Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 16, 2008
I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 31, 2008
ZaidLearn: 8 Free Screencasting Tools For Tony! Tony Karrer bumped into his limit for a free Jing account, so he asked for other free tools. Zaid Ali Alsagoff provides some options to check out. tags : screencast , tools. Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn. Like several other people, I just found this 2006 post from Stephen Downes on 10 things you should learn that you won’t be taught in school.
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Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 30, 2008
If you read my blog much, you know that I use LinkedIn quite a bit to help me find experts and expertise. You can see how I do this in my posts/screencasts LinkedIn Searching for Experts and Expertise and LinkedIn Answers to Get Help. One of the techniques that I show in the first is that you can expand the reach of your search by choosing to search groups.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Students standing outside of green building on MSIT island. Another question about virtual worlds and learning. How do you get learners to engage in higher order cognitive skills (e.g., abstraction; synthesis; evaluation; experimentation; reflection) in a virtual world? Virtual worlds are ideal for placing a learner into a problem solving situation.
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Learning Visions
OCTOBER 3, 2008
I've succumbed to Twitter. After reading Jane Hart's article Understanding Today's Learner , I realized I'd better be walking the talk and trying out all the hot new "learning" tools. So Wednesday, I signed up. Within minutes, I was greeted by a number of people. That sort of freaked me out and I momentarily panicked -- how do I reply back and just how did they find me so fast?
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Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 14, 2008
The third week of Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Free Online Course (you can jump in at any time) is all about Blogs for Learning. Interestingly, when I prepared the notes for this week, I was able to leverage what the course members had produced during the previous week on Social Bookmarks : [link] [link] [link] You can read in the link Blogs for Learning about my perspective on using Blogs for Learning and Networking.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 29, 2008
A Networked Life – Ton Zijlstra on Social Networking. Full quote from Ton Zijlstra on information overload, in the original interview about the value of social media and networking. tags : quoteable , informationliteracy , networks , socialnetworking. Information overload does not exist. Failing information strategies do exist. We were brought up with information strategies based on scarcity.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 22, 2008
George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand people from all over the world take part in the week-long conference. This year the conference has an incredible set of speakers and lots of opportunities to discuss the issues.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Having recently been invited to speak in Las Vegas (see Keynoting in Vegas--Not the same as headlining but. ), I took some time to see a few shows and one of my favorites was the well known creative and innovative act know as the Blue Man Group. As the Blue Man Group's web site describes; Blue Man Group is a creative organization dedicated to creating exciting and innovative work in a wide variety of media.
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eLearning Cyclops
OCTOBER 30, 2008
I was looking over the e-Learning Guild's 360 report on mobile learning, released several months back. What really jumped out for me was the survey regarding targeted devices. Granted the results are anecdotal and not from a scientific survey, but none the less it does reflect answers from 240 m-learning designers from numerous regions around the world.
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 24, 2008
I was reflecting the other day about a question my postgrad lecturer, Dr Peter Goodyear , asked me a couple of years ago: When did you first use the Internet? Of course, the “Internet&# is a potentially controversial term. For me, however, the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW), and I remember first browsing it with Netscape Navigator back in my undergrad years at UTS.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 13, 2008
I'd like to ask your help. Can you please take a really quick survey - three questions only. Your age and then shows you two images and asks if you know what they are. I'll post the results up pretty soon (within a week or two) as I need them for an upcoming presentation. You'll likely get the point of the question based on the two images in the survey.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 28, 2008
What would Dr. Seuss Say about Online Communities? 5 minute presentation on slideshare with tips for guiding online communities. tags : fun , community , leadership. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 29, 2008
Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Getting to Good Enough "Dont let good enough get in the way of perfect." 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.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 16, 2008
Story telling and instructional design have a lot in common and perhaps they are not thought of as having any overlap but they do. In e-learning we have instructional strategies, in a story we have a plot. In e-learning we have objectives, in a story we have a morale or an underlying theme or symbolism (good ones anyway, i.e. the Christ references in the original Matrix).
