Saturday, April 26, 2008

"Heat"

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Greetings from Sint Maarten, where I've spent the past couple of days in the sun reading (appropriately, as this is the island of high t...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

New ID book ships next week!

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My new big red (very red) book ships next week, chock-full of tools, templates, checklists, worksheets, guidelines, tips, rants (well, only ...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Musings about level 1 evaluation....

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While I'm not much of a fan of Level I evaluation, I do think it can shed insight into the effectiveness of our programs if we ask the r...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

PowerPoint lesson of the day...

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Yesterday I watched someone wrestle to remove a background from a photo, using expensive software with a long learning curve, with lots of t...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Are you a technical communicator-type?

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Are you a technical communicator? Lots of "application training"? User manuals? "Help" data? I'm running the Instruc...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Using Game-Show Games to Replace Quizzes

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Cathy Moore has been having a discussion about "shoestring" approaches, and among her suggestions are using, 1. photos of real pe...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

What does "LMS" mean to you?

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Will Thalhimer has a recent post in which he discusses "LMS" as the "Learning Means Sitting" mentality, while Mark Oehl...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Great E-Learning Tip 1: Develop a good treatment

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Want to make e-learning " better than bullet points "? Start by finding a way out of the static-content box and into an engaging t...
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

For my "E-learning Solutions on a Shoestring" readers

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I have been accused of neglect! Mea culpa! Readers of my "E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring" can check the bozarthzone for u...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

FREE! Online course: "ID for the SME"

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I've been toying with the idea of developing an asynchronous "ID basics" course, and here Clive Shepherd has gone and created ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Virtual Worlds and Grammar Girl

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The Illinois online conference was chock-full of interesting sessions and much fun, including "cocktail hours" in Second Life (on ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

A Blog by Any Other Name

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I just did my "Collaboration on a Shoestring" session for the Illinois Online Conference, where we talked about using Web 2.0 tech...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A Proposal for Banning.... Pencils

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I heard Anders Gronstedt speak at Training 2008. After a great presentation on Web 2.0 technologies, including a nice visit to Second Life, ...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

When is design done?

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This month's Big Question on the Learning Circuits blog is : "If, When, How Much?". To follow up on a follow-up question from ...

Illinois Online Conference on Teaching & Learning

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I hope to see you at the Illinois Online conference. There are lots of sessions on using Web 2.0 and virtual worlds for training and educati...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Coming to Training 2008?

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Lots of famous training folks will be in Atlanta next week for Training 2008 . I hope to see you at my "E-Learning on a Shoestring...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Top 100 FREE Tools for Learning

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Last year Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies asked learning professionals to submit their recommendations f...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

The problem with most e-learning # 471

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So how often does this happen? A trainer or instructional designer comes up with a great idea for making online content engaging and intere...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Finally! A FREE virtual classroom tool

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I've gotten many, many questions about this and finally have an answer. Here's a product with much of the functionality as the big b...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Driving School

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Yesterday's "Zits" comic pretty much sums up much of what's wrong with most training...e-learning...presentations.... See ...