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This month’s ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where […]
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Leave a Comment (10) →Today I thought a blog field trip would be fun. What is a blog field trip? Well, if you regularly view this blog and leave a comment or just lurk (which is great as well). Today, I thought you could spend your time at Cognitive Technologies and leave a comment there or lurk on that […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →An image from the physics game LunarQuest. For those of us who struggled to learn physics, here is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) teaching the fun of physics in an interactive way. Check out the description of the game called Lunar Quest. The game is not yet ready for release but is on a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Today, I came across a posting by David Holloway known in Second Life as Lowell Cremorne (Pictured below.)David is the Founder and Editor of The Metaverse Journal.David/Lowell took some time and expanded on my recent blog entry Questions About Second Life. Check out his take on the questions at Study: Students’ Social Systems Support Successes. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →With all this talk about economic disaster, I thought I’d offer some “free e-learning stuff” to help make your day/week/month a little brighter. If we all posted a few free things then each of us could benefit each other and expand our own knowledge as well as others…a silver lining in this gray economic cloud. […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →EA, the gaming juggernaut, has created a video game that updates, in real-time information and statistics that alter how the video game is played…everyday. The game is NBA Live 09. Here is the marketing description: NBA LIVE 09 has rewritten the rules and fundamentally shifted the way you look at sports simulation games. Dynamic DNA […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here are some resources to support today’s webinar: A whitepaper titled Embrace Informal Learning: Understanding the tools of informal learning and their impact on organizations. Web 2.0 Lessons Learned Tear Down These Walls: Web 2.0 Extends Class Here is how to start a blog using Blogger. Also, you can use Typepad or WordPress. Here is […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Just a little reminder about a webinar I am giving on Friday, Sept. 26th. The description is below. All are welcome. Register Now. It’s free. Transferring Knowledge to the New Style of Learner: Extending the Classroom Beyond the Four Walls Date: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:00 a.m. PDT Length: 90 minutes Description: New learning tools […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Recently, I received a some really good questions related specifically to Second Life but primarily are about virtual worlds and the use of these worlds for education. I’ll answer the questions here since I think they reflect concerns that many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these “places” […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Sorry to do this again but it is really on my mind. Ok, so one of the guys who wants $700 billion dollars as soon as possible to bail out the rich investment banks who greedily took on too much debt was, not too long ago, one of those people we are bailing out. Man […]
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