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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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…
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)…
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 #6 eLearning design is like peeling the artichoke before you eat it.
IntroductionTable of Posts Do-It-Yourselfers know the difference between bananas, oranges, apples and artichokes. Back when we changed from using transparencies (which many of you don’t remember at all) to PowerPoint slides, the transition was as simple as peeling a banana,…
DIYEL #1 Get a new pair of glasses from Costco, not Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
IntroductionTable of PostsHow does a family of five earning a minimum wage survive? They make do with what they have. They shop in thrift stores or at Costco, but never on Rodeo Drive. They have the bargain hunter’s instinct: hold…
How to instantly grab e-learners attention!
To instantly grab e-Learners, remember embedding content into stories. Embedding Steps Relate Interpret Apply _________________________________ Which statement grabs you instantly? Life is full of trials and tribulations or I started work at 3:00 am and finished at 11:00 pm, exhausted.…
Social Learning and Impacts
What I learned from #LRNCHAT yesterday – Twitter as a spark plug
Twitter is a spark plug for learning. I am a student of Twitter. I love Twitter since it epitomizes the succinct and instant learning I have been evangelizing (3-Minute eLearning) for about 10 years now. In 2007 I wrote about…
The Master SME: How to become one? How to work with it?
If you are in a shipwreck and are stranded in a desolate island with an SME (Subject Matter Expert), what would be your conversation like? Ask yourselves, “What do we do?” Both of your concerns become how to get off…
Cut to 30% eLearning Development Costs
Let us do the rough math. Assuming a typical one hour eLearning costs $35,000. This is how Do-it-Yourselfers think and do.• Focus efforts on must learn, probably around 20% of the content.• Apply authoring tools on the 20%.• Develop images…
Creating Micro-Scenarios – X-Men Plays Hockey
The purpose of Micro-learning is to provide short, snappy and provocative stories to help learners reflect on a real-life situation or provoke social learning conversations in discussion rooms, Twitters, Blogs, etc. Full-scale scenarios are elaborate scenarios with multiple branching while…
Think Artichoke eLearning, Understand Learner’s Instincts
Last July 23, 2009, I had an opportunity to be a panel member of the online event “The Future of the Business of Learning” sponsored by Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation. It was an insightful event featuring thought leaders Tony…
Be vulnerable – An authentic way to tell a story
What stories help other people? Be vulnerable. Share what you have overcome. Stories appeal when they are about personal circumstances. Real, honest, and from the heart. Short video by Nancy Duarte. Ray Jimenez, PhDhttp://www.vignettestraining.com/http://www.trainingpayback.com/ “Helping Learners Learn Their Way” “Helping…
eLearning Reusables – Need Beta Participants
Fisherman Quiz – eLearning Reusable / Work in Progress June 13, 2009 Everything, well at least 95% in the Flash is reusable in XML, images, audio, swf, etc. The engine is encrypted. This allows non-techie to have a good looking…