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My Top 10 Tools for Learning

January 25, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, iPhone, Learning, Lists, RSS, Social bookmarking, Social Networking, Techniques, Tools

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’s site is a good repository of various learning tools. Jane Hart invites contributions to identify top 10 learning tools that the learning professionals use. These are not elearning development tools but tools that allow us to learn ourselves. Jane’s summary of top 100 tools for learning from her 2007 survey makes an interesting reading.Here are my top 10 tools for learning. Actually some of these might just be techniques. While I have listed some specific tools, in many cases, it is the technique that…

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Blog Stats – the story so far…

January 17, 2008
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Tony Karrer’s recent blog talks about visit statistics to his blog. Inspirational statistics he has for his blog. Of course, Dave Taylor and Matt Cutts statistics made my eyes pop out. Are these for real or what. Wow!!!I started started tracking statistics only in late Sep 2007. Last four months of tracking of my blog have resulted in the following statistics: I still get most traffic by blatantly spamming the people I know about my new posts. I know I must stop that but no one seems to be complaining…

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Tare Zameen Par

January 12, 2008
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“When are you going to write about Tare Zameen Par on your blog?” wife asks me.“I can’t write about that on my blog. My blog is about learning, content development and management. All the corporate stuff you know. I don’t write movie reviews on my blog.” I protest.“Well the movie is about education and learning. It fits perfectly well on your blog.”“But, it is still just a movie…”“So what is your write up about iPhone doing on your blog? That isn’t even remotely about learning and education.” she demands to…

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eLearning and Content Development Trends for 2008

December 30, 2007
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| Categories: Blended learning, Content Development, eLearning, Rapid development, Synchronous learning, The Big Question, Training, Trends, Virtual environments, Web 2.0

Learning Circuit’s January Big Question is about predicting trends for the year 2008. Here’s my take on what we can expect in the coming year.Web 2.0 in LearningWeb 2.0 will be the killer buzzword for the year 2008. Everyone will want to use the technology for learning and training. Bersin report for 2008 talks about it, Brandon Hall has announced new categories of awards, and most bloggers are talking about it. I believe 2008 will continue to be the year of discovery and experimentation with Web 2.0. Web 2.0 techniques…

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Directory Blogging

December 22, 2007
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| Categories: Blogging, Lists, SlideShare

Directory BloggingI discovered SlideShare and liked it very much. It is the slideshow version of YouTube. Currently takes PPT, PPS, PDF and OpenOffice files only. Slideshare allows you to embed presentations on your site just like YouTube. Figured that the site is already about a year old. Will this be the next YouTube or Facebook? Time will tell but I would put some money on it. Read about Rashmi Sinha, the co-founder and CEO of SlideShare.Found a great presentation that describes different styles of blogging by Rohit Bhargava and Jesse…

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iPhone – The Dumb Blonde of Phones?

December 6, 2007
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| Categories: iPhone

When I went looking for a new computer for my son, I chanced upon the new iStore in Noida. As I played with the iMac, I instantly fell in love with it. The effects were too cool and it seemed like a computer built for true home computing. The fact that the design of the machine itself was also very s**y helped me make my decision to buy the iMac. It was reasonably more expensive than an equivalent PC but I think it was worth it. My son wasn’t too…

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Death of the Instructional Designer

November 20, 2007
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| Categories: Content Development, Design, eLearning, Instructional Design, SME

Fifteen years ago when I joined the profession, Instructional Design was a new profession. Friends and family asked about what I really did for a living. Customers were surprised to find Instructional Designers in India and after a few years of struggle, getting business was not so hard. We were grudgingly accepted as Instructional Designers without any formal qualification in Instructional Design. As Instructional Designers we spent time in learning about the underlying theories of instructional design, did our research on the project content area and spent hours in brainstorming…

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Work-Life Balance and Quality Time

October 20, 2007
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A lot is being talked and written about work-life balance. Usually this means that people are overworked and not spending enough time on “life”. A lot is also being talked about Quality time. This is usually in the context of making the most of the limited time available with the family, read “life”. The usual grouse is that since there isn’t much time available because of the long hours at work, we get limited time with the life and therefore need to make whatever time available “quality” time. True. So…

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Chakde India Coaching in Corporate India

September 22, 2007
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I am sure Chakde India will soon inspire many management articles, much like Lagaan did. I found it very inspiring, specially at a time that I am going through some management and leadership challenges myself. So what where the leadership mantras of Chakde coaching?Well the clichéd one was there – have hairy audacious goals. Of course it is important to have goals that are really challenging. But I think what was different here was that the goal was a cause in itself. And more importantly, there is absolute belief in…

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Small changes make a Big difference

July 22, 2007
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My last visit to the hospital pharmacy provided me with a pleasant surprise. The pharmacy had got a credit card machine. This saved me a trip to another counter to get my card swiped. This small simple change gave me so much happiness. Finally they are listening to their customers, I thought, and making changes to improve the service. Small simple changes can make such a huge difference in perceptions.

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