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How YouTube's Big Announcement Will Improve Online Learning
This week, YouTube made an announcement that will have a major impact on virtual learning: captioning will now be available on millions of video they show. The site will use an automatic speech-to-text program already developed by Google. San Jose Mercury News reports: "Administrators at Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley said...
Free online tutorials can help you master Adobe Photoshop, make advanced calculations in Microsoft Excel, or create more impressive PowerPoint presentations. Use the free online tutorials in this list to sharpen your business, design, and programming skills while preparing for success in your online courses. See Also: How to Get the Most...
Does Your Online College Tweet?
Want to get the latest news from your online college? Head over to Twitter. Many top online colleges have active Twitter accounts including Charter Oak State College, Everest University Online, and Harvard Extension School. Take a look at this list for links to the best tweets from virtual schools. See Also: Multimedia Learning...
How to Choose an Online Charter School
By enrolling in an online charter school, your child may be able to earn a high school diploma or make up missed credits without falling behind in a traditional school. How do you choose an online charter school? These six steps can help. See Also: List of Free Online High Schools Online...
The End in Mind
Jim Groom, aka Rorschach, is watching me. He apparently took umbrage with my ELI presentation in which I–very much tongue-in-cheek–suggested that he and Michael Chasen could live together in harmony, perhaps even sitting down to sing Kumbaya. Jim appears to be concerned that I’m advocating a “middle-of-the-road” approach that validates the...
There has been lots of great discussion at ELI 2010 about openness–what it means, why it’s a value we should embrace, and what it means for institutions. As I’ve contemplated all of this, I was reminded of Whitman poem: “I Hear It Was Charged Against Me” by Walt Whitman I HEAR it was charged...
It’s a been a long time since I blogged. Between sending my son off on a mission to Brazil, celebrating my 20th anniversary with my sweetheart, working on some offline writing projects, taking some time off for the holidays, getting back into the swing of things with the New Year...
Tinkering, Playing, and Learning
John Seely Brown is visited the BYU Campus today and gave a compelling talk about Homo sapiens, Homo faber, and Homo ludens. Essentially, he argues that the formal education focuses almost exclusively on the Homo sapiens notion of “man as knowledge,” attempting to fill students with information and facts. This is...
Why Wave Won’t Replace the CMS
Last week, Jeff Young added to the Wave hype with his frequently Tweeted and Re-Tweeted post “Could Google Wave Replace Course-Management Systems?” From what I’ve seen of Wave so far (I got my invite this week), I’d have to say, “No chance.” I have three reasons for making this conclusion: 1....
Gaming, Social Learning & Authenticity
James Paul Gee argues that gaming, particularly role-playing gaming, is providing young people with precisely the skills they need to be effective and productive in our new mediated culture and highly networked workplaces. Gee’s positive view on the impact of gaming confirms what I’ve concluded about the video game “races”...
Learnlets
I have had my head down cranking out the manuscript for my mobile learning book. The deadline for the first draft is breathing down my neck, and I’ve been quite busy with some client work as well. The proverbial one-armed paper hanger comes to mind. However, that does not mean my...
Just to note that Learnlets is now part of the blogs recorded in Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning. Tony’s made an architecture that allows blogs and articles on a particular topic to be aggregated and searched. As part of a Personal Learning Network for those in elearning, such a searchable repository is...
After my last blog post, a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information. Let’s say you are the Director of a company’s Education/Training department...
Formalizing informal learning?
The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question, asking whether we can formalize informal learning. I have to say, I don’t get the question. That is, I understand what they’re asking, and like the response they give, but I really think it’s the wrong question. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal...
Writing and the 4C’s of Mobile
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning. My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning, where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. This time is different. The prose actually does flow quite easily from my fingers, but I find myself restructuring more often than last time. ...
