainer who uses your books when I teach. Now that Adobe has officially released Captivate version 5.5, will you be updating your books to include the new features? Answer:  The new features in Captivate 5.5 are wonderful, but there are only a handful of them. The interface between Captivate 5 and 5.5 is nearly identical (with the exception of some additional groups on the Properties panel, a few extra menu items, and the renaming of some items

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Jane Hart

JUNE 7, 2011

Tweet. Spking at # BILD2011 conf [link] Thurs on the importance of informal & social learning in the wkplace # realwplearn #. The C4LPT Daily is out! [link] #. How to cook breakfast on your iPad [link] We need more "learning experiences" like this! # realwplearn #. C4LPT Tweeted Times [link] – top stories by @ TweetSmarter , @ jeffbullas , @ rossdawson #.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 8, 2011

“Every time a Google +1 button is clicked, an angel gets its wings.” Because Brent Schlenker did it, I decided I needed a Google +1 button as well. What is it? Well, we think it’s sort of like the Facebook Like button. You can now see it on the bottom of every post here on my blog. And you click on it. And then the numbers start to add up. What do we do with this information?

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2011

This video makes a powerful argument against all the crazy budget cuts forced upon our educational systems…at all levels.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 9, 2011

Question: I like Verdana but I have no idea why or if there is a justifiable reason why one should use Verdana over another sans serif like Arial. The government discusses the issue in the guide here. They make no distinction for web designers only that you should use a common font like Arial, Helvetica or Verdana. Do you folks have a defensible preference?

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2011

Tweet. Earlier today I wrote that I was having problems with spam on my WordPress blog. I omitted to say it was on my own hosted site not on WordPress.com. I have now received a number of suggestions for dealing with the spam, so I’m trying one of them out right now – and consequently comments are now back on. Thanks to all those who responded to my request for help.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 7, 2011

Craig Bunyea has been nominated as Best eLearning Developer in theMaestroeLearningAwards [[link] dubbed the OSCARS of the eLearning industry. What follows is an interview between Craig and the award’s organizers,MaestroeLearning [[link].

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KnowledgeStar

JUNE 8, 2011

Onboarding is a dilemma. Your new hire has spent an incredible amount of time and energy moving from nervous candidate to excited employee. Onboarding seems to reverse the process and move the employee from excited back to nervous. New hires are naturally full of questions. What are the details of my compensation plan? What happens [.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 9, 2011

Captivate Question Received via Email: What Is the Minimum Requirement for Opening PDFs? I'm planning to use Captivate's ability to publish PDFs and deliver those PDFs to my users. What is the minimum Adobe Reader version my users will need to open the PDF? And will they also need the Flash Player? Answer: Your users will need the free Adobe Reader 9 or newer.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 5, 2011

Tweet. RT @ realwplearn : Blog post: THIS is What Social Learning Looks Like [link] # realwplearn #. Clinical learning in the open; the strengths of social media by @ amcunningham [link] # realwplearn #. New College of the Humanities (NCH), a new private British university is to open September 2012 , fm BBC News [link] #. Focusing on the social minus the media, fm the NYT [link] #.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 6, 2011

Looking for a great way to create scenarios and conversations in your course? Check out our latest product…Thought and Speech Bubbles! You get 300 different images in 6 different styles. The images all have transparent backgrounds and are ready to drop right into your course. (By the way, you also get the Illustrator files so that you can tweak them if you’d like.).

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 10, 2011

We received some great entries for our Les Paul Guitar Google Doodle screencast contest. And, I'm happy to announce the winner! I love, love, love Ellen Hinton's ( Ellen Once Again ) entry, " I'm Feeling Lucky "! She is our winner! Not only did Ellen create a fantastic screencast of the Google Doodle Les Paul guitar, but she also wrote her own lyrics and added more tracks in GarageBand.

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