Subscribe to FeedJane's Pick of the Week: 27/7
Thanks to all those who voted in last week's Poll; it seems that all the different types of link are popular, with Tools links especially so. This week's Pick therefore follows the same model with 22 new links.Jane's Pick of the Week: 27 July ...
Jane Knight - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - CommentsLife is full of Pausch-abilities!
Randy Pausch died yesterday. If you do nothing else this weekend you must watch The Last Lecture, or read the book.I can't look at this picture without tearing up. I have 3 beautiful children and sometimes forget to put them first in my life. I sometimes forget how much they need me to be there for them ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - CommentsThere is no Brain2.0...so why Learning2.0?
Brain photo: Gaetan LeeIts the "e" in e-Learning that is getting the upgrade, not the learning. There is no Brain2.0. The last I checked my Brain1.0 was working just fine...some might argue that point. The term should be e2.0-Learning, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it.I've been arguing for a long time that "Its all about learning ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - CommentsTop 10 Tools for Learning (26/7)
Here are some recent contributions to the Top 10 Tools lists: Arta Szathmary - Arta teaches Information Science and Technology at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pennsylvania Rich Chetwynd - Based in New Zealand, Rich is Founder and CEO of Litmos, a hosted training system Bill Miller - Bill is a Terranean e-Learning Plumber at the University of Birmingham in the UK Joan Vinall-Cox - Joan is a Social Media Consultant, for JNthWEB Consulting, based just outside of Toronto, Canada (updated list) Lissa Lord - Lissa is a Reference Librarian at the University of Kansas, Edwards Campus, Regents Center Library in Overland Park, Kansas ...
Jane Knight - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - CommentsMore Kindling
I'm halfway between Anchorage and Seattle, sitting in First Class on Alaska Airlines, trying to read Groundswell by Charlene Li and John Bernoff on my Kindle. A few observations: Mechanical aspects The text is clear. This puppy has great resolution. You can enlarge or diminish the font, and I've adjusted mine to a comfortable reading size ...
Internet Time - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 07/25/2008
... elearninglive.com ยป Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size. The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down ...
Experiencing eLearning - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsSilverback: Usability Testing for Mac
Clearleft has just announced a new software usability testing application for Mac called Silverback. Silverback uses the built-in camera found on most current Mac models to record video and audio of your user while simultaneously capturing screen activity. There’s a free 30-day trial, and the app costs a mere $49 ...
eQuixotic - Friday, July 25, 2008 - 0 commentsFacebook (for example) versus an LMS/LCMS: Need some technical help...
OK...so help me out here....someone smarter than me (big number) help me understand the difference in architectural requirements and transactions that go on in say a social network like facebook with millions of users, probably hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, all executing millions of transactions from chat to photo uploads to quiz taking ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsEven HR people can like e-learning
At the recent eLearning Network showcase event, I attended an interesting presentation made by Nick Timpson of my old firm Epic and Claire Little from leading psychometric test providers, SHL. SHL train something like 10,000 people a year to use their tests, most of whom are HR people. With Epic's help, SHL have moved from pure classroom-based delivery to a blend that involves self-study e-learning prior to the face-to-face event ...
Clive on Learning - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsBeating Decisions to Death
I was sitting in a meeting the other day for one of those "problem projects."Throughout my involvement, I couldn't put my finger on why it has been so hard to make a decision and stick with it. Until I witnessed the following:PM: Next up, how we are going to handle Organizational AccountsAssociate Muck: They don't have portal accounts ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsEvernote and Zotero...Helping You Remember...
So I upgraded my iPhone firmware to 2.0 and yes, I have been jamming apps on it ever since. The Google app, the Vicinity app, and yes, iPint and Tap Tap Revenge are all great. I also installed the Evernote app since I've been fiddling with the desktop version of Evernote for a bit. Evernote has a Windows, Mac, Web and mobile version ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Friday, July 25, 2008 - Commentsdocstoc and scribd - document sharing...
I hope the embed code from scribd and docstoc both show up below alright. I was talking to my wife the other night about how we are thinking about using a wiki at work do develop some documents. She is a contract analyst and her reply was that the last thing she wanted was anyone who wanted to be able to edit a contract - that she actually needed bottlenecks to ensure tight version control, etc ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsBack from Alaska
We fly home to California tomorrow morning. Alaska is inspiring, but I can hardly wait to eat decent food again. And to dry off. This is a test of Flickr’s video embedding: ...
Internet Time - Friday, July 25, 2008 - CommentsiMindMap
... iMindMap is the only Mind Mapping software that is endorsed by Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping.iMindMap is useful whether you are doing a presentation, writing a report or conducting a brainstorming session. It is suitable for use in education - from primary schools all the way up to college and university - as well as for corporate activities and personal/home use ...
