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Setting ground rules

• There is no anonymity
• See slide 12 for best practices

Risk and Pitfalls

• Security
• Intellectual Property

Information leakage, big waste of time, aligned to the time, does my company have the resources, behavior of the employees, quality of information itself

Valid-Risk taking with companies, they tell us that the information risks are overblown. They are public environments your name and picture is attached making itself governed. People stake their own reputation when they post.

Sell benefits to executives- tie to business needs and strategic initiatives.

• Collaboration environments are tied to business objectives, encourage collaboration and getting things done
• Draw hard lines to separate community functions to how work gets done. Works similar to email it is just augmenting collaboration

Do you recommend consulting with legal departments?

Yes if there is some information that needs to be kept confidential, is there is some information that is use at your own risk. Be really careful to place those types of learning’s and use your hard and fast controls. Be careful only lock-down the areas that you have too, check with legal to find out what, be careful not to lock down too much.

What are some emerging tools?

World of War Craft and Second life-Collaborative tools

They are good for collaborative simulations. Today they are used to simulate emergencies and such some difficult environments that are hard to recreate in real life, response to terrorist attacks and such.

After the application is used then you go into a real format. Leadership scenarios are being simulated as experimental learning environments where leaders have to go through employee interactions.

Virtual world are not places for continued collaboration and are more focused toward simulation.

Where do you begin?

Use the free apps and experiment and try. Many of the employees are already doing it. Find out where collaboration is happening and augment that collaboration.

Adoption- alignment to the business, they will take hold if it is incentivized and help achieve strategic initiatives. If it is part of the job then it will be adopted no matter what.

**If everyone thinks it is a sideline initiative then it will be the first cut.

Content is king, if there is good content then people will come. Have the early adopters and evangelist from the business pound the ground and provide that good content.

This cannot be a special destination. It should not require logging in.

Start easy

• Some applications allow email participation (ease in)
• Show the advanced stuff later
• Do not make it out of the flow of work

Make it easy for the user to adopt

Furl

Furl see other social bookmarking sites. I feel that it would be wise for one of these bad boys to join up with some sort of social network and make a freaking powerful application.

Paint.net

Paint.net I did not download this software but from what I read it looks to be a good alternative or at least a good affordable option for those who do not have access to Photoshop.

Textthemob

Textthemob this is the second service I have seen like this and I think this is great for live feedback. Anyone who had run a webinar that allows polling questions has seen a similar feature. But now there is away to add that same undisclosed polling to live instruction on a large scale. I can see this being an awesome use in political debates and conferences.

NVU

NVU does not exist anymore according to godaddy.

Freepath

Freepath seems like a wonderful tool for presenters and instructors. I see one downfall with this being a download able application. I would like to see someone use this then critique it.

Animoto is the s@#&

I mean check it out
this is my family link

Howard Rheingold Social Media Extraordinaire

If you have read my blog before you may have seen my post on writing objectives. The only reason I bring it up is that BA the coworker that I spoke about actually pointed me in the direction of Howard Rheingold by providing me this link. After reading the blog listed before I became interested in Howard's Social media classroom as seen below and decided to do a bit more research.

There is not much that I can write about Howard that he or someone else has not already written. So instead here is a link to his profile where you will find loads of info about what he has done and the books he has written. If you watched the video above you will see some basic info about Social Media classroom. This is what hooked be because with all the WEB 2.0 tools around and the lack of consistency and no one place to view it all Howard is working to produce that solution.

If you have not been able to tell from his profile or his general involvements Howard is quite the busy individual. So through some conviniantly timed instant messages I was able to get a bit more detail about Howard and that transcript is below.

Greg: Hey Greg again you think you may have time to answer random questions for my school project via IM?

Howard: Sure.

Greg: cool

Howard: Now is good

Greg: Tell me about what you do?

Howard: I explore, understand, and communicate about the individual, social, political, economic meanings of communication technology revolutions.

Greg: How did you get to where you are at in your career?

