I'm often impressed by the visionary keynote speakers at these conferences. The themes are relatively similar, but they often express them in insightful ways. Sir Ken Robinson spoke today on the importance of creativity among other things. First, I'll share a couple of pearls he…
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Another week, another conference. This time I'm in San Jose, CA at DevLearn2007. My expressed purpose in being here is simply this: I want to understand the innovative technologies available in eLearning. What better place than a conference in Silicon Valley, right? So, three days…
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One message I've been delivering to our customers and prospects a lot lately is this... partial SCORM conformance might actually be worse than no SCORM conformance. If you're going to bother with SCORM at all, be sure that you finish the job