Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Causing Serendipty

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In my social media workshops I find that participants struggle most with ideas for supporting serendipitous, accidental, and spinoff learnin...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

A Spring Treat: Connie Malamed's New "Visual Design Solutions"

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Much better than a hollow chocolate bunny, my metaphorical Easter basket this year held a review copy of Connie Malamed’s wonderful new Vis...
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Sunday, March 08, 2015

What's the Story in the Slide Deck?

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This month's Nuts & Bolts column  looks to extend Cammy Bean's great session on writing better elearning scripts.  Key ideas inc...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Cammy Bean, "Writing Better eLearning Scripts" Training 2015

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I'm in Atlanta for Training 2015. Our friend Cammy Bean so often live blogs other people's conference sessions, including some of mi...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Expand Your Surface Area

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In this month's Nuts & Bolts column I extend an invitation to  expand your surface area beyond usual topics and readings and comm...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Figure It Out

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No time or money to do what you'd like? Not "allowed" to use this tool or that process? Shifting time constraints? This month...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

"Social Media for Learning" meets "Show Your Work": The 21 Day Drawing Challenge

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There's a fun social learning activity going on via Lynda.com., the " 21 Day Drawing Challenge " . Led by artist  Von Glitschk...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Reflective Practice

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. Consider investing more time in working toward improving in the future, reconcilin We spend a lot of time in this business talking about ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Show Your Work!

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We know that a lot of “traditional” knowledge management approaches don’t work very well. We have piles of status reports and documented sta...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Managing Expectations of Social Tools

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I find that many organizations have rather unrealistic expectations of what will happen when they move to employ social tools. See this mo...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Building Community

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A lot of my time is spent hearing about, and talking about, and reading about, and endeavoring to, building communities.  I find that people...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Punish the Learner

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For those who've been keeping up with Project Ukulele, I found a nice local group that has a uke playalong meetup every 1st and 3rd Mond...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Making Video More "Social"

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Something new next week, hosted by KZO Innovations : Video used in formal training, or to support informal learning, doesn't have to be ...
Monday, September 02, 2013

The Myth of Best Practices: Update

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In 2009 I wrote a post, "The Myth of Best Practices"   , that described problems with both context and fidelity. Here's a gre...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Be A Learner

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This month's "Nuts and Bolts" column explores the ways an instructional designer can learn from her own learning. In my lin...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

"Show Your Work" Event Today

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I publish a lot, and few things have gotten me more response than last August's Nuts & Bolts column, " Narrating Our Wo...
Friday, May 24, 2013

Are You a Positive Deviant? (Updated June 1)

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Update: I curated some resources for webinar attendees that others may find interesting. Due to the buzz this topic generated we're c...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Want Better Outcomes? Design Assessments First

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New Learning Solutions column this week: “Work backwards. Write the performance goals, decide how you will assess those, and then design t...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

What is "Good" eLearning, Anyway?

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This month in Learning Solutions : "Over the years I’ve seen a lot of lists of criteria for buying eLearning, for developing a produc...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

PowerPoint Converter for 2013

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With the 2 nd edition of Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint (updated for PowerPoint 2013) going to p...