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Regular readers may remember the trauma we experienced with the maths department in respect of our elder son. At the time that this was going on, I was venting to a friend (let's call her Rachel) with kids at the same school. She could relate to my situat [...]
Posted by Karyn Romeis • 2 days ago • View comments
I came across this today, courtesy of a link from one of my Twitter friends. I forget which. For those who use Articulate and like to try to find ways to push the boundaries of what it can and can't do. I have tried umpteen times to embed the video in t [...]
Posted by Karyn Romeis • 2 days ago • View comments
Like that will work…not! Seriously, there are several things that have to line up to get social media working for you (which, if you’ve been paying attention, is the new and only sustainable competitive advantage). As I discussed a couple [...]
Posted by Aaron • 3 days ago • View comments
Those of you who are Facebook friends will know that I lost something during my recent holiday. It was something of no intrinsic value, and yet I treasured it enormously. It was something that has been featured on this blog before. It was the bangle my f [...]
Posted by Karyn Romeis • 4 days ago • View comments
On our weekly twitter learning fest, #lrnchat, I regularly identify myself as a learning experience design strategist. I don’t always assume people know what that means, but for that audience I figure they can infer what it means. However, I [...]
Posted by Aaron • 4 days ago • View comments
The Social Media for Trainers blog book tour begins this Thursday, September 2, with a kickoff post from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies' Jane Hart. This will be followed by a constellation of blogging stars from the training and eLe [...]
Posted by jane.bozarth • 4 days ago • View comments
Just a quick post to thank everyone who attended our first official Tandem Learning Innovation Community event. We hosted the event on our new Second Life island and I'd encourage all of you who were unable to make it to stop by any time and take a tou [...]
Posted by koreen33 • 4 days ago • View comments
In all the excitement about empowering learners by providing rich information and social environments, it’s too easy to think that “if you build it, they will learn”. Yet the evidence is to the contrary. While there are numerous components, in [...]
Posted by Aaron • 5 days ago • View comments
In reflecting on the presentation I gave earlier this week, I realize that I didn’t make it clear that just making it social will make activities lead to better processing. Of course, my goal was evangelizing, but I reckon I should followup with s [...]
Posted by Aaron • 7 days ago • View comments
Another Twitter conversation, another blog post...another thought-stream based out of ADL's Implementation Fest #ifest (Srsly, this is the most a conference has inspired me to write in a long time. A good, and bad, thing...). So, let's talk about the opp [...]
Posted by koreen33 • 12 days ago • View comments