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May 23, 2012

DESIGNED FOR LEARNING \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
Emptying Your Cup: Unlearning to Learn We are constantly learning. We should also be constantly unlearning. Unlearning Unlearning is as important to learning (if not more) than the process of learning itself. According According to the dictionary, unlearning is a transitive verb that means to put out of one's knowledge or memory OR to undo the effect of or discard the habit of. MORE >>

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CLIVE ON LEARNING \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
When compliance is not enough All good advice, as you would expect from Tom, but only assuming the whole process is just one of getting boxes ticked to satisfy an external regulator. If the material is really not relevant, then it makes sense to make the box-ticking exercise as painless as possible, like renewing your passport or some similar administrative chore. MORE >>

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LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	It’s all about networks It’s all about networks. Understanding networks that is. This is the shift our organizations, institutions, and society must make in order to thrive in an always-on, interconnected world. Changing the mechanistic mindset : Work is changing as we get more connected. Workers want out, in spite of a lacklustre economy. There is no normal. MORE >>

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UPSIDE LEARNING BLOG \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	6 Drivers Of mLearning In The Workplace Mobile learning (or mlearning) is probably a hot topic of discussion in your organization right now. In some organizations, L&D staff is struggling to build a business case for mlearning. In my opinion, there are six fundamental drivers of mobile learning in the workplace. These will help you make the business case for mLearning. MORE >>

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INTEGRATED LEARNINGS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012

What are you reading for eLearning insight?
By Shelley A. Gable. It seems that many of us in the training industry are avid readers, particularly when it comes to reading for professional development. And while I’m sure I’m not the only one with an ever-growing reading wish list, I’m also continuously on the lookout for recommendations to add to that wish list. What are your clients reading? MORE >>

LEARNING WITH E'S \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	iPad or iFad? In 2002 I was so enthused by the idea that a school could provide one laptop for every child in its school that I launched a major research programme to study one of the first schools in the UK to achieve that goal for each of its 41 Year 6 pupils. Speirs claims that the iPads facilitate learning that is 'more flexible, engaging and interesting.' MORE >>

MINDFLASH \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	10 Ways to Spot a Lame Corporate PowerPoint Template This post first appeared on Brent Dykes’ blog, PowerPoint Ninja. If you work at a company with more than 100 people, you probably have an official corporate PowerPoint template. If you work in a company with more than 1,000 people, you probably don’t know the designer who created your presentation template. Font size is too small. MORE >>

BRAVE NEW ORG \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	Credo of the Collaboration Canoe You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: I am not intermittent nor ephemeral for I travel on ubiquitous source. ‘Hope springs eternal’ you say? Aye, this rivulet does meander with hope but ’tis crowded by dangling bystanders. Low hanging fruit, I say, but there they remain perched and private. Oh Sequoia! MORE >>

ENSPIRE LEARNING \| WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012
	Stock Market 101: Facebook’s IPO When Facebook’s IPO didn’t result in a spike in its stock valuation on its first day of trading, people speculated. Was it because Facebook isn’t as hip as it once was? Was it because we don’t have technology bubbles anymore? Was it because $38 sounds like a lot for a stock that just went IPO? MORE >>

MINDFLASH \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
	Infographic: 11 Games That Subconsciously Train Your Employees Many companies talk about working hard and playing hard, but must they always be separate? As it turns out, many of the the most popular mobile games help reinforce the workplace skills your employees rely on most. Here are 11 of the most useful. click image to enlarge). InfographicsMORE >>

I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Adobe Captivate 5/5.5: Troubleshooting Cranky Software by Kevin Siegel By this point I've created hundreds upon hundreds of eLearning projects using Captivate. In all that time, Captivate has remained very stable for me (very few crashes and zero corrupt projects). In the vast majority of the cases, the following resolved the issues. Run as administrator. even Captivate processes. MORE >>

