Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 29, 2008
This is a follow-up to my post on the features of Synergy. My last post covered how Synergy works. This post focuses on how I work with Synergy, both when I’m in live online events and during my daily work. Liveblogging & Team Meetings. When I liveblogged the TCC 2008 conference , I always had the Elluminate presentation up on my primary screen (my desktop computer) and my blog on my laptop.
Tony Karrer
APRIL 28, 2008
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. 1. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. Keeping Up with the Pace of Change Informal learning will help employees survive in the future workplace 3. Understanding E-Learning 2.0 There are some very interesting changes going on in the world of e-learning that seem to have crept up on practitioners. 4. eLearn magazine: Feature Article Ten We
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Kapp Notes
APRIL 4, 2008
Over the next few days, you will see some changes to my blog.so please bare with me. And, if you have ever wanted something added to my blog, now would be the time to let me know.
Lars is Learning
APRIL 30, 2008
We really do live in exciting times. What with global geopolitical and economic power shifts and increasingly evident environmental concerns it's easy to feel uneasy. Yet there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic about our ability to learn new ways to manage and cope through what will inevitably be a long rollercoaster ride over the next few decades.
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Moodle Journal
APRIL 29, 2008
I received an email recently describing a new content repository from the Worcester College of technology, its called MrCute and is intended to be an optional add-on to the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. More specifically, it extends the functionality of the IMS Repository system originally developed by Alton College, UK. From their website a repository is a storage area where materials – in this case elearning materials – can be held and from where they can easily be accessed by teachers
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Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 28, 2008
In response to my post about liveblogging an online conference , Stephen Downes asked about my workflow using Synergy. In this post, I explain some of the technical information about how Synergy works and the few minor issues I’ve had; in my next post, I’ll explain my workflow with Synergy. Synergy is an open source program that works like sort of like a virtual KVM switch , except both computers use their own monitors.
Tony Karrer
APRIL 28, 2008
Through the comments in Blog Learning (itself about learning through discussions on blogs) something hit me. Stephen Downes and Jay Cross would say this is a "no duh." But I had just never formulated it this way. The comment was roughly that this blog (eLearningTechnology) 'has significantly more than the new learner "needs" to know. ' I would hope so!
Kapp Notes
APRIL 28, 2008
One more high-stakes government agency has joined the growing ranks of organizations that are using video games to teach life and death concepts. In the Wired article U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think the author explains how the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has taken delivery of three PC-based games under a $2.6 million contract.
Learning Visions
APRIL 21, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, April 21, 2008 All Work And No Learning. Lately, work has just felt way too busy. No conscious time to stop and smell the roses; to reflect on whats been going on and why; to incorporate any lessons learned. Theres barely any time to even think if Ive learned any lessons.
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Lars is Learning
APRIL 19, 2008
I've been thinking about a short commentary by Simon Caulkin in the The Observer last weekend on the power of the placebo effect in the business world.He picked out an interesting example which relates to the world of training and learning: Consider, for example, the experiment in an Israeli army boot camp recounted in Bob Sutton's quirky book Weird Ideas That Work.
Moodle Journal
APRIL 11, 2008
As a supplement to my lectures and notes for 2006-7, I decided to begin making some specific MP3 recordings at certain strategic points during the delivery, which resulted in about four or five recordings with each lasting somewhere between 3 to 4 minutes per session. While I used the MP3’s in audio form, I also decided to tryout driving an avatar with the audio and so give them all something to look at while listening, basically duplicating the material.
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 22, 2008
Elena at Lively Learning posted some comments about Second Life for education in response to my liveblogging of the TCC Keynote Why do we need a Second Life? (Her original post is in Russian; the Google translation gave me enough to get the gist of her post.). In response to my comment on her post, she asked this question: In your comment you’ve mentioned about last year’s introduction to second life - is possible to find it somewhere?
Tony Karrer
APRIL 18, 2008
I just pulled a report as part of an LMS Evaluation and saw an interesting pattern: The pattern shows that the larger the audience the lower the satisfaction scores. My guess is that Learning Management Systems that target enterprise solutions and larger audiences will come out lower in LMS Satisfaction surveys.
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Kapp Notes
APRIL 24, 2008
Whenever I tackle a new instructional design project one of the first things I do is look through my files for old instructional design projects. Where is that audience analysis checklist I developed? In what folder is that chart I use to explain concepts to new designers? Where is my template for creating and teaching a software procedure? ( actually you can find that here.