At the Upside Learning Blog, this post (which I found through the CLO group on LinkedIn) proclaims that the elearning industry is down on the iPad. I saw several flaws in the argument and had to write this response: I have to say I think this is partly or completely wrong....
BusinessCasualBlog.com
How to create a custom email signature in Mac Mail
I'm writing this post to answer a question my friend, Jennifer, asked about how I formatted a custom signature on my Mac (via Mac's native email client called Mail). And to be able to do it in such a way that doesn't distort or otherwise get discombobulated on the receiving......
The megaphone effect in the decision funnel - web video
In my last post I included a web video to illustrate some points from my videoBook (vbook) about the decision funnel--or sales funnel--and how each of its stages still very much apply in the world of social media. And while some might make claims about marketing "as we know it"......
Traditional Marketing, Dead? Really? - web video
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of keynoting a meeting in Anaheim Hills, CA with a great group of real estate professionals from the Orange County and Riverside areas. My presentation was based on the "Hubs and Spokes" discussion from Chapter 3 of the vBook on MindBridj.......
What's the Hub About in a "Hub and Spokes" Social Media Engagement Strategy
In yesterday's post I previewed the discussion I'm keynoting with a group of real estate professionals this week; tomorrow, as a matter of fact. The idea being the need to be deliberate about structuring an approach to social media engagement that isn't the proverbial "shotgun" marketing strategy. Or, what we......
Keynoting Hub-and-Spokes at a Workshop This Wednesday
I'm really looking forward to a keynote I'll be presenting this Wednesday to a really great group of real estate professionals in the north Orange County (California) area. I was asked to come and help kick off FirstTeam Real Estate's (Anaheim Hills office) workshop with a discussion from key segments......
Twitter Was All A Buzz During Superbowl 44
As I was watching the Superbowl today, I got to wondering if analytics providers like Radian6, Hubspot, Compete, Sysomos and others have made a killing with new clients in those who plunked down $3M for a Superbowl Ad spot. They had better. Or, more to the point, the advertisers themselves......
Julie Lindsay's Blogs
This blog is designed to reach out to school communities and educate them about the guidelines and rules of online digital citizenship. This is done through the use of real-life stories and experiences that are used to have a greater impact on the online community....
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An open blog for participants at the ECIS IT Conference 2007 - http://it07.isdedu.de/...
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A blog dedicated to discussion about the concept and practice of podcasting in education...
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The Rapid eLearning Blog
Who Should Decide How You Decide?
The Learning Solutions Conference & Expo is only a couple of weeks away. And I can say that I am really excited! A few weeks ago, I wrote about how you can change the world by volunteering to build an elearning course for one of the LINGOs organizations. Thanks to...
Become an E-Learning Pro without Spending a Dime
People are always asking me about how to get better at building elearning courses. They want to know which books to read, which classes to take, which school to go to, etc. It’s like they’re walking around with these big fat wallets wanting to spend money. While all of the aforementioned...
Here’s Why Contrast is an Essential Part of E-Learning Design
Contrast is a key part of your course design. In fact, it’s one of the foundational principles in visual design. Many people know the acronym, CRAP (or CARP if you’re an ichthyolatrist) which stands for: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. They are the four essential design elements. Contrast allows you to...
A Roadmap for Building an E-Learning Course
When we’re new and just getting started with elearning, we need templates and project plans to guide us. On the other hand, experienced developers rely less on those resources because they have more experience and a deeper understanding of what it takes to create an elearning course. Think of it like...
Here’s How to Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses
In a previous post, I shared some free handwritten fonts. Today, we’ll explore how you might use them in your elearning courses. We already looked at how fonts are more than the text you read. As a graphic element, they convey meaning and play a role in the message you...
Why E-Learning is So Effective
E-learning is hot. And for good reason. If done right, it can produce great results by decreasing costs and improving performance. Also, unlike a one time classroom session, the elearning course is available for others. This includes the static elearning course as well as any ongoing conversations in networked...
