Top 10 Tools

It's that time of year again to update the Top 10 tools list. I've been making my contribution to Jane Hart's Top Tools compilation for several years now. So, wIthout further ado, here is this year's list. Google Reader (RSS) This is my single most used source for my personal learning. It's increasingly rare thatContinue reading "Top 10 Tools"

Getting BETTER Results by Doing LESS Training

In thinking about my conversation coming up later today (6/27 11am Eastern/8am  Pacific) on elearn chat with Rick & Coline , I keep coming back to this idea that we really need to have a holistic view of what were doing. In short, we are NOT in the 'course creation' business. To truly be aContinue reading "Getting BETTER Results by Doing LESS Training"

The Secret of Happiness

via Brain Pickings http://vimeo.com/3686182 Secret of Happiness: A TED remix  An exploratory story of what happiness is, told in TED soundbites and kinetic typography featuring: Dan Gilbert, Matthieu Ricard, Cameron Sinclair, David Carson, Sherwin Nuland, , Dan Gilbert, Martin Seligman, Paula Scher, Matthieu Ricard, Dan Gilbert, Martin Seligman, Matthieu Ricard, Martin Seligman, Paola Antonelli, SirContinue reading "The Secret of Happiness"

Three simple things that will drastically improve your learning designs

via Modern Meeting Standard — a revolutionary new approach to meetings. When people don’t read your memos, it’s not because they don’t like you, it’s because your writing is dreadful. While reading this article, I realized many of these 14 writing tips also apply to a broader range of communications and learning design. Three thingsContinue reading "Three simple things that will drastically improve your learning designs"

Audience Feedback with Poll Everywhere

At the Learning Solutions session I presented with Patti Shank last week I wanted to try some way to include live, real-time audience feedback. After looking at a few different options I decided on Poll Everywhere and it worked out really well. (At least I think it did. If you were there and have aContinue reading "Audience Feedback with Poll Everywhere"

Buffer

I do a lot of reading and try to share a lot of the best stuff I find via twitter. Usually this resulted in a big mass flood of tweets in the dark hours of the morning when most people here in the U.S. are still sleeping.  Recently I discovered a much better way toContinue reading "Buffer"

Plain English

I just wanted to share this great little "Plain English Guide" that I discovered today. Among the wisdom in this 20 page gem are these writing guidelines: 1. Know your audience. 2. Get to the point. 3. Use everyday words. 4. Avoid jargon and abbreviations 5. Keep sentences and paragraphs short. It looks like they'veContinue reading "Plain English"

Tactics for Figuring Things Out

Today I came across this great book "Figuring Things Out: A Trainer's Guide to Needs and Task Analysis" The thing that caught my eye the most was their list of Six 'Tactics of Figuring Things Out' Always work from a model of human performance Start as high in the organization as possible and work yourContinue reading "Tactics for Figuring Things Out"

Insert images instead of copy & paste

I'm guessing that a pretty big percentage of images used in PowerPoint come from the web.  And I'm also guessing that most people may realize that most images on the web have been compressed in some way to provide a balance of quality & small file size.  What I don't think many people realize isContinue reading "Insert images instead of copy & paste"

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,300 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that manyContinue reading "2011 in review"