Category Archives: learning

No Photoshop Required

Ethos3 recently posted a ‘How to’ on how they made their cut out images in Photoshop for their fabulous “Simplify, Simplify, Simplify” deck. I saw a question asking if this could be done using ONLY PowerPoint and the answer is yes and it’s super simple. Here is one way it can be done: 1. RemoveContinueContinue reading “No Photoshop Required”

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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 aContinueContinue reading “Getting BETTER Results by Doing LESS Training”

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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, SirContinueContinue reading “The Secret of Happiness”

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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’veContinueContinue reading “Plain English”

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Design for the way people learn

As part of the launch of her new book, “Design for How People Learn” Julie Dirkson is asking for a learning design tip in exchange for a chance to win a copy. (Congratulations on the book Julie!) Head on over to her site to add your tip or read the others. My tip for designingContinueContinue reading “Design for the way people learn”

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If Tom Peters can do it so can you

        We all hear the excuses about why we can’t cut extraneous content and I’m not buying it. If Tom Peters can get the gist of his leadership wisdom into a 1 to 2 pager so can you. Period. 5 Days to Compose45 Years to Prepare | tompeters!. I challenge you toContinueContinue reading “If Tom Peters can do it so can you”

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Top 10 Tools

My contribution to Jane Hart’s 2011 version of the Top 100 Tools for Learning Twitter: The best source for finding, following & talking with smart people. twitter.com/tmiket Google Reader: …so I can subscribe to those smart people’s blogs and reader.google.com Diigo: Diigo has stepped inherited bookmarks after the horrendous Delicious debacle. diigo.com PowerPoint/Articulate: The Articulate community aloneContinueContinue reading “Top 10 Tools”

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Low Tech

Lately I’ve had a few  conversations around low, or at least lower, tech options to online courses which is prompting me to explore what others may be doing in this regard. For example, one conversation with @pattishank, @abigrace & @jrandersoniii involved the question of using a document instead of a course. http://twitter.com/#!/pattishank/status/113658353124786177 If its just aContinueContinue reading “Low Tech”

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Applying Cognitive Strategies to Instructional Design

In putting together a webinar on Learning Design, stop number one was Ruth Clark.  While browsing her articles I came across this article which is way too good not to share. “Applying Cognitive Strategies to Instructional Design” [PDF] “Instructional technology is a design science that must guide the professional production of instruction. This article recommends aContinueContinue reading “Applying Cognitive Strategies to Instructional Design”

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