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This is a great free tool from Adobe that helps you choose a tasteful colour palette. You can upload a picture and it will analyse the colours used, or you can pick your own and spend hours flicking from analagous to triad to complementary selections etc
It also integrates with Adobe Photoshop if you have it.
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The future belongs to those who take charge of their own learning | Learning in the Social Workplace
Jane Hart tells it like it is - if you don't take control of and responsibility for your learning you will regret it sooner or later.
She talks about creating personal learning portfolios to collect evidence of what you learn and to use as a space to relect. Why not set up you r own scoop.it account or start a blog? Delete the scoop?
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This could be an interesting look at the future of eLearning:
E-learning and Digital Cultures is aimed at teachers, learning technologists, and people with a general interest in education who want to deepen their understanding of what it means to teach and learn in the digital age. The course is about how digital cultures intersect with learning cultures online, and how our ideas about online education are shaped through “narratives”, or big stories, about the relationship between people and technology. We’ll explore some of the most engaging perspectives on digital culture in its popular and academic forms, and we’ll consider how our practices as teachers and learners are informed by the difference of the digital. We’ll look at how learning and literacy is represented in popular digital-, (or cyber-) culture. For example, how is ‘learning’ represented in the film The Matrix, and how does this representation influence our understanding of the nature of e-learning? Delete the scoop?
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"By changing the number, or strength, of connections between brain cells, information is written into memory."
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"The typical user of an information system (a website, for example) will exercise perhaps three minutes of good will, during which he (or she) will give rein to curiosity, peek and poke, and try to understand how to find things. If no progress has made by this time, the user’s relationship to the system will become permanently adversarial; further search attempts will not be considered worthwhile" Delete the scoop?
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The web is a generally free place, but some sites and services want to make it annoying to navigate and enjoy. Stream any video you'd like, see the sites you need, and get at services you thought were down with these tips.
10. Skip Past Annoying User/Pass Requests 9. Read Articles That Rupert Murdoch Wants You Paying For 8. Change User Agents to Get Around Browser Blocks 7. Get to Gmail When It's Down 6. Get Actually Usable BitTorrent Speeds 5. Get to Sites Taken Down by Traffic 4. Control Computers at Home 3. Download YouTube and Other Flash Videos 2. Access Country-Blocked Streaming TV 1. Roll Your Own Proxy to Access Blocked Sites
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Social learning is the shiny new toy of the e-learning world. But what exactly is social learning and why has it become so popular?
John Curran kicks off a series of posts examining the merits and cross-overs of social, informal, eLearning and Knowledge Management. This is part one.. Delete the scoop?
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Performance Support is not an alternative to training but it is a vital part of a training programme. Without it, the odds of learning being transfered into improved performance are very slim.
It's not sexy or exciting compared to virtual worlds, gamification or social media. But if I was forced to choose I know which one I'd put my money on to deliver results.
(of course there's no reason why you couldn't combine all 4 of these elements effectively for even greater performance improvement) Delete the scoop?
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Have you ever sat behind someone and actually watched them use a course you created? Probably not… Delete the scoop?
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Clive Shepherd urges all L&D professionals to take some time to update themselves on what we know about adult learning and apply it to their design Delete the scoop?
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This is a great free tool from Adobe that helps you choose a tasteful colour palette. You can upload a picture and it will analyse the colours used, or you can pick your own and spend hours flicking from analagous to triad to complementary selections etc
It also integrates with Adobe Photoshop if you have it.
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Quizlet markets itself as "a lightning fast way to memorize vocabulary lists. It's like flashcards, but much more fun and interactive."
It's another tool featured in Julie Wedgwood's session at the last eLearning network event. Julie used it in slightly different way. You can use it to get people into groups to answer the quizes, there’s a variety of quiz formats and it had competitive scoreboard elements to make it more engaging. Delete the scoop?
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Breaking down someone else's scenario is a great way to come up with a formula that could work for your own scenario:
1. Introduction. Set expectations. Let them know what to expect and how long it should take. It also helps if the course is visually engaging.