Howard: I have been a freelance writer since I was 23. In the early 1980s, I sought information about computers because I had heard you could use them instead of typewriters. I found my way to Xerox PARC and wrote Tools for Thought, which is on my website. That was a 1985 look at where people and PCs would be in 2000. The entire book is online. You can look back at my prediction of the future from the future I predicted. In the process of writing that book, I got online.

That led to writing "Virtual Communities" for Whole Earth Review in 1987 -- the first use of that word. That book is online as well. Both at rheingold.com.

Greg: Great info

How do you keep up with trends and keep yourself on the cutting edge?

Why elearning and distance education?

Howard: That's such an interesting question that I made a series of videos about how I spend my time online. I haven't finished the series, but you can find the first of them in the archives at http://vlog.rheingold.com

Education because I believe the answer to "are digital media and networks good for individuals, communities, democracies," is "it depends on who knows what about how to use available media . So I'm teaching. I'm not so much interested in distance education -- although that is one of my interests -- as in the use of social media to teach social media theory.

Gotta get back to work now.

Greg: thanks I will email the last 2 questions and look up the rest

Continued on 9/29/2008

Greg: Howard I wanted to check again just to make sure that I have your permission to use our conversation in print? I also wanted to make sure you got the email that I would like to partipate in the COP?

Howard: Yes, you have my permission. I don't have access to the list, but if you emailed and asked to participate, I saved your email.

Greg: perfect thanks

So back to the title "Social Instruction Extraordinaire" back in 1993 Howard was credited with creating the term virtual community. To me he was way ahead of his time or at least had the ability to come to the realization how important socialization is to learning. Currently I have been working on a project at work to start to integrate WEB 2.0 tools into our instructional workflow. Due to this research I have tested many tools that have been great and many that our bad. It is my hope that when Social Media classroom launches it will be as revolutionary as some of the work that Howard has already produced.

Jing

Jing I hope it is as good as it looks. I use Snag it quite often and what I can tell you is it works pretty well. I have never been a fan of the camtasia product because they keep raising the price with no more value add. I hope this is a revolution for techsmith and they do not suck you in and jam you later.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere this is a pretty cool technologies and can definitely change the way we do things in and instructor lead forum. I can see the future for schools and corporations using this same type of technologies to engage and wake the sleepers.

As far as web conference though... I can do with out. Most web conference technologies have some sort of pulling built into them so that is not the right audience.

Overall a good product and I like the free price point (30 users).

Diigo

Diigo like Delicious are pretty lame. I do not feel that they serve a great purpose. Many ning's or social network pages have link list capabilities. I think this is more part of the growing trend of unorganized tools that allow more ads to get in your head. I axed nings before because you can accomplish the same things with out of the box social networks.

So here is the problem. We need more innovation with integration. I think I'm pretty tired of all the half baked solutions.

Blog Review

http://leisa-what-was-i-thinking.blogspot.com/
http://chadlynch.blogspot.com/
http://ideasonelearning.blogspot.com/
http://katnatlin.wordpress.com/
http://iltctaylor.wordpress.com/
http://bethslabodaidr.blogspot.com/
http://jessicastrendsinelearning.blogspot.com/
http://kerryescobado.blogspot.com/

Well I would have to say it is interesting looking at all these different blogs that are about the same things. Many of them I was able to start a post or add to a comment thread. I would say the most least effective part about reviewing all of these blogs is dialog. When I say dialog I mean contiuned dialog. Every blog has 3-4 new postings a week that it is hard to create deep discussion and remember where you started.

Blog Roll

Well I figured I should try a blog roll. If you are viewing the blog via RSS like the one I have at work you will not see. On the left side of this page under School Blog's you will see a list of all the class peeps. If I left you off please let me know. Maybe this will help in my review pursuit.

Writing Objectives

As part of my individual development plan (IDP) at work I tasked myself with learning how to write objectives. I worked with a colleague of mine (to protect the innocent) we will call him Utah, on a recent project and decided to use him as a resource to help me complete this portion of my IDP. I felt the best way to document the interview would be on this blog because not only is it funny but I learned a lot You must know that we started the conversation with how we write objectives at our company and then we transitioned to how he writes objectives to these guideline or constraints.