EPS411 ELearning Design and Production
Content: Dr. Anonymous Show Appearance
Last night I had the pleasure of being on the Dr. Anonymous podcast. We talked about: Why I started in EMS Tips for EMS education The EMS podcasting community Uses of social media How Dr. A got started in blogging and podcasting Streamlining social media production Take a listen to this episode and visit Dr. Anonymous’ blog...
Content: 50th Episode of the EMSEduCast
On Wednesday March 3 at 2000 CST we are recording the 50th episode of the EMSEduCast – the podcast by and for EMS educators. Ways to subscribe to new episodes and listen to any of the episodes from the archives include: iTunes RSS Feed ProMed Network Also make sure to join the EMSEduCast Facebook...
Connections: EMS Today Conference
Are you going to EMS Today? It has been the most frequently asked question I have been asked the past two weeks. The EMS Today Conference, from JEMS Conferences and Expositions, started today in Baltimore, Maryland and runs through the weekend. Unfortunately I am not going to EMS Today, but if you...
Connections: EPS Team Member in the News
EPS411.com team member and flight paramedic Kevin Collopy appears in this video (see below) and article about the new helicopter and training simulator that the flight service he works for is putting into service. Kevin and I are co-authoring a series of 12 CE articles for EMS Magazine that will begin...
How many slides for a 30 minute elearning program?
EPS produces narrated flash movies that are the result of converting PowerPoint to flash with a program called Articulate Presenter. One of the most common questions I receive is “How many PowerPoint slides should I have in a 30 minute elearning program?” They are rarely satisfied with my answer, “The number...
Content: Promote AED Program with Social Media
Last week I wrote a guest post on using social media to promote a public access defibrillation program for the Cardiac Science Blog. You read the post here: Public Access Defibrillation and Social Media: 7 Ideas You Can Use Right Now Related posts:Content: 5 Reasons and Methods for Public Information Officers to...
The Bamboo Project Blog
What I've Been Up To: Some Social Media Training Resources
For the past few months, I've definitely been blogging less, in part because I've been doing training on social media for several clients. I thought it made sense to share some of what I've been working on, so here are......
Borrowing from the Library to Support Workplace Learning
Joyce Valenza is a librarian rockstar who also happens to be the head librarian at my daughter's high school. A recent post she wrote for the School Library Journal on strategies for teaching and using social media showed up in......
It's Not the Tool That's Boring. It's You.
Great post from Sarah Horrigan on a training she did with University staff on using virtual learning environments (VLE's). Apparently there were complaints prior to the session about VLEs being "boring," that Sarah decided to face head on, pointing out......
Augmented Reality and the Future of Learning & Work
A few weeks ago I was doing a social media training and a couple of participants started talking to me about "augmented reality" and how it was going to change learning and work. I'd never heard of the concept and......
Will Richardson has an excellent post, Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do, in which he muses on "acceptable use" policies of social media in schools and how restrictive and anti-learning they can be. Having spent the past several months......
I'm currently at the USBLN Conference in Maryland, where we're exploring various "business to business strategies to promote the business imperative of including people with disabilities in the workforce." Yesterday I attended a great session co-facilitated by Manpower, Inc. where......
Clive on Learning
Is the net generation really unique?
An interesting article in the Technology Quarterly of The Economist, The net generation, unplugged, challenges whether there really is a new generation that has been shaped by new media technologies and which therefore sees the world in a different way and acts accordingly. "They are variously...
Selling myself the masterclass
I’ve just signed up to run my first ever masterclass. It’s on the subject of e-learning design and it’s on June 3rd in London. To be honest I have mixed feelings about the prospect. The learning strategy for a masterclass is typically simple exposition (lectures if you like), with some...
The Big Question: how can we leverage open content in workplace learning?
The March Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks why it is that open content initiatives such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium haven't had a bigger impact. I have some suggestions: There is no history or culture of...
