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One challenge for many large companies is ... how does one encourage innovation and creativity in corporate environments which often push employees to make "safe" decisions? After all, isn't product feature creep the easiest way to enhance what one already knows? Our customers always want more enhancements to existing products, or so we think! This kind of engineering design often leads to "bloatware". In the software arena, take a look at the Yahoo portal or the MS Office suite of products. Compare and contrast these examples to the Google user interface. I ...
WinExt
Are you a Windows user who likes the pull-down menu system in Windows applications? Then you can add WinExt to your desktop as in the example below. WinExt consists of a bar docked to the top or bottom of the screen and gives access to wide range of features while you work at your computer. The menus system serves you programs and documents with very few mouse clicks. You can set up your own menu structure that fits your needs by adding the files and folders you use most frequently.
Jane Knight - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - CommentsThe Mac Community of Practice
Many a time I’ve described Mac users as a wonderful example of a community of practice. They have camaraderie. They identify with one another, wondering what’s with the outsiders who “don’t get it.” They respect each other. Their machines are a badge that says, “I’m cool; I’m creative; I’m hip.” Some put Apple decals in the rear windows of their cars. They are the guy on the right. When my ThinkPad ate its hard disk last fall, I had to get a divorce from the whole PC/Microsoft axis. This was my sixth ThinkPad, following in the ...
Internet Time - Saturday, August 16, 2008 - CommentsDo your webinars stink?
I certainly hope not! I like to think that readers of eLearning Weekly are far superior to the average webinar practitioner. You’re the brightest of the eLearning field. We hold webinars where people are engaged while learning. Right? Right. Well, just in case you need a refresher, I’ve got a good resource for you: In a recent article in CLO Magazine, Allison Rossett, Antonia Chan and Colleen Cunningham take an honest look at webinars and reveal what works and what doesn’t. The article, What Stinks About Webinars?, presents several great examples where webinars stand ...
eLearning Weekly - Friday, August 15, 2008 - CommentsImplementing eLearning Templates (eLearning Guild Online Forum)
Examples, Template, & Video VignettesPatti Shank - The Online Learning Idea Book: 95 Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning.
Discovery Through eLearning - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - CommentsImplementing eLearning Templates (eLearning Guild Online Forum)
Examples, Template, & Video VignettesPatti Shank - The Online Learning Idea Book: 95 Proven Ways to Enhance Technology-Based and Blended Learning.
Discovery Through eLearning - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - CommentsDojolearning - Haheee-ya!
... be sent to the instructor. In this example they are learning of the rule of thirds in photography and the learner is asked to find a picture which uses that principle and then upload it. The instructor can then check the understanding of the student. But not only can the learning upload pictures, but they can upload audio, text, video and files. At that point it is uploaded to a “journal” which the instructor and learner have access to ...
Engaged Learning - Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 08/12/2008
... coherence, or organization; they simply present meaning in ways unfamiliar to the instructor. For example, a collection of images on Flickr with authorial comments and tags certainly does not resemble the traditional essay, but the time spent on such a project, the motivation for undertaking it, and its ability to communicate meaning can certainly be equal to the investment and motivation required by the traditional essay⬠and the photos may actually provide more meaningful communication for their intended audience ...
Experiencing eLearning - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - CommentsGas makes a splash in 3D worlds
NBC affiliate even featured them in a story they broadcast in March 2008.If you know of any other examples of companies using Second Life for training purposes, feel free to share them with us by clicking the comments button below.
eLearning Acupuncture - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - CommentsEnginering Learning Custom Search
The utilization of the Engineering Learning Wiki has been fantastic. Thus, you've challenged me to increase the functionality ... You will now find a new search engine on the wiki ... wiki linked sites search. This capability was constructed using Google Custom Search (see my tutorial on building search engines). The new index includes all Engineering Learning Wiki pages, the root page of all wiki linked sites, and is updated automatically as wiki users add new content. I've embedded the code in this post to allow you to sample the search engine: Engineering Learning Wiki ...
Article on Engaging eLearning
Here's a nice article, sponsored by Adobe, and written by Allison Rossett and Antonia Chan (2008, June) that provides some very nice descriptions and examples about engaging eLearning design. Check it out.
