ASTD’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m ... , Flash programmer, game designer, research, etc. Here’s a brief listing of some of the competencies I think newbies ... , asynchronous, blended, distributed, performance support tools, etc. Course authoring - knowledge of software (simulation, game ... and follow their work Attend webinars Attend conferences Subscribe to blogs & start your own Read - trade journals ... ; other coding (w3schools is good) Visit the Learning Circuits blog and find others’ suggestions on this ...

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 World. The list of authors represents a blogging who's who, with contributions from Jane Hart, Tony Karrer, Michele Martin, Mark Oehlert, Sanjay Parker, Brent Schlenker, and Will Thalheimer. As usual with Guild reports, there's a good overall response, in this case 1160 members from 979 different organisations, of which 73% are US-based. For the purposes of the report, the ... , mobile learning was down 10% and serious games down 6%. Surprising you might think.

... started finding a few key people who I follow on blogs to follow on Twitter. Messages started to come in about what project they were working on. What articles people were reading. Blogs they were posting. So on and so on the work related info ... messages on the weekend...kids just won a swim meet, flying my kite at the park, sitting at the ball game, watching a ...

... approach) Blogs increased 20.7% Communities of Practice increased 12.3% Wikis up 7.7% Mobile down 10.6% A number of rapid tools are up, but tools that take longer to create (simulations and games) are down Good question in the chat from Cathy Moore: Are blogs being used top-down or created by learners? Brent says both, very creative ways. 70% plan to apply ... “game” is often blocked Concerns about bandwidth If the CIA & FBI can use these tools, the rest of ...

... because I'm much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions I'm handling there. If I were to blog it all ... interject their personal lives into their blogs (ala Cathy Moore as reported to Michelle Martin), then I don't think I'll make that list. Which is fine. Really. Blogging's not a contest...But personally, I like the personal. And yet ... -appropriate games than Super Smash Brothers and the like. Recently discovered Endless Ocean. You're a scuba diver exploring different dive spots in a fictional spot in the South Pacific. Awesome experiential game. Kind of like Second Life in ...

I really love doing this blog but man, sometimes work comes on strong and I'm Tweeting and Facebooking and my mental writing energy just gets depleted. Thanks however to Tom Crawford and the fine folks at VizThink, I'm feeling a bit re-energized. I just went through a great day-long Webinar featuring Dave Gray, David Sibbet, Karl Gude and Nancy Duarte ... everyone on the call that we could draw) and that hit home. Much like with game-based learning, visual learning was once a primary intake method for us, At some point however, much like with games, we were told that drawing and visuals ...

I really love doing this blog but man, sometimes work comes on strong and I'm Tweeting and Facebooking and my mental writing energy just gets depleted. Thanks however to Tom Crawford and the fine folks at VizThink, I'm feeling a bit re-energized. I just went through a great day-long Webinar featuring Dave Gray, David Sibbet, Karl Gude and Nancy Duarte ... everyone on the call that we could draw) and that hit home. Much like with game-based learning, visual learning was once a primary intake method for us, At some point however, much like with games, we were told that drawing and visuals ...

Harmful to Your Health).My prediction about Games ... (Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008), I took a bit of heat, but looking at the trends - Games down! So are simulations and virtual labs. Any kind of training that requires significant upfront effort is going to come under increasing fire. Oh, here was my prediction ...Prediction #8 => Serious Games ... wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning?Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Warning that on Blogs and Podcasts, the numbers are so low that any adoption looks bigger than it really ...

Harmful to Your Health).My prediction about Games ... (Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008), I took a bit of heat, but looking at the trends - Games down! So are simulations and virtual labs. Any kind of training that requires significant upfront effort is going to come under increasing fire. Oh, here was my prediction ...Prediction #8 => Serious Games ... wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning?Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Warning that on Blogs and Podcasts, the numbers are so low that any adoption looks bigger than it really ...

Corp. ? (Josh Bancroft of Intel gets excellent kudos in the book...way to go Josh!) Or how about an enterprise blogging ... employees) who "get it" help the late adopters get into the game. Recommendation:If you are VERY new to all of this ...

... don't do email, don't do video games..."Are you kidding me? POLICIES! Dude, culture trumps policy. If YOU suck ... /counterpoint on the days topic online. Perhaps it was a blog, or even a youtube video. Why not incorporate it into your ... " education? Please!-------BTW - abc NEWS - I am never watching or blogging about your news bits ever again. Your site ...

... renovateCollaborative Learning Systems http://www.clsllc.com/each game - $1.80 (only mine, once you download to your own ... all the 23 things and you win a prize (to do list)blogs - have your own blogs, get students to discuss a topic live, ...

Luiz told me a story about trying to coax a group of professionals to try blogging. He asked everyone to make a blog entry; no one did. He instructed them to take a sheet of paper and write out something interesting that had happened to them. Then he asked them to pass their papers to another person and  write a comment or observation on the bottom of ... ? This is the blogosphere.â¬ý He asked them each to write an entry in their blog that evening. Guess what happened. No one ... renditions hang together, inviting comparison. More traditional subjects of hams, game, lobster, cornucopia, and bowls of ...

I finally got my grimy mitts on Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution.This purchase is a direct result of his presentation at Innovations in eLearning.Time I could have spent doing useful things (writing, blogging, navel-gazing) has instead been spent with the Xbox controller in hand focused on world domination.What I love most about this....I can really see what Sid Meier was talking about in his discussion of the game. Most importantly "One More Turn."Each time I made a ... instance, caused the one not playing the game to leave the room when the other was playing.I can't watch you play!

Day 3 of the Blog-a-thon...and they said it wouldn't last! We all want to know the future right? Well here are a ... could predict future requirements, capabilities, etc?   The other forecasting model is actually a 'game' called " ... world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and ... ; The game doesn't start until September 22 but people have already started posting their visions for 2019 and while I ... , I'm anxious #1 to see how this is going to be a 'game'...I mean McGonigal is the master of ARG's (ilovebees) but ...

Clive Shepherd has three great posts about blended learning over on his blog (see the links at the bottom of this post). Clive gives us a well-needed closer examination of how we define and prescribe blended learning. In the past, I remember using the term and concept to help get management away from the idea of only using instructor-led training. This at least opened their eyes to consider using online courses, virtual classroom training, etc. Now I feel like too many ... games; Large community, for example, lecture, presentation, Q&A. Clive then explains the importance of the ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog, Tony Karrer poses a whole series of  questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Well I don't know about must, but they certainly should, if ... , but the real test is whether you practise it. Perhaps start as a passive consumer of blogs, wikis, social networks and ... . This is a game in which everyone must feel like a participant.

A somewhat indirect response to the Big Question Lead the Charge? : The Learning Circuits Blog-------------------------------------------------------------------I may be wrong about this - but isn't our primary goal to encourage behavior change?SMEs come to me because they need their employees to do something different.They want help accomplishing this ... hundreds of pages of stuff at them.The tools I used - ideas I gathered from the blogs (thanks folks!), Captivate ... "game?" Ooooooh......)I have found time and again that successful major change is an evolutionary process best done ...

As a reader of this blog you are a witness if not an active participant in the dramatic changes that we have seen over the last few years as a result of web 2.0 technologies. Increasingly everyone is a teacher as well as a learner; nobody