Breakthrough eLearning

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Our daughter wants to be an animator. She will be going to university or college next year and has been checking out various computer animation and digital media programs. Interestingly, none of these programs really care about the applicant's computer programming skills. They are looking for talented and creative artists. They will help them hone these skills and then teach them how to channel them appropriately in a digital environment.

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Update June 2008 - added one free flash quiz tool based on a question I received. This tool is listed at the bottom. A client wanted to create online quizzes that would live inside of a larger site. They didn't really need tracking of user responses, instead they wanted them to be fun. I suggested a couple of tools, but then wondered if I had given them the best list of tools.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, November 02, 2007 Instructional Designers: Do You Have a Degree in ID? Clive Shepherd posted today about a dinner conversation he had with Cathy Moore. "Cathy confessed that she is sometimes denied some work opportunities because she does not have a degree in instructional design. " (Now, I cant imagine anyone turning Cathy Moore down for an ID job.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Our annual Corporate Advisory Council meeting is today and it promises to be an exciting event with student and corporate presentations as well as a lively discussion on the topic of being an independent contractor. For those of you attending, here are some important links. Panel Discussion Slide Show. CAC Member Survey (for meeting attendees only please.no big secret it just asks questions about the presentation and you, of course, need to be at the presentation to comment.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

As was revealed last Friday at the e-learning Network, vast numbers of free e-learning tools are available. For some of the most popular tools see Jane Hart’s Directory of Learning Tools. If there are all these great free tools, why are cost-conscious firms not adopting them faster? Based on the ELN discussions, here’s my top 10: Awareness: it’s difficult for L&D to keep up to date with and evaluate the sheer volume of new tools, hence it’s easier to wait to see what

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects. However, the open aspect of OpenSocial likely will win out in the long run.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Ive gotten rusty in the practice of ID, although very adept in the research and learning part (and I can talk a pretty good game).

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Bart Pursel of Virtual Learning Worlds and an alumni of our program presented on Virtual Worlds. He defined a Virtual World as a computer-based environment intended for users to inhabit and interact via avatars in a 3D represented world. Bart gave a list of different 3D worlds and provided a great comparison between a Internet Service Provider and Linden Labs (the company behind Second Life.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

A fabulous article in today’s Independent which collects many of the most irritating office buzz words into one place. Now that these horrors have been safely corralled, will conference calls ever be the same again? Here’s an easy to print out list of phrases to help you play buzzword bingo: Elephant in the room. It’s not rocket science.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 10, 2007

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I just wanted to alert folks that Learning Circuit's Big Question has been revived. We've lost Dave Lee's forms, but we are going back to the old manual approach. I hope you'll join the party and submit your thoughts on the question: The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? If you are new to blogging, this is a great way to get your blog noticed.

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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.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Instructional Designers with ID Degrees = 25% Instructional Designers are still responding to the survey I recently posted, asking instructional designers to tell us about their educational background and ID training. Weve now got 32 responses. 8 people have advanced degrees in instructional design (25%).

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Phil showed a simulation, which you can view here. while talking about the development process and how it was designed to give specific feedback based on learner interactions with the simulation and how the simulation dealt with "failure." He talked about building an environment in which people interact and make decisions while receiving realistic feedback such as a change in the attitude or tone of voice of other characters within the simulation.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Fair play to Richard Naish in November’s e.learning age – he has the poke to write about the impact of the “cult of the amateur” in an article provocatively called “Monkeys typing” (as in get enough monkeys typing for long enough and eventually Hamlet will be reproduced). Essentially he laments the trend of the diminishing status of the expert as user-generated content becomes more prevalent under the general trend that is Web 2.0.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

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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.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

For a person who I generally think is pretty smart Thomas Davenport (his book Thinking for a Living is generally quite good), I find him saying some pretty weak things. A couple months ago, I took him to task in Thomas Davenport and Blogging - He is Wrong! In his book he tells us basically that blogs have detracted from productivity, not increased it.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Ken Carroll on Learning Ken Carroll of the-eLearning-takes-on-language-sensation ChinesePod is now blogging live from Shanghai on topics as diverse as RSS and Finnegans Wake. Stop by and say hi. Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:00 PM Labels: ken_carroll 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Cammy Bean Greater Boston, MA, United S

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Cliff Sobel and Rhonda Dorsett presented on a companion website that The Phoenix Group created for the PBS television program "Travels to The Edge" hosted by well known photographer, Art Wolfe. Rhonda Dorsett was the Creative director on this project. The site was so successful it was posted on Adobe's homepage because of its excellence in design and functionality (using Adobe's products).

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

As I read November’s Accountancy magazine, I was pleased to see Tracy Gordon, who I used to sit next to 10 years ago at Deloitte, has become famous enough to write an article about the latest Companies Act. I enjoyed that it was more apocalyptic than the usual articles about Financial Reporting…and there may be some significant impacts on accountancy firms, especially those in the mid tier.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Weird - after posting, I just saw a post in my blog reader from HeyJude - Find free images online - my list! She points me to (I don't have time to clean this up. Sorry.) Mashable's 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources. 10 Places to Find Free Image FlickrCC - Bigfoto.com offers pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Friday, November 16, 2007 Blog Readability Test: What a Joke! Get a Cash Advance My blog came in at the genius level on the readability test. I take it to mean that it must take a genius to figure out what Im really trying to say, since I must not be saying it all that clearly.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Next, we had a panel discussion called Working Collaboratively and Independently Simultaneously:Independent and Contractor and Small Business Forum. The panel consisted of Robyn Defelice, Jennifer Pearson, Brad Keller, Jonathan Jones and Phil Charron and had great information about being an independent contractor/consultant. The discussion focused on non-compete agreements, intellectual property and other issues related to creating content and ideas for clients.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

The Legal Services Act which was born out of the Clementi Review gained Royal Assent last week. Over the past few years you’ll have heard reports of “Tesco Law” and doom-mongers reporting that law firms will perish in the wake of increased competition from non-law firms. So what does the Act actually say? Today’s issue of The Lawyer has a handy summary. “The Legal Services Act will: Allow non-legal businesses to invest in firms; Make provision for alternative busine

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