Making Change
JULY 12, 2011
Branching scenarios can be a pain to design. Happily, you can use a simple tool called Twine to easily draft the scenario and produce it. In this post we’ll look at a scenario that I wrote to demonstrate Twine’s basic features and to make a point about teaching through stories. In the scenario, you’re a journalist in a hurry to get to a hot story in Zekostan, and your “guide&# can’t speak English or drive.
Upside Learning
JULY 12, 2011
Google Plus is making waves among technology savvy social networkers. Like so many other Google products, this one is in beta and is gradually opening up to more users. One unique aspect separates Plus from other Google services. Unlike Facebook or Twitter where one accesses the ‘firehose’ of data that one subscribes to and is dependent on the Friends/Following, and where users mostly use features like groups/lists etc to sort out noise from the stream, Plus uses a different approach
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Experiencing eLearning
JULY 10, 2011
Splitting recordings into separate tracks – Audacity Wiki. The method of labeling and using “Export multiple&# worked really well for creating audio for Captivate. tags: audacity audio howto. I Came, I Saw, I Learned…: Adobe Captivate 5: Make Quick Work Out of Adding Audio to a Project. Tips for streamlining the process of adding multiple audio files to Captivate. tags: e-learning captivate audio howto. elearn Archive: So you want to be an e-learning consultant… Harold Ja
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 12, 2011
How Many Accelerated Learning Phases Are There? In the training world, the optimum number seems to be “four.” There are four learning styles, four stages of competence, and a four-level evaluation model. There is also a four-phase learning cycle. There are different ways of thinking about the learning cycle and different numbers of phases. Some educators have proposed four phases, while others have proposed five or even six.
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Making Change
JULY 12, 2011
Branching scenarios can be a pain to design. Happily, you can use a simple tool called Twine to easily draft the scenario and produce it. In this post we’ll look at a scenario that I wrote to demonstrate Twine’s basic features and to make a point about teaching through stories. In the scenario, you’re a journalist in a hurry to get to a hot story in Zekostan, and your “guide&# can’t speak English or drive.
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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
JULY 15, 2011
Flash is a free cross-browser plug-in that allows interactive content to play on most browsers and computers.The sophisticated Flash development environment allows programmers and designers plenty of room for creativity. No wonder then, a lot of e-learning is built using Flash. If you are considering the on-going use of Flash for developing e-learning, here are seven traps to avoid. 7.
Integrated Learnings
JULY 13, 2011
By Shelley A. Gable. We know that meaningful images provide a memorable and efficient way to learn information. Yet, in the tradition of building bulleted lists in PowerPoint, text dominates many eLearning courses. As a text-oriented person myself -- someone who finishes reading an article's text and then goes back to view the tables and charts -- translating text into images does not come naturally for me.
Upside Learning
JULY 14, 2011
In the course of work as an instructional designers, its routine to trawl the web constantly looking at ways people visualize ideas, concepts, processes. It’s an entire wonderland of variety out there on the inter-webs, in addition to the beauty one finds in various books on graphic design. Instructional designers then tend to be ‘inspired’ and apply those visualization techniques to whatever it is they seek to communicate.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 10, 2011
This week I am reading The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. It confirms an important part of what I teach in my proofreading and editing classes: Use a checklist. Although the book is written by a physician for application in the medical field, the points it makes are ones that I have been familiar with for decades in publishing. The main point is that the human brain is not as consistent and infallible as we wish it were.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 11, 2011
In an interesting study, a slightly older group of 40 non-gamer adults in the Forty Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, community, with an average age of 69, was randomly divided into two groups. The lucky group was asked to play the real-time strategy game, Rise of Nations Gold Edition (RON). RON combines the speed of real-time gaming and the complexity of turnbased strategy games.
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 14, 2011
It’s often been said that one of the best ways to learn a subject is to attempt to teach it to others. Whereas a hazy, half-developed understanding of something might be good enough to allow you to squeak by on your own, to be able to teach a topic requires all-around mastery of the material. . While the truth behind this statement is well documented, its translation into the world of the busy worker is not always so cut-and-dried.
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 12, 2011
In my previous post, Learning vs Development , I connected Cook-Greuter’s bidirectional view of development to the two sides of the L&D equation: horizontal growth representing the “L&# and vertical transformation representing the “D&#. While the former refers to the traditional notion of learning as the acquisition of knowledge and skills, the latter is a more powerful concept.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 14, 2011
by AJ George. Trond Kristiansen's eLearning Devcon 2011 session, Using Photographic Techniques In eLearning , really got the rusty gears of creativity in my brain churning about how to incorporate some photographic techniques into eLearning. I've previously covered how to easily manipulate stock images , but Trond's ideas were decidedly more high brow.and fun.
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Kapp Notes
JULY 15, 2011
Check out the good information about games and implementing games into the classroom from two great Google Tech Talks. Here is a great talk about how to get games into the traditional educational establishment by Victoria Van Voorhis. The second is from that well known game design person Ben Sawyer–who helped to found the Serious Games Initiative.
