You can use the Twitter 164 character in classroom sessions by doing 90 seconds micro-discussions. Before or after a key small point in your present ask your audience to have a 90 seconds discussion. Each person finds another person and…
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Microlearning Design Las Vegas ASTDTECH
I presented at ASTD TechKnowledge Conference in Las Vegas, January 28, 2010. The topic I spoke of: Using Micro-eLearning Design for Learning 2.0 and Traditional eLearning. Gist: 5 Step Process Be succinct Relate Interpret Apply Micro-Applications Microlearning instructional design is…
Why 3MinuteWorlds.com?
Why 3MinuteWorlds.com? I continue to believe that the road to more productive learning and applying of ideas revolve around our ability to think of small things – micro things. Here lies the kernel of anything small that we can act…
Social Media Meeting at AMD Sponsored by BusinessWire
I attended today’s session: Topic: Media Breakfast“Traditional Tactics and Digital Dimensions: Strategic Thinking on PR, IR and Media Relations in the Conversational Age”AMD, Sunnyvale, CAhttp://bit.ly/7Rwc9e Insights: Clear policies are always needed Conducta “conversation mapping” to gauge what your audience like.…
Let’s Jam/Webinar NO LECTURES – Brainstorming Scenarios-Series 1
These are my initial learning in testing and NO LECTURE WEBINAR The goals: Conduct Jamming like Webinars with high interactions, almost ZERO LECTURE. Structure: Provided participants vignettes for advance interactions in our community http://3minuteworld.trainingpayback.com/main/home(Scroll down the page to see vignettes)…
Creating Sticky eLearning Lessons by Ray Jimenez
Brainstorming eLearning Micro-Scenario by Ray Jimenez
eLearning Design WITHOUT a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
What to do if you have no access to a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and you have to design and deliver an eLearning program? Many of us would hate to admit it, but this situation happens.There is a way out…
“The Evil Company” – another Martian Design
Stories work as a way to communicate with people. The theme “The Evil Company” is consistently hammeredby using advertising stories and vignettes. This is another example of what I call “Martian eLearning Design” –out of this world designs but shows…
DIYEL #17 Can workers use lessons to solve day-to-day problems?
Introduction Table of Posts Today’s learners are not like the learners of 10 or 20 years ago. Learners today do not have the luxury of attending seminars or eLearning programs and then storing their knowledge for future use. Knowledge is…
DIYEL #16 Be a craftsperson, an artisan.
IntroductionTable of Posts Sadly, many of us have lost the art of a being a craftsperson. In olden days, many people used their hands to carve wood, draw, stencil patterns, practice calligraphy, and knit clothing. Today’s fast-paced population doesn’t make…
DIYEL #15 See a therapist to cure yourself of the disease, CONTROL-ITIS.
IntroductionTable of Posts If you suffer from Control-itis (over-emphasis on controlling how learners should learn), please see a therapist. This disease, consisting of old habits, severely impacts your eLearning design. (This is a series of post from my book “Do-It-Yourself…
DIYEL #14 See a therapist to cure yourself of the disease, CONTENT-ITIS
IntroductionTable of Posts Doctors tell us that some of us may be predisposed to a certain disease because our bodies already carry some degree or level of the virus that causes it. When an individual actually contracts the ailment, it…
DIYEL #13 How to avoid impersonal programs and encourage conversations.
IntroductionTable of Posts When was the last time you had a face-to-face conversation with someone and that person was not really present with you? He or she was “not really there”? How did you feel? You were probably annoyed or…
DIYEL #12 Why we love Slumdog Millionaire, Borat, the Gladiator and Casablanca.
IntroductionTable of Posts They are inspiring, absurd, ridiculous, insulting, heroic and romantic. But most of all, these movies work. Training programs have become too sanitized and sterile, devoid of life and fun. They bore learners to death. Learners are often…