First of all we defined objectives as observable/measurable behaviors that can bridge the gap between desired performance and actual performance.

Examples that were used were based on his 6 year old son (here is where the humor comes in)

• Zipping up your pants
• tying your shoes
• peeing on the floor

The gap that we need to figure out is why are these behaviors being performed or not. We focused the rest of the conversation on peeing on the floor.

You need to ask what are things that can be done to bridge the gap and stop the behavior of peeing on the floor like:

• aming
• what are the the problems associated with peeing on the floor
• problem with mom slipping on the floor when it is wet

Back to the 2 types of objectives:

• Enabling = goal "peeing in the toilet"
• Terminal = actual objective "aim straight while peeing in the toilet"

When writing the above objectives first consider the behavior then look for resources such as subject matter experts (SME's) to help you establish what the objectives may be. Schedule a meeting and interview your SME's most of the time you will get lots of information that will help you successfully write your objectives. From the dialogue you will get many goal statements or enabling objectives you need to make sure to take the conversation a step further to determine who to meet your enabling objectives with your terminal ones. Once you have considered the information from the SME's move on to the actual objective writing. Utah provided me a resource that he created based on his knowledge of Bloom's taxonomy which with his permission I provided below:

Bloom's Taxonomy
Level 1: Knowledge
Competence	Information gathering Remembering The recall of specifics, processes
Skills	Recall of information Knowledge of dates, events, places Knowledge of major ideas
Verbs	Arrange, collect, describe, define, draw, duplicate, examine, identify, label, list, locate, memorize, name, order, quote, recognize, recall, recite, repeat, reproduce, select, show, state, tell, tabulate, who, when, where, write
Questions	Who? What? When? Where? How? Describe
Level 2: Comprehension
Competence	Understanding of information The "knows" the material and can use it. Yet they cannot relate it to other material or see its broader implications The lowest level of understanding
Skills	Understanding information Grasp meaning Translate knowledge into new context Interpret facts, compare, contrast Order, group, infer causes Predict consequences
Verbs	Associate, change, classify, compare, confirm, contrast, defend, describe, differentiate, discuss, distinguish, estimate, explain, express, extend, generalize, illustrate, indicate, infer, interpret, locate, match, paraphrase, predict, relate, report, restate, review, select, summarize, transform, translate
Questions	Retell
Level 3: Application
Competence	Making use of knowledge The use of abstractions (for example, principles, ideas, theories) in particular and concrete situations
Skills	Use information Use methods, concepts, theories in new situations Solve problems using required skills or knowledge
Verbs	Apply, calculate, change, choose, classify, collect, complete, demonstrate, discover, dramatize, draw, employ, examine, experiment, illustrate, interpret, make, model, modify, operate, paint, practice, prepare, produce, relate, report, schedule, show, sketch, solve, use, write
Questions	Why is it significant?
Level 4: Analysis
Competence	Separate knowledge The breakdown of a communication into its constituent elements such that the relations among the ideas are made explicit
Skills	Seeing patterns Organization of parts Recognition of hidden meanings Identification of components
Verbs	Analyze, appraise, arrange, calculate, categorize, classify, compare, connect, construct, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, divide, examine, experiment, explain, infer, investigate, order, point out, question, research, select, separate, sub-divide, survey, text, take a part
Questions	What are the parts or features? Classify according to x Outline/diagram How does x compare/contrast with y? What evidence can you list for x?
Level 5: Synthesis
Competence	Linking knowledge Working with parts and combining them in such a way as to constitute a structure
Skills	Use old ideas to create new ones Generalize from given facts Relate knowledge from several areas Predict, draw conclusions
Verbs	Add to, arrange, assemble, collect, combine, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, generalize, hypothesize, integrate, invent, manage, modify, organize, plan, prepare, produce, propose, rearrange, rewrite, role-play, set up, substitute, what if, write
Questions	What would you predict/infer from y? What ideas can you add to x? How would you create/design a new z? What might happen if you combined w? What solutions would you suggest for x?
Level 6: Evaluation
Competence	Judging the outcome Judgments about the value of material and methods for the given purposes
Skills	Compare and discriminate between ideas Assess value of theories, presentations Make choices based on reasoned argument Verify value of evidence Recognize subjectivity
Verbs	Appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose, compare, conclude, convince, core, criticize, critique, defend, decide, discriminate, estimate, evaluate, explain, grade, judge, predict, measure, rank, rate, recommend, relate, select, solve, summarize, support, test, value, weigh
Questions	Do you agree? What do you think about? What is the most important? Place the following in order of priority How would you decide about What criteria would you use to assess z?

