LMS Pilot is Looming Near

Oh this is getting scary. My LMS pilot is scheduled to occur in a few weeks and I’m getting very nervous. There is so much about the system I don’t like that I’m now getting very discouraged about the entire thing. Having the fear that it’s going to drastically fail is not a good feeling. […]

Honoured by a reposting of “LMS Pitfalls” to Spanish site

I was honoured earlier this week by a fellow blogger requesting if he could re-post my post on LMS Pitfalls. Anthony Montalvo of Buenos Aires, Argentina pens the blog 34.35°S, 58.24°W – Navegando el aprendizaje 2.0. I really agree with one the comments of his re-posted version and that is that many on the list […]

Earth Hour March 28, 2009 – (8:30pm – 9:30pm)

What are you planning to do this year for Earth Hour? If you haven’t yet thought about it, now is the time. Cities, Towns, and Villages around the world are choosing to help save our planet from global warming with one simple act…turning their lights off for one hour. Wherever they are in the world […]

eLearning Course or Online Demo – which is better?

My co-worker and had a discussion today about what will come into our area over the next year and one of them was my goal to create several courses to go onto our LMS (once it’s up of course). As the discussion went along she mentioned that she would like to do something where she […]

My Breakfast Byte on LMS Pitfalls

I facilitated a Breakfast Byte session at the eLearing Guild Annual Gathering and wanted to capture the points I shared and those of the participants. It’s a long list so be prepared and is not in any particular order. These are many of the questions I’ve had to answer as I’ve gone along trying to […]

E-Learning the Future Unmasked – Tod Maffin

Friday’s Keynote at e-Learning Guild Annual Gathering Social media strategist, broadcaster, writer, blogger A few notes…. Where are we now? Social networking apps are used the largest, but the effectiveness is the question. The most important metric we should be using are did they retain the knowledge and we seem to often measure that least. […]

Graphich Symbols: The 5th Language – Kevin Thorne

5 Languages spoken – may be fluent in more than one written – symbolic form of our spoken language mathematics -symbols for concepts and data body – language of expression symbols Examples: nike swish, windows flag, facebook “f”, target brand, golden arches Symbol tips to get what is in your head, out in to graphics, […]

Increasing Learner Productivity with New Technologies

Participants are looking for information on new technologies, passing road blocks that are limiting us from using new technologies, facing generations using new tools – but faculty are not. Feels like sales forces are the drive of early adopters. They need just-in-time information often about the products they need. Also within the education industry, field […]

Learning from blogging: Creating your own and learning from other’s

I’m actually presenting at the Annual Gathering in about 30 minutes or so and am quite excited. I really hope those in attendance enjoy the presentation and those that can’t attend are free to take a look at my slides and forward any questions to myself. AG09 Presentation (full slide presentation) AG09 Presentation (handout – […]