ONEHUNDREDFORTYWORDS \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
	The ToolBar, Episode 14 — Phoning it In Episode #14 of The ToolBar lives! In this episode, we chat at some length with our very special guest, Aaron Silvers. There’s lots here about the Tin Can API and much, much more… including a special announcement about DevLearn 2012. Aaron drank Root , Brian drank Raven Mad and Hop Henge , and I drank Genius Loci’s 2006 Pinot Noir. MORE >>

THE LEARNING CIRCUITS BLOG \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Gamification Blog Book Tour: Week Six Stops and Week Five Recap TODAY'S BLOG BOOK TOUR STOP:May 22: Bruce Walsh Can video games help us learn? Stops for Week Six May 21:Bruce Walsh Games Teach! Encore stop from last week. May 22: Can video games help us learn? May 24: Webinar event with Dan Bliton who challenges attendees to the game "Are you smarter than Karl Kapp". MORE >>

LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
	Fostering connections by letting go IBM just published its 2012 Global CEO Study: Leading through Connections. The IBM study shows that CEOs and the companies they manage must constantly evolve to stay competitive. Partners, suppliers, employees and customers want CEOs to communicate with them on a personal level to build trust and to help align them to the organization’s strategy. MORE >>

MINDFLASH \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
	Five Ways to Spice Up Employee Training Programs Most employee training and education programs focus on just a few required, core topics: basic skills, computer systems, and keeping current on industry regulations or changes. That’s fine. Fundamentals are important. But that’s such a small part of what a great training program can be. Organizations should take advantage of that. MORE >>

LEARNING JOURNAL \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
Left on the cutting room floor I had a chance this week to peruse the 2012 Horizon Report – Higher Education Edition - a publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) that describes emerging technologies judged to be likely to have a near term impact in the world of education. glimpse of what is possible. Luckily, I was able to locate an online discussion board. MORE >>

BOTTOM-LINE PERFORMANCE \| TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012
4 Tips for Working With SMEs Ah, SMEs. The heart and soul of any project. No matter how great we are at creating learning solutions, we will not even get off the ground without the right content and context. Yet sometimes, working with SMEs can be one of the most difficult parts of the process. First off, what is a SME? Where do they plug in? How will you interface with them? MORE >>

GEORGE SIEMENS \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning In 2009 Peter Tittenberger and I wrote a handbook of emerging technologies for learning. We created a supporting website (wiki) for the book. Those fine folks at University of Manitoba (motto: we’ve never met a permanent link that we haven’t made unpermanent) have deleted the wiki and the website. MORE >>

LEARNFOREVER \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
A Tale of Two Donalds It’s a week since I posted a comment on Donald Clark’s blog , but comments there require moderation, and so far, at least, Donald hasn’t published my comment. As I mentioned it in my last post here, this is what I said: Insightful critique, Donald - I found myself nodding enthusiastically at many of your points. The same with Kirkpatrick. MORE >>

LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
	Learning is everywhere There are lots of “learning specialists” in organizations and they work for variously named departments. As learning specialists, I assume they are supporting workplace learning, so let me ask: If I’m sitting at my desk with a work-related problem can I call the Training Department to quickly get me up to speed? MORE >>

I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
	PowerPoint: Instant Font Usage by AJ George I was recently editing a PowerPoint presentation that someone else had created. Master slides were not used and the formatting was a bit inconsistent. thought to myself that it would be helpful to see a list of fonts used in the presentation. Then I remembered that there is such a list! (What a sneaky little hidden menu!). MORE >>

LEARNING SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE \| MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012
	Articulate Storyline: A Brand New eLearning Development Tool by Joe Ganci Articulate’s Storyline has been one of the most-anticipated product launches in months. Now that it’s. out, was it worth the wait? Here’s an in-depth review. Asynchronous Rapid ToolsMORE >>

E-LEARNING PROVOCATEUR \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Informal first It is well documented that the vast majority of learning in the workplace is informal. According to extensive research undertaken by the Center for Creative Leadership: • 70% of learning occurs “on the job” • 20% of learning occurs by interacting with other people. • 20% on informal learning. Vive la revolution! MORE >>