Will at Work Learning - Friday, August 8, 2008 - CommentsMy Name is Wendy, and I am a Civ Rev Addict
... example, it was easier for me to win via cultural domination as an Aztec than it was for me to win via economic domination. Thinking about what I know about the Aztecs, that made perfect sense.I also learned a lot about what parts of the gameplay excite people.For the SO, it was warfare. For me - it was making peace with all of the surrounding communities and getting them to join us.Of course, this difference in strategies caused some interesting discussions and, in more than one instance, caused the one not playing the game to leave the room when the other was playing ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Friday, August 8, 2008 - CommentsLabView Learning at Middle C
... about CLEO (Circuits Learning by Example). This service has over 250 examples covering a two-semester course sequence in engineering linear circuit analysis, including AC and DC circuits, phasors, op amps, transients, power, and Laplace-based analysis.
Tagging
... example, the scrapbookers of the future curating their digital photos, emails, ticket stubs and other mementos with tags. This book explains the value of tagging, explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to improve the user experience. It exposes tagging's superficial simplicity to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information architecture, online community and collective intelligence ...
Jane Knight - Thursday, August 7, 2008 - CommentsCognition, Synesthesia, Story Telling, Webinars, Strategy, & Six Degrees
... worked examples and so on and so forth. It boils down to "telling a story and not lecturing or reading." Why Organizational Strategy Matters - LeaderValues Top performing companies successfully leverage their organization more effectively than rivals and derive over 64% more profit per employee than next-tier performers. Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon - Washington Post For the purposes of their experiment, two people were considered to be acquaintances if they had sent one another a text message ...
Big Dog, Little Dog - Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - CommentsGuide on the Side or Expert Expediter
... for example, creating e-learning content or facilitating an ILT. There are others, however, who will need to change - and I would venture to say that this is more of us than the former group. The reason is because of something that Christine said above, “Not only are we being asked to help others make fundamental changes in how they interact with technology…” Usually this is an I.T. function (using new technology) ...
Engaged Learning - Monday, August 4, 2008 - CommentsGoogle Website Optimizer 101 | Free Tips | Conversion Rate Experts
... these tests at once! â?¦For example, while you are testing which headline to use, you could also test many other “page ... elements performed the best. This can help you to put together a high-converting â??super-pageâ??. For example, if we were ... visitors. ii. You can start advertising in media that had previously been too expensive for you. For example: Full page ... ??. For example, what would happen if you lowered your prices by 30%? Or increased them by 30%? Itâ??s the only way youâ??ll ... bottom corner. And they often look a bit cluttered. 19. Place bets with your colleagues as to which of your test samples ...
Tony Karrer delicious links - Monday, August 4, 2008 - CommentsThe NorthStar Nerd goes YouTube
Although I've always posted hi-res versions of all my screencasts on this blog, now that YouTube includes higher quality viewing options, I've gone YouTube. Essentially YouTube is a marketing channel ... for me and everyone else. I've known for some time that this step was required. After all, I've often found good engineering content via my YouTube searches. Professor Blanchard's MATLAB and Excel VBA Tutotials are an excellent example of how this process worked. I conducted my YouTube search, and after finding relevant content I checked the video / channel link for more details. ...
Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles - ReadWriteWeb
... recommendation service (and, disclosure, RWW sponsor) Strands, for example, presents customers of Spanish bank BBVA with messages ... examples and wed love to find out about them! The handsome devil at the top of this post is Flickr user thomas ...