The Big Question: the place for instruction in an information snacking culture
The February Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog (I know, it’s March already and I’m late on this one) queries what the place is for instruction and deep reflection in a culture in which people increasingly just dip into things and move on. Well, I...
A new vision for IT customer training
A month back I had the fortune of being asked to present to CEdMA, an association of senior training managers in large IT companies who have the responsibility for training up their organisations’ customers in their various products. It was clear from their discussion that the market was changing: ...
Homo Competens – learning, doing, sharing
I met Bert de Coutere at Online Educa in December. He chaired the Battle of the Bloggers in which I participated. Recently Bert sent me a copy of his intriguingly titled Homo Competens (Beta Book, 2009), an exploration of competence and how humans acquire this. I only got so...
Betchablog
So, here I am on the beautiful (but currently rainy) Gold Coast. I arrived this evening to spend the weekend at Gold Coast ITSC 2010, the annual Innovative Technology in Schools Conference run by Apple. It certainly sounds like it will be fun, and I’m rather humbled to have been...
In this new episode of the Virtual Staffroom podcast I have the great pleasure of enjoying a casual chat with the enigmatic Professor Stephen Heppell. With a story for just about every occasion, Stephen is a absolute mine of great insights and perspectives about the future of...
Silly me. I was mowing the lawn the other day and I stupidly managed to get my big toe caught in the mower blade while it was running at full speed. The blades ripped right through my shoe and mangled the tip of my big toe. Needless to say, it...
I’m a huge believer in the notion of trust and respect as the primary drivers in the relationship between student and teacher. People have occasionally told me that I’m just incredibly naive about this, but all I can talk from is my own experience, and in my own experience, building...
Ah serendipity, how I love it. We have a major building project going on at school right now. The bulldozers are busily demolishing walls from our old library, and and we will soon have a beautiful new library Information and Research Center. From the plans I’ve seen, it should be a...
This is the first time I’ve ever done this, but I’d like to welcome a guest writer to Betchablog. This post was written by one of my work colleagues, Pam Nutt, and was actually the first part of her welcoming address to staff for the start of the 2010 school...
E-learning Curve Blog at Edublogs
The E-Learning Curve Blog Has Moved!
The E-Learning Curve Blog now lives at my domain michaelhanley.ie. Click here to access the blog. Click here to subscribe to the E-Learning Curve Blog via RSS. Please update your links and bookmarks. I look forward to welcoming you to my new home. Michael Hanley, September 2009 –...
Goodbye to the Edublogs mirror of the E-Learning Curve Blog
The E-Learning Curve Blog will no longer be updated here on Edublogs.org....
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia – Book Review
Review of Packt Publishing's Moodle 1.9 Multimedia by João Pedro Soares Fernandes....
Podcasting for E-Learning: Benefits of Digital Audio
Today, I want to talk about how digital audio technology benefits podcasters. What are its advantages over an analog system of recording?...
Some interesting Moodle audio visual plugins just released
I've been discussing podcasting in some depth recently: today I've decided to take a break from the topic, and tell you about a related subject. Now read on......
Podcasting for E-Learning: Critically Analyzing Podcasts
Recording and producing your own content is great fun, and I hope you'll find that there's great satisfaction in crafting your own little corner of the internet....
Derek's Blog
Forget Hollywood, or Bollywood for that matter, now there is EdTalksWood – featured on the hills above Wellington. Coming up on March 26th at Te Papa is a one-day “EDtalks Symposium – Leading Minds, Creating Futures”. This symposium features sixteen 20 minute presentations focusing on current trends in learning enabled...
Internet access – a basic right
In the news today from the BBC is the headline: Internet access a fundamental right?, leading with a report about a poll that reveals almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right. The survey – of more than 27,000 adults...
Visit to Hwa Chong Institution
Today I had the opportunity to visit the Hwa Chong Institution, one of Singapore’s five Future Schools. This was one of the pre-conference sessions arranged as part of the ICTLT conference that I am attending in Singapore. The five Future Schools are Singapore’s response to recognising that students will use even...
