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.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

RIP Training Magazine

I apologize for the length of this, but eulogies bring out the wordiness in me. Tuesday morning brought the sad, but not surprising, news th...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Learning in 3D blog book tour stop

Welcome to today's stop on the Learning in 3D blog book tour . Does the passage below sound familiar? Substitute “VIE” with any other ...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

OMG! Control freak much?

I've just finished up the first draft of my latest book, Social Media for Trainers , due out from Pfeiffer in summer 2010. It's pret...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Trainer's Evaluation of Workshop

Trainers: My "Instructional Design for the Real World" online session yesterday, hosted by Ray Jimenez and ASTD-Los Angeles, inclu...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wherefore Failure?

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

Monday, November 09, 2009

Social Media in Training

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

Sunday, November 01, 2009

What I learn from #lrnchat

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...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Find Your 20%

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: ...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Better than Bullet Points

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

Monday, August 10, 2009

What Do You Care About?

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...

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...

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About Me

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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