Tony Karrer delicious links - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - CommentsMemorizing Facts
... interesting. I believe that technology does have impact on what will be considered "necessary facts."As a trivial example, consider the impact that cell phones have had on memorizing phone numbers. One study has shown that people over 50 have significantly better recall of important dates, phone numbers, etc. than people under 30. Why remember something that is immediately accessible in a usable form (ready to be dialed) when needed? From my comments, in the post: My belief is that there's a finite amount of learning time that students have ...
eLearning Technology - Saturday, August 2, 2008 - CommentsThirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Plannning
... viability” (p. 1). Example questions included “How many faculty will we be needed in ten years? Will ... , and have a higher all-college GPA than their traditional counterparts” (Diaz, 2002, pp. 1-2). For example ... universities are created. For example, Florida Gulf Coast University, a new distance-learning state university, and ... know it today” (Oblinger et al., 2001, p. 2), one example being the changes caused by broader use of e-texts ... . For example, “human resource professionals and hiring managers are becoming more accepting of online ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsThe Worst Part of Distance Education " Life as I Know It
... example of this. Personally, I think this would be a wonderful way to learn - using blogs, wikis, instant messaging, and ... be more hyperlinks to other content, so that, for example, all the dates would be in one and only one place. I could go ... a degree online, see if the school will let you access a sample class before you commit.
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsRead/WriteWeb: About
... interested in writing for ReadWriteWeb, please email Richard MacManus - including samples of your writing and topics youd like to explore. Disclosures For companies or products that an author has consulted to or worked for, now or in the past, if they are written about on ReadWriteWeb then our policy is to always disclose the relationship in the post. This policy also applies to sponsors. RSS Feed: You can subscribe to ReadWriteWeb by entering this web address into your favourite RSS Aggregator ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsSecond Life Education Wiki - SimTeach
Teen Grid, please see Second Life: Educators Working with Teens. Classroom Management, Lesson Plans Sample Lesson plans Sample SL Projects Ideas for RL Students Global Kids Best Practices For Education in Second Life pdf. Essay ... Resources for Technical Education Source Citation Ideas Educational Locations in Second Life Sample Learning spaces ... to teleport through Snapzilla. Organic Chemistry Quizzes in Second Life on Drexel Island and an example of ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - Comments's Time to Drop E-Learning - 11 Jul 2007
... thinking around a subject. The term ?informal learning?, for example, has been useful to coalesce a whole strand of learning by stressing the commonality between seemingly very dissimilar learning events. But while e-learning might have begun life like this ? clustering different delivery media and design issues around a single term ? it rapidly took on a life of its own, when it started to look like a free meal ticket ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsDistance Education Journals and Readings
Desk. (All ERIC Clearinghouses plus AskERIC was closed permanently as of December 31, 2003.) For example, a simple search of the phrase distance education reveals almost 10, 000 references from the ERIC database. In addition to the ERIC references, The Educators Reference Desk also provides a section of distance education guides for both higher education and K12 communities. ICDL Literature Database The literature database of the International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) contains bibliographic information on over 12,000 books, journal articles, research reports, conference papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsInside IDOL Blog
... learning content. Examples of these include, objectives, pre-knowledge, case studies, free text. Learning content is created ... delivery approaches that can be effective. Presentation or communication requires a source and a recipient. For example a ... insert links, pictures and maps ... now that is pretty cool for a free tool. [ this is an example of the map ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsDiscovery Through eLearning
Neither system seems to be able to accommodate this style.As an example: Intro to Project Management. Runs 8:30am - 12:30 ... users would see is cumbersome.Another example is: Frontline Leaders, runs 8:00am - 4:00pm on this Thursday, 2 ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsWill at Work Learning
... works, but it will affect the learning-and-performance industry as well. For example, no longer will I be able to earn ... learning intervention to help our learners perform in their future performance situations (for example on the job) in an attempt to create certain beneficial learning outcomes. So for example, if we build a course to teach creative ... other means, for example job aids, performance support, management prompting, and other guidance mechanisms. While often ... influencing the performance-situation itselfâ??for example by providing reminding mechanism and getting ...
delicious eLearning - Friday, August 1, 2008 - CommentsCorporate Training & e-Learning Blog
... goes on to offer a couple of good examples. At Halliburton, the leaders decided that the outcomes most important to them ... they have on the employee engagement index.The second example provided is from Sun Microsystems, where they discovered ... . Examples cited in the Computerworld article include:Duke University and Virtual Heroes are creating a high-fidelity 3D ... to "do more" immersive learning.Learning professionals crave more information and help: 95% want great examples, 92 ... -learning environments (PDAs and mobile phones, for example), as long the interface is simple and the graphics are ...
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