Mike Taylor

Windows Live Writer Tweaks, Tips, and Updates

Now that they’ve got the plug-in working for Firefox 3 I’m back to using Live Writer and see that they’ve got some cool plug-ins of their own. Beta Beat: Windows Live Writer Tweaks, Tips, and Updates

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Web Conferencing Services : eLearning Technology

I’m getting ready to dig into this and this will be a great start! Thanks Tony. Web Conferencing Services : eLearning Technology

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Top 25 E-learning blogs for 2008

How many do you follow? My Top 25 blogs for 2008 | The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

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ShareThis – Quick Sharing – Get the Bookmarklet!

ShareThis – Quick Sharing – Get the Bookmarklet!Posted using ShareThis

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eLearning Technology

Great list of relevant e-learning posts and resources from Tony Karrer. 2008 2009 : eLearning Technology

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Designing interactive e-learning – a job aid | Janet Clarey

I like this US Homeland Security Threat Level color coded chart to e-learning courses. Very creative! Designing interactive e-learning – a job aid | Janet Clarey

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Before & After Slides

Great example from apollo ideas of how slides should be designed. ex01

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Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory

I’m all for an afternoon nap just like back in kindergarten; a chocolate milk and then a quick cat nap. Where do I sign up? English-speaking students’ ability to remember Chinese characters they were taught just before a nap (and some without a nap): Upon awakening, they took a multiple-choice test of Chinese words they’dContinueContinue reading “Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory”

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compfight + a flickr search tool

Compfight has just rolled out a nice update to their flick search. Personally, I have much better luck searching flickr with this and it has a Creative Commons (CC) search built in. compfight + a flickr” search tool

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Improving Long-term Learning Through Spacing Of Lessons

Very interesting research that says “increasing the time between the study sessions reduced the rate of forgetting. This reduction in forgetting was very large.” They go on to give some recommendations and other practical information. This is a “must read”. practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything…Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramaticallyContinueContinue reading “Improving Long-term Learning Through Spacing Of Lessons”