He advised that he keeps an exact copy of the tool above at his desk and looks at it frequently when writing objectives. He did make it very clear to me that when writing your objectives it is important to keep your assessment in mind. If you cannot asses the objectives appropriately then you will need to write them in such away that you can. Thinking back to our situation with the 6 year old peeing on the floor we considered some of the following objectives at different levels in the taxonomy.

Level 1

Identify the importance of peeing in the toilet

List reasons why it is important to pee in the toilet

Level 3

Interpret mom's reaction when you pee on the floor

Level 5

Pretend you are mom and you pee on the floor. How would you react?

Level 6

Which is worse soda or pee on the floor.

From Utah's experience 90 percent of the objectives that he has seen in a corporate environment range from level's 1-3. When writing your objectives you need to make sure that you try to use some from each level but it is important to remember if your enabling objective is a needs a level 3 result then your terminal objectives need to be level 1 then 2. Utah also mentioned that it is important to make note of the level that you are using while writing your objectives so you can balance them out.

*Remember the higher level objectives are harder to asses whether it is for instructor lead or distance education.

Some additional words of advice when writing objectives is:

• look at other objectives before writing your own
• work with the SME's to develop them
• prepare for review once they are written (come with thick skin)

Overall this was a good conversation I was able to take many of the teachings that he provide during the interview into refection on past experiences. I hope you are able to get some valuable tips too.

Skrbl

Skrbl is to much hype for not alot of follow through. When I first went to the homepage I was not very impressed it was very messy and not very organized. I did not sign up for an account because they have the live applet code at the bottom of the page.  As stated by the page the live applet is just like the real deal. So I'm here to tell you it sucked. On the main page it states that it competes with the GE whiteboard app, the only advantage it has is the sharing feature, which is not all that great.

GE Whiteboard

One of the best tools I have reviewed in a long time GE Whiteboard. The only flaw this program has is the availability to live share. I think with how fast connection speeds are this can be accomplished.

Mogulus

Mogulus is pretty cool for those who need face time.  I like the concept I mean think about it the day has come that un censored news can come into action. I do not mean that we need nudity and vulgarity but we as humans need to be able to cut through the crap and have a non media influenced news channel. Imagine if some million/billionaire decided to fund reporters that truly reported on what is out there. Let the viewer determine if it is crap or not.

Twitter

Pretty cool concept but I think I'm busy enough and honestly I do not care if someone is eating, heading to a meeting or the bathroom for that matter. 

I checked out toanswer as well and I think I would rather take less steps and look it up on google on my own.

Ning and Pownce

Seriously do we need another social network system facebook and myspace not good enough for you you really want to manage your own. Well for those of you that do go for it not for me though.

Ning and Pownce Thumbs down!!

ClassSpot

ClassSpot Now this is the kind of stuff I love to see. Actually this link sparked a 40 minute conversation between myself and another ID a AAA NCNU. One of our values is collaboration and it is something that is talked about but never done effectively. I sent off a request for more information because I would like to see how this would work with multiple people in multiple different locations. I see it's use in the class room for sure and I think it should be used. 

I recall a time Biology 101 my first real exposure to the use of high speed Internet access. As the teacher was talking I was searching the web and finding additional information to support what she was talking about. I would print the info and she would go pick it up and communicate it to the class. This is not something that I was asked to do but it kept the information fresh and real time. Now imagine having a tool like ClassSpot that effectively recreated the scenario above with out wasting paper and having the annoying printer in the background.