THE WRITERS GATEWAY \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Reviving The Writers Gateway! Hi All, My sincere apologies to all of you who come to this blog regularly. Its been a year now and haven’t been able to write much or post useful stuff here. have been reading all your comments and even queries. am so sorry for not responding. am taking some active steps to revive this blog. Click Join Group and I will accept your request. MORE >>

I CAME, I SAW, I LEARNED \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
Writing & Grammar: Slow/Slowly by Jennie Ruby Consider these two sentences, both containing the adverb slow/slowly: The river ran slow that summer. The runner jogged slowly past the window. Wait, you might be thinking, shouldn't the first one say slowly? So how do you decide? Here is this week's challenge. MORE >>

BIG DOG, LITTLE DOG \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Updated Table of Five Design Models I recently added a new row to the table of design methodologies that shows some examples after a request from a reader: A Table of Design Models: Instructional, Thinking, Agile, System, or X Problems? would be interested to know if the examples are helpful MORE >>

BRIAN DUSABLON \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
The Challenge for Startups “The default state of the world is to stay the way it is, which means the default state of a startup is failure.” ” Chris Dixon—” The default state of a startup is failure “ Nobody ever said this was easy. Get to it. Work business entrepreneurship startupsMORE >>

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BRIAN DUSABLON \| SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
	Breakfast tacos from Trudy’s. Life’s good. from Instagram: [link]. Photography instagramMORE >>

LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB \| SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
	Sharing is good for all of us When I was writing my Master’s thesis on Learning in the New Brunswick Information Technology Workplace (completed in 1998) I based a part of it on a framework developed in 1991. The SPATIAL model looks at how the physical and non-physical attributes of the work environment influence learning. Image by @gapingvoid. NetworkedLearningMORE >>

SHAREPOINT AND ASSESSMENT \| SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
	Measuring Social Learning with Assessments at SharePoint Saturday Belgium Bart Hendrickx recently talked at SharePoint Saturday Belgium on Measuring Social Learning with Assessments. m pleased to share his slides courtesy of SlideShare and BIWUG (Belux Information Workers Group). Bart Hendrickx measuring-sociallearning-spsbe02. View more presentations from BIWUG. Enjoy! MORE >>

LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB \| SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
	PKM Workshop Introduction My next Personal Knowledge Management online workshop is scheduled for 11-22 June 2012. PKM PKM is also one of the topics for our social learning Summer Camp during July/August 2012. Here is a 10 minute video that covers PKM and gives an introduction to the workshop. It should help in deciding if this workshop is for you. MORE >>

REDTRAY \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
You’re in if you tweet. You’re out if you don’t MORE >>

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY LEARNING \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
	Tablets: Finally a technology for the classroom I wanted to blog again as it's been a while. Amongst all the different facets of my work recently, the area that is most stimulating my thinking is ipads and the potential of tablets in formal education. feel strongly that tablets have the potential to have really positive impact on our formal education in the classroom. Ipad provide this. MORE >>

THE PEFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT BLOG \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
	The Unexamined Leadership Program is Not Worth Doing If you’re not going to evaluate a leadership development program, don’t do the program! It will be a waste of time, money, energy, and trust. End-of-program reactionnaires (aka smile sheets) don’t count as evaluation. Validation that the correct learning solution has been identified and suggestions for programme improvement. MORE >>

KAPP NOTES \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
Games Teach! As the The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour has been underway, another interesting discussion has been occurring in the learning blogosphere. It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. The article kicked off a firestorm of debate, demands for proof and even name calling. The Argument. So we’ll start there. MORE >>

ECONTENT \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
	By the Power of Sir Isaac Newton Engineering Super Heros! Have to love it. move over Fantastic Four ! Huge accolades go out to the School of Engineering and Applied Science at George Washington University which just created. drum roll. RobotronMan ! first learned about this comic strip which features engineers as super heros via the Scientific American Blog. MORE >>

BRIAN DUSABLON \| FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
How Great We Can Become “I’m curious just how different, and great, we can become.” ” Eddie: “We’re not all destined to program” Go read the whole thing. Quotes TechnologyMORE >>