Upside Learning
MAY 22, 2009
The New York Times recently launched version 2.0 of their Times Reader for Windows, Mac, and Linux, developed using Adobe’s AIR and Flex. This is available for download from the NY Times’ Time Reader 2.0 site or Adobe’s Marketplace. The previous version of Times Reader was developed using Microsoft’s Silverlight and Windows Presentation Format (WPF).
Learning Visions
MAY 6, 2009
You're at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? Are you met with comprehension or blank stares? This was me yesterday: Playground Mom: So, what do you do? Me: I'm an instructional designer. I create eLearning. Playground Mom: [blank stare] Me: corporate training.
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Making Change
MAY 14, 2009
I climbed onto the tram, folded my ticket, and with some trepidation stuck it into an unmarked metal box. A happy ding announced my success. I did it! I correctly rode a tram in Amsterdam! Small victories like these make me love to travel. Every day I move from clueless to confident as I tackle questions like, “How do I peel and eat this hardboiled egg using only this tiny spoon?
Kapp Notes
MAY 22, 2009
Before a large scale implementation of any new learning technology, you really need to run a pilot group. You need to catch problems on a small scale and then adjust, correct and modify based on the feedback and experience of the pilot group. Skipping a pilot of a new technology is a dangerous gamble. It could be, as they say, "career limiting." So I suggest a carefully chosen pilot group, but, you might ask, what does that pilot group "look like"?
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Performance Learning Productivity
MAY 29, 2009
UK politicians have been in the spotlight over the past few weeks with their creative use of the parliamentary allowance scheme. “Flipping” was one common way that some found to maximise their allowance income. This involved declaring one of their homes - either in their constituency or in London closer to the House of Commons - as their main residence, then claiming all manner of expenses against their second home.
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Upside Learning
MAY 28, 2009
There’s more talk about Digital natives going around; Jeremiah Owyang blogged from the Corporate Social Networking Conference in Amsterdam. Time and again, this talk about Digital natives and the millenials comes up, and there still isn’t much agreement about the key issues at hand. There seems to have been a fair bit of Interesting talk at the conference: “By age 20, kids will have spent 20,000 hours online –the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing&#
Learning Visions
MAY 12, 2009
What's your take on using audio in eLearning? For or against? Do you use audio on every slide because the client says people will think it's broken if you don't? (This has happened to me!) We've taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now. We know to avoid narrating text word for word, for instance.
Making Change
MAY 11, 2009
Some questions from blog readers have alerted me to the fact that when Apple “upgraded&# Keynote 08 to create Keynote 09, they removed the ability to export slideshows as interactive Flash files. I’ve written a bit on this blog about how great it is that you can export from Keynote to Flash but…now you can’t! So: If you currently have Keynote 08, don’t upgrade.
E-Learning Provocateur
MAY 11, 2009
I attended the CeBIT Expo at Sydney’s Darling Harbour this morning. While there wasn’t a lot that caught my eye in terms of e?learning (it is an IT event after all), I liked the look of these tough little tablet PCs that were being demonstrated by Motion Computing. They look perfect for “on the go&# kind of work, and I’m pondering their potential for m?
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Kapp Notes
MAY 26, 2009
Here are some interesting examples of using virtual worlds for learning, manufacturing and business: In the manufacturing arena, the level of complexity of today’s assembly lines cannot be accomplished with two-dimensional visualization. A virtual 3D world is needed to make sure all of the manufacturing equipment and human employees work together flawlessly.
Tony Karrer
MAY 28, 2009
As part of the eLearning Tour , Christopher von Koschembahr demonstrated a podcast where he conducted an interview. The interviewer was a female voice asking questions. She would ask a question and then he would respond. What was interesting is that the interviewer was produced using Text to Speech. You can listen to the result at the 12:23 mark of the first video on the eLearning Tour page.
Upside Learning
MAY 18, 2009
I have always believed that the present economic slowdown would positively benefit the eLearning industry in the long run. There have been several recent surveys to suggest the same (two of them are mentioned in the latter half of this post) and now, a ValueNotes report released in May 2009 specifically examines the status of the Indian eLearning outsourcing industry and predicts a high rate of growth until 2012, despite the current recession.
Learning Visions
MAY 6, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Describing What You Do: Instructional Design Youre at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. Eventually, she asks you what you do for work. What do you say? Are you met with comprehension or blank stares?
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ID Reflections
MAY 28, 2009
Why am I writing about Twitter? Because it is a powerful social networking tool that is fast becoming a social learning tool. The connotation of the word social is changing from one of "connect" to bring into its fold other meanings like collaborate, learn, share, give, participate, hear, be heard, ask, be answered.This is not a litany in praise of Twitter--it is in support of all social networking sites (SNS) that will help us to collaborate and build collective knowledge.
eLearning Cyclops
MAY 26, 2009
The e-Learning Guild has released its latest e-book, 65 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Budget. And as with all their e-books you can't beat the price, free. Here the link where you can download it. [link] I have a couple of tips in there too. I hope they are helpful.
