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This month the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is about PowerPoint. The question: PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? I decided to create a demonstration showing good and bad uses of PowerPoint to make a particular point. You can watch the short presentation (less than 10 minutes) by clicking on this link to the […]
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Leave a Comment (16) →Twice every year our Department of Instructional Technology holds its capstone event. Our Corporate Advisory Council Event. Alumni and professionals from the field return to the Bloomsburg Campus to participate in the event. The first day of the event is when Corporations show off what they are doing in terms of learning and e-learning to […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One issue I address in Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning is how to overcome the fear some managers, tenured faculty and executives have of online games and “newfangled gadgets.” This unspoken fear can make the “selling” of games, gadgets or gizmos for learning difficult. First, if we look at it from their perspective, we […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →This week over at TrainingDay blog, my post is titled Combine Simple Games and Information. Why not create distracting “casual games” that also educate customers or employees. Why do all the learning games have to be “serious.” Let’s make learning games fun and learning more “accidental” than forced. Perhaps less focus on Immersive Learning Simulations […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I have been having a “technology in schools discussion” with one of my readers who mentioned that it is too expensive to place electronic gadgets like MP3 players or iPods in schools and since every student can’t have one, we shouldn’t use these gadgets. As he states Many schools ARE attempting to integrate new technology, […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Here are three reality-based video games…what can they teach us about creating effective learning events? Over at Tony Karrer’s eLearning Technology, he has an entry titled Learning from Sports Games where he writes how a video game (MVP Baseball) has helped his son learn the rules of baseball. My son has been playing MLB ’07 […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →This week over at TrainingDay blog, my post is titled Disastrous E-Learning Might Be Good When you consider how to change the behavior of learners, you might want to take a page from the Hollywood disaster movies and add that flair to your e-learning. -Also, don’t forget, you can win a book if you leave […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Let’s continue the iPod discussion. While schools are banning iPods as fast as they can (see Hire that Kid!), several companies I work with have placed Standard Work Instructions onto iPods. Actually onto video iPods. The idea is that a worker, away from his or her computer, can quickly look up a specific work task […]
Continue Reading →Warning sarcasm ahead You may have read that there is a scandal brewing in schools across the United States and even the world. Kids are using iPods and MP3 players to cheat on tests. A horrible use of technology…those darn electronic gizmos…they are corrupting the youth of the world. An article by Associated Press called […]
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Leave a Comment (12) →Pictured from Left to Right are Karl Kapp, Greg Walsh and Steve Sugar. Three guys talking about games (apparently arranged by height). Recently I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of games with two interesting and exciting gentleman. One was Steve Sugar who has written a half-a-dozen books on what he calls “19th […]
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