The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. You can create the best-looking, most well-written eLearning lesson anyone has ever seen. But for the lesson to be effective, one of the most important things to keep in mind is that more does not mean better. If your lesson plays too long, you run the risk of losing the attention span of your learner and lowering the effectiveness of the lesson in general.   So how long is too long?

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MARCH 2, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Renewed Importance of EHR Training – Meaningful Use Incentives by Jim on March 3, 2011 in EHR Training Since the beginning of last year’s health care debate, we’ve all been hearing a lot about Electronic Health Records (EHR), and the promise they hold for saving money and improving patient outcomes.

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eLearning Weekly

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

What are the skills you need to land an elearning job? Working in elearning taps into many skill sets. Designing or developing elearning requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. I focus here on what I think are the top skills for elearning now, in 2011. These are skills that will show up on job descriptions where they list job criteria, requirements or experience.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 4, 2011

While not all games have a story narrative behind them, storytelling is an essential part of the gamificaiton of learning and instruction. Simple games like tic-tac-toe are not guided by a story. Neither are games like hide and seek, freeze tag or word searches. But a surprising number of simple games have more story behind them than you may think. Chess uses terms like knight, king and bishop to evoke a backstory of two warring factions, the kid’s game Capture the Flag has a similar underlying

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Decision-making scenarios work best when they require realistic decisions and avoid preaching. Let’s look at some examples. Not a real on-the-job decision. Carla, a sales person, is meeting with Amit, a new customer. She shows him a megawidget. “You’ll love this megawidget,&# Carla says. “I don’t want a megawidget,&# Amit says. “I came in here for a microwidget.&#.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 4, 2011

The Conference for Software Users Assistance. March 13-16, 2011 | Long Beach, CA. I will be leading two sessions at the Conference for Software User Assistance. The focus of this conference is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces as well as helpful and accessible support information.

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Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Recently I have reviewed a lot of e-Learning courses to get ideas for our further product development of easygenerator. One of the things I noticed was that learning objectives often play a secondary role or no role at all. Most of the time they are only anchors to attach scores to, so you can measure if somebody has successfully completed your course.

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Making Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Decision-making scenarios work best when they require realistic decisions and avoid preaching. Let’s look at some examples. Not a real on-the-job decision. Carla, a sales person, is meeting with Amit, a new customer. She shows him a megawidget. “You’ll love this megawidget,&# Carla says. “I don’t want a megawidget,&# Amit says. “I came in here for a microwidget.&#.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 3, 2011

For those of you who have been waiting for the eBook version of my Social Learning Handbook, you will be pleased to note that it is now available. This book is intended for Workplace Learning Professionals and in Part 1 considers the emergence of social media, its impact on workplace learning, the range of [.].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 2, 2011

by AJ George.   I have written a few articles on how to get online videos (like YouTube) into PowerPoint presentations (links below).   PowerPoint 2007 (with internet).    PowerPoint 2007 (without internet).   PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac.   PowerPoint 2010. I have previously recommended using www.mediaconverter.org for video conversion.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

The question of the month #LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning and performance support initiatives have the desired impact or if they achieve the desired results? All these terms have one common denominator; they all are non-formal learning activities and processes. And managers (being one myself for more than a decade) tend to get nervous by these kind of activities.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 2, 2011

To many, the difference between a game and play is the introduction of a goal. Sure, you and your friends can casually splash around the pool and swim a few laps but when someone says “I bet I can beat you to the other end of the pool&# suddenly play time is over and a game has been formed. Image from Dragons Lair laserdisc video game published by Cinematronics in 1983.

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Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

This is the 5th year I am building a Top 100 Tools for Learning. As in previous years, this list is compiled from the Top 10 Tools contributions of learning professionals worldwide (teachers, educators, instructional/learning designers, trainers, analysts, consultants etc). At the time of writing this posting there have already been 60 contributions and the [.].

