In the Middle of the Curve: Tackling a New Captivate Project
Wendy Wickham walks through her whole process of planning & creating software tutorials with Captivate. A number of good tips in here too.
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Kapp Notes: How Long Does It Take to Develop One Hour of E-Learning-Updated for 2009
Updated ratios for developing e-learning at different levels of interactivity (with links to a few other surveys)
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Partly due to a request from Tony Karrer for eLearning Learning and partly because others have asked in the past, I did a little research on how to filter an RSS feed so I can provide a feed without the daily bookmarks posts. If you’re interested in that, here’s the RSS feed without bookmarks and the link for subscribing via email.
In the past, I’ve tried using PostRank for a similar purpose, but that didn’t quite do what I wanted. It filtered out most of the bookmarks post, but bookmarks posts that generate conversation are included, and a number of regular posts are excluded. There’s value in what PostRank does, but it wasn’t quite the right tool for this.
This filtered feed was created with Feed Rinse. It was quick and easy (and free). This isn’t exactly what Feed Rinse was created for (you can filter your entire OPML, so it’s more intended for readers than publishers), but it seemed to work pretty well for me.
So, if you’re interested in subscribing to read my full posts but don’t want to wade through my bookmarks, now you have another option.
CourseLab – free e-Learning authoring tool
Free tool for course authoring. Screen captures and PowerPoint imports are paid extras, but the basic tool is free. Might be nice for creating portfolio samples if you don’t have access to Captivate or Articulate.
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Open source Google Docs backup tool. It checks whether the Google Docs file already exists on your computer and if it’s an older version and only downloads a backup copy if needed.
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OK, apparently I have been oblivious in the last few months, because I didn’t even realize that Google had added a whole new set of search options. Click “Show options” on any Google search results page to see what’s there.
Google Wonder Wheel
The “Wonder Wheel” is an interactive map with related searches. For “instructional design,” the related searches shown include “instructional design models,” “addie,” and “instructional design courses.” Clicking on any of those options changes the search results on the right and shows another level of mapping. This seems like a great way to see connections in ideas, and to see how other people have made connections between ideas. On a practical note, for people who tend to start with general search terms, it could also be a way to drill down and find better results. It might even be a way to help teach people how to come up with better search terms.
Google Search Timeline
The timeline view is also interesting. Like the Wonder Wheel, you can drill into the results to look at more narrow timeframes. Great if you need something in a specific time frame, but it also shows the trends over time. Where Google Trends shows the search patterns (i.e., what people are looking for), this appears to be showing the search results. Interesting how search results for instructional design have declined in the last decade, isn’t it?
So did everyone else know this was there and I just missed the conversations? Or did you know it was there and simply haven’t found it useful?
CES Resources NEW: View The Cycle of Inquiry and Action: Essential Learning Communities
The inquiry-action cycle for teachers with real-life examples of individual and collaborative inquiry
Presentation Zen: 10 Tips on how to think like a designer
Tips that can apply to instructional design, graphic design, web design, etc. They are broad, but it’s helpful to have these kinds of ideas articulated clearly rather than being something that people do but can’t explain. I especially like “Obsess about ideas and not tools.”
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Tips gleaned from the book “Directing the Story,” applied to instructional design. Good ideas about storytelling and focusing on the audience.
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A review of research on professional learning communities: What do we know?
Like the title says, a research review on PLCs, synthesizing results from 10 articles.
elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age – Annotated
George Siemens’ 2004 introduction to connectivism
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