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Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). Now, I say that I write training manuals for companies, and then I quickly mention the different delivery methods for training (as examples). billbrandon had this comment on Twitter: I usually just tell em Im a writer.
Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. As I write this blog, the man now has 94,894 followers on Twitter and every major news outlet in the world is scrambling for an interview. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg. Go take a peek.
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Those future trends include Spontaneous Learning Systems (SLS), Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS), and highly personalized learning services. Tony is best known in the eLearning industry for founding eLearning Learning , which pulls in blog posts from the most popular eLearning bloggers. You can read more about Clive on his blog.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 My Blogs Personality Type Well, it isnt very glamorous or creative sounding. But I suppose this is an appropriate description of my blogs personality? Check out your own blogswriting style at Typealyzer. And please, dont leave my blog alone. My ID blog matches my own MBTI test (INTJ).
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.
Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Im about halfway through Michael Allens new book, Designing Successful E-Learning. Between you and John Im going to need to ask for a visit to Ikea for a new bookshelf too! I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety. These are my current faves.
The more one you participate in blogs, discussions groups and other social networking tools, the more information there is about you in the world for anyone to access. If you assume that everything you are doing, including what you write in email and IM, is fully public, you tend to protect yourself. Does this concern you?
News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/21/2010 The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs After a long research, I have created a list of the most updated and popular e-learning blogs regarding e-learning.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Im a (K)nitwit! Dan Roddy recently shared a link to a great article on tips for writing in a more conversational tone. Photo credit: Learn to Knit by abbynormy Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:50 PM Labels: instructional design , knitting , writing 3comments: Janet Clarey said. Good for you! Very cool.
Instead, say, While Im unable to issue a refund, Im happy to come up with an offer for a discount on your next order. This blog lays a roadmap to excellence, whether youre a newcomer to the field or an experienced customer service professional. Positive Attitude: Making the Experience Right Positivity is contagious.
I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis. But Im not sure I can get people to hold their answers back. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said. Good post and comments.
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So, what do I do if Im not doing that? Marketing: I write the fact sheets. Proposal Writing: When the sales demo goes well, I write the proposal. Proposal Writing: When the sales demo goes well, I write the proposal. Write all the design documents, project plans, change orders, etc. The website copy.
Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible. Update: Also be sure to check out this Facebook post over at the Read/Write Web that follows this same "study." So Im not sure the issue is people leaking secret information, but maybe just companies afraid of being bad-mouthed.
Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. calculators -- can write on a whiteboard with your finger. As he writes the equations, the whiteboard solves them. We march backwards into the future." Take the Survey!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Big Question This months big question from the Learning Circuits Blog: What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learned that connecting with the blogging community has helped me get more passionate about my work as an instructional designer. Me: "Well, well have to write him a letter."
Im a convert. Sidebar: This, Tony Karrer , is why schools still need to teach good writing. Likewise with writing. Yes, Im an English major who writes mostly text bullets instead of novels. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Thankfully.
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Monday, September 17, 2007 31 Days: Days 26, 27, 28 Im cleaning house and trying to to finish up with the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge. Join us at the Building a Better Blog Ning Group. For those of you who are new to my blog, the 31 Days Challenge was started by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Task complete.
But I find them painfully boring to read and to write. Ray Sims has written a great summary on Writing Learning Objectives , with citations to some good resources, including Vicki Heaths post Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter. And Clive is definitely on the top of my Blogs I Like list!
Nevertheless, Im trying to keep up. Day 18: Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep Within Your Blog This task is about spreading germs. The goal of this task is to write a post that links back to some of your greatest hits, unearthing those old treasures from way back when. Im not going to bother with a full-blown survey.
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Im losing my steam, but trying to stay somewhat on target. So go ahead and "Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog". Day 13: Search for an Affiliate Program My blog is not about making money. Ive got good awareness of what many other e-Learning bloggers are writing about.
Im curious what other folks experiences has been. Im so happy to see you post this up. Im struggling with this right now. Im not on to trying to source another college or university to try out. I fill a support role and bide my time trying to finish a degree Im not really interested in. 12:20 PM she said. ".bide
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.) Most of what Im doing outside of work these days involves the care and feeding of two small people, ages 2 and 4.
Im curious, have you had a chance to listen to yours or any of the others? Im happy with how they turned out. Currently Im playing the role of a learning consultant, taking care of solutions and operations for learning services. Hope to continue blogging and learning from you!! Jay Cross is at Internet Time Blog.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Kineo Top Tips Although my blogging volume may be down, my writing volume certainly is not. Amidst client projects and presentations I think Im actually writing more than ever. Thanks for sharing :) I have spread the news further here: [link] Through my new swoosh delicious blog (whatever!).
Ive had the same profile picture up for months -- on my blog, in Facebook, MyBlogLog, and now here. So Im going to try to mix it up a bit. Im still smiling. But Im wearing a different purple shirt. The power of the personal; building a friendlier world through blogs. I do, indeed, often look like that.
Other benefits of working with two monitors: 1) Have a source document open on one screen and be writing a proposal/storyboard/script on the other. 2) Watch an online Adobe Connect presentation in one screen and blog about it in the other. So the search feature -- I get that and Im sold. Very useful feature. Take the Survey!
Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. Google Alerts A nice adjunct to Google Reader; Im always discovering something new via my "instructional design" alert. Im #34 on the list. Gmail Gmail love. Thanks, Karyn -- shes got it. Take the Survey!
" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Right now, Im proofing a storyboard thats full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and theres really nothing I can do about it.
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Friday, August 10, 2007 31 Days: 8, 9 & 10 Day 8: Run an Advertising Audit on Your Blog. Obviously, thats not my focus so I took Micheles advice and tried to do something from Darens Get Your Blogging Groove Back series. I attempted to write a linking post. My house might be a mess, but Id rather my blog were neat and tidy.
And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. Steven Groves in the comments writes: What the Gartner report went on to say that you left out was a recommendation to continue on in a SL effort anyway, albeit with eyes open and cautiously, keeping a lookout for all the problems they cited. Dont invest any money.
Thursday, August 02, 2007 Online Portfolios Jennifer Madrell shows us a great example of an online portofolio , which she calls a "svelte and sparkly version of this blog - that is a requirement and capstone project at Indiana University." Should the blog become the landing point for your online portfolio? Its kind of scattered.
But, I'm going to try to make a practice of creating blog posts around some of the questions. There are a bunch of other standards by ADL (who is responsible for SCORM ), IMS , IEEE LTSC including CORDRAâ„¢ , LOM , Meta-data , etc. Note: ARIADNE, AICC, IEEE LTSC, and IMS all participate in ADL's work on SCORM). That's great!
Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost. I was wanting to bring this up as a discussion in my blog sometime. Do watch out, Im very keen to know what people would say. Take the Survey!
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