Web Courseworks
MAY 26, 2009
I noticed Jane Bozarth's blog posting concerning a lively discussion on "Tips for Working with SMEs?" My blog post on handling subject matter experts back in January also seemed to stimulate discussion. I am currently working on my PhD. dissertation proposal on contributing factors to expertise-sharing between the SME and the design team. Project success depends on several factors, starting with achieving respect between the two parties.
Tony Karrer
MAY 26, 2009
Here's what you might have missed last week. eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. The Challenge of Training the PlayStation Generation - The E-Learning Curve , May 15, 2009 Metalearning - eLearning Technology , May 20, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Aligning Learning Theory with Instructional Design - The E-Learning Curve , May 21, 2009 List
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Upside Learning
MAY 26, 2009
There’s been quite a bit written about how Twitter can be used for learning. A few interesting reads are listed at the end of this post. I personally believe that Twitter is a great tool to get access to knowledge and information—provided you follow the right people. It’s also a great place to get answers—better than Google searches sometimes—if the right people are following you.
Learning Visions
MAY 29, 2009
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, May 29, 2009 Join Me at ASTD ICE June 1&2 Are you going to ASTD this coming week? Ill be hanging out at the Expo with the Kineo crew on Monday and Tuesday. Were booth #1926. Stop by and say hi! And if you cant make it to the Expo, join us for Beer & Bloggers/Tweeters/eLearning folks: Monday, June 1st 7/8:00ish and on at the Dubliner.
Kapp Notes
MAY 21, 2009
A few entries ago, I asked for some help in figuring out the Top Ten most annoying technology phrases.here is the list with some wonderful input. Check out the original post and be sure to check the comments. They are especially good for some laughs. 10. No, no move your mouse to the left (or right or anywhere "Back-seat computer driving") 9. Are you a Mac or a PC Person?
eLearning Cyclops
MAY 24, 2009
Google Earth now includes Mars. It is free and uses updated photos taken by NASA. Besides being able to explore the red planet and its features, it also includes an interactive tour with Bill Nye the Science Guy, visits to landing sites of craft that have visited Mars, historical maps and a whole slew of other educational material. If you are interested in the rest of the solar system and deep sky objects (e.g. galaxies and nebulae), they also have a Sky view.
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Web Courseworks
MAY 22, 2009
The association marketplace has caught my attention as a promising avenue for eLearning services. The market is as large and diverse as it can get— an association exists for almost all types of interests and businesses from the American Bar Association to the Knitting Guild Association. There are associations for associations, with ASAE being the most well-known, and there are associations for companies providing management services for associations ( AMC Institute ).
Tony Karrer
MAY 20, 2009
I just got through reading Jay's post and article (with Clark Quinn) around Become a chief meta-learning officer – one of the hot list items from two weeks ago. It's a great article, definitely worth a read. It discusses the needed transition in focus of a CLO The scope of the job of the CLO is mushrooming. CLOs will neither prosper nor even survive if they fail to take responsibility for the overall learning process within their organizations. … Your charter as Chief Meta-Learning Officer is to
Upside Learning
MAY 26, 2009
Summer time in India is family vacation time. While we’ve stopped fleeing abroad, we tend to travel farther from home just to experience what India has to offer. This time, for a change, we decided to explore more of our local coastline. The state we live in Maharashtra has a vast coastline known for its ruggedness, beaches and spectacular natural beauty.
Learning Visions
MAY 29, 2009
Are you going to ASTD this coming week? I'll be hanging out at the Expo with the Kineo crew on Monday and Tuesday. We're booth #1926. Stop by and say hi! And if you can't make it to the Expo, join us for Beer & Bloggers/Tweeters/eLearning folks: Monday, June 1st 7/8:00ish and on at the Dubliner. Tags: kineo beer astd.
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Lars is Learning
MAY 20, 2009
Just realised that I have been neglecting this blog over recent weeks and could well have missed offering a post in the month of May. Well that just wouldn't do, would it? It's been interesting balancing the competing (and sometimes mutually supporting) demands of writing articles, tweets, linkedin messages, as well as the day job of consulting with customers and delivering on their requirements.
eLearning Cyclops
MAY 21, 2009
Today, I was able to participate in Corporate Learning Trend's e-Learning Tour. Thank you Tony Karrer for including my presentation. Demonstrating the course via screenshots did not give full justice to the the course. So, here is a link where you may view it at your leisure. The course is a non-linear self paced course created for my corporate university and introduced a new relationship banking service.
Kapp Notes
MAY 20, 2009
Mortal Combat, Death from Above. So we always thought violence in video games was gratuitous and unnecessary but game developers keep saying, "that's what makes games fun." Well, it turns out violence does not make games fun. It's gameplay.of course, haven't gamer's been saying that for year. We'll we needed some scientists to "prove" it. An interesting article All That Gore Gets in the Way of Gameplay over at Wired, indicates that violence is not necessary to have fun.
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