Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2013

One of the hardest lessons to learn growing up is how to share… how to share your toys, your candy, and maybe your room with a sibling. As a child, it is difficult to get past the thought “but, it’s MINE!” We try to hang on with tightly to what [.] The post The Advantages of Knowledge Sharing appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This article does a nice job of distinguishing between serious games, toys, playful design and gamification. The second article is From Game Design Elements to Gamefulness: Defining “Gamification” by Sebastian Deterding, Dan Dixon, Rilla Khaled, and Lennart Nacke. The third paper is Gamification in Education: What, How, Why Bother?

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Saffron Interactive

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Watching a toddler negotiate obstacles is fascinating, especially the ‘toy under the table’ scenario. Running full pelt, all the focus is on their favourite toy, not the height of the table … BANG! Well, we can’t rely on toys and table-tops to teach us all the important lessons forever…. Need I say more?

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Toys Module Attitudes Instructional Design 88

Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2011

Typically, the kid and I indulge in play sessions that use Lego as the base toy and then build an imaginary world for our Lego models to inhabit and interact with. Somewhere along the way, events with effects are added and stories occur in the imaginary environment with the models playing roles.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 28, 2013

  As much as I love new toys, I tend to hold off when it comes to installing software updates. Apple recently announced the availability of  Mavericks , its latest and greatest operating system for the Mac computers.     It turns out that the Mavericks software and Adobe Captivate 7 aren't getting along.

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LearnDash

MAY 5, 2014

While the tech toys we have today do offer creative outlets for learning, they are also a distraction. This alone utilizes multiple formats of instruction, which encourages the learner to think about the content differently and in a variety of settings. Attention spans are shorter as technology leads to easier distractions.

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Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

3) Having a free, safe play space and shared toy objects that can be engaged within the environment. Where someone can “toy around.&#. 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.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 21, 2011

This offering a system of interaction and creation (leading to an environment of play) rather than a toy is great for play and learning. Lego encourages a systematic approach to creativity. While there are varying levels of expertise in building models with Lego, the rules remain unchanged.

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Toys Engineering Virtual World Player 279

E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

Futuristic hardware and magical software that educates everyone at the press of a button are tempting “solutions” Some folks call this mindset Shiny New Toy Syndrome, and by golly, it’s a pandemic. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation.

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LearnDash

APRIL 17, 2013

Before revealing this new toy, let me give you a little background. A good number of instructional design professionals rely upon Box.net to send and share files – but this isn’t ideal for everyone. The good news is that there is an alternative to Box.net that has just hit the scene (well, sort of).

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LearnDash

APRIL 23, 2014

That said, even though we are working in revamping the code as preparation for what is to come, we still wanted to give all of you a new toy to play with! Many of the updates in Phase 1 are meant as preparation for Phase 2, which will bring about some more noticeable back-end changes (more on that at a later date). Course Content Shortcode.

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Upside Learning

MAY 9, 2011

Lego is more than just a toy that we grew up with. Without further delay, let’s get on to our collection of the top 7 posts for April, each accompanied by a quick brief. Learning Creativity and About Creativity From Lego.

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Multitasking Toys Gartner Mobile Learning 206

Upside Learning

AUGUST 17, 2009

You can also play with toys, even though they are not games. I think you can also learn a lot from playing with toys.”. The value of ‘play’ Play is fundamental to human learning. Don made a great point about the how ‘play’ is what strongly influences learning.

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Games Simulations Toys Instructional Design 171

Learningtogo

MARCH 25, 2017

Sooner or later, you will run into someone with a better toy, and you feel unhappy about your purchase. Even very young children will experience the joy of sharing a treat or a toy with a friend. However, experiences become more valuable the more times you revisit them in your memory.

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CourseArc

MARCH 5, 2020

To put it in layman’s terms, think of the LTI standard as a universal charging cable that connects to any type of device: mobile phone, camera, flashlight, portable speaker, toy, etc. CourseArc is a member of IMS Global and uses LTI to integrate our product with any LTI-compliant LMS. The benefits of using LTI are: Content.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2011

Read this article to know why some educators say they are more than just a cool new toy. Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad. Spending money on tablet computers may seem an extravagance. Will’s Learning Landscape Model. Will Thalheimer has developed the Learning Landscape Model. Here’s a 13 minute video explaining it.

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Blended Learning Technology Learning Technologies iPad 209

E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 24, 2014

While I can’t hack into NASA, I’m confident enough to give any software a go and not be put off by shiny new toys. Until I finally gave up for good. Now I’m a fairly tech savvy kind of guy. But I was put off by this. And so too, it would seem, was the rest of the L&D world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

I secured the banana from the fruit bowl in my kitchen, I discovered the can of soup at the back of my pantry, and I bought the toy gun for $2 at a bric-a-brac store. If you are wondering how I created this artefact, the steps are as follows… After deciding which images I would use, I needed to source them.

