Predictions are what will likely happen…not what *should* happen

January 25, 2011

The annual predictions for e-learning in 2011 are in at eLearn Magazine. Some will say this much of this is already happening – and it is for some – but corporate e-learning is still heavy into creating e-learning courses using rapid e-learning tools and web conferencing tools for live online training. The social/collaborative solution is [...]

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Letting the dog out today requires an e-learning course on hypothermia (for you and your dog)

January 24, 2011

e-training for dogs.com includes a course on First Aid which includes hypothermia.

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VES11 (Virtual Edge Summit)

January 21, 2011

I was at the Virtual Edge Summit (VES11) last week in Las Vegas  which was co-located with PCMA’s Convening Leaders conference.  PCMA is the acronym for the Professional Convention Management Association. As  you can imagine, it was a mixed audience,  all there due to their interest in virtual events, meetings and online communities. I co-facilitated [...]

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Middle seat

January 21, 2011

Are you an aisle or window seat kind of person? Or do you like the middle seat? I can’t stand the middle seat. Can. not. stand. it. Perhaps that’s one reason why, when I was re-ticketed and placed in the middle seat on a cross-country flight because of a fog delay, my body morphed into [...]

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Virtual Edge Summit 2011 Session: Virtual-Enabled Learning Programs with Emma King

December 10, 2010

The last time I was in Las Vegas I had just graduated from college, it was the 80s, and I was with my parents and grandparents who were visiting from Scotland. My clearest memory is falling asleep near the pool on one of those pool lounge chairs with the plastic strips and having a sunburn [...]

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Recording calls: Marrying Skype and Gmail (or other email services)

December 9, 2010

Way ‘back in the day’ I had to secure recorded statements from people. The statements were transcribed, often analyzed, and sometimes used in litigation. Before pressing “record” (oh, yes an actual tape recorder) I was required to state why I wanted/needed to record the statement and also get permission to record. (I believe in NY, [...]

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Skills we take for granted

November 19, 2010

I live in an area of New York where the road signs for icy bridges are left up year round; it is not unusual to see snow anytime between October 15 and April 30 (which, coincidentally, corresponds with dates you are permitted to have studded snow tires on your vehicle). Just for that one sentence, [...]

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Facilitation and the Social Web

November 18, 2010

Here are slides from a  presentation I did for the Australian Institute for Training and Development (AITD) a few weeks ago on facilitation and the social web. I have several people to thank for making their work available whether publicly and/or under creative commons licenses. First, Nancy White, Full Circle Associates and co-author of Digital [...]

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A powerful virtual classroom: Adobe Connect 8

November 11, 2010

I’m always cognizant of what Ellen Wagner (formerly with Adobe) said while writing about web conferencing technologies around the time Blackboard bought Wimba and Elluminate and combined them to create Blackboard Collaborate (for edu-types, I’ll insert the ‘muwhahahaha’ just for you). Ellen said, “let’s be very clear. Adobe in not an elearning company. It is [...]

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Two leaders in the e-learning space (Saba Live, Adobe Connect 8)

November 8, 2010

Two things I got very excited about last week. The first, Saba Live (formerly Saba Social).The second, Adobe Connect 8.

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