Accidental Instructional Designers #dl09
At DevLearn ‘09, I had the pleasure of hosting a Thursday morning Breakfast Byte.  Conference participants gather around a topic of interest at an ungodly early hour, while sipping coffee and eating croissants.  A bleary-eyed, loosely

Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank #dl09
Last week at DevLearn in San Jose, Stephen Walsh and I presented to a packed room: "Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank" It was Friday morning and everyone was quite exhausted. Before we got started, I joked that we'd know we'd been successful if no one yawned. I think people were quite engaged and I didn't catch any yawns, so I'd say we hit the mark.  Here are slides from our presentation. I'm sorry I can't share links to all of the demos we showed, but you can find some live examples on the case studies section of the Kineo website.&

Cammy and Kineo in New York
I'm hanging out in Times Square right now, looking forward to our seminar here tomorrow morning. New York is so exhilarating. The lights! The tall buildings! I feel like such an awestruck country bumpkin. Here's where I'll be:Kineo hosts e-learning conference in New York on Nov 20thNew York Workshop: Strategies for Delivering Effective eLearning in Trying TimesJoin us in New York on Nov 20th for a breakfast session,

DevLearn ‘09 Friday Keynote: Leo Laporte #dl09
Live blogged notes from the Friday morning keynote at DevLearn in San Jose. Leo Laporte: www.Leoville.com “The Tech Guy!” a US-based journalist specializing in technology coverage on radio, TV, and the Internet. What I have learned in mass media – where it’s failed us and why we’ve reinvented it (new media). His story.  But first, this one… Mass media: a 2oth century invention that is starting to fall apart. Started early 1900s with radio.  Before that, media was local (cave paintings). Radio changed everything. Initially radio was a one-to-one tool (shi

DevLearn ‘09 Keynote: Eric Zimmerman #dl09
These are my live blogged notes from Thursday’s keynote at DevLearn. Eric Zimmerman – started career as an artist. 15 years in game industry. Gamelab CEO. Book:   Rules of Play – Game Design Fundamentals (Eric wrote the textbook on that!) Meaningful Play Opening with the a rousing game of rock, paper, scissors… Meaning A closed fist: in rock, paper scissors it means a certain thing.  The game gives the gesture meaning. MMRPS - massively multiplayer rock-paper scissors. Round robin style – everyone is now playing the game!  And we’re down to t