The Learning@School conference held in Rotorua is over for another year, and as I tended to things around my home today after the week away, I spent time reflecting on what a wonderful event it was. With over 1300 delegates, including a significant number of principals attending with groups of...
Leading Learning in a digital world
Final day of the Learning@School conference and I had the opportunity to lead a session in the unconference area on leading learning in the digital age. There was a small, but intensely interested group from both primary and secondary school backgrounds that gathered to consider what is required of those...
Today I presented CORE’s ten trends for 2010 to an audience of around 400 delegates at the Learning@School conference in Rotorua. The ten trends are a collection of themes and issues that have been identified by CORE staff as trends in education that we imagine will impact on the work...
elearnspace
I’ve been making this point for several years: You are who you know. As the study details, what we reveal about ourselves in Facebook (or similar SNS) profiles is not as critical as mining the profiles of people we list as “friends”. I may be quite discrete in our privacy...
Creation and innovation are key elements in education. Research is concerned with discovering new schemes of connectedness between entities and evaluating the validity of those connections. No where does informal research, innovation, creating, and personal agency find a greater nexus point than in the work of entrepreneurs. I’ve owned several...
Roughly everything we do online is content of some sort. Each click can be captured. Each thought expressed in digital format serves as a future connection point. The trails we leave may not have much value today, but when someone decides to analyze trails left through a data mining tool,...
Learning powered by technology
The National Education Technology Plan (.pdf) reads like a somewhat random mix of concepts that have been discussed in various blogs and forums over the last decade: connected learning, 21st century skills, data-driven improvement, learning networks, life-wide learning, etc. Nothing new here. What is new, however, is the organization publishing...
Summary: Collapsing to Connections
I’ve posted a rough summary of my talk at TEDxNYED on my connectivism site: Collapsing to Connections...
Social Media Conference: Dave Snowden
TEKRI is hosting a conference on Making Sense of Social Media in Education, Government, and the Enterprise, April 25-26 in Edmonton. Dave Snowden is our keynote speaker. We are issuing a call for presentations. Deadline is March 21. The conference will run two days – Sunday is a social media bootcamp:...
eLearning Weekly
After writing weekly posts for nearly 3 years, I’m going to take a break for a while. Everything is going well personally and professionally (knock on wood), and I expect to return to blogging before too long. In the meantime, you can keep up with me on Twitter (@bjschone). A big...
Hi everyone… I’m taking a break to spend time with my family and friends, so I won’t be posting anything for this week (and maybe next week). Best wishes for 2010! Cheers, -B.J. ...
My New Year’s Resolutions For 2010
I’ve come up with a few ideas for my New Year’s Resolutions for 2010. Next year, I will… Experiment more with technology I usually do a decent job with this, but I’m going to do a better job in 2010 of trying lots of new software, tools, web sites, web applications, etc....
Five Words To Describe Corporate Learning in 2010
Jeanne Meister, author of the New Learning Playbook blog, wrote a post yesterday on the five words she predicts will describe corporate learning in 2010. I think she’s right on target… Here’s a brief summary, but be sure to check out her full post for more info. SocialThe word ’social’ is...
I had the pleasure of meeting Mike Rustici this year at DevLearn. Mike runs Rustici Software and he’s a total SCORM ninja. In our conversation, Mike mentioned a new service that is offered by his company – the service is called the SCORM Cloud. It was easy to see Mike...
Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009
Tony Karrer posted a list of the trending hot topics in eLearning for 2009, based on stats from his eLearningLearning.com site. Nothing is too surprising, but it’s very helpful how Tony linked to some of the more popular articles and blog posts related to each topic. Below are the hottest trending...
jay cross's Blogs
A wide ranging discussion on work patterns, learning, recruiting, retention, career development, and knowledge management....
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