BozarthZone

Notes from Jane Bozarth's BozarthZone, with special interest in Communities of Practice, capturing tacit knowledge, accessibility and inclusion, and creating effective learning experiences, along with general thoughts about Learning & Development. Practical, human-centered, slightly contrarian about tech hype, and deeply grounded in how work actually happens.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Handy Job Aid 1

Zaidlearn posted this the other day in the context of a longer discussion about Bloom's taxonomy. This item is one of the most useful ...

Thursday, July 16, 2009

United Breaks Guitars? Training Won't Fix That

I've had a great time with the recent, fun brouhaha over United Breaks Guitars . With 3 million+ views so far, the video is a testament ...

Saturday, July 04, 2009

New Skills for Learning Professionals

This month's Big Question asks what new skills learning professionals need going forward in a Web World, "where learning and perfor...

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Classroom Trainer Resistance to E-Learning

Many reports coming in on last week's ASTD International Conference and Expo -- in my world coming from instructional designers and trai...

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Pet First Aid iPhone App

Back in December I wrote about one of my favorite iPhone apps (and excellent example of a performance support tool), the Pocket Aid first ai...

Friday, June 05, 2009

Education v. Training

The @slqotd Twitter project, which offers a daily conversation via a "social learning question of the day", has taken a new twist....

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tips for Working with SMEs

We had a lively discussion in my VILT session today, "Instructional Design for the Real World". Here's a screenshot of the con...

Monday, April 27, 2009

Monty Python gets it.

To extend last week's post on who owns information, how about this: Monty Python put free videos on YouTube, in better quality than the...

Monday, April 20, 2009

Who Owns Information?

A 'social learning' theme keeps kicking dust in my direction, first when the TR-DEV Yahoo group folded (see post below from January ...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

2009 Top Ten Tools for Learning Professionals

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Each year Jane Hart of the UK's Centre for Learning and Perfomance Technologies invites practitioners to submit their "Top 10 Tools...

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Can Your People Pass the Banana Test?

I'm researching an upcoming live-online session, "Tips for the Positive Deviant" and just ran into this anecdote: During a po...

Monday, March 16, 2009

Wherefore Passion?

Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work". H...

Saturday, March 07, 2009

State of E-Learning 2009

Elearn Magazine asked me for 500 words on my views about the current state and future of e-learning. The piece begins: "As the news abo...

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

"I'm a Computer Whisperer"

Well, closing the lid DOES work sometimes...

Sunday, February 22, 2009

E-Learning and the Panopticon

Bentham developed the idea of the panopticon , a prison design that provided a single central point from which all prisoners/cells/activitie...

Monday, February 16, 2009

Reality or ... Media?

My January 24 post, "Collapse of a Community of Practice", included an aside about what training practitioners are really doing v....

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Sacred Training Cows

I am just home from Training 2009 where, among other things, I offered sessions on "Better than Bullet Points" and "Instructi...

Monday, February 09, 2009

The Myth of "Best Practices"

I get lots of requests for lists of "best practices"...in e-learning, in the virtual classroom, in instructional design, in classr...

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Can 'Competencies' be Taught?

I tend to agree with Marcus Buckingham ( First, Break all the Rules ). Do you? What's been your experience with "competencies"...

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Information Skills Needed

I've been doing a good deal of research/work lately with knowledge management. One of my concerns is that the focus so often seems to be...

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Jane Bozarth: Author, "Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud","Social Media for Trainers" Also, "Better than Bullet Points", and "From Analysis to Evaluation"

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