Moodle Journal

APRIL 19, 2005

I submiited report on the trial of the VLE to SMT, all ninety eight pages of it and now its just a case of waiting to see if we go forward with the deployment college wide.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 28, 2005

Topics this issue: 1. Choosing Authoring Tool That's Right For You 2. Organic e-Learning Activities 3. Blended e-Learning Workshop 1. Choosing Authoring Tool That's Right For You What is the best authoring tool for e-learning? Despite efforts by many to develop or recommend one "best” authoring tool, the truth of the matter is, there is no single authoring tool in the market that will meet all the needs and match all of the capabilities of every organization.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 28, 2005

In his recent Learning Trends newsletter, Elliot Masie says: "If the learner sees re-creation of an application screen, for example, but can only make one or two limited function choices, this might be closer to an 'emulation'". To echo and elaborate Clark Aldrich's post, "Houston, we've got a problem". I think Elliot's confounding the underlying implementation from the fundamental experience.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 28, 2005

Podcasting: Making Waves. Just when we grasped what blogging was all about, along came podcasting, which in some ways is even more disruptive and exciting than blogging. Training is priceless, and firms are investing. A survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting says 49 percent of companies expect to increase their training budgets this year, while just 2 percent plan to spend less.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 12, 2005

The DSpace content repository is now fully installed and working at the College and following a short presentation on metadata and quick tour of the system, they will be using it to catalogue their resources. This will be an interesting and valuable project both with regard to DSpace and the decisions that need to be made for metadata.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 30, 2005

There was another story in the paper today about kids using technology to cheat while taking tests. I think the set up was scanning some test questions in real time and getting the responses IMed back to them while they were still at the desk. The headline, "Cheating or just smart?" was mine not theirs. It is reminiscent of a headline I read about a year ago when some teacher seduced some high school boys, and the caption read, "victims or just lucky?

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 25, 2005

One of the interesting parts of creating educational simulations is the role of nested feedback. At any given point, a learner should be getting feedback on short, medium, and long-term actions, all simultaneously. This thinking is very foreign to traditional instructional designers, but very familiar to anyone who builds or uses computer games. I like to think of feedback at intervals of Turn 1 , Turn 3 , and Turn 9.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 25, 2005

LCB received an email from John R. Wallace who is new to the elearning world and seeking advice on resources on the web regarding public education and elearning. Here are his questions. I'm sure the Learning Circuits Blog community can overwhelm him with good ideas! Which brings me to you. I have found the entries at "The Learning Circuits Blog" to be very interesting, serving as excellent stepping stones in my recent, much more focused exploration of e-learning.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 26, 2005

This has happened to me more times than I can count. A bunch of people are in a room, invited for a two day meeting to talk about simulations. The moderator starts out by asking the group why they are interested in simulations. One says, "Oh, I love simulations. I lead role-plays all of the time in my sales class, and they work really well." Then someone says, "That's right.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 21, 2005

Starting tomorrow, a little rock that is my second book will be tossed into the water of our collective understanding. How big the ripples cast is hard to say. And yet, I can't help but be excited. I am excited because I do think we are in an inflection point when it comes to education. Probably the most true statement from the book comes from its introduction: "At least a handful of people reading this book will, through their work, define the future of learning, just as absolutely as Shakespea

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 22, 2005

One of the big "ahas" of the next generation of elearning designers is that the interface is a significant piece of the content, not just a conduit to the content. We are learning that the interface should line up to the real life activity at some level, high or low, to enable transferability of content. Computer games designers get this, in that they think about the interface and the complexity of interaction, although they also mislead us, in that they don't care about transferability of skill

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 19, 2005

Topics this issue: 1. Making e-Learning Teams Work 2. Featured Presentation: Fishing or Needs Analysis 3. Develop Your Own e-Learning Program! 1. Making e-Learning Teams Work Today's competitive marketplace demands more than one or two people to create e-learning programs. Representatives from the training, technology, marketing and finance departments - all with diverse work histories and interests - should collaborate their expertise to produce effective e-learning activities.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 17, 2005

It has often been said that the web allows us to better understand and tailor experiences to ourselves. Online dating services let us take detailed personality profiles to better reveal our hidden selves. We love ourselves, and can't get enough about us. Web citizens are encouraged to be egoistic (and sometimes even egotistic). Even educational simulations are all about us.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 17, 2005

CDW does not just let new telephone reps loose, first they must complete a six and half week training course. And their training continues with a six-month Academy and then a Master's Curriculum. While the stock market has gone down over the last five years, CDW's stock price is up fifty percent. This is because they, like others, see training as an investment rather than an operating expense.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 12, 2005

