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Interfaces, or the lack of interfaces seems to be a theme lately. I thought the posting, What Interface? provided a provocative glimpse into the future but…it was nothing compared to the concept of a helmet that reads your thoughts and then controls images on the screen to help you play video games without a controller. […]
Continue Reading →This week over at at TrainingDay, the post is about how to rethink the traditional use of bulleted lists in PowerPoint and other similar programs. The post discusses a few ways to avoid the use of traditional and boring bulleted lists.__ Recommended Games and GadgetsRecommended BooksContent Guide
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Leave a Comment (1) →Somehow I end up watching the show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” Amusing show focusing on information to be memorized. The type of stuff presented in most corporate training programs (This is our policy on customer wait time. Here are the three features of product x.ARM means Adjustable Rate Mortage.) The game on […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →This video comes courtesy of Mike Qaissaunee’s blog Frequently Asked Q. It really provides an excellent glimpse into the future of computer/user interfaces. When the interface is this simple and intuitive…what will happen to software training courses? I’ve always said that one of the reasons instructional designers have a job is because programmers create such […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Over at Learning Visions, Cammy Bean posted an entry titled Games for Girls… there she discusses the fact that it seems that girls aren’t really gamers. I encounter that thought a great deal when I talk to groups about the gamers and how they like to learn. So much so that I carefully researched and […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →One effective method of using 3D worlds like Second Life, Active Worlds, ProtoSphere and others for education is to build environments and 3D models for the students to learn about places they could not otherwise visit or inhabit. Build a dangerous or deadly environment and let them freely explore to learn in a realistic manner […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →My post this week at the TrainingDay blog is a little late since I was stuck (and still am) in San Diego since the East Coast got the huge storm which shut down teh airport I was to fly into. As I play with 3D worlds more and more I think that they are going […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Today I am in San Diego, CA speaking to an enthusastic group of clients of Eduneering. We are discussing how the gamer generation is beginning to influence learning and knowledge management and how changes need to be made to training programs to properly transfer knowledge from the boomers to the gamers. __ Recommended Games and […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →I’ve been a fan of Jellyvision’s You Don’t Know Jack for a while, my first CD of the game had the following system requirements: 486SX/33 or better microprocessor Windows 3.1x or Windows 95 8MB of RAM 15 MB of Free Hard Disk Space 2X CD-ROM drive Video display capable of at least 640×480 resolution with […]
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Leave a Comment (5) →Remember School House Rock? It was a fun, interesting way to learn the boring aspects of conjunctions, how a bill becomes a law and multiplication tables (remember 3 is a magic number.) This type of knowledge is known in academic circles as declarative and conceptual knowledge. Information that must be memorized as well as concepts […]
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