Dashe & Thomson
JULY 12, 2011
How Many Accelerated Learning Phases Are There? In the training world, the optimum number seems to be “four.” There are four learning styles, four stages of competence, and a four-level evaluation model. There is also a four-phase learning cycle. There are different ways of thinking about the learning cycle and different numbers of phases. Some educators have proposed four phases, while others have proposed five or even six.
Jane Hart
JULY 9, 2011
Tweet. I have just returned from the SchoolNet South Africa 11 conference in Johannesburg – a 2.5 day event for teachers. The event was held at the impressive St John’s College , and the other international speakers were Naomi Harm from the US and John Davitt from the UK. The weather was exceptionally cold and as central heating is not commonplace in South Africa, people were bundled up in their hats, coats and blankets.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 12, 2011
The Art of Facilitating Online Training Classes. Published reports say " the average student in online learning conditions perform better than those receiving face-to-face instruction." That's encouraging news for trainers and training companies looking to offer classes online. Before jumping into the online training world with both feet, consider this: the world is littered with online courses that fail.
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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.
Kapp Notes
JULY 12, 2011
The first class we once again ran into some technical difficulties. Second Life is being strange on our one island, it keeps throwing visitors into a perpetual teleport. This is really getting frustrating. One interesting thing we are doing this semester is to visit a number of different 3D virtual worlds so that students get a survey of a wide variety of these types of environments since more are being developed all the time.
Clark Quinn
JULY 11, 2011
I have, not surprisingly, had my eye tuned for new mobile uses, and have recently spied a couple of ones I had not noticed. These range from the predictable but cool to the novel (at least to me). First, on a recent train trip, the conductor had an app where she could check seats. Having missed a connection, the hope was that there were seats available on the next train.
Web Courseworks
JULY 15, 2011
In MindMeld Chapter 3: Politics: Flattening Power Relationships, I stressed that both individual team members and upper-level management need to take responsibility to invest in a culture of equality. Instructional Design and Development (IDD) specialists should be placed on a level playing field with the instructor-expert by implementing MindMeld’s communication / professional development strategies.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
JULY 14, 2011
by Jennie Ruby. Last week I wrote an article about checklists. As I finish reading The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande , I have learned that in fields where the individual expert is seen as the key to success, resistance to the idea of using a checklist is rampant. Surgery and financial management are two fields where adoption of checklists has been slow, despite the fact that checklists work.
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The Performance Improvement Blog
JULY 13, 2011
The latest " 10X10 " (ten tips and ten resources) from RealTime Performance is about customer service. It's a useful list of ideas for improving employee performance as it relates to customer service and a book title that corresponds to each suggestion. Employees can read these books to learn more about each idea. The key to most successful relationships with customers, as it is in all relationships, is a sense of mutual trust.
Clark Quinn
JULY 14, 2011
Rothenburg ob der Tauber (RodT) is a charming small town that has retained it’s medieval nature through both design and chance. The story is interesting, but more interesting for my purposes here is how You can learn that story. One of the opportunities available in Rothenburg is the Night Watchman’s Tour, where a local dressed up as a night watchman walks you through various stops around town and tells Rothenburg’s history.
Kapp Notes
JULY 12, 2011
Yesterday, I posted an article about the over 60 set and how video games help to keep them sharp. ( Staying Sharp with Video Games ). After I did that Rajneesh left a comment inquiring if the same was true for youngsters. It is. Here are some results from a study that examined the question of problem solving from a 3rd grade perspective. Results from a study of 180 third graders, 61 male students and 54 female, in a school district in Taiwan found that computer-based video game playing not only
Jane Hart
JULY 12, 2011
Tweet I’ve just updated my article The State of Learning in the Workplace Today with Part 1: 20 reasons why traditional Training/L&D departments need to change. Part 2: Moving L&D forwards will be available shortly.
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Moodle Journal
JULY 12, 2011
Last week was our official end of term and so classes are now over for the academic year, which opens the way for other activities such as staff training, and this morning I delivered the Introduction and Web 2.0 sessions for our Moodle vle. I of course run sessions most weeks for these and usually attract three of four candidates for each, but this morning sessions were very much full with fourteen for the first and sixteen for the second, almost filling our training room.
KnowledgeStar
JULY 11, 2011
Sean McCool (yes that’s his real name) from AWAI had a number – 7 actually - tips for improving your BrainPower. I’ve been adding all 7 into my routine and find they REALLY do help make me a better, more productive thinker. So I’m passing them on … 1. Engage Yourself in Regular Exercise [.].
Kapp Notes
JULY 14, 2011
With all the politician in DC trying to balance the budget, I bet I can do a better job, and I get the chance with this neat little game that lets me get a taste of balancing the United States Budget. Play it and you can enjoy creating your own plan for the federal budget. You can see how your choices on issues like the war in Iraq, health care reform, taxes and the environment play out in government spending.
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