Kindling

Kindling I went ahead and requested to get access for our Instructional Design Community. I think this could be a great tool oraganizationally too. As far as intiatives are concerened put them out there and let your people vote. I will update as I use.

Audacity

For those of you who need a very functional sound tool that has many of the major application features of an expensive sound system. We use Audacity at work because 1) We are able to install it without admin rights 2) It is more effective then CS3 soundbooth.

Thumbs up!! to Audacity

Skype

Skype is super cool. For a long time I used Google Talk for chat and group chat. Last semester I was introduced to Skype for the simple reason to provide VOIP. We as a group were able to communicate via Skype VOIP at the click of a button. Our group would use the chat function and if we were unable to get what we needed done we would start a group call to communicate. I do not use any of the other phone features because I have a mobile phone and I do not want to spend money that I do not have to.

Response to Reflections article 5650

So as I read this article I feel humbled in away for the following:

• I'm a pretty tech savvy person and I feel lost some time I do not feel that our classes are affectively using our web technologies blogging for one
• Blogs are 2 fold I do not want to read a dissertation and I feel that my post do not get read because most others right to damn much

I try to approach blogging as a conversation to spark ideas in others. Which according to the article "Reflections from the Introduction of Blogs and RSS Feeds into a Pre-service Instructional Technology Course" seemed to apply this is the correct assumption, but... As it also stated students are confused between the differences in the different tools that they are required to use and the ones they will actually get credit for.

 

Coming into this semester I feel that something that the article also points out was missed for our cohort which was implied in and email either from Joni or Laura that stated that they did not realize that they both required a blog. That seemed odd to me and I felt that as part of the planning for both courses that should have been laid out. Not only what tool that we would be using but how they would be used.

 

On page 58 of the article is mentions and easier technology by the name Wordpress. I have not checked it out but as I reviewed some blogs it looks like some of the others have. 

 

I may appear to be rambling but I'm trying to follow my notes in the article. I to have the following questions:

 

What is an ATOM feed, why do I need it if I can use an RSS feed?

What and why would I need an aggregator?

 

I have other questions around 2.0 technologies and how it can be used effectively but I think in order for me to pass the answers along, I need to see them demonstrated effectively. I do not understand why there are so many tools that do the same thing. Why is there not more consolidation of tools I have to many passwords now how many more do I need?

 

Another thing I guess I should have mentioned above many of us are in the same cohort so many of the activities seem redundant. I mean just because they are in a different tool does not make it a different activity. I feel that we should rely less on ecollege or more on ecollege and our course need to have less overlap. The article mentions an instructor site and all other work is done through 2.0 technologies. I see this working but I also see all things in ecollege working out effectively too.

Lets chat it up!!!

Decided to Blog for IT 5650 Today

I decided to take the every other one appraoch until I got to mine. Does any one have Laura's bog info or should I assume her's is the weekly update. Update not sure how I missed it but thanks to Jennifer Olson's blog I found it (http://blog.laurasummers.com/ but after reading it appears there is a comments section but no way to comment)


Jenn McCarty's Blog

http://jennselearning.wordpress.com/ Dena Fife Blog

http://denafifeit5650.blogspot.com/

Sheri's Blog

http://www.imsummaryblogging.blogspot.com/

Linda's Blog (unable to leave a comment)

http://elearnbiztro.com/guillory-elearn/

Jennifer Olson

http://jennspolicies.blogspot.com/

Tools for 5130 week 2

Jott and ooVoo and Talkshoe

Checked out the tools above they are all pretty cool. Of the 3 ooVoo was the favorite.

Jott was super cool had many options and features that were super cool. If you are looking for something similar that supports RSS check out gcast.

As for the video side ooVoo has some cool features as well. Of course like many of the web 2.0 providers they have there paid service as well and VOIP seems to be a great opportunity for people to use your bandwidth to make money of the pennies it cost to make a connection fee. Looks like a super way to make money to me. I do not mean to bash the product is has some cool features if I decide to by a web came I may use it. I was watching a web 2.0 something the other day and stumbled across a program called seesmic . I would suggest checking this one out. I think I will use this tool to conduct my practitioner interview. It will give me the opportunity to ask question and get some candid and maybe rehearsed responses. What it does for me is gives me the opportunity to ask the standard suite of questions but also to adapt and modify based on feedback provided.