Topics this issue: 1. PDA Learning: Some Design Concerns 2. e-Learning Flash Interactive Game 3. Blended e-Learning Workshop 1. PDA Learning: Some Design Concerns In today's fast-paced world, we want to be able to maximize the seemingly little time we have and accomplish as many things as we can. We want to be in full control of our work and of course, our learning.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 15, 2005

I love the stream of consciousness effect imparted by linking from one blog to another. It reminds me of the best part of the best classroom discussions; making new connections. Let me try to recreate a recent experience in a way that you can share. One minute I'm reading the Furrygoat experience (found because long ago I used his PocketFeed PocketPC RSS reader), the next minute I'm linked to Kathy Sierra (from the Head First books) for a discussion of thank you's for customer loyalty.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 15, 2005

I sometimes feel that other countries are so much more progressive in terms of pushing elearning's potential than here in the States. Canda, the UK, Australia, New Z., all seem to outstrip us, or at least see things that us Yanks miss but really need to know. (Israel had been one of the places until about four years ago. I wonder what distracted them.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 8, 2005

I think my best "discovery" of the last six months has been the web site IT Conversations. This is a web site that provides FREE downloads of hundreds of cutting edge IT speeches by the best in the industry. I am one who loves a good speech. It goes deeper than a magazine article, and is more current than a book. It also has passion and personality.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 8, 2005

I would greatly value all of your input. What are topics about which a Learning Professional should be UNIQUELY PROFICIENT (i.e. you know more than anyone else in your organization), and VERY PROFICIENT (i.e. critical knoweldge to do your job)? Here are some thoughts to get the ball rolling: UNIQUELY PROFICIENT Virtual classrooms LMSs/Training Portal LCMS Simulations Workflow Learning?

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 8, 2005

Training is not important, learning is. Learning is not important, doing the right thing is. Doing the right thing is not important, having measured results is. Having measured results is not important, having a positive ROI is. Having a positive ROI is not important, meeting the needs of the budget holder is. Meeting the needs of the budget holder is not important, increasing your next quarters' funding is.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 4, 2005

White bread is wonderful. Our parents and their parents swore by it as key to our diet. It is part of our culture, depicted in oil paintings, discussed in epic poetry. Preparing bread is a cultural milestone from our own Paleolithic history. Just mentioning a great baguette, brioche, or even peasant bread makes my mouth water. It is the base of our current prescribed food pyramid.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 4, 2005

We have two holy grails in this industry, ROI and Productivity. ROI and Productivity (ROIP) are great for talking about manufacturing widgets. They are even great for talking about call centers. But value creation? Leadership? Relationship management? Innovation? Would you use such metrics for an acquisition? How about a hire of a key corporate officer?

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 7, 2005

The cliche is that training is not important, learning is. OK. And consequently there is one school of thought that suggests we look at the richest possible learning environments, and then replicate them. For me, that is skunk works, microcosms, new responsibility, access to Internet, Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games, etc. But here's the thing.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 1, 2005

No, this is not about Phantom Menace , Clones , or Revenge of the Sith. I greatly appreciate how much George Lucas advocates educational simulations. But when he talks about the "immaculate reality,” the attention to the detail and cohesiveness of the simulated environment, the fear that a discordant factor will break the illusion and the learning, I have to disagree.

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The Learning Circuits

APRIL 3, 2005

It's unusual to find a good book that speaks to instructional technologists and people outside the field, and I've been fortunate enough to find two such books this year. On Intelligence , by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee, is a fascinating exploration of the biological basis of intelligence that has very practical implications for designining learning experiences.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 21, 2005

De Bono and 'Serious Creativity'. "Creativity" is too large a word and "design" is too small a word. He prefers "idea change," which he says better captures the "skill in thinking" aspect of creativity. Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together. Two web-based tools for keepng track of important or interesting online information. Both tools help you to file links that you wish to remember or recommend, and allow you to share that information flexibly. del.icio.us. del.icio.us is becoming a cr

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 23, 2005

Tapping into the brains behind human behaviour. Scientists' understanding of the brain will one day be so profound that the brains of serial killers and paedophiles could be "rewired" to stop them offending, according to a leading scientist. Best take(s) on Adobe-Macromedia deal. Now that everyone has thrown in their two-cents, I thought I'd pull together some viewpoints on the Adobe-Macromedia acquisition.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

APRIL 24, 2005

Emotional Intelligence. Good background on subject with video interview of Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence. Audience Analysis: A Lesson Plan. A series devoted to composition and writing courses. The focus of this unit is audience analysis. The goal is to make writers more aware of how to shape an argument based on who one expects to read the article, and how to persuade them.

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