I believe training anybody on any particular tool (even the seemingly ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite), is the wrong way to go. Talk to them about the skill (writing, creating presentations, etc), and then give some assignments across a couple of different tools. This gives you transferrable skills, which will equip you to communicate and collaborateContinueContinue reading “Learnlets » eLearning 2.0”
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Developing Online Training and Presentation Materials | Sun Learning eXchange
Developing Online Training and Presentation Materials | Sun Learning eXchange. Sun has lots of “2.0-ish” information including this video site. This particular video is a nice one about PowerPoint to video using Camtasia. The rest of the site has good info and examples of wikis, blogs, etc in a corporate setting.
Facilitating Online Communities: Leigh’s Facilitation Skills
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 experienceContinueContinue 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 inContinueContinue reading “Image quality in Articulate”
When to use video
Per Karl Kapp via Jane Bozarth: “If the only thing moving is somebody’s lips, then you don’t need video.”
Improving Google Skills
In response to Tony Karrer’s post about improving Google skills, here is a 12 minute version that I built for an assignment in the Ed Tech Master’s program at SDSU. Here’s the link to it via my portfolio site. which has a little additional explanation about how I created it awhile back. http://tmiketaylor.wordpress.com/category/principles-theories-models/ (The directContinueContinue reading “Improving Google Skills”
YouTube: Rapid Instructional Design with Thiagi
If you’re not familiar with Thiagi you should take a quick look at this video. He explains some of the ways he approaches things like leadership and harassment training. Very interesting, unique and I’d say effective ideas. Great stuff! Go ahead and watch – you won’t be sorry. YouTube – UMBC Training Forum: Rapid InstructionalContinueContinue reading “YouTube: Rapid Instructional Design with Thiagi”
Learning Design Summer Camp Concept : Education Technology Services
I really like this idea of “summer camp”. Although I never went I have visions of learning all sorts of fun things just because they seem cool. Not like school when we learn most stuff because we “have to”. I’d love to be able to find enough people near me to do something like this…forContinueContinue reading “Learning Design Summer Camp Concept : Education Technology Services”
How do you know that they know?
A nice article by Frank Nguyen on using Captivate to build assessments. The info here could also be used in other tools. I like this chart he included about which types of questions to use for which types of learning you are trying to achieve. Adobe – Developer Center : How do you know thatContinueContinue reading “How do you know that they know?”
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