Talkshoe scared me abit. It gave me that underground feel that allows people to preach to no one but at the same time allowing multiple sickos a communication method for anarchy. I do not think I'm old fashion but at this time Talkshoe is a bit to progressive for me.

Diigo site

http://www.diigo.com/profile/gjones2

DE vs CI

Well this was my first Meta-Analysis and I hope it was my last. Not that I do not appreciate the findings of all the long hours and multi faceted requirements that went into this report but it feels as if it is one of those things that makes you go duh. After the hour or 3 it to me to read the report I could not help but say I knew that. The fact the CI wins out over DE is pretty obvious because for centuries now we have learned in a CI fashion. I would have liked to see some more depth spent on the alternative methods that are now being used in tools such as articulate, Connect and Livemeeting. I felt that this study discredited these style of DE because I feel the learner has a choice. Most of these applications of DE have an asynchronous and synch component. They allow the learner to attend the presentation or instruction setting live or if the session is recorded the can review the minutes or a video version. I feel that in order to make this study more effective and fight a stronger case DE would have had a equal if not more effective result over CI.

As for the beginners it is pretty cool it feels like a very short version of the 2 text books that we had for the DE certificate. I almost felt that this should have been first. Wait a second just looked and this is 5650 BTW this should have been first. Oh well glad to have it now. Reminder to self ask the instructor if I can share the reading with coworkers it might help them.

Non school related blog

http://wectm.blogspot.com/

AG08

E-learning guild annual gathering 2008

E-learning guild annual gathering 2008

Recommended Reading

• The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results - Roy Pollock
• Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching- Eric P. Jensen
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology- Ray Kurzweil
• Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration - Keith Sawyer
• Net Attitude: What It Is, How To Get It and Why Your Company Can't Survive Without It - John Patrick
• Things I have learned in my life so far - Stefan Sagmeister

Free resources

• www.Gcast.com- free podcasts
• http://myudutu.com- free content creation
• http://udutu.com/- free content creation home (lms + Facebook)
• http://patrickweb.com/index.php

Contacts

ajripin@hotmail.com- m-learning implementation

Oque Augustus- second life contact

Session Attended

Monday, April 14

• Using Media to Make Your Courses Shine!
• Need to review provided CD of course material session was not that great the content appeared good
• Provided 45 day free trail of Codebaby avatar software $10,000 per license and $750 there after. Excellent software for avatar creation.
• Introduced the concept of brain based learning see list above

Tuesday, April 15

• Thinking about Media in e-Learning with Stephen Haskin, S > Media
• Learning objectives > experience = Engaged
• Ask Why 3 times to get the answer (3 layers of why)
• Brand awareness > selling objectives
• Use the story to determine the media
• Avatar-new generation for talking head engages newer generations can tell the story
• Fire sign Theater – listen 3 times with earphones
• Concept of layered learning multiple objectives in your content being shared at one time forces the learner to pay attention and reuse the content
• Use Myths to reinforce learning
• Opening General Session with Keynote Keith Sawyer
• Pre-speaker Info
• Headington -Trauma and Disaster training
• Lingos - eLearning
• Non-profit - http://www.e-learningforkids.org/
• Situation-based Learning Design: A Research-inspired Model for Wildly Enhanced Performance
• Teach to the situation
• If they are going to take a certification test then teach them in the room they are going to test in.
• If learners are going to be making widgets then teach them how to make the widgets
• Engaging and Assessing the Web Generation
• Test people as much as possible
• Do not be afraid to let people fail
• Self assess often
• When they are ready and complete the course certify them complete
• See resources (udutu) above
• Training Social Skills Digitally with Simulations and Games
• 300 person leadership training
• Give all laptops and a problem
• Define the roles
• Step out of the room
• Take and improve class
• If then, Why
• That is a nice can of beans. Thanks do you like beans
• Keep the conversation going do not let it die
• Story boarding for e-Learning Video Production
• Unfortunately the use of media for delivery was unsuccessful the content my have been great but one of the presenters was remote. The resolve was to hook up a web cam this is were the problem came in as the lead facilitators bum was projected on the screen. I had to leave it was distracting.
• Tips & Tricks for Adobe Captivate and Presenter
• Share.adobe.com
• Full motion editor for Captivate 3

