I just joined the Article Writing Challenge group and today’s topic is guest post. I’m not sure how to take that. At first I thought I need to run to one of my fellow bloggers and ask them if I can write a guest post for them. That wasn’t something I really felt like doing at 5:30pm. Then I took ...

This week was one of those frustrating weeks where the content material I was getting from my SME (subject matter expert) was missing so much context.  It was very fitting to see on my Twitter feed today from Mark Britz: Not only does context help the learner understand the relevance of why a point has been made within your material, ...

Wow, I can’t believe we’re 3 months out from attending DevLearn 2014.  Not only that, this year marks DevLearn’s 10th Birthday.  That’s quite and accomplishment, but not surprising if you’ve attending any one the prior events. [ujicountdown id="Blues" expire="2014/10/29 00:00″ hide = "true"] I’ll be heading there again this year and am thrilled to be presenting a full-day Pre-conference Certificate ...

I had a fun little idea work just as I hoped and expected today.  I have a course that I am working on and the client provided me with a list of about 10 steps that a user would need to enter in one of our computer systems to produce a certain type of flag on a record. The steps ...

Photo by: Fiona McAllister "Button in a Bandage" CC: BY-2.0 When I think of my LMS I feel a lot like Button.  His face says it all. Talking to my peers I think little Button here could be the official mascot for the administrators of LMSs. Love them or hate them, want them or just plain need them, the arguement ...

Recently I had the honour of being able to present at DevLearn 2014 and prior to that Sunnybrook’s 3rd Annual Education Conference. At each of these I presented on a topic very dear to my heart - FREE E-LEARNING TOOLS.  Why does it mean that much to me Because I work within an industry that doesn’t have a large budget ...

David Kelly just posted a follow-up piece in response to feedback that he received for his "How to Recognize Snake Oil in Your Personal Learning Network" I wanted to share a thought that came to my mind today as I read his piece.  My friend Frank was a lovely man and he is missed by many, so I wanted to capture this ...

In our ogranization have used a few courses from outside our facility that require us to provide utilization stats to the creator/owner of the course (ie. RNAO). My ‘policy’ is to have my SME  or client (fellow staff members), from the department that is initiating the use of the course within our LMS, be the key contact and therefore the person responsible for providing ...

I was just reading Mark Britz‘s post on "Shortening the Social Tool Learning Curve with Open Office Hours" regarding his open office hours experiment and that in 6 hours he had only 3 participants attend.  I love that he is taking the opportunity as a lesson learned.  During the time some questions came up that allowed for further reflection from ...

I had someone recently interview me to ask what my views were on distance education in the workplace, but more specifically what were some of the challenges with providing it by this method. My experience has enlightened me to many issues that after speaking to colleagues in similar situations have also had to find ways to deal with. One of ...

I had the pleasure this week of reading Connie Malamed‘s new book "Visual Design Solutions".  It’s a wonderfully laid out book that gives those new to the field of Learning an extensive and solid understanding of visual design principals.  Yet, I found for those professionals that have been in the learning industry for some time the content is affirming and inspiring. ...

I’m looking for any suggestions or processes that the community might be using to obtain feedback for edits/changes/suggestions/tweaks to your projects from "clients". I’m seeking ideas to use with my client base to educate and have them understand I need for consolidated feedback rather than feedback from 10 individual reviewers of a course. There are a few reasons for this need. One is that ...

I just came across a post in the Articulate Community that was a really good question.  The user was trying to create a quiz that randomly drew 3 questions from a question bank.  They had it almost set up correctly, but may have misunderstoond that for each question drawn you do not need to access a seperate bank of questions. ...

If you don’t have access to a graphic designer, photographer, or stockphoto account, chances are you have had to use images that are Creative Commons licence.  Many CC images require you to give attribution to the photographer and/or website where the photo has been stored.  There are several ways you can do this in Storyline, but here are two that ...

I haven’t been challenged yet to partake in #Blimage, but the idea is too intriguing not to be involved.  So I challenged myself with this photo: This is the aim of the challenge as perceived by Steve Wheeler: You send an image or photograph to a colleague with the challenge that they have to write a learning related blog post ...

I entered the Articulate Guru awards this year for the first time.  Entries could be any creatieve use for Articulate’s tools and features. I didn’t have a project already built that I want to submit, but knew I wanted to create something game based.  I decided I wanted to push the use of triggers and variables to the limits to be able ...

There is a process that can be used to export variables from a Storyline file into a Google Doc Spreadsheet.  It has been discussed several times within the Articulate Community Hereos forum and is a bit complicated and hard to follow if you don’t understand the "coding language" being shared there.  However, once you have completed the steps I’m fairly confident ...

Live Blog test  

Live Blog "Curiosity, Discovery, and Learning" - Adam Savage #DevLearn Keynote  

Live Blog "Digital Badges and the Future of Learning" - Connie Yowell #Devlearn Keynote  

Live Blog "Learning Without Boundaries" - Natalie Panek #Devlearn Keynote  

Live Blog "Learning Disrupted" - David Pogue #Devlearn Keynote  

This week I’m attending, participating, and speaking at Devlearn.  One of the things I’ll be doing while here is blogging my experience.  Particularly I’ll be live blogging the keynotes at this conference.  I use a tool called CoverItLive.  With this I can capture my own notes from the presentations, but I can also collect/capture the notes that others share through ...

This was such an interesting talk and I highly recommend watching the video recording if you were unable to attend.