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My colleagues and I recently submitted a paper/presentation for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference. This was their annual training and technology conference. We presented on some of the training programs we are working on, and we also gave a primer on trends in the learning field.One of the more remarkable things was a simple question asked by my colleague. Presenting to a room of about 100 people, she asked who had ... . I'm not saying that learning conferences are bad...far from it. It's just that sometimes we suffer from ...
Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Thursday, June 19, 2008 - CommentsWorkshop Exercise Design - Help Needed
I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. I feel like it makes a lot of the discussion more concrete.I'm really hoping that folks will help me out by:a. telling me what they would say if they were in the workshop andb. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself.The last time I posted something like this it was a HUGE help and I significantly redesigned the exercise which probably saved me a lot of grief. See comments in Conference Session Breakout - which convinced me ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - CommentsOMG...There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!!
OK at least now we have an explanation for what has been going on in all of organizations. We have thoroughly been infiltrated by spies who have read and are following this manual. Seriously. This is a manual from 1944 that taught spies how to sabotage everything from railways to organizations. It came to light as part of a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Intellipedia. Wanna hear the crazy part? I have excerpted the portion of the manual below that explains how to disrupt and destroy the internal workings of organizations. Tell me that many of these don't read ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - CommentsLearning and Technology Conferences
This happens to me every few months: I’ll hear about a great conference that took place for learning and technology professionals just a few days after it occurred. Bummer. So I wanted to open up this week’s post to get your input (please!). What learning and technology conferences have you attended, and would you recommend them? I’ll go first: I made it to the Training Magazine 2006 conference and thought it was great. They had fantastic keynote speakers ... conferences (Annual Gathering 2007 and 2008 and DevLearn 2007). These have been my favorites, especially in terms ...
eLearning Weekly - Saturday, June 14, 2008 - CommentsObjection #10: Wasting Time
Objection #10 stems from the “SOCIAL” aspect of social learning. In fact, in one conference session I gave one attendee said that they would never mention the word ’social’ for fear that those who have an influence on the decision might get the wrong idea. Understood. “The employees will spend hours writing a blog and put of actually getting things done. Their productivity will go down.” Answer: I believe I have told this story before, but I am going to again. A friend of mine, Josh Bancroft, (who created the famed Intelpedia for Intel) and I ...
Engaged Learning - Friday, June 13, 2008 - CommentsObjection #9: They Aren't Technical
... a number of conferences and as I have consulted with other companies). At our company I (we) am (are) creating a public facing Web 2.0 solution that triples as a Social Learning environment, communication tool and a Customer Support tool. Within our company the mantra is, “Our customers are not technical. They don’t know computers.” That never settled right with me. Something was wrong every time I heard them say that ...
Engaged Learning - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - CommentsScreenFlow Wins Two Apple Design Awards
I mentioned the release of ScreenFlow back in February, and this app is getting some high-profile (and well-deserved) recognition by way of two Apple Design Awards from the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC): Best OS X Graphics and Media Application and Best OS X Application. With the high level of quality of OS X applications in general, winning an Apple Design Award is no mean feat. Winning two? Epic! Nice work, Vara Software. Sorry Windows users, this one is Mac-only. But the time has never been better (VMWare Fusion) to jump into the Mac end of the pool. Come on in, ...
eQuixotic - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 0 commentsMicro-Elements (Things) in Social Learning - From the ASTD International Conference
We have 100,000 members, and we want to jump on board and use Web 2.0 for Learning.""Top management directed me to see how we can launch Social Networking and Learning to 45,000 of our employees."These are comments I received during my presentation at the ASTD ICE. I see a pattern, which is both good and bad ...
Ray Jimenez - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsEduPunk? Please tell me this is the start and not the end
... and innovative presentations that we'll earnestly present at the relevant conferences and maybe some of us will even publish a thing or two on the topic. Fab. Here is what I fear will not happen. The old, tired, damaging curriculum of ISD which is built on some post-WW II factory production model and is decidedly NOT a design process/model, will continue to be dominant and will continue to be used to crank out more graduates who will dutifully move out into the public and private sectors and who will dutifully pick up where their peers have left off, worrying about templates and screen captures and Likert scales and nothing important will change ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - CommentsEngineering Lectures with a Capital "E"!
Every so often a web site comes along which really excites me, VideoLectures.Net is such a portal. I can't stress to highly that you must visit this web service (doesn't mean you have to ignore my other posts!). VideoLectures.Net is sponsored by some of Europe's leading technology societies, and the wealth of free engineering lectures is dumbfounding. Here are just a few examples ... which also demonstrate some of the content categories: Conferences (all): The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Lectures (all): Machine Learning from ...
