Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wherefore Failure?

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Malcolm Gladwell's new collection of essays, What the Dog Saw , includes a piece on the Challenger explosion. Essentially, he asserts, m...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

Social Media in Training

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I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

What I learn from #lrnchat

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Every Thursday evening there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a th...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Find Your 20%

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I see lots of good-presentations-gone bad, often due to the speaker trying to put too much information into the available time. The result: ...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Better than Bullet Points

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Hundreds of people joined me for a whirlwind tour of my second book, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

What Do You Care About?

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I lost a dear mentor on Thursday. Colleen Aalsburg Wiessner, Ph.D., died suddenly while on vacation with her family. She was one of the kin...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Handy Job Aid 1

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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 ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

United Breaks Guitars? Training Won't Fix That

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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 ...
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Saturday, July 04, 2009

New Skills for Learning Professionals

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This month's Big Question asks what new skills learning professionals need going forward in a Web World, "where learning and perfor...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Classroom Trainer Resistance to E-Learning

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Many reports coming in on last week's ASTD International Conference and Expo -- in my world coming from instructional designers and trai...
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Pet First Aid iPhone App

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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...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Education v. Training

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The @slqotd Twitter project, which offers a daily conversation via a "social learning question of the day", has taken a new twist....
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Tips for Working with SMEs

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We had a lively discussion in my VILT session today, "Instructional Design for the Real World". Here's a screenshot of the con...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Monty Python gets it.

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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?

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A 'social learning' theme keeps kicking dust in my direction, first when the TR-DEV Yahoo group folded (see post below from January ...
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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...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Can Your People Pass the Banana Test?

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I'm researching an upcoming live-online session, "Tips for the Positive Deviant" and just ran into this anecdote: During a po...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Wherefore Passion?

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Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work". H...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

State of E-Learning 2009

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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...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

"I'm a Computer Whisperer"

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Well, closing the lid DOES work sometimes...
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