Sunday, September 21, 2008

Finally! Free robust tool for collaboration

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Check out Wiggio , now in Beta. Shared calendar, real-time polling, mass text/chat,central-folder doc storage, conference calling... all in ...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

The Reluctant Adult Learner

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"Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain." Credit to Mo Costandi, who posted this clip on his N...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

101 Free Learning Tools

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From Zaidlearn: Great stuff from web hosting and LMSs (do you really need an LMS? Really? Oh don't get me started.) to hosted virtual cl...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Lifelong Learning

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Long story, but today while researching positive deviants for an upcoming workshop I ran across an article in a back issue of Psychology Tod...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Learning is not the opposite of teaching.

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That's it. The whole post. Can't remember who said it and Google doesn't say, so my apologies to the originator: "Learning ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

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Kevin Brown, with the Office of the Worker Adviser, Central Client Services Unit, sat in on my "E-Learning on a Shoestring" sessio...
Sunday, August 10, 2008

Denver

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Am here for the Leadership Challenge forum (to reseach the new training package I'm writing as part of the LC series)and went out for a ...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

Way more than one born every minute

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This just in from a training colleague with a municipal government in a Midwestern state, and no I am not making this up, because, well, I d...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

PowerPoint to Flash converter

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...so while I am a long-term user and big fan of PresentationPro's PowerConverter product, in the interest of democracy and all things ...
Monday, June 09, 2008

...And the Learners Start to Drive...

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With many innovations, the end users ultimately take the wheel. One of my pet interests is classroom trainer fears of e-learning, and I'...
Monday, June 02, 2008

When to Use Video

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Karl Kapp, Susan Boyd and I are in Philadelphia this week providing the ID Institute for the Society for Technical Communication Summit. I...
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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...