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dominKnow

JUNE 25, 2020

In the June 24, 2020 episode of Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee guest Nick Floro provided a fast-paced walked-through of several free and inexpensive tools he uses to supplement his elearning design practices.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I was even more excited when a friend of mine pointed out that my new toy had a kickstand (HOW HAD I NOT NOTICED THAT?!). by AJ George I was ecstatic to trade in my archaic Palm 700 for a sexy new HTC Evo.

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Technology Tips Toys PowerPoint 210

Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

You thought Toy Story 3 was big at $41 million on opening day? You thought Avatar was big grossing $27 million dollars on its first day of release? Sit back, Halo: Reach available only for the Xbox 360 made over $200 million on opening day. This makes it the biggest launch of an entrainment offering this year.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 15, 2009

For example, I used to do some consulting for a large toy retailer and they created an actual replica of model store. They would bring in merchandisers and others into the actual store to look at layout and determine toy placement. Alter the frequency of interactions by building in-world templates of key locations.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 22, 2011

At the very least it’s fun to toy around with. Conversely, someone with only 3 followers will be incredibly influential if those people happen to be the President of the United States, Rupert Murdoch and the Head of the European Central Bank.

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Making Change

MARCH 21, 2018

An example activity for Ben and Kate could be: “We’re going to send a mailing about the MegaChomper BigBoy toy to all big dog owners. Kate is supposed to send the mailing about the MegaChomper BigBoy toy only to customers whose dogs weigh more than 15 kilos. Instead of saying “Incorrect!” That depends.

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Thinkific

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Have you been toying with social media platforms lately and are convinced that they’re great for marketing your online course… The post 10 Best Social Media Marketing Courses appeared first on Thinkific.

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LearnDash

JANUARY 13, 2015

Have a look at the toys that are offered on the market today. The toys for a 12-year-old differ quite a bit than those designed for a six-year-old. Don’t believe me? “For children 3-5 years old”).

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 5, 2011

• Toying with emotion. . • The 4 S’s of mobile design. • Mobile learning – Push or pull? Informal learning. • Viva la evolution. • Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment. Content development. • 14 reasons why your multiple-choice quiz sucks. • The 2 sources of freebies.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

I’m also a geek and I love tech toys. And I like to think that 30-odd years of practice and reflection on learning design (investigating myriad design practices, looking at design models, etc) provides some reason to think I’ve developed a wee bit of expertise on the topic.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Toy collections at Pixar are like a status symbol. Do your homework.” – go to Toys R Us and buy a ton of toys. And always have fun doing what you do. Design of the building – the left wing is the left brain – “the smartests” and the right wing is the right brain -- “the artists”. With a place to connect in the atrium.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2011

And I admit that I’m talking a technology environment in the concrete instance (because I like toys). It occurs to me that I’ve probably not conveyed in any concrete terms what I think the ‘slow learning’ experience might be like. So here are some instances: Say you’ve a meeting with a potential client.

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Toys Calendar Stock Learning 170

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

One of the hardest lessons to learn growing up is how to share – how to share your toys, your candy, and maybe your room with a sibling. As a child, it’s difficult to get past the thought “but, it’s MINE!” We hang on tightly to what is “ours, ” and if goaded into sharing, we attempt to dictate how we share.

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Toys Knowledge Lesson Learning 101

Integrated Learnings

APRIL 11, 2011

However, in my experience, it is not as bad as you might think (anyone ever have a “Speak and Spell” toy as a kid?). The voices actually do sound professional, but you can always tell that it is not a real human doing the narration.

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Text-to-Speech Captivate Adobe Captivate Voice 183

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In the continuing process of resolving what I want to do when I grow up (rest assured, not happening), I’ve been toying with a concept. And I’ve come up with the phrase: Learning Experience Design (LXD) Strategist. Which of course, begs the question of just what LXD strategy is. So here’s my thinking.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 27, 2015

" If you think of myriad as meaning "countless," you have to use it as an adjective: We have  countless  toys no longer used by our children. We have  myriad  toys no longer used by our children. you can't say "a countless of"].   Myriads of cars packed the interstate.

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Axonify

AUGUST 23, 2018

Last year’s rollercoaster started with an last-minute addition to my three-year-old daughter’s wish list—which just happened to be 2017’s must-have toy. With high hopes, I sped off to a local store that (according to my online search) had 7 of the season’s hottest toy in-stock.

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BrainCert

AUGUST 17, 2022

Educational Toys If you are not into teaching, you can create, manufacture and sell high-quality educational toys for children of all ages. As the demand for educational toys is growing among all ages of children. Before you launch any product, it needs to stand out in a crowd so make sure your products are unique enough.

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Ideas Education Toys Virtual Classroom 105

Challenge to Learn

AUGUST 26, 2011

He founded Next and turned a small company ‘The graphics group’ into a giant named Pixar (well know of Toy story and many other movies) and sold it to Disney. Making Apple a huge success with the Apple II and the Macintosh and then he had to leave Apple in 1985.

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