Learning Visions

JANUARY 19, 2009

I stumbled across this on a writers blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. A fancy term for writing training material." Blog link not provided to protect the innocent]. If all we do is write training material, then perhaps yes. I write and design self-paced eLearning for the corporate market.

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Learning Visions

MAY 30, 2007

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 16, 2007

Im losing my steam, but trying to stay somewhat on target. So go ahead and "Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog". Day 13: Search for an Affiliate Program My blog is not about making money. Ive got good awareness of what many other e-Learning bloggers are writing about.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 9, 2007

Thursday, August 09, 2007 With Community Comes Great Responsibility In reflecting over the benefits of the first week or so of the 31 Days to Better Blogging Challenge , the biggest thing for me has been the overall boost in community. Im a touchy-feely-people-kind-of-person. My problem is I often forget to click the icon.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2008

Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. Having just a bachelors degree seems to be fine as long as you arent working directly for the universities (Im not sure about K-12 online). What do you do?

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Im curious what other folks experiences has been. Im so happy to see you post this up. Im struggling with this right now. My problem however is that they keep dropping courses. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. If you dont, have you ever been denied a job for the lack of one?

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Learning Visions

APRIL 26, 2007

My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". Since then, Ive done a bunch of freelance instructional design and script writing. And now Im here -- "Manager of Instructional Design." But at this point, Im here to stay. My point is this: I dont think Im that unusual. And yet here I am.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

But I find them painfully boring to read and to write. Ray Sims has written a great summary on Writing Learning Objectives , with citations to some good resources, including Vicki Heaths post Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter. And Clive is definitely on the top of my Blogs I Like list!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 17, 2009

School takes care of academics, they each play a sport (or 2), and they each takes lessons in some creative endeavor.guitar, piano, writing, coding, etc. And Ive seen their little brains work like crazy to solve a game problem in Fantastic Contraption that is REALLY working their mental muscles. I will say this. I say GO GAMES!

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Im a linear reader in recovery and have been actively learning how to skim books and not feel guilty about it. Lots of practical ideas and examples for turning basic teaching points into learning games -- from casual games to teach facts and concepts, to detailed simulations that teach procedures and problem solving. Do They? )

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Learning Visions

JUNE 28, 2007

I have a problem, where is the answer? Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. calculators -- can write on a whiteboard with your finger. As he writes the equations, the whiteboard solves them.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

Inspired by all this blog talk about simulations and immersive learning and Second Life and World of Warcraft. Wendy Wickham has blogged on her most recent gaming experiences, but she writes like an outsider peering into a foreign land. Im right with you. Im a female instructional designer in my late 30s.

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Learning Visions

MAY 4, 2007

Even when youve got a blank page in front of you and you start writing: paragraphs, commas, periods. If youre providing SMEs with the templates, Im not sure theyll be altering them. Im not saying there is no place for templates (honestly!), Have I just been writing too much marketing and sales material lately?

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eLearning Cyclops

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Someone shows up at your office and says "Im here for the online training."* Solves at least 50% of problems. Also, generally, another 48% of problems can be solved by restarting the local machine. I also find writing their name on a post-it and pinning it to their jacket works well. A couple more to add.

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eFront

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I'm going to link this post on my blog, too, and recommend it into the conversation I'm in on Amplify. Just posted my extended thoughts on my own blog, Christopher. You are more than welcome to link this post on your blog. I will very much appreciate if you mention this blog as a resource.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

> If you know a free e-Learning book that is not included in the list please I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link to that book. -- -- CU Online Handbook - University of Colorado Denver (Update 12/06/2010: suggested by PRL ) Do you currently teach online? Hi Mitesh, the blog post refers to Free e-Learning books.

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Mark Oehlert

DECEMBER 6, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « 2007 edublog awards are now open for voting.and Im torn | Main | The Kindle: Tom Crawford Executes a Perfect Double Rebuttal with a Twist » December 06, 2007 Firefox and Opera.You Are Both Pissing Me Off!! Fix these problems, BOTH OF YOU!!

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Mark Oehlert

APRIL 22, 2008

Im sure that the Romans thought their empire wold stand for all time as well and look what happened to them. typekey e-Clippings (a division of blogoehlert) Me in Second Life Blog powered by TypePad Member since 08/2003 " Hmmm.wow.I stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us books futures Web 2.0

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LifterLMS

MARCH 12, 2023

It gives you, basically extends your WordPress media library to cloud storage. So if you’re like running outta storage or your media’s running slow, you can just connect that plugin and we make it super simple to connect to our cloud storage. Tell us about campus press and edgy blogs. Aaron Edwards: For sure.

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Mark Oehlert

JANUARY 14, 2008

Instead of a man with no country, Im a man with three computers and three operating systems. Im serious. I've been a Mac user on principle since I was a Don Norman grad student and got a Mac II to write my dissertation. » January 14, 2008 Oh.this does not bode well for Microsoft. The no country thing might be easier.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

link] February 14-16, 2011 O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, 5 th annual, produced by O’Reilly Media, New York City, New York, USA. link] February 24-26, 2011 American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE): Telling the Story – Writing the Next Chapter, 63 rd , San Diego, California, USA. www.fmx.de

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

Liveblogged during the keynote presentation by Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, New Media Consortium ( NMC ). Patterns of writing now aren’t the same as they were in the past. We communicate in small bursts of writing. IM is much more conversational. With IM, it’s minutes. My comments in italics.

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eLearningArt

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Those future trends include Spontaneous Learning Systems (SLS), Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS), and highly personalized learning services. Tony is best known in the eLearning industry for founding eLearning Learning , which pulls in blog posts from the most popular eLearning bloggers. You can read more about Clive on his blog.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 15, 2007

At Virtual Learning Worlds "Bartman" responds to that Wired article (A Deserted Second Life) : The problem I have with it [the Wired article], is that it deals almost COMPLETELY with Second Life as it pertains to marketing and corporations…and inevitabley why SL sucks in that space. Im Bliss Yue). 9:07 AM Anonymoussaid.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JUNE 27, 2018

Think of your apps, websites, IMs, emails, and everything that makes up your digital world. If you’re looking for inspiration, see how Virgin Media is using video to retain knowledge at their company. Technology like Skype and Google Hangouts solve this problem, allowing you to get in touch with anyone, anywhere. Here’s how !

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 7, 2008

I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My In reducing the value of an instructional designer by handing them tools to be lone gunmen, we have created the problem of believing we can replace or eliminate the instructional designer, since our in-house resident experts can do the very same job.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

link] December 5-6, 2012 Social Media Marketing , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. link] January 6-8, 2013 June 5-7, 2012 BlogWorld and New Media Expo , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. link] January 28-31, 2013 Emerging Media Conference (EmMeCon), San Francisco, California, USA. link] January 6, 2013 Search Marketing SMX , Jerusalem, Israel.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

link] January 18, 2012 Using Social Media to Communicate , Birmingham, The United Kingdom. link] January 23-26, 2012 Emerging Media Conference (EmMeCon), San Francisco, California, USA. link] February 13-15, 2012 O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, 6 th annual, produced by O’Reilly Media, New York City, New York, USA.

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