I would like to start extending some of the generic work that I do at my day job into the global arena.  One of the generic topics that we develop "training" for is Presentation Skills .  I think there are probably a few people outside of Intel that have a pretty decent grasp of this topic.  So, I'm going to try an experiment... Presentation Skills is one of those generic topics that everyone in business should be interested in, so let's find a spot to hang out and share methods, ideas, examples, etc.  There are a ton of systems to use, and we may link to many ...

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I view software application training as, fundamentally, a combination of cognitive and motor skills. This line of research will impact the way I design my online tutorials. Because so many of us read our blogs off of feeds rather than ... followed his lead in training complex skills. I hope that your interview inspires others. They will find that he is generous ... skills, to execute on current generation systems with significantly extended capabilities, and then compare the performance ... hardware and new training techniques. A monograph that presents the methodology used in creating RSF, details on ...

I presented yesterday in London at the conference of the Learning and Skills Group on the subject of rapid e-content creation. As part of my session I asked the group to rate their proficiency in each of these skills: Using a ... textual content Creating graphics Building presentations Recording audio Editing audio The ... have reasonable content creation skills, whereas their children and perhaps some of their younger direct reports would ... was right about the latter - yes, Gen Y and the Millennials have these skills in bucket loads. Where I was surprised ...

One Big Skill is Cost-Benefit Analysis. Just because something is good, doesn't mean that we should do it. Relevant questions to be considered are, How much will it cost? How much of the possible benefit will be realized? What is the range of possible costs, and what makes the costs increase or decrease? At what cost will it no longer be worth it ... -called leaders try to circumnavigate the cost-benefit analysis, and present activities as things that HAVE TO BE DONE ... hard work necessary for success. So given the importance of this Big Skill, is anyone formally spreading ...

Last night I gave a presentation to the Seattle Captivate User's group 7:00 PST, 10:00 my time. A late night but a fun presentation, thank you to Mark Chrisman for the opportunity. The presentation got me thinking about teaching soft skills online (although we mostly taked about teaching software online) I have posted my thoughts on soft skills training at the Training Day blog . Check it out. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content ...

... skills. Not to disappoint, Tony gave the summary a treatment that has a larger question associated with it. It's one of the reasons I respect the guy. I think he was using the survey results as anecdotal example in a presentation about the changing nature of knowledge work and the new skills required to work it. A key point: "...foundations of ... Work, New Skills? Given the point above and the title, "New Work and New Work Skills...", I stopped a moment ... available; information that needs to be filtered to a manageable subset if we're to make any use of it.  Skills ...

... implications? In presentations, I often will cite this as an example of the kinds of changes in work skills that have ... My recent Survey - Do You Know What These Are? really was all about new work skills - skills we should be learning. Actually, it's also about the fact that there's not really new work as much as there is new work skills. More on this ... people who said they knew what it was - thought it was an old computer. Work Skills Changing Most of us who used to use these things know somewhat know that they really aren't in use anymore. When I did a presentation in ...

V-Learning: The Skills Needed for Success in Today's Real World Presenter: Ellen Wagner, Adobe Physical World + Virtual World = Real World This is where we are at with our technologies. Virtual worlds are just as real as our physical worlds. Put pressure on us as educators in a different way than ever before. We are going to have to get better in our own practice. - It's affecting us NOW. All of the variables in Game (see Sid Meier talk) is the same thing we say we wanted to do in instructional design. Expectations about learning redefined by social media, gaming. - As professionals, ...

For the live blogging info look below the AG08 synopsis) Frank Gartland at LinkedIn ( AG08 synopsis ): A primary challenge of any virtual event is successfully engaging the audience. Even skilled presenters often encounter challenges when bringing their presentations to a virtual environment. From getting the audience's attention at the start ... presenter. Anyone who has presented virtually understands the pressures and challenges inherent to this type of content delivery ... questions at the beginning of the presentation (he is focusing on virtual classroom training) and uses bulleted ppt ...

For the live blogging info look below the AG08 synopsis) Alan Levine's blog the presentation that he gave The Second Life wiki of the NMC campus Second Life, and virtual worlds in general, are high on the hype curve this ... skills. why do virtual worlds grow in this day and age? because a lot of people are getting there: good networking ... oriented presentation of SL and I really liked it. I - just like many other people apparently - joined SL just 2 and then put it aside. But thanks to a couple of educational friends and this presentation I want to go back in and really ...

I had a great time this Saturday presenting to ISPI Los Angeles on eLearning 2.0. This presentation was somewhat similar to past presentations, but I've added a couple of new slides and concepts. I'm including my slides (via Slideshare below, but it misses a lot of what the discussions were really about). Oh, and if you are interested in this topic, I will be presenting a slightly different take on it this Thursday at a Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends ... Blog (Deleted Scenes) Understanding eLearning 2.0 Needed Skills for New Media eLearning 2.0 - An ...