Innovations in eLearning - Final Thoughts
I had to race out of the conference Thursday afternoon since I was headed out of town that evening. The delay (and lack of electricity at my location) gave me a chance to reflect a bit on the week. A few things that popped out at me:A move away from "courseware" and towards "information bits" or very short chunks of information that can be accessed when needed. The line between librarians and instructional designers continues to fade.My early gut instinct that the more ... .--------------------------------------I'm finding the technology curve alive and well. This conference, I was starting to see less "sage on ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsMobile Learning makes the stage at WWDC
The Apple WWDC is bringing up iPhone Application developers who have created apps on the 2.0 platform. They actually had a MOBILE LEARNING app shown on stage. It was a cool medical training app but I don't remember any of the names of the company or the developers.I was just too stunned! Wow! Has eLearning and Mobile Learning made it to the mainstream...FINALLY.With the iPhone...YES!DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Monday, June 9, 2008 - CommentsTopic Diversity
Through the post on Conference Balance an in thinking about the keynotes at ASTD that I attended (ASTD Keynote - Malcolm Gladwell, Dysfunctional Teams), I realized that one of the reasons that I like going to conferences is it forces me (sometimes slowly and painfully) to get exposed to a diversity of topics. Through my PWLE methods (reading blogs, etc.) I would not have run across the concepts in Dysfunctional Teams. This was a good topic to go through and think about - and to have captured in my blog.But, if I'm suggesting that conferences should head towards participation and ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, June 7, 2008 - CommentsConference Balance
... conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. But Clive's major point is that at today's conferences the mix is:His definitions are:ideas - presentations from gurus, experts and thought leaders ... from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and examples. Very little ... event through getting together at conferences. But I wasn't very successful.I've always highly encourage ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, June 6, 2008 - CommentsCutting the pie
... come home to me lately as I have been participated in the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN). In the past, a typical eLN event (and for that matter most other conferences in Europe as well ... were content to attend a training course or a conference and just be talked at are fast disappearing. As e-learning ... they are for conferences and webinars. Too often, there is an abundance of theory, a few quick demos and nowhere ...
Clive on Learning - Friday, June 6, 2008 - CommentsFrom keynote to next session
I had a chance to chat briefly with Anders Gronstadt after the Sid Meier keynote and asked him what his more interesting projects were.He's been doing a lot with podcasting and creating podcasting tutorials (something that excited my colleague who has joined me for the conference).But he also said that some of the most interesting stuff in Second Life is the New Employee orientation. Social (meet your new co-workers) plus exploration. Stuff second life does very well.
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsHelp, I Cant' Stop Learning!
Help, I Can't Stop Learning!Presenter: Sid MeierSo they managed to find the appropriate cable so they can display an XBox 360 on the projector.And as they finish setup - the high schoolers brought in to enjoy this part of the conference get a picture with Mr. Meier and the president of DAU. Very cool that they get an opportunity to be exposed to other potential uses for gaming.----------------------------As he talked to people asking why they enjoy gamesPeople don't want to be educated. Want to learn.- Won't advertise that they learn- They keep coming back because they feel they ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsExample of Learning on the Fly
I have been watching the GMU Events staff during this conference. I'm impressed.Examples:There were some issues with showing people and items on camera and having us able to see them. Day 2 adaptation - followspot on the presenter with the speaker stand to the side.Lunch took forever to get yesterday. Day 2 adaptation - 2 lines outside of the dining area, drinks right inside. Lines moved much much faster.One of the senior event folks wanted to turn on the followspot (these items require some warmup time). He gracefully asked the gentleman standing in the way to sit down, explaining ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsAll of the Posts for this Conference
I have added a link to all of the posts from this conference to my blog on the left.If you don't want to bother - go here:http://in-the-middle-of-the-curve.blogspot.com/search/label/MasonPlease let me know if these notes help.
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsLunchtime Thoughts
... time for a return visit.These conferences are here not only to give us ideas but also ammunition. After the conference, I'm racing home to finish packing for a weekend-long camping trip/wedding (not mine). The unplug time will be useful as I plan to take over the world figure out ways to implement some of these new ideas.