Wednesday, April 16

• Opening General Session with Keynote John Patrick
• Whole Brain Design: Engage and Retain your Learners
• 3 take away
• Provided grid showing most balanced elements for e-learning
• Provided exposure to a focus exercise count the passes for the white shirts http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html
• Provided 2 visual exercises that can be used in ILT
• Learning 2.0 Expert CLO Interview
• Search for Talent Management Systems
• Look for a talent vendor who has an LMS
• Determine the company focus those who focus on talent win
• Experience
• Television-lean back, Internet- Lean forward, We need to develop jump in action type learning
• Alignment
• Define business outcomes
• Design the complete experience
• ROI
• Align investments with corporate strategy
• Deliver on your promises
• Fully engage leadership
• Return on Visibility
• Impromptu Session with CLO Talent Management
• See above
• Virtual Worlds and 3-D Environments as Learning Platforms
• Oque Augustus- second life contact free office furniture
• A Management Look at m-Learning
• ajripin@hotmail.com- m-learning implementation

Thursday, April 17

• Opening General Session with Keynote Stefan Sagmeister
• Very funny learned to be bold
• 80 year lady on the subway
• Simulation for Development, Practice, and Assessment of Leadership Skills
• Bad session appeared to be a sales pitch
• Set unreal expectations for times and man hours associated with the project

Week 11: 3/16 - 3/22 - J: Reading to Facilitate

Week 11: 3/16 - 3/22 - J: Reading to Facilitate

I found this to be a very enriching discussion the group was able to apply Benders reading to the self paced instructions that they were creating. I felt that my contribution to the discussion actually led to the success of the theme. As you read through h you can see the common thread in regards to short “snappy” content my comment:
Keep it simple
When you are working by yourself simple complications become a big deal sometimes and can cause one to get
frustrated.
My course is an introduction, just a basic course, that will hand hold the learner through. I have may introduce a
community of practice at the end of the course to invoke discussion after the fact but that will be it for frills.
There will be a small branching aspect to the course since I will be using SCORM 1.2 to track progress. So each
section will be its own sco. What this does for me is it will allow the learner to take a break and come back if they
need more time to finish the section.
Otherwise click next and you are on your way.
Adds to this by allowing the student to keep it simple and allow the learner to come and go as they please but allow for there status to be tracked so they do not have to do it again. Now out of my initial comment the discussion of SCORM was introduced. I felt that Dena and I were able to give some basic understanding on what SCORM is and how it might apply. Now you can see some different thoughts around the use of SCORM or even if is necessary which made the discussion pretty powerful.

Week 10: 3/9 - 3/15 - J: Reading to Facilitate

Week 10: 3/9 - 3/15 - J: Reading to Facilitate
Based on the discussion it appeared there was a common theme of discussion. After reading the Bender book most folks agreed that they needed to add some sort of group interaction to their instruction to make it successful and to make it stick. As stated in my comment:
Something that I had not considered at all is social interaction. Looking at page 185 it talks about learning as a
social process. It jump started a portion of the brain and made me wonder if my audience serves to gain anything
from my material or will they complete it and it go the wayside. Depending on time and landscape I may add a
discussion or maybe a community of practice to allow participants away to socially interact and trade ideas not
only about the training but for them.

I kind of went out on a limb by posting this comment and I felt reassured to see Linda’s reaction was similar to mine. I feel that we both, as well as the group, will walk away from this discussion know discussion is the key and the group efforts are an excellent way to reinforce the learning we provide.

Week 5: 2/3 - 2/9 - A: Reading to Facilitate

Week 5: 2/3 - 2/9 - A: Reading to Facilitate

My most valuable comment was my only comment. As this was more of a personal suggestion discussion there was not much interaction between students. What I did see is a common them around teams and group interaction as a key motivator for teaching.

