Facilitating Online Communities: Leigh's Facilitation Skills. I'm participating in Leigh Blackall's Online Facilitation course and this is a post from a fellow participant that points to 10 good facilitation skills. It's a great list to reference if you facilitate any online activities. Thanks for the link Sylvia!
What Stinks About Webinars?
Chief Learning Officer magazine - What Stinks About Webinars?. As I read this article I found myself nodding my head. I'm much like Antonia and Colleen in the fac that I too think of webinars as "...a low-risk, easy, quick and cheap way to stay current about the state of the field..." My personal experienceContinue reading "What Stinks About Webinars?"
Image quality in Articulate
http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-presenter/7238-quality-loss-screen-shot-images.html If you're having issues with the graphics being distorted after publishing, you can refer to the Word of Mouth blog below: http://www.articulate.com/blog/optim...wser-settings/ This issue is related to how Flash handles non-vector images and small text (we don't recommend including small text in images; you'll see much better results if you type your text inContinue reading "Image quality in Articulate"
How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test – review & download link | freewaregenius.com
How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test - review & download link | freewaregenius.com
Go Big Always – Here’s my crap, please talk about it
Go Big Always - Here’s my crap, please talk about it. I think this is right on money and I"ve also seen this happen a number of times. Garbage in..garbage out. No technology will ever fix that. Here' the crux of it: We have a ton of (documents, marketing materials, assets, whatever) and we wantContinue reading "Go Big Always – Here’s my crap, please talk about it"
Social Media
20 Useful Bookmarklets – Stepcase Lifehack
I've been looking for this and it's right under my nose. I've been using the Windows Live Writer add-on for Firefox but since it doesn't work with FF3 I've been sort of at a loss for a quick and easy way to directly post from the site I want to reference. Alas, from this articleContinue reading "20 Useful Bookmarklets – Stepcase Lifehack"
We need more of us
http://lingos.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/a-60-minute-masters-in-instructional-design/ Link 1: Clive Shepherd’s Presentation on “Why We Need More Instructional Designers” http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/30mins/player.html Link 2: The “60 Minute Masters” Course (audio enabled; registration required) http://www.kineolearning.com/60minutemasters/ Link3: The “60 Minute Masters” Course (no audio; no registration required) http://www.articulate.com/products/demos/blog/60-Minute-Masters-no-audio/player.html
WriteToMyBlog
I've been looking for something like this since the Firefox LiveWriter plugin doesn't work with FF 3.0. I hope this works as well as it looks...we'll see. WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog. Create Post Entries for your Blog from right here, completely free, no membership required, can Post toContinue reading "WriteToMyBlog"
Good Design Principles
This article is for designing forms but I think it translates fairly well to documents as well. This site is also a great source for design ideas and tutorials. Some of the problems with forms and I'd say documents as well, include: a lack of emphasis on anything. (Note: if you emphasize everything that meansContinue reading "Good Design Principles"
Mike Taylor 