Jane Knight - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - CommentsNASA Images
NASA Images was just launched (press release) and it uses software that was partly developed by my firm TechEmpower. It has a bunch of neat features that makes it fun to play with, especially the ability to create different kinds of widgets of groups and images and workspaces. Warning, if you go there and like these kinds of things, prepare to spend a bit of time playing ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - CommentsDaily Bookmarks 07/24/2008
Evaluating Online Learning 80-page PDF from the US Department of Education on evaluating K-12 online learning. I haven’t read it all yet, but some of this would probably apply to higher ed settings, and maybe corporate settings. Includes examples & case studies of successful online K-12 programs ...
Experiencing eLearning - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - CommentsWebinar Design / Training
In the post - Webinar Software - Adoption Advice - one of the comments I made was:If you've done webinars, you know that they are different to design and deliver successfully than other kinds of presentations and training.This is something I learned the hard way. My very first presentation was a large public presentation where they had muted the entire audience (dead silence) and there was no moderator ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - Commentse-Learning 2.0 Survey - Take it NOW!
The eLearning Guild is currently working on the most comprehensive report on e-Learning 2.0. You may be annoyed by the term and bla, bla, bla, but nobody can deny that significant changes in web technologies are having a profound impact on e-Learning.The report is not complete without your help. Are you using ANY Web2 ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - CommentsLearning GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
Everyone talks about GPS, but how many people understand it? A leading manufacturer of GPS systems, Garmin, has published a free manual / eBook which explains basic concepts (download now). If you wish to learn even more about GPS follow this link to Garmin. The company has a nice educational portal which has additional content ...
Knol
Google has just launched Knol - an alternative to Wikipedia. This is how they describe it"The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols - units of knowledge - written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments ...
Jane Knight - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsThe Periodic Table a la YouTube
I wish the mad scientist of Nottingham has been around when I was a kid. Instead, I watched the sheriff ... this would have made Chemistry much more fun! My thanks to Brent Schlenker which is how I learned about "this" periodic table! In the mean time check out your favorite element! In fact, the site even has a social network quality ...
Webinar Software - Adoption Advice
Good question about adoption of webinar software / services - this time from someone who went to my workshop in Cincinnati - Revolution in Workplace Learning - who by the way - called it "awesome." Here's the question:We are currently moving toward web-based training for an external audience and have been experimenting with a modest product called Ready Talk ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsZimbra on the iPhone - Now this gets exciting - Nothing like getting old huh?
Wow. Not getting jazzed about a new 3D environment but getting psyched about an open source office suite that will provide "two-way synchronization of e-mail, calendar, and address book, allowing business users traveling out of the office to get their latest mail, appointments, or updated contact information ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsGoogle Launches Lively - and I am trying so hard to care
Here is the site. Here is the Mashable story. meh. Virtual rooms. Embed them on your site. Send them to your friends. Wooo. I don't know. Our design principles for how we integrate virtual worlds, rooms or whatever into meaningful learning experiences are so far away from being able to make widespread use of this, I'm just a bit nonplussed ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsDay 8 (yes, we're only counting weekdays even if I post on the weekend - that's just gravy) Aging tabs in Firefox
This is awesome. There is an extension available for Firefox (why not IE? because IE doesn't allow extensions - that's why its such a secure and innovative browser :-)) that will automatically fade/age the older tabs that you have open. Now you (and by you, I mean me) can tell at a glance what tabs you have failed to blog, tag in del ...
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsPlaying with Bunnies
After discovering I was better at killing my own armies rather completing objectives in Command and Conquer 3 - I decided to start a game that is more up my alley.Rayman Raving Rabbids.I have a serious soft spot for mini-games incorporating weird cartoony bits.It matches my attention span (not high) and my love of cartoons ...
In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsAn interview with Patrick Dunn
In May I conducted an interview Tom Kuhlmann, author of the Rapid E-Learning Blog. Both Tom and I enjoyed doing it and quite a few of you found the interview illuminating, so never one to do things by half, I have decided to create a mini-series of webcam interviews with people I've come to know in the field of learning technologies ...
Clive on Learning - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsScriblink
Scriblink is a free digital whiteboard that users can share online in real-timeThey have just released a completely new version with an updated layout, image uploading, a send file function, and VoIP.They have also launched the Scriblink Business Solutions API which allows users to fully ...
Jane Knight - Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - CommentsUnderstanding the Periodic Table of Elements via Video
Thanks to Cali Lewis of Geekbrief.tv for this excellent educational find.The Periodic Table of VideosWow! Check out Sodium(Na) and Helium(He) - Very cool!Here is a very Web1.0 version of the Periodic Table. Its from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Which one would help YOU not only LEARN but actually UNDERSTAND the elements?You can learn more about how to produce educational video like this for training/education at DevLearn08 ...
Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - CommentsWhat to do while attending a boring online learning event: stealth learning
So there I was having a Skype chat when I’m pretty sure the receiver of my whiny drivel was playing the world’s smallest violin for me. Or poking himself in the eye. Or doing something else entirely. Yea, that last one there. That’s probably it. Me, I always “play” when I’m bored and online ...
Janet Clarey - Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - Comments
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