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Recently a few people have asked me about the best way to create a presentation. It seems that they are stuck or have colleagues stuck in the “dump as much as you can on the slide” development technique. I even received an email the other day from someone who had read Edward Tufte’s PowerPoint Essay […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Apple has just released its developer kit…cool stuff. Check out this video of Jobs talking about what you can do in terms of software creation for the iPhone..at the Apple March 6th event. So this weekend, get a hold of an iPhone and start developing some neat software. I think this has the potential to […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →In the future this… May morph into this…Here is a piece from a software review I did for the March/April issue of APICS Magazine… There is a Second Life factory called the Double Happiness Jeans factory. The factory specializes in customized jeans. The production process at the manufacturing plant enables a customer to customize an […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →This is an older story but I still find it interesting. Nissan North America Inc.(NNA) and Microsoft Corp. have merged automobile design and gaming technology to create the first-ever fully integrated gaming system within a vehicle. Conceived by Nissan Design America Inc. (NDA) and equipped with the Xbox 360™ next-generation video game and entertainment system […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This post is a collection of a number of interesting things happening in the blogosphere which don’t all fit under one nice, neat category. First, I have added my comments to the discussion about needing a degree to be an instructional designer. It has been a great discussion, check out the comments in my post […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Arrived back from the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference late the other night (3:00am) but the conference was worth it. I got to see a lot of people and make some really good connections. Matt Monahan and I had a lot of fun in our pre-conference workshop, Learning in 3D. We had a lively group of […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here are the slides for the ASTD TechKnowledge Presentation. It was an all day workshop and we spent most of the time in Second Life but you may find the slides helpful. For the ASTD Conference, we talked about a couple of books used for Second Life. Here are the links: Other resources: SL PortalLSL […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Image from Kathy Sierra’s old “creating passionate users” blog via Jane Bozarth Lately there has been a lot of discussion over at Cammy Bean’s blog Learning Visions about whether or not someone has the “right” to be called an instructional designer or whether or not you even need to know instructional theories to be called […]
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Leave a Comment (17) →Yesterday, Tony O’Driscoll, Matthew Monahan and I gave an ASTD Webinar on the topic of Second Life. We talked about it a little and gave a tour. One of the attendees was Tom Werner who wrote a nice post about his participation in the webinar called Simple vs Complex Spaces. Tom has written a great […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →One of the pleasures of my job is seeing students create really neat and wonderful things and then having them point me to the latest software and web gadgets that make the creation possible. In fact, I am blogging today because of student named Waleed . So the other day Mike DePalma, a student I […]
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