What Makes Great eLearning?
I sat in and participated last night in the weekly #lrnchat through Twitter. If you haven’t yet joined in to listen (read) and talk (write) in a #lrnchat session, you really should join us. Some extremely brilliant minds in the field of elearning (and I use that loosely as it includes social media, sims/games, teaching […]
Abbot and Costello “Who’s on First?” for 2009
(I’m not sure where is originated, but I received it as an email. If you do know who’s it is please let me know so that I may give them full credit. It’s really funny and I do remember my dad sharing the original routine with me when I was little. Enjoy!) You have to […]
1st Webinar a Success
I hosted our first webinar yesterday and it seems to have been quite successful. I didn’t have a huge participation level, but I think that is a good thing for the first time. Had it failed miserably it would have been very embarrassing if there were tens of participants trying to get in. We used […]
Learning Management Systems – Trends and Issues (Brandon Hall Research) Webinar
My notes taken during today’s webinar. Presented by Tom Werner & Richard Nantel What do they do? Automate the administration of training. What do they contain? Databases: learners, course offerings, content, progress. Quick History: 1980 – paper age catalog, approvals, registrations, class info (all manually) attendance, evaluations, tests (all manually) count, charge-backs, reporting (all manually) […]
What’s New for July 2009
Well frankly, not much is new at all, hence my reasoning for not posting anything in quite some time. My LMS pilot came and went. I’m now waiting for the vendor to complete the second phase of changes to the system. I was given a first set to review, did so and gave more feedback. […]
Things I learned before 9:00am today from Twitter
One of the first things I like to do in the morning is check the most recent tweets I’ve had pop in since the evening before. Since I’m connected to people around the world I do get quite a few. I’m not a teacher, but this online course for K-12 educators is great resource for […]
Kids and Thier Very Public Digital Rants
I was talking to a colleague at work today who’s son was upset with her because she wasn’t going to allow him to have something that he wanted because of misbehavior. It was something very mild along the lines that he was not to have a friend over after school. The son, not being too […]
Proper Language Can Be Confusing
Recently we had a team meeting discussing the scope of practice that we offer through our combined offices of Organization Development and Health Sciences Resource Centre. My colleague upon expanding on some of her duties that are offered through the library inserted this: “Assistance with capture, transfer, scanning, manipulation & output ofinformation.” When I confronted […]
MOBILE LEARNING – eLearning Tour Part 1 – Hosted by Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation
One of the hardest things to find are real-life examples of different kinds of eLearning solutions. On May 21, Learn Trends will be hosting a free onlineevent where the people who have developed interesting eLearning solutions willdemonstrate and briefly discuss what they’ve done. Moderators: Judy Brown – Mobile Learning SolutionsBob Mosher – Performance Support ToolsKarl […]
LMS pilot is coming to a close
Well my pilot for my LMS is coming to an end this Friday. I had about 20 participants and at this time only 4 Evaluations have been returned. I don’t like those odds too much, however I do know that last minute seems to be a way of life where I work. Granted everyone is […]