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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 this ... -polishing tools. A presentation is still a presentation, even if wrapped in a sco!

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I've been out of action this week, but this has provided me with an opportunity to package up the presentation I gave on the 30-minute masters at DevLearn in San Jose, to make this available to a wider audience. Working with Articulate ... Kineo just before the conference. The presentation explains why it is that we need to equip a wider population with skills in design; it describes how the 30-minute masters was conceived and moved forwards as a collaborative project; it ... . Click this link to view the presentation in a new window. If you have any comments on the content of the presentation ...

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... skills are needed at the executive and hourly levels. What does it say when almost every job requires "better ... , communication, driving and mechanical skills. One skill set that was highlighted strongly in focus group meetings was that of basic worker skills. This ranged from interviewing skills to work place skills such as showing up on time, not bad ... employability skills. Good written and oral communication skills. For example, when to use email and when not to use email. Few ... internally, these organizations would like to know how to prepare people who know the subject matter to present it ...

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We needed an ad hoc presentation and Louis Biggie stepped up to the plate and gave a great presentation on teaching conversational modeling which tells people not what to do...but how to do it. The learning modules provide different examples of a difficult conversation and provides people the chance to focus on practicing skills like empathy, dealing with negative emotions and other things that can't be automated or outsourced. One question asked was "How do you teach someone to deal with "curve balls?" Louis indicated that the best strategy for that is to wrap the e-learning ...

... courses on presentation techniques and report writing for decades. The answer is that soft skills trainers constitute a ... undecided, here are some facts to consider: Thirty million PowerPoint presentations are made every day. The majority ... reports are too lengthy, too dull, poorly-structured and poorly presented. Every day seven million new documents are ... to do them more effectively. That's less PowerPoint presentations assembled using templates, clip art and auto content ... poorly structured, written and presented, that leave a poor impression of the author and which fail to communicate.

... the 2005 school year, I'm even teaching an experimental class called Presentation Skills . This class is a combination ... using that approach this year in teaching concepts to my Presentation Skills class. By the end of this first ...

... anomoly. A couple weeks ago I found Discover presents The Brain. One of the sections is titled Your Brain on: Sex ... article subtitled Gaming isn't for slackers: It sharpens thinking, hones social skills, and fine-tunes perception ... "higher-order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and ... communication skills that the FAS says are useful in business settings. If the FAS endorses it, doesn't that mean school's ... a little questing and leveling up...no! wait!...I mean improve my higher-order thinking skills. Yeah, that's it.

... that the purpose of education is to impart specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes -- in other words, the purpose ... ensure the attainment of specified knowledge, skills, and attitudes -- thus, learning, is the purpose around which the ... Education (part 2 of 5) , (MIL-HDBK-29613-2A, 31 Oct 1988, pp. 50-52), knowledge, skills, and attitude are used. They ... ). Knowledge, skills, and attitudes relate directly to Bloom's Taxonomy : Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor. See ... learning: verbal information, intellectual skill, cognitive strategy, attitude, and motor skill. He argued that the ...

... frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. This venture comes partly from my experiences doing presentations, workshops, blogging around eLearning 2.0 . When discussing new(ish) tools like blogs and social bookmarking, and discussing things like advanced search techniques, there's a gap in knowledge work skills. In fact, we all have blind ... email using the entries in the sidebar to either of these feeds. Answer a poll on work skills ...

If anyone is interested, I read a bit from my new book at Second Life ; the 13 minute downloadable MP3 is posted. It gave me a chance to present one of my favorite charts: It suggests in order to understand "The Humanities" (the wisdom of the people who came before us), one thing you have to understand is business strategies. In order to understand business strategies, one thing you have to understand is personal improvement. And in order to understand personal improvement, one thing you have to look at is what you do everyday. All of the most important skills/knowledge/wisdom ...

Early bird registration is almost over for DevLearn 2008 ! Register by September 26th to save $100.00 off the total cost. DevLearn, which runs from 11/14 to 11/18, will be held once again in San Jose, CA. If you’ve never been, DevLearn is an excellent conference for learning and technology professionals. You’ll have great opportunities to learn new skills, see what other organizations are doing, and network with peers. I will be presenting Session 702: Virtually Anywhere: A Case Study of Mobile Learning at Qualcomm , along with a co-worker, Barbara Ludwig. The ...

... process, but uses guided research and investigation to build student knowledge and skills required for the design. These Knowledge and Skill Builders (KSBs) are the heart of the Informed Design process. They assist students in learning key ... ; develop, test, evaluate, and modify the solution; and communicate achievements in a class presentation and final ...