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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

If I see they still have that blank look in their eyes, I quickly mention the names of some of my clients and that usually gets there attention enough to explain further. Can I, um, have your attention, please? 10:19 AM Cammy Bean said. So we need a different job title. Instructional Designer just sounds too vague/technical.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. Properly d.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Whether you are reading or listening, you’re also being distracted by the option your brain is not trying to pay attention to. My goal is to make sure that no matter the size of the project, each company that comes to us gets immediate, attentive, personal service. Properly d.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. A, attention, R, relevance, C, confidence and S, Satisfaction. tool chest.

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What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Clearly, there’s something to be learned here. What’s the cause of all this attention? People pay way more attention to ideas and comments that are “out there,” and therefore memorable, than to those that are staid and commonplace, and therefore boring. The result will be audience attention, and a thorough message.

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Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Michael Sampson of Information Week offers a four-stage model to help companies think through the user adoption challenge in his book, User Adoption Strategies: Shifting Second Wave People to New Collaboration Technology. Capture the attention of the target population of users within the enterprise. Properly d.