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsStephen Downes, Storms and the Karl Kapp Instant Session
So yesterday at the Innovations in e-Learning Conference was kind of interesting. First - and it really is hard to take good notes and a conference that is being put on by your own organization - always something to do right? - Stephen Downes did his typically great presentation with the added twist of having an audience back channel running on the screen behind him. Brave man that Canadian. You can read the transcript here and some of it is hysterical. Also had a ... session. The conference folks made an announcement from the stage and I'm thinking largely due to Karl's presence, we ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsKeynote Day 2
Welcome - Brigadier Gen Sanford Holman (Skip)The Mashup of Virtual Worlds and Learning - Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists-------------------Brigadier General Sanford HolmanHe really loved this conference (good to hear).Joint Knowledge Online Capability (JKO) - Ability to deliver joint training across the branches during real world operations.- 5 regional, 4 functional. - Mission-ready, joint-capable forces - Support interagency and multi-national forces- Coordinate overall military training efforts.Reserve and Active + International components- Time, ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsPreconference Day 2 thoughts
Just nursing my Hypographia- Happy to see that Mark O and Brigadier General Skip Hanson found each other. That's the cool thing about going to conferences - you see something at a previous conference that may help someone you are talking to at another conference. If both people are in the same place (or in this instance, working for the same umbrella organization) you can then help connect them. It's a neat process. - Apparently, I left yesterday's conference just in time. I only ran into 3 dark traffic lights and had to do a minor detour to my old stomping grounds in Alexandria to ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - CommentsWrap-Up - Day 1
The skies are clearing, my blood/caffeine levels are out of whack and my brain hurts.A few thoughts before I close the laptop today (I'm giving up on the final keynote to see whether my apartment is still standing)- The last session was a fantastic example of demonstrating points in practice. Participation, interactivity, modeling best practices. All of the things we say we want to do but never see in a presentation at a conference. And these ladies did it in less than 50 minutes! Kudos to the women from Vangent!- Stephen Downes finally put together for me the relationship between ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsAn idle thought on a current meme
Triggered by a discussion with Mark Oehlert during the "tornado break" in the conference... So what you all are telling me is that something I've been doing all along out of necessity, rather than choice has a trendy new name?My excitement knows no bounds......I'll let others smarter than I am engage further in the discussion (a little bird tells me that this is going to get good) - I will keep cobbling together my little DIY projects in my tiny corner of the blogosphere.
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsAn interesting interlude
There is a tornado warning and the GMU staffers have received warnings for shelter. So I am hanging out by the cinema in a hallway (tall ceilings in storms make me nervous).So a few notes on the conference:- It's very cool to finally meet and talk to the folks that I've talked to in blogs over the years.Lost power briefly - thank heaven for good laptop batteries.- I liked the last session demonstration of good virtual meeting technique. They demonstrated it in practice and had us participate. What I wish yesterday's workshop did. Could have been really cool.Talked to one of the ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsBehind the Scenes of a Virtual Team
... time to have fun together (example from the conference - hockey talk, with Karl Kapp and Stephen Downes. Sadly separately ... everyone else. + One using mind map + They use blog (like I am for my co-workers with this conference!) + ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsLearning for the New Mobile Society
Brent showed at the last conference - QR codes).-----------------Poll - when moment of need is best for mobile learning- Internal to group - dial a number then text a number or phrase- Dominantly - when wanting to learn morehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif- Tool - Poll Everywhere--------------Dr. Metcalf - the poll is one example of interaction through mobile learning.- Can also link to GoogleMaps.---------------Mark - My USB is not Mobile for me ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - CommentsCollaboration in a Virtual World Pt. 1
Workshop D - Collaboration in a Virtual WorldRena M. Palloff, Ph.D., LCSW, Managing Partner, Crossroads Consulting GroupKeith Pratt, Associate Dean of Distance Learning and Instructional Technology, Northwest Arkansas Community CollegePreliminaries - it's a full house! Wasn't expecting that for pre-conference workshops. Curious to see how this one plays out.Audience comments- Information on group dynamic- Multi-lingual community - how to deal with.- Helping seasoned ... other.(Thought about the Great ILS Challenge that Mark Oehlert led back at the eLearning Guild conference. Session ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - CommentsCollaboration in a Virtual World Pt. 1
Workshop D - Collaboration in a Virtual WorldRena M. Palloff, Ph.D., LCSW, Managing Partner, Crossroads Consulting GroupKeith Pratt, Associate Dean of Distance Learning and Instructional Technology, Northwest Arkansas Community CollegePreliminaries - it's a full house! Wasn't expecting that for pre-conference workshops. Curious to see how this one plays out.Audience comments- Information on group dynamic- Multi-lingual community - how to deal with.- Helping seasoned ... other.(Thought about the Great ILS Challenge that Mark Oehlert led back at the eLearning Guild conference. Session ...
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