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Upside Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

Who doesn’t like to know about the future? Who wouldn’t want to know about the future predictions? Astrologers mint money with it, forecasters raise hopes by predicting trends and we – we like to align our plans based on these. So here’s to the future. Know how work would shape up in the future, major ideas that would change the world of training and how learning would soon turn mobile.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 1, 2011

Several weeks ago, I deposited a cheque for £122 into my local bank account, but it was paid in as $122. Anyone familiar with the foreign exchange rate will know this left me out of pocket. So the next day I went back to the bank, and I was lucky enough to speak to the original teller who had processed the cheque. He assured me that he would fix it, and he’d call me when he was done.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I was looking for some resources on Gamification and found a talk by Sabastian Deterding who presented a fasinating and thought provoking Google Talk called “Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right&#. He makes a few excellent points about Gamification: 1) Having a make-believe story wrapped around an experience and adding rules and challenges to make an experience more interesting. 2) Setting goals and having feedback. 3) Having a free, safe play space and shared toy objects that can b

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Jane Hart

MARCH 2, 2011

Skype in the classroom is a free online directory for teachers everywhere who want to use Skype to bring education to life. Skype in the classroom brings together a community of people and information to save teachers time and help them make the most of Skype and the international teaching community. Teachers create a profile [.].

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 3, 2011

by Jennie Ruby If you have been confused by the use of the word inflammable , you are not alone. Confusion over this word has been around probably for as long as the word has been used in English, and especially since its synonym flammable has become widely used. The trouble is the prefix "in-." Usually, putting in- on the front of a word changes the word to a negative: correct/incorrect.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 4, 2011

I’m a big LinkedIn fan, I take part in groups and discussions, use it as my homepage on the web, network through it, have a premium account et cetera. LinkedIn recently added a new feature: the Inmaps. It’s a graphical representation of your LinkedIn network. The first few times I tried to generated it crashed, but they did some rework and in the end it worked, although it took a long time (a few days).

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Web Courseworks

MARCH 1, 2011

The extremely popular Learning Solutions Conference & Expo is quickly approaching us this month, so I thought I’d take a moment to mention a few things about the conference and give a sneak preview of my presentation that I will be giving on March 23 rd at 10:45am entitled, “ Micro-collaboration: Team Sharing to Build Highly Interactive Activities. ” If you are not already registered to attend this event, I recommend looking into it.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 1, 2011

You can’t declare it’s a game, your learners will tell you if it is or not. I admit I occasionally play a computer game. (Actually, I play solitaire a lot, as a way to add just the right cognitive overhead when I listen in on a conference call so that I listen better.) And I found a game for my iPad that I really liked. It’s a casual gamer, so that while it has a story, I can play it in bits and pieces and make my way through without having to get too crazy about learning tim

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 2, 2011

by Kevin Siegel. Last week I wrote about what to do when menu items, which are supposed to be listed in a menu, have gone missing. This week I'd like to continue the theme and lower your stress level at the same time. During my RoboHelp classes I'll ask students to select menu items from RoboHelp's various menus. One of the most common things I'll hear from students is that they can't find the menu item in question.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 1, 2011

In Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg and at the Black Rhino Reserve February was a good month for me. I’ve just returned from a week working with a client in South Africa followed by a weekend on a game reserve. It was both a fabulous personal and professional experience. If you haven’t seen the pictures I [.].

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Learning Visions

MARCH 3, 2011

Totara is now available for your hands-on demoing pleasure. What is Totara? Why it's a custom distribution of Moodle, specifically geared the corporate sector with learning plans, detailed reporting and classroom management, among other useful features. And did I mention that it's open source? Check the demo out here: https://demo.totaralms.com/.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 3, 2011

Time is an element that has many dimensions as it relates to instructional game design and game play. Dude's running out of time to do tricks on skateboard. The most obvious is to use time as a motivator for player activity and action. As soon as that timer appears in the upper corner of an instructional video game screen and starts to count down (or in some cases up), it raises the stress level and motivates action.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

I have written about the power of visioning in recent blog posts. Gino Wickman, in his book, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business , explains in a very practical way, how entrepreneurs can turn a vision into reality in their businesses. Wickman’s book is like a manual for doing very useful strategic planning; not the kind that is handed down from on high or is one more document collecting dust on the shelf.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 4, 2011

I receive lots of emails from individuals as well as companies who have set up new e- or social learning businesses or produced new (or updated versions of) products/tools for education or workplace learning. Unfortunately, I am not always able to review them all individually, but today I thought I would briefly mention five different [.

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eLearning Brothers

MARCH 1, 2011

Color impacts your courses and your learners. Choosing the “correct&# colors can hinder or increase the speed of learning and retention. Colors can affect mood, have different meanings in various cultures, and bring immediate things to our minds. Here is a quick summary of each color’s psychological effect. Red is a stimulant and can evoke passion and excitement.

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