I left a comment on Tony Karrer’s blog about creating a “Design Day” so that everyone in the blogosphere adds a comment about the importance of instructional design as opposed to focusing on technology. And then Dennis Coxe over at Sailing by Sound picked up on my comment and posted an entry called “I Declare […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Here is a great article titled Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees by Greg Hammill. It does a great job of explaining the tendencies of four different groups all currently working within organizations and all required to work together even though they have different outlooks, experiences and expectations. The groups are: Veterans, Silent, Traditionalists […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →This week, we had Suzi Mazzenga as a guest speaker talking about her adventure as a male in Second Life. You can read about it in her article My Days as a Dude. She gave her presentation using text chat within the Second Life classroom we have set up on MSIT Island. The class then […]
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Leave a Comment (21) →Here is a video I created for my “Learning in 3D Class” which contrasts the world of 2D Synchronous tools with 3D Synchronous learning tools. I hope it illustrates some of the advantages of 3D environments and some of the things that can be done to faciliate learning within a 3D environment. The video is […]
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Leave a Comment (6) →I often talk about how the “gamer” generation views email as snail mail. Here is yet more proof. Tom King of Mobilemind sent me this great link to an article Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead which explains why kids don’t use email. My favorite part to the article: “Sometimes I say I e-mailed […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Avatar from ProtonMedia’s ProtoSphere which will be discussed today. Today at 12:45 EST, I will presenting, along with Ron Burns of ProtonMedia a session titled Fostering Informal Learning in a 3D Learning Environment. It should be very interesting and a lot of fun. We will focus on how informal learning can be fostered in a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →The second “Learning in 3D” class had a few technical difficulties. Second Life was slow and not everyone could log in. And our other 3D space was not accessible either. Our goal of this class was to view a number of educational locations to see what types of educational environments are being created within Second […]
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Leave a Comment (21) →As an academic and a person who values research, I think it is critically important to our industry to back research and to use it to make sound judgments regarding the design, development and delivery of e-learning. One site I especially like is No Significant Difference. Will Thalheimer has done a fantastic job in promoting […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Yesterday, my 13 yr old son and I presented a workshop sponsored by the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit to help teachers integrate technology into the schools. It was a great group of teachers who have been designated, through a grant, as master technology educators. Their role is to go back to their school district, building […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Steve Woodruff and I have put together a portal aggregating blogs around the topic of training/elearning/innovation and other learning, development and education topics. Check it out at TrainingBlogs (we didn’t spend a lot of time on the name.) Here is what Brent Schlenker had to say about the portal. So, if you don’t want to […]
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