NuggetHead
OCTOBER 3, 2011
It’s been quite the busy Summer as indicated by my lack of posting on a regular basis. In fact it was over four months ago! When I started this blog I had full intentions of writing at least every other week if not once a month. However, my increasingly growing freelance business didn’t include this [.].
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 7, 2011
by AJ George. I've talked a lot about where to get free stock photos , about how to manipulate stock photos , and tips for creating your own graphics. Somehow, in the midst of all that, I remained in the dark about what is probably the best free resource I've come across in a while. When tasked with constructing eLearning on a limited budget and a limited time frame, you may be forced to take a linear approach to your navigation.
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Upside Learning
OCTOBER 5, 2011
In July 2010, I wrote about a cheap tablet that India is developing in a public-private partnership. There was a lot of skepticism floating around how and when these will become available. Now it is here – The Aakash to be made available for about 45 USD. Four bits I found really intersting after watching the webcast , I really found this interesting: 1.
Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
OCTOBER 3, 2011
When Yehudi Menuhin was asked: "What has music taught you?" he replied: "It has taught me to listen." It is no different with product design. You design products in a flash of inspiration, and keep making them better by listening to your customers. The Raptivity 6.5 release is full of productivity features that are based on ideas that come straight from the trenches.
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Jane Hart
OCTOBER 6, 2011
After many weeks of voting, the winners of the E-Learning Council’s Top Ten Most Influential Bloggers contest have been named. I am very pleased to appear at #1 on the list alongside many of my own favourite bloggers too. Very many thanks to all who voted for me. You can view the full list of the 10 bloggers here on the E-Learning Council’s website: Introducing the Top Ten Most Influential… Read the rest.
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Upside Learning
OCTOBER 3, 2011
We launched Upside2Go (for the iPhone) back in February this year. And we changed the game ; changed the way people looked at mobile learning and the way they experienced learning on the go. Today we expand the reach of Upside2Go to change this game further. Our revolutionary platform for mobile learning – Upside2Go – is now available on BlackBerry.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Here are my slides and relevant resources from my Chicago presentation at Learning 3.0!! I love Chicago, such a great city and relatively close by air travel. Great seeing old friends at the conference and meeting new ones. Hope you find these resources helpful. Here the slides from my presentation: Learning 3.0 gamification. View more presentations from Karl Kapp.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 3, 2011
My 4-part series of curated resources for TrainingZone’s Social Learning month in September has proved to be quite popular, and I have been asked by a number of people if I would continue my weekly round-up of social learning resources. I am happy to do this, so articles in this series will appear on my blog each Monday. . 1 – As Harold Jarche explained in his recent blog post, New … Read the rest.
The Performance Improvement Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Technology is putting up barriers to the kind of deep listening that helps two people learn from each other. This is especially true in healthcare. Medical patients, often nervous, scared, and in pain, are comforted by the personal caring and touch of their doctors, yet technology (and time pressure) is getting in the way of that relationship. Abraham Verghese, Stanford University physician and best-selling author, argues that the tendency today is for doctors to order tests before or in lieu of
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 4, 2011
The wise Ellen Wagner has a neat post about what should be the ‘ten commandments’ of online learning. I agree with them, and recommend them to you. I have thought about it in a slightly different, but similar frame. I came up with this as I was trying to suggest what the core value propositions (yeah, I said it, deal with it) of an online offering should be.
Dashe & Thomson
OCTOBER 3, 2011
I’m not sure what it is about Angry Birds that made it so popular, but it works for me. The game was introduced to me by my 10-year-old daughter, and we both seem to have the same (huge) amount of fun with it. Angry Birds – the game – can certainly be used as a model for eLearning; it has all the attributes that make for effective game-based learning: immediate rewards and feedback, increasingly challenging tasks, focus on action and decision-making.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Steve Jobs died yesterday, 5 October, and the blogosphere is full of tributes today to him. For me one of the most influential things he did was his commencement speech to Stanford University in 2005. I’ve forwarded the link to many people over the years, and I know it has impacted many others too. In fact it’s been viewed on YouTube over 6 million times.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 4, 2011
As someone who has been actively running for a year or so I know how difficult it is too get motivated to wake up on a cool rainy morning and go for a run. Still this year I managed to run 3 sprint-length triathalons, a couple of 5Ks and one half-marathon (it wasn’t pretty). All this exercises is great but motivation is still an issue for me that’s why I sign up for the races so that I am motivated to practice so I don’t fall over in the race but…I’d like more motiv
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 6, 2011
The initial Learning 3.0 conference (well-done, Phillip, Julie, & Leah) was held in conjunction with The Motivation Show, a large conference (dwarfing our little group) and Expo on incentive and recognition programs. And it’s thought-provoking. First, you have to know that while I understand sales commissions and rewards, because they *work*, I don’t like them.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 4, 2011
Adobe will host two free, full-day customer events at the Adobe offices in in Boston and San Jose for tech comm decision-makers, strategists and managers at enterprise-sized companies. Attendees will be able to: Meet the Adobe FrameMaker, RoboHelp and the Technical Communication Suite product management teams. Share feedback on the above-mentioned products and influence the future product roadmap.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 2, 2011
In September I added over 40 resources to my 2011 Reading List, but since I have already mentioned many of them in the four pieces I wrote for Training Zone where I curated articles on social learning (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), in this month’s review I am going to pick 5 articles that I haven’t discussed. 1 - How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching - This… Read the rest.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 3, 2011
At Bloomsburg University, twice a year we have our Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) meeting and representatives from corporations all over the country come and evaluate the students as the students present and they take some time to show off some cool things that they are doing. One of the companies that has consistently presented to students over the years has been The Phoenix Group which does outstanding design and instructional work and they have a really cool facility that students and facul
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 5, 2011
Not irregularly, when I do presentations or workshops, I get a few accusations of “dropping names” I know what they are talking about (I regularly throw in references to theorists or practitioners), but I think they misunderstand why I do it. And I think it is important to understand why it is a ‘good thing’ First, I was trained in an academic environment, where you don’t claim credit for ideas that aren’t yours.
