Thursday, April 29, 2010

Travels With My Kindle

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My husband and I spend 2 weeks in the Caribbean every spring, and while I don't unplug completely I do spend the bulk of my time unwindi...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

And ADDIE wasn't even there to see it...

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There's been lot of talk in Twitterland lately about the usefulness of the ADDIE process model often used in instructional design (much ...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

How the Snake Got Its Oil

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There's been a flurry of activity this week on the topic of snake oil: First Harold Jarche said : "“As soon as the software vendors...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

RIP Training Magazine

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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...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Learning in 3D blog book tour stop

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Welcome to today's stop on the Learning in 3D blog book tour . Does the passage below sound familiar? Substitute “VIE” with any other ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

OMG! Control freak much?

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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...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Trainer's Evaluation of Workshop

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