Mobile phone companies continue to raise the bar for the most creative compliance public service announcement (PSA). It continues to amaze me (read: annoy) how groups *outside* the training department regularly design more creative and engaging training than those in the training department. Consider the most recent Sprint PSA reminding moviegoers to turn off their […]
Second Life Workshop – DevLearn08
Second Life Workshop – DevLearn08 I’ve been putting the final touches on my Second Life workshop for DevLearn08. This will be a great opportunity for anyone looking to get started with Second Life as a corporate learning environment. The workshop will be an all hands-on event where participants will have the opportunity to create personalized […]
Flash CS4 for Elearning Production
Flash CS4 for Elearning Production One of the features my team is most excited about in Flash CS4 is the new object-based animation. This should significantly reduce a lot of basic elearning production times for tasks such as: Animated text and bullets; Simple image fades and transitions. Granted, Elearning is (should be) much more than […]
Rapid Development: Campaign Social Networking Style
We all know how templates enable design teams and their customers to jump over much of the upfront drudgery and focus on the important part: the content. Should it then be any surprise that newsmakers would use such templates in their social networking efforts? Barack Obama’s group obviously wanted to maximize their Flickr juice by […]
AICPA Tech+ Conference
Heading to Las Vegas next week for the AICPA Tech+ conference. Focus for this conference is on AICPA’s 2008 Top Technology Initiatives. While Second Life didn’t quite make it to that list, the session should still prove valuable for CPAs interested in learning more about how people are using, learning and working in Second Life. […]
10 Tips for Ensuring Image Neutrality in Elearning Courseware
Anyone who’s ever designed an elearning course, corporate brochure or any form of graphic design, has at one time or another been asked to replace one or more images that could be perceived to be offensive or biased. In corporate elearning, this can be particularly challenging since so much of our courseware calls for images […]
Product-Based Avatars For Customer Education
Spent yesterday participating in the Virtual Worlds At Work Symposium talking about using virtual worlds for Sales Training. Thanks to Anders Gronstedt for the invitation. While most of my development in Second Life has been around new hire training and leadership, I think there’s a really exciting opportunity for using product avatars for consumer education. […]
DCCCD Team Leader, Second Life
Our move to Dallas continues to get better! Montse was just offered an exciting opportunity as Team Leader/Project Manager for Dallas County Community College’s Second Life initiative. Working with DCCCD, Montse will support the development and integration of Second Life into the Dallas County’s seven colleges. Dallas County Community College District plans to use Second Life […]
Communicating Rapid Design Models
We recently completed a design project in three months that was scoped at nine. While I could show you the wireframes depicting our design strategy for cutting corners, enlisted SMEs as developers, and reused content, this image pretty much says it all.
Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008
Elearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 Spent the weekend putting the final touches on my Elearning Guild sim for my Espresso Learning session this week on Second Life and virtual worlds. Espresso sessions are meant to be informal and conversational without slides or handouts, however, I always prefer to have some sort of live demonstration running […]
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