Maria and David both spoke of the teamed approach and I feel that with the help of their thoughts it helped me to formalize my comment:
Not sure of the term but the round robin approach I would call it. Where we break into small groups of 4 or 5 and
each participant has an allotted time to make there initial post. You then follow the pecking order and you post
new thoughts to the original question. Once the first round is completed then you circulate one more time and
allow people to respond. I like the idea and I think this can work with Engage. I think we can make a modification
to this by running concurrent session so that we can draw more of a crowd. After the 2 circulation's we could then
merge the chat groups into a threaded discussion for all groups to collaborate and see different perspectives. I
have not mentioned the technique to my group yet but I will and we hope can use it.

Now the information that I provided is more of that forced participation but it does run the common goal of group teach. I think Bender was successful in teaching all of us that in order for our discussion to work or at least for us to gain anything from them, the group needs to collaborate.

Week 4: 1/27 - 2/2 - Formative Evaluation

Week 4: 1/27 - 2/2 - Formative Evaluation

I want to start out with my original thought around formative evaluation because I really felt that the answer needed to be pounded out of the guest speakers:
It really caught me in the beginning how much the formative evaluation question was avoided. I find this to be
true in my career as well. The client does not want to pay for formative evaluation. They also expect a product
that is spot on and that is hard to produce when you don't know where you are going.

I cannot say that any one student assisted with my thoughts on the subject or even will walk away with what I had mentioned. I feel that I may be jaded when it comes to the formative evaluation process because I have seen the client design interaction. The company that I work for is very training focused they want training and they want it now and they want to show that we are worth what they pay us. The issues that arise out of this becomes the fact that in order for us to do our jobs properly then we need to successfully analyze and modify our course work as it is created. This will allow us to move on to my most important comment of the discussion around ROI:
I think you are right with the ROI focus on summative evaluation. I see that you mention level 1 and 2 a
couple of times. I think that most companies have an issue because they are never able to reach level 3 and
up to actually get the ROI.
I would like to add that I think that since most companies and clients do not understand the value of the
needs analysis and formative evaluation. The problem lies in the last statement when you are trying to do
ROI you need to produce widgets. instructionally if we do not define the widget and how the widget saves or
makes money we can level 1 and level 2 all day long but we will never get to ROI.

If the client assist us in the beginning and allows us to define the learning widgets we can then formatively evaluate and modify our product. So when it comes down to releasing our content to the consumer we can successfully run through or levels of evaluation and show the client ROI.

Week 3: 1/20 - 1/26 - A: Reading to Facilitate

Week 3: 1/20 - 1/26 - A: Reading to Facilitate

This was a fun one for me and although I had limited participation I was able to glean quite a bit from others which helped me formulate my thoughts in the end. I could see through out that there was a common theme with engaging elearners. Whether it is getting them involved or at least keeping them involved.

My comments:
The book made me realize that people are in open space out there. If I do nothing to engage them or at least give
them something to do I cannot guarantee there full participation.
There was mention of using humor which I do in my daily live anyway. Online learning does not have to be all
about the facts. I need to find ways to integrate some aspect of humor in what I deliver.

Where not only a good reference point for Kerry it allowed her to build and give me some feedback as well. My career status in the elearning community is as a media developer I have to find new and interesting ways to engage the learner. I feel that Kerry’s suggestions around using jokes can help me as well as assist Armi with controlling the silence of the participant.

Week 1: 1/7 - 1/12 - D&A Group 2

Week 1: 1/7 - 1/12 - D&A Group 2
Week one discussion started out a bit unorganized I think. It had Ideas bouncing one direction to the other direction with no clear path on what to do.
I feel my first contribution:
Not sure I think it is doable with "one week". If many of the teams are being combined that means many of
the resources are going to do the same. There will be less sites to look at. I also think it keeps us on a leash
and we do not over do things.
I look at some of the professional forums like elearning guild and many of the digital video web conferences
and they never exceed a week.
Put things and perspective. Linda and Richard shared in that perspective which I think overall was able to sway the group to have a more limited schedule for the web conference.