2. Context. Put the learner in a real world environment where they make the types of decisions that impact their performance. Not sure what that is? What’s the goal and expected outcome after the course? How can they demonstrate that they’re able to meet the objectives?
3. Challenge. Give them some good challenges that get them to think. You can even add a few distractors. Some people like to jump ahead and answer questions first and wait for feedback. But others will want a bit more information to make an informed decision. Give them the freedom to do so.
4. Choices. What choices do they have to work through the scenario? Make them viable and real. If they’re obvious choices, then the interactivity is wasted. Sometimes I throw them for a loop by making all choices wrong or all of them correct. Not having an “all of the above” or “none of the above” option adds some healthy tension.
5. Consequences. Each decision produces consequences. Sometimes the consequence is simple feedback and sometimes it can become another decision-making challenge. Do this to vary the pacing. You don’t always need to provide immediate feedback. Delay it. Delete the scoop?
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You need the right tools to generate and communicate ideas. Some are even free. Delete the scoop?
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Brilliant presentation from Sebastian Deterding which, I think, puts gamificaiton firmly in it's place. That sounds negative but it's an intelligently balanced argument that identifies the possibilities of "gameful design" and the weaknesses of gamification.
Essentially it's all about incentives and engagement. There are no quick fixes to acheive real meaningful change. You have to change the system to fix it.
Highly recommended and it includes lots of further reading suggestions. Delete the scoop?
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Being a designer and working on a project that needs a lot of components such as buttons, sliders, icons or boxes can be very time costing if you decide to make them on your own.
So here's a whole heap of great looking buttons and other UI elements... for free via @martincouzins Delete the scoop?
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During the past few years, I have observed clients, performance-consulting managers, and practitioners oversimplify performance needs and inappropriately conclude identified problems to be only gaps in performer skills. Sadly, I have done this as well in my career and can understand how professionals can make these diagnostic mistakes Delete the scoop?
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Managing groups of people through the intranet, online forums, blogs, etc., isn’t as easy as it sounds. In fact, it can be rather tough. Because it’s a lot more than just increasing traffic to the communities. So let’s jump right in. Here are the 5 tips that should make life a little easier: Delete the scoop?
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Robin Good: Course Hero is a platform which allows the creation and delivery of online video courses curated from the best existing published content on that topic.
There are already ready-made courses to access or you can submit a topic that you would like to video-curate into a course.
"You can learn just about anything from YouTube...if you're willing to dig through millions of videos."
From Techcrunch: "Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content.
The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. ... By drawing from YouTube and other openly available education, Course Hero plans to set up courses for anything it, or you, can think of. ... Each course breaks down into roughly 6 chapters of 6 concept YouTube videos, Justin.tv videos, articles, and more. Unlike Udemy‘s one-teacher-per-class approach, Course Hero courses are compiled from content by many teachers.
Rather than put you at the mercy of long-winded professors, Course Hero trims videos and articles down to their most important teachings.
Along the way you’ll answer quiz questions, take tests to complete chapters, and face a final exam to finish a course and earn proficiency badges..."
Full article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/12/course-hero/ ;
Courses: http://www.coursehero.com/courses/ ;
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some good ideas on ways to champion and embed the use of internal collaboration platforms
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Nicole Legault has compiled this great checklist for eLearning design and development. Print it off and stick it on your wall now! Delete the scoop?
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Another tool to enhance classroom engagement via @juliewedgwood Lets you recreate the twitter backchannel hashtag experience without using twitter.
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Let’s you run instant polls where your audience can vote/answer by text message, tweet or online. It integrates with PowerPoint to show the results instantly.
It’s a great way to encourage audience participation for classroom training or presentations. Julie Wedgwood, who demonstrated this tool at the recent eLearning Network event http://www.elearningnetwork.org/events , went one step further and pasted all of the results directly into www.wordle.net for an instant analysis of the results. You could easily use the same technique on a webinar.
It's free for up to 20 respondents.
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