eLearning Cyclops
OCTOBER 28, 2008
My Ben Franklin MinuteBio is finally complete and now available at MinuteBio.com. As with the others, this is made in Flash Lite (FL 1.1). It is a quick intro to Franklin. This one uses quite a few imported graphics making the file size quite a bit larger than prior courses (533kb), but still a very manageable size even for my Nokia S40. Please take a look.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 29, 2008
I had used Jing several times recently to create screencasts. I have been pretty happy with it as a tool, but I got a message from Jing that told me that I had nearly used up my monthly bandwidth. Basically, with the free account you get 2GB of bandwidth and once that's used up you have to wait for the start of the next month. Whew, it's almost Nov. 1.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 8, 2008
A client of mine (celebrity) would like to record video interviews they are going to be doing with people all around the country. We are thinking that we will be sending out some basic equipment (web cam + microphone) to the people involved in the interview if they don't have the right stuff. I'm trying to figure out what software we will use. It looks like ooVoo provides the split screen capability and ability to record and I've seen a couple instances on YouTube that look okay.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 23, 2008
How to Build Quick Elearning Demos for Your Portfolio « One-Stop Resource for Instructional Designing. Rupa discusses common reasons why instructional designers don’t have work for a portfolio and suggests how to put together some quick demos in Captivate or Camtasia to show off your skills. tags : e-learning , instructionaldesign , portfolio , captivate.
Learning Visions
OCTOBER 29, 2008
"Don't let good enough get in the way of perfect." This adage works for me most of the time as I'm designing eLearning courses. Right now, I'm feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Client demands, project schedules -- sometimes all you can do is churn it out. Right now, I'm proofing a storyboard that's full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and there's really nothing I can do about it.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Too often learning and development professionals (and practically everyone else) treats learning as an event. The assumption is that a person attends one class or takes one online course and SHAZAM, they instantly know everything they need to know about a topic, software application, new corporate policy or product. This is a lie. But we all buy-in.
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From the Coleface
OCTOBER 24, 2008
One of the reasons that I started this blog was that it would force me to reflect more thoroughly, as describing something to others requires far more clarity of thought than telling yourself that you understand it. Here I reflect on the changes that I’ve helped make to the design of e-Learning Network conferences in the form of tips that you could use to freshen up events that you design, or perhaps even demand from conferences that you attend in future.
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 29, 2008
I've read a bit from ( here , here , and here ) about Jet Blue's use of web 2.0 / social media tools to communicate between their staff of learning professionals. This is another great example of eLearning 2.0. Jet Blue University (their internal corporate university that I recently heard being discussed on Knowledge @ Wharton) is using Awareness Networks ' platform to work collaboratively on projects between employees in disparate locations and programs and to share best practices on how to tra
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 6, 2008
The second week of our Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Course is starting and the topic is Social Bookmarks. Here's the great resource / assignment that Harold and Michele created for this week: Week 2: Free Your Bookmarks with Social Bookmarking This has sparked some interesting activity and makes me think that the net effect of this kind of open course is a bit more interesting than I had thought.
Experiencing eLearning
OCTOBER 21, 2008
A List Apart: Articles: Working From Home: The Readers Respond. Tips from ALA readers on working from home–how to manage your time, be productive, and find balance. Telecommuting is very individual. I’d go insane if I had a manager who trusted me so little that I had to send HOURLY progress reports, but clearly it works for the person who submitted that idea. tags : telecommuting , productivity , balance.
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Lars is Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2008
Wired Magazine have run an interesting feature reminding us that with a functioning networked society the old assumptions of physically working alongside each other are rightly being challenged. But its interesting how slowly the notion of teleworking/telecommuting has moved into the mainstream.
Kapp Notes
OCTOBER 30, 2008
Great presentation last week to a group of enthusiastic trainers. Group Three Group Two. Group One. Today I am doing a presentation called "Innovations in Technology And What it Means to Learning and Training" Here are some resources related to the presentation; List of Recommended Books Definition of Mnemonic Here is a copy of the presentation. Learning Technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Should you be a regular reader of this blog, then you will no doubt have picked up that we have experienced a number of aspiring highs and avalanching lows in our attempts to deploy Scorm materials. Well here comes a new high, because we just tried out Captivate, which Adobe describe as software that enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training, and robust quizzes without programming knowledge or multimedia skills.
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