Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Tom Peters - Best of Excellence. Now Presentations

Tom Peters has distilled down thousands of slides from over 2,500 presentations that he has done on organizational and personal excellence into 23 separate presentations that you can download.

Peters say, “Use this material as you wish and please 'steal' all you want.” Includes both a PDF and PPT - he is releasing one a week so you'll want to bookmark the site and go back!

Check it out: http://excellencenow.com/

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Free Webinar: Designing Instructionally Sound and Engaging mLearning

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | 10:00AM Pacific Time
 Free Webinar, Membership Not Required
This webinar showcases one of the most popular, best-rated sessions from mLearnCon 2011 Conference & Expo, newly updated and now available to all through this special online presentation.

It is clear that mLearning presents a unique challenge for instructional designers. In this free one-hour webinar, Curtis Burchett will discuss instructional design changes in the new mobile learning area, explain the challenges instructional designers face, and provide a methodology for instructional designers to organize and create successful mLearning products. By the end of the session, you should be able to successfully design instructionally sound and engaging mLearning projects.

In this session, you will learn:
  • What technologies you can leverage to create mLearning projects
  • The evolution of instructional design in mLearning
  • How mLearning projects differ from traditional Web-based or instructor-led training
  • A methodology to organize and create successful mLearning products
Check it out:  http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.2226&utm_campaign=bestof1204&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=elrncoach

Monday, March 26, 2012

Free Social Media Infographic Generator

What About Me? is a free social media infographic generator from Intel. The purpose of What About Me? is to create infographics based on your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube activities.

The infographic created includes parts of your recent Facebook posts, when and what you post about on all three networks, and What About Me? even evaluates the average tone of your messages. When your infographic is complete, you can download it from What About Me?
Check it out:  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/what-about-me/what-about-me.html

Friday, March 16, 2012

e-Learning for Kids: Professional Instructional Design Volunteers Needed to Make a Difference for Children!

Do you have time to volunteer your instructional design skills during a three-month period? If so, e-Learning for Kids, a global non-profit foundation that reached over 3 million children in 190 countries in 2011 (with 50 percent usage in the United States) with its free courseware, needs your help! The goal is to develop 100-plus lessons in 2012 for Math World—a virtual world for learning Math in the context of different countries and continents. To-date, more than 80 lessons have been launched! How can you help? 
  • Are you a skilled instructional designer who can develop two or more storyboards?
  • Do you have approximate 30 to 40 hours to volunteer during a three-month period?

If you have the skills, time, and interest to make a difference for children, e-Learning for Kids needs your assistance! To learn more and participate, please complete the volunteer form here. You will be contacted and provided a storyboard template (with a manual) and a subject matter expertise package (with math examples) so you can begin!

Thank you for considering making a positive difference in the lives and education of children! To learn more about the foundation, please visit www.e-learningforkids.org

Monday, February 27, 2012

Free Webinars - Working with Adobe Captivate

Topic: Creating Quizzes with Random Questions in Adobe Captivate 5.5
Date and time: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create quizzes with random questions using Adobe Captivate 5.5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.
Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/zbZNGy

Topic: Best Practices for Working with Objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5
Date and time: Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join John Daigle, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the best practices of working with standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5. These objects include text captions, images, rollover images/captions/slidelets, animations, click boxes, buttons, and highlight boxes. They will also be sharing some quick tips on troubleshooting common issues you can face when working with objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5.
Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/zEFBGA