Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In about a week, he has amassed more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and his catch phrases (“ winning ,” “ tiger blood ,” etc.) We all know that social media will be a major driver in the 2.0 have become some of the top trending topics on the site, repeated by thousands of people. Clearly, there’s something to be learned here.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 26, 2011

Check out this article in Fast Company last week called How Mint Exec’s New Company is Going to Make Teachers Out of Us All. Tools like Mindflash and Brainshark are quickly gaining traction in the marketplace, as ways to turn everything a company has “laying around,” like Powerpoints and videos, and turn them into training. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Thank you so much. Mo Yang February 15, 2011 at 3:26 pm # Very true!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A truly excellent article by Matt Thompson, titled An Antidote for Web Overload , addresses the reasons behind Wikipedia’s increasing replacement of traditional news sites as the go-to source for breaking news items.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Train Your Client On Training&# Elfreda Chenauls March 5, 2011 at 2:27 am # Hello this is a unique article. He ends the blog with this key message: The goal is to build a course appropriate to your client’s needs. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

In his recent Wired article (March 2011) “Better Living Through Games,” Clive Thompson describes how editors at UK’s Guardian newspaper created a web app videogame to involve the public in analyzing millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses filed by British politicians. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Most of the time we end up brainstorming ways to incorporate tools like Twitter or Facebook into his lessons, because even though I may have more experience using social media, the tools are so new that no one really knows the best way to utilize them, for anything really. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Thank you so much. Mo Yang February 15, 2011 at 3:26 pm # Very true!

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. There are whiteboard apps you can add for synchronous learning. Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. There are whiteboard apps you can add for synchronous learning. Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Most of the time we end up brainstorming ways to incorporate tools like Twitter or Facebook into his lessons, because even though I may have more experience using social media, the tools are so new that no one really knows the best way to utilize them, for anything really. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general. Beth’s experience looking for work as a private contractor exposed her to the current temporary staffing boom. Properly d.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 8, 2012

1 - Twitter. If your organization doesn’t like the idea of using Twitter for company conversations, then the next best thing is to set up some sort of corporate company (Twitter-like) network. Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. In addition it makes sharing files with other people very easy.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 18, 2011

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that 40% of all tweets come from mobile devices, demonstrating mobile’s increasing importance to the social media.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I have all these global conversations via Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and so on all the time, but I hope all these connections never stop being remarkable. Read their article on connecting students across multiple locations and TelePresence training materials (including teaching best practices) for more info. Conversation.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2011

Text-based messaging systems allow for quickly communicating with someone in a synchronous environment. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. Quickly asking a question. Links to resources, peer-to-peer learning.

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Docebo

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

But, before we get to the tips, it’s probably worthwhile to cover how asynchronous learning differs from synchronous learning. Synchronous vs. asynchronous learning. Synchronous learning (at its name implies) happens at the same time, whereas asynchronous learning does not. Yep, it’s that obvious.) Author: Christopher Pappas.

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Mindflash

MAY 31, 2012

Take the ‘Twitter for Training’ episode of sudsy medical drama Grey’s Anatomy from last year for example. Training blogger Jane Bozarth summarized the action at the time: “The new episode of Grey’s Anatomy … included a whole storyline about using Twitter as a training tool. ” What are they?

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

These streams can be fed by other tools like Twitter, Linkedin and Google reader and I love it. I use twitter to announce things (posts, news and share interesting articles that I find). Following others in twitter becomes more and more a problem if you follow too many. You can browse through the blogs very fast.

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Learnnovators

MAY 24, 2015

They can be “semi-synchronous”: MOOCs can have a blend of modalities from videos and podcasts to reference links to blogs and articles, excerpts from books, whitepapers and so on. This semi-synchronous aspect make MOOCs appealing and effective for a wide range of topics and audience base.

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Have you seen this article from TechCrunch: Could Facebook Become The Next Microsoft? Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, July 26, 2007 Is Facebook the next Microsoft? Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:14 PM Labels: facebook 2comments: Davidsaid. No, Google is.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

by Kevin Siegel, CTT,  COTP         I've written several articles about adult learners and attention spans. For instance, there was the article titled " How Long is Too Long? What about learner attention spans in live, instructor-led classes (synchronous training)?

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2015

They can be “semi-synchronous”: MOOCs can have a blend of modalities from videos and podcasts to reference links to blogs and articles, excerpts from books, whitepapers and so on. Apart from the content, MOOCs are characterized by the discussions that take place around the content – in the forums, on Google hangout, over twitter.

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LearnUpon

JULY 14, 2016

Social learning: Learning that integrates social tools a learner is likely to use, for example Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter and Skype. This article will help you to decide if SSO could work for you. Synchronous learning: Instructor-led learning in a virtual classroom setting.

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learnWorlds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Online collaborative learning can be either synchronous or asynchronous, and usually is instructor-led and text-based. That’s what this article is about. Synchronous Discussions. Twitter), make sure these are identical to any announcements in your online classroom. Synchronous Discussions. Table of contents.

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Training Orchestra

MAY 20, 2022

From online to face-to-face and synchronous to asynchronous delivery, learning technologies need to be able to support a wide range of learning modalities at the same time, and at scale. For many, it is essentially a blended experience, which can be both synchronous or asynchronous using various modalities.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 1, 2015

The MOOC format provides scope for bringing together diverse learning forms – formal, informal and social, and different modalities – elearning modules, videos, podcasts, book excerpts, articles, and links to blogs, communities, etc. SYNCHRONOUS LEARNING THROUGH VIDEO LECTURES. MSL 2): Encompassing personal and social learning.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Originating on Twitter/X, a hashtag is when someone inserts the hash sign (#) before a word or term on social media websites or applications to identify a particular topic. Synchronous Learning. Keywords used to describe and group content including blog articles, videos, and images etc. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

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