Learning Visions
APRIL 11, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, April 11, 2008 Instructional Designers Poll: Market Sector and Advanced Degrees My original survey on Instructional Designers and Advanced Degrees had some holes in it. For awhile now Ive been wondering about Market Sector differences in ID. I want to know if theres a difference in the ratio of working instructional designers with advanced degrees in the corporate and academic sectors.
Lars is Learning
APRIL 15, 2008
Thanks to Jane Hart for pointing me to Boolify - David Crusoe and his team are, in his own words addressing what I would term a 21st century basic skill:"One of the challenges of web searching is that while it's important for kids to know how to conduct good searches, e.g., for research, the common textual tools do a poor job of modeling, for kids, the impact that their boolean has on results.
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Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 28, 2008
WebAIM: Blog - 508 and Higher Ed. An analysis of 100 web pages of higher ed institutions showed that only 3 of them met the Section 508 requirements. Most pages were missing skip navigation links and alt text. tags: accessibility , highered. In my opinion, good semantic structure is one of the most essential and overlooked accessibility issues. A clearly-structured site is usually easier to understand, navigate, and is more accessible to users, particularly those with cognitive disabilities. udu
Tony Karrer
APRIL 28, 2008
Through my recent post: Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results I've received a bit of feedback on being such a pessimist (Dave Ferguson) and a great comment from Sue Waters that made me realize I needed to reframe the problem. I've been disappointed by the low participation rates and generally haven't seen that much value from these tools. But, most of the tools provided are aimed at trying to get everyone in the conference to use the tools.
Kapp Notes
APRIL 23, 2008
Are you trying to "sell" games internally as a valid method of teaching content. Perhaps if you mention that government agencies like NASA are investing in this methodology, you might have a better chance of making your case. Also, guide them to Games Teach Life Saving Skills: Accidently as an argument as well. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the creation of a Massively Multi-player Online, or MMO, educational game to interested development partners.
Learning Visions
APRIL 10, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, April 10, 2008 Instructional Designers with Formal Training: Survey Update As of today, over 119 responses to the ongoing survey Instructional Designers: Do You Have An Advanced Degree? 37% of IDs say "Yes, I do have a formal/advanced ID degree." 63% of working IDS say "Nope.
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Lars is Learning
APRIL 2, 2008
Just watched Jeremy Paxman do his usual combative stuff interviewing the US founder behind Brain Gym - in the words of the Newsnight blog: Brain Gym is a programme used in hundreds of schools across Britain - backed by the government. It's a series of daily physical exercises that are supposed to aid learning - by stimulating the vital organs. Many teachers - and many pupils - are convinced it.
Experiencing eLearning
APRIL 27, 2008
Blogger Credibility. Series of posts from Darren Rowse on Problogger about blogger credibility and building trust through longevity, experience, expertise, generosity, transparency, and more. tags: blog , identity , reputation. Reflections on Fourth Grade Collaborations | always learning. Kim Cofino reflects on doing the 1001 Flat World Tales with 4th graders–what the students learned and what she learned about managing these types of projects. tags: collaboration , global , wiki , k-12 ,
Tony Karrer
APRIL 28, 2008
I was just talking to someone who is regular reader of my blog and they claimed that I had never officially posted about the 90-9-1 Rule which is often referred to as the 1% Rule. Basically this rule tells us that in collaborative environments, e.g., discussion groups, wikis, etc. for every 100 people that sign up: 90 will lurk (read with no active participation) 9 will participate in a limited fashion (maybe rate or comment periodically) 1 will regularly post content Of course, you can try to i
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Kapp Notes
APRIL 20, 2008
Manish Mohan is helping to create a Working/Learning blog carnival. I think it was originally created by Dave at Dave's Whiteboard and then Manish agreed to host the April edition. You can read about the definition and thought behind a blog carnival at Dave's blog. So, here are my thoughts on "Work at Learning, Learning at Work" There is a mistake that most people make.
Vignettes Learning
APRIL 4, 2008
I grabbed this image from Alan Pepofsky's blog. One can not be the all time 24/7 police of content accuracy -- which many of us in learning and train oftentimes want to do. I am guilty of sometimes being a control freak. Unless we let go and trust others to be part of a self-policing community, we will be sad and overworked social networking leader.
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