IntroductionTable of Posts We are used to people telling us stories. My grandmother used to scare my sister and me with her stories of vampires and gremlins. As I grew older, I learned there is another side of storytelling, and…
Tag: scenario-based learning
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…
The Triumphants – From the Conclave “Organizational Storytelling” Washington DC, April 16-18, 2008
The Triumphants In the Potomac, the land of the ancient and wise, there was a conclave – a spontaneous gathering of all sorts of peoples from the lands far away and nearby. Famine and pestilence is in the land, and…
Stories & Scenarios in e-Learning 2.0
Web 2.0 and e-Learning 2.0 succeed partly through conversations and exchanges of stories and scenarios. Obama’s inauguration had millions of people each one with a unique story to tell. Imagine the conversations in blogs, twitters, photo-sharing, etc. Mind-bugling. Tony O’Driscol…
Orlando Guild Articulate – Session on Stories and SBL
March 9-10, 2009, I will present on Stories and SBLs – how to engage eLearners. My presentation starts with the story of “Pursuit of Happines” as a stage to show the elements of stories and how they engage learners. Then…
“Concrete and Vivid Stories Exert Extraordinary Influence”
Roger Heap from Psychological Associates (http://www.spq4.com/) was very nice to share these thoughts on story telling: I have been reading Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler. I thought you would enjoy this confirmation…
Do You Tell Stories, Rumors or Controversies?
Jakob Nielsen: E-Learning: An Oxymoron? Story Telling, Narrative and Web Reading, and Social Learning Jakob Nielsen Alert Box, June 9, 2008, compares Writing Style for Print vs. Web. ————————————————————- Application Points: Participants in social learning are ALL engaged but differ…