The Logical Blog by IconLogic
OCTOBER 4, 2011
by Kevin Siegel. One of the big decisions you will need to make during the Publish process ( File > Publish ) is which Flash Player to choose from the Flash Player Version drop-down menu. Captivate 5.5 sports three versions of the Flash Player: 9, 10 and 10.2. While the Flash Player 10.3 was released back in May 2011, it is currently not available in the menu.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 4, 2011
One of my favorite conferences of the year quickly approaches: the eLearning Guild’s fantastic DevLearn 2011. This year, we converge on Las Vegas for some high tech wonderment and education. Come join my session! Thursday @ 1:00-2:00 pm. Avoiding Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling: Top Tips for Making Your eLearning Designs Shine from the Inside. Hope to see you there!
Challenge to Learn
OCTOBER 1, 2011
Our development team is based in the Ukraine and they all speak Russian (and English). I thought that I should make an effort to and try to learn their language. Therefore I have enrolled myself in a distance course Russian. I chose a course at a well-known Dutch institute (NHA) because it was recommended to me by a friend. I have to say that I didn’t really do an in-dept investigation, I just enrolled myself.
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Web Courseworks
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Beyond the Webinar: Choosing the Course Authoring Model & Team In order to know what type of team you need to accomplish your eLearning initiatives, you have to first decide what type of learning you want to create and what model of development can best accomplish those goals. There are three models: instructor-led synchronous courses, [.].
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 1, 2011
Our Technology School are exhibiting at the Excel Conference Center WorldSkills London 2011 05 from Oct 2011 to 08 Oct 2011, so for that alone, I would certainly recommend getting along for a visit in this coming week, I should be there myself on Friday, and really looking forward to it. I was even more pleased when on Tuesday Afternoon of this week, I was informed that a group of delegates from the conference would be visiting us at the college, and so would it be possible for me to arrange / o
Integrated Learnings
OCTOBER 5, 2011
by Jonathan Shoaf. PowerPoint gets a bad reputation from all the mind numbing presentations millions have been subjected to. This has less to do with PowerPoint's limitations and more to do with a lack of creativity on the part of many presenters. PowerPoint is a very powerful presentation tool that can be used to really enhance the way data is presented.
KnowledgeStar
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Apple’s iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education Test Note to Reader: I was working on this when I heard that Steve Jobs died. This is not directly about him since I have no words, just an empty space, a sort of hole in the universe … it’s about Steve Jobs and Apple and all the [.].
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Learning with e's
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Today my wife and I celebrate our silver wedding anniversary. Those 25 years have flashed by, and like most couples we have had our ups and downs, but I wouldn't change any of it. Our marriage has been the golden age in my life. I want to thank Dawn for all her support, love and commitment to me over those years. She has given me three beautiful children, and has always been by my side through good times and bad.
TechSmith Camtasia
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I recently needed to move my local TFS source tree to a secondary drive, and for the most part, it worked quite well. First, the process I used was: Copy (do not move) the TFS folder -- or whatever you called it -- to pathtonewTFS. In Visual Studio, navigate to your Source Control Explorer view and open the "Manage Workspaces" dialog (via Workspace combo > Workspaces.).
Mindflash
OCTOBER 5, 2011
It’s football season again, meaning more tasteless tweets from your favorite NFL athletes. In the past, the NFL has shunned social media use, but it has finally come to see its necessity. In fact, the league recently secured a deal with Buddy Media to advise all 32 teams on how to properly use social media to their advantage — and their social presence is growing rapidly.
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