This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you ... your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to not ... courses. 57.584 Online Course Design -teaches Blackboard, Centra, Captivate, Adobe Presenter, Snag-It and Hot ...

This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have ... scholarly approach...The sub-questions for this month's big question are: Do you believe that we have to design, develop and ... tools have become. We can't ignore them when we have a training class. The next question, Are there differences in ... create.) Try to mix things up every 10 minutes or so. Also, when making a point or presenting examples of concepts ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions. November 2006 : Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions. November 2006 : Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in ...

PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. So, this month, The Big Question ... ? Claudia Escribano LifeLongLearningLab A Big Question on PowerPoint 30-May-2007 20:58:36 Tom Crawford ... ! 16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... Keith Peter bodmas.org PowerPoint Big Question 12-May-2007 02:59:43 Jacob McNulty Revolutions What's the ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question ...

PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. So, this month, The Big Question ... ? Claudia Escribano LifeLongLearningLab A Big Question on PowerPoint 30-May-2007 20:58:36 Tom Crawford ... ! 16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... Keith Peter bodmas.org PowerPoint Big Question 12-May-2007 02:59:43 Jacob McNulty Revolutions What's the ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question: ...

I do a variant of this exercise 3-4 times per year. This iteration of the Big Question allows me to think about past, present, and future on a more professional and public level. What will I remember most about 2006? 1) Finally bringing up the last department on the Electronic Medical Record. 5 years of paper to computer conversions in 2 different institutions comes to a close. Not a moment too soon..... 2) Bribing my boss into letting me attend eLearning 2006 and NOT another health care vendor conference. As a result, I managed to escape my isolation from the eLearning ...

The February Big Question goes to the root of what The Big Question is all about. It is a topic that has bothered ... , you could easily see great questions getting raised by both the presenters and the audience. "How can I help my ... month, The Big Question is... What Questions Should We Be Asking? Please answer this question by posting to your ... Blogs: The form for February's Big Question has been closed. If you have a post in response to the February Big ... . Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The big question for February: what questions should we be asking? Tony ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Well, I posted on this subject just last week (see Confused of ... should address the Big Question in a more measured way than in last week's rant, so here goes ... The answer to the question, of course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after ... Articulate or Adobe Presenter . It's OK to have lots of tools, if you can afford them. Just use the tool that ...

Learning Circuit's big questions for December are: 1. What will you remember most about 2006? For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs. It took me a while to develop my own blogging style - I have for years written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same. It isn't. In some ways, it's much more like the ... presented in a wrapper labelled 'course'. 3. What are your predictions for 2007? In spite of the conservatism of ...

... with a Dell XPS, the iMac simply ROCKS! Stay tuned for my response to Part II and III of THE BIG QUESTION ... What will you remember most about 2006? I've been planning my year in review post and just noticed THE BIG QUESTION .  Cool! 2006 has been a GREAT year!  I have several events to be remembered but most importantly 2006 ... .  After meeting Mark Oehlert at Learning2005 we partnered up to present at the Serious Games conference in ... closing old chapters in my life.  10 years of corporate life is closed.  The morning before my day of presentations ...

... month's big question - a few days late. This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay Cross' presentation on informal learning at ASTD TechKnowledge. She was in charge of designing training and support systems ... needed to consider, and how to balance what approaches were taken. So, this month, The Big Question is... What ... New Managers Up to Speed Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog March's Big Question: What would you do to support new managers ... Connections Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning Clark Quinn Learnlets LCBlog's big question of ...

The Big Question on the LCB for January is: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? There's a lot involved in this question and I plan to revisit it several times during the ... would have a different cost and effect on performance. So, the real challenge posed by the Big Question is knowing ... often use in presentations to illustrate a point: Expenditure on training has a limit on the performance gains you ... simpler that we know won't be as effective at improving performance. And this isn't a theoretical question - it's ...

This month the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is about PowerPoint. The question: PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? I decided to create a demonstration showing good and bad uses of PowerPoint to make a particular point. You can watch the short presentation (less than 10 minutes) by clicking on this link to the presentation Avoiding Death by PowerPoint . The presentation shows animated examples and how I converted some traditional slides into slides that are much more effective. I thought with a subject like PowerPoint...visuals were a ...

We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... last year at this time with a similar kind of question: December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future ... . If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark ...

We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... last year at this time with a similar kind of question: December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future ... . If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark ...

May's Big Question in the Learning Curcuits Blog is PowerPoint: what is appropriate, when and why? Now I have just finished a three part posting on the subject of visualisation, so the body of my answer to this question can be found there: The power of pictures - part 1 The power of pictures - part 2 The power of pictures - part 3 But I can't ... right formula for a face-to-face presentation? Well, making the big assumption that the presenter has an interesting and ... , then: Voice alone = possible under-stimulation (the presenter speaks at 150-200 words per minute, but you ...

... spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out. PowerPoint Based Here is a presentation I did called Parts of the Stove . The reason for this presentation is to show what can be done with PowerPoint and a digital ... This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we are supposed to consider both good and ... e-learning designs. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint . This presentation is not an e-learning presentation per say but ...

... blogs in eLearning? That's a big question. But I also think its the wrong question. I don't think we can push the use of ... Dennis McDonald has a great post about Using a Blog for a "Web2.0" Presentation instead of PowerPoint . I love his postscript: "I debated whether or not to use the term "Web 2.0," which has fallen out of favor among the cognoscenti. I decided to use it, though, simply because it has to an extent emerged into popular usage and it takes less space to type than the words "social networking and social media." Here is how I defined "web 2.0" for the group: The ...

Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out. PowerPoint Based Here is a presentation I did called Parts of the Stove . The reason for this presentation is to show what can ... camera can be expanded upon for a number of e-learning designs. Avoiding Death by PowerPoint . This presentation is not an e-learning presentation per say but it is a presentation using e-learning technologies to quickly get information ...

The Big Question logo to your post would be a perfect early Christmas present for Tony and I. Once you've entered your ... It's the beginning of another month! Time for another The Big Question . November's Question got passions raging ... The Big Questions being tough, so here's a softball, or should I say SNOWBALL, for you. The Big Question for ... coming years. The Big Question Process You can find more details over in the sidebar, but simply answer these ... eLearning Technology LCB Question for December - Past Year, Present Challenges, Future Predictions 04-Dec-2006 ...

... everything a blend? The argument for blended learning The Big Question: Leading the ... Adobe Presenter 7 still a Breeze to use Ive got the new Adobe Presenter 7 on a months trial and have spent the past hour giving it a thorough working over. Im interested in this sort of PowerPoint-based tool both for myself, because I like to package up my presentations with audio for web delivery ... to be as simple as possible. Presenter 7 installs as a PowerPoint add-on (including the 07 version if you have ...

... learningcircuitblog.pbwiki.co m/bigquestions and the list is now 112 questions long. Since I'm not tracking comments this month for The Big Question, I thought I'd do something that I hope will be valuable. I've aggregated all of the questions that have been proposed in the participating blogs. You can find the list, which at the moment stands at 102 questions, on the LCB Discussion Wiki on the Big Questions page. On the wiki page I describe a few things that I needed to make educated guesses at. If you don't care for how I've presented your question(s), please feel free ...

This month's LCB Big Question is on the Use of PowerPoint . In scanning around a bit for resources on this topic, I've found a few good starting points. I have tagged these in del.icio.us using the tag: lcbPowerPoint. I will continue to do so and you can find a current list at: http://del.icio.us/tag/lcbpowerpoint Research points the finger at PowerPoint Reports of the "Death of PowerPoint" greatly exaggerated Creating Presentations That Don't Suck! Stop your presentation before it kills again! Is it finally time to ditch PowerPoint? The 10/20/30 Rule ...

Happy New Year! As promised ... The Big Question for January is: What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008? To help you get started, you might want to look back at the posts on last months big question and last year's predictions. December 2007 - What Did You Learn about Learning? December 2006 - Past experiences. Present ... a link to your post. You will get bonus points for: Including a link to this post and even better include the Big Question logo. In your comment, provide an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste. For example, Tony ...

Happy New Year! As promised ... The Big Question for January is: What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008? To help you get started, you might want to look back at the posts on last months big question and last year's predictions. December 2007 - What Did You Learn about Learning? December 2006 - Past experiences. Present ... a link to your post. You will get bonus points for: Including a link to this post and even better include the Big Question logo. In your comment, provide an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste. For example, Tony ...

Regarding the Big Question, I love PowerPoint to create graphics and present findings. What is great about them is that I can first play with them for a while to get them right, then embed them in Word documents, where they are small from a size perspective, remain editable, but also print (and translate to Acrobat) incredibly well because the programs still recognize the text in them. Given that the value that I often provide to clients is create fabulous IP, this is critical. Here are some public examples of PowerPoints I have created, and please click to enlarge.

Regarding the Big Question, I love PowerPoint to create graphics and present findings. What is great about them is that I can first play with them for a while to get them right, then embed them in Word documents, where they are small from a size perspective, remain editable, but also print (and translate to Acrobat) incredibly well because the programs still recognize the text in them. Given that the value that I often provide to clients is create fabulous IP, this is critical. Here are some public examples of PowerPoints I have created, and please click to enlarge.

... blogging? I need to revive the Big Question - where's Dave Lee. ... Small edit on 11/19. Is it my imagination, or is blogging slowly taking off among eLearning folks? The past few conferences I did, I didn't see many bloggers talking about sessions who weren't presenters or long time bloggers. This time I've seen quite a few more mentions in relatively new bloggers: Blog, Blogger, Bloggest eLearning 2.0 Presentation with Tony Karrer Trainer's First Blog Ephemerally Important What did I get out of DevLearn ?

For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some of my thoughts in Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? while I suggested that YOU should, I didn't push. In my summary of the responses to the Big Question - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog - I again ...