April Hayman

Why you want to focus on actions, not learning objectives

Cathy Moore discusses how to replace learning objectives that tell with ones that act.

tags: education, elearning, objectives

E-Learning Curve Blog: Why is podcasting so successful if 93 percent of communication is nonverbal?

Michael Hanley explores how podcasting can be used successfully in elearning if pace, pitch, projection and pausing are used effectively. He’s really done his research on nonverbal communication and does an excellent job of connecting it to elearning.

tags: nonverbal, communication, education, elearning, podcast, podcasting, research

Digital Storytelling: Engaging Boys with Technology | Getting Boys To Read

"With digital storytelling, boys tell their story using various technologies and media instead of just the traditional paper and pen." Excellent article for anyone who had ever tried to get a boy to read or write. Offers suggestions and strategies on the various stages of storytelling.

tags: education, reading, writing, technology

100+ Serious Twitter Tips for Academics

"The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more."

tags: twitter, education, tips

21st-century skills movement grows

"Illinois, Louisiana, and Nevada have become the latest states to join the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national effort to integrate 21st-century skills into teaching and learning to prepare students for a global, information-based economy."

tags: 21stcentury, skills, elearning, education

Here’s a Free PowerPoint Template & How I Made It – The Rapid eLearning Blog

Excellent post from Tom about using inspiration from well designed websites to create PowerPoint templates for elearning. Includes a 30 minute screencast and a zipped file of all the elements created.

tags: powerpoint, elearning, templates, articulate, howto, rapid elearning

eLearn: Best Practices – Seven Steps to Better E-learning – Annotated

"…a distillation of cognitive research on learning intended to make your e-learning more effective, and to create a better experience for the learner. These seven principles integrate cognitive and emotional components of learning, and the more that happens, the greater the outcomes."

Create The Fanciest Dropdown Menu You Ever Saw | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver

An easy to follow tutorial on creating dropdown menus with CSS and jquery. It also includes zip files of the images, css and jquery used in the tutorial.

tags: dropdown, menu, dropdown menu, jquery, webdesign, web design, web2.0, css, webdesigndev

Use Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes

Several versions of Bloom’s Taxonomy for use in developing learning outcomes and related activities. Rather handy, actually!

tags: education, e-learning, elearning, web2.0, tools, zaidlearn, edtech, bloom’s, bloom’s taxonomy, learning objectives

Beware the cloud – elearnspace

A thought on the dark side of cloud computing – the loss of freedom & control over information, expression & innovation.

tags: elearning, elearnspace, cloud, computing, google, twitter, web-based, tools

NOVA | Interactives Archive | PBS

A plethora of online interactivities to use in elearning or as part of your F2F classroom lesson planning.

tags: education, learning, interactive, interactivities, history, information, info, pbs, nova, elearning

Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: Ministry of ID: Rapid eLearning Development course

This is a beta tester call for the "Rapid eLearning Development (ReD)" course. Only 40 people will be chosen for this stage of development. The course incorporates gaming, social networking, & collaborative learning to teach the learner how to build successful elearning courses.

tags: elearning, rapid, development, ministry of instructional design, socialmedia, social networking