Audio version of my print article: Neat Stuff!
Here is the audio version of my Training Quarterly article titled Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer
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Three Steps for Teaching Software
The other day, I got a great comment about my post Are You Challenging Your Learners? Don’t treat them like babies. The question: When do you think people in your class reach their threshold level? When does it turn from ‘difficult/challenging’ to ‘impossible’ – leaving the student frustrated and ready to give up? I teach […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →South Florida ASTD Slides and Resources
I had a chance to give a presentation to the South Florida ASTD chapter virtually this evening, would have loved to have been there in person. The beauty and curse of technology. Anyway, here are the slides and some resources. Here are the slides from the presentation: Gadgets, Games and Google For Learning South FL […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Are You Challenging Your Learners? Don’t treat them like babies.
People who play video games are used to challenges, they need to figure out how to navigate a level, they face a “boss” who wants to destroy their character and force them to start a level over again and they are challenged by increasingly difficulty activities in a game based environment. Even angry birds forces […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Article Published: Improving Training:Thinking Like a Game Developer
Training Quarterly just publishey my article Improving Training: Thinking Like a Game Developer You can find the article here. The article provides 3 ways in which an instructional designer can think like a game designer. I was originally thinking about 4 but one had to go due to space constraints so I’ve add the fourth […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Unsuccessful: Unable to save the middle school from the flood
Yesterday I wrote about how myself and my two boys went down to sandbag a bridge to help to save the Danville Middle School from flooding, we worked for several hours and the wall of sandbags appeared strong and ready to withstand the flood but, unfortunately, at 3:00 AM this morning, the sandbag wall was […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →SPBT Webinar Resources
Here are the resources from today’s SPBT webinar titled “Gamification of Learning and Instruction: What Research tells Us About 3D Avatars, Storytelling & Serious Games for Learning“ Here is a description of the event: Transfer of knowledge is key to any learning initiative, including training sales professionals. One way to ensure that knowledge transfer is […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Fighting the River–Saving the Middle School
Well, I spent most of the morning this morning fighting the Susquehanna River—actually fighting a creek that feeds the river, the creek was rising quickly and threatened to flood the local middle school. It had rained for four straight days here in Danville so a flood was inevitable. Got a call from the local school […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Wanted–A Learning Strategy
IN the past few weeks, a number of organizations have approached me with a common problem. They don’t know how to bring all their training efforts together, they lack strategy, focus and a unified vision. Within organizations, training requirements are not shrinking; in fact, they are becoming more and more chaotic. To align training efforts […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →Resources for Finding Out How Long it Takes to Develop eLearning
A question I am constantly asked is “How long does it take to develop…” you can fill in the rest with Instructor-led training, elearning, simulations, etc. Several people have attempted to answer that question in 2003 I gathered data and information about the times it takes to develop instruction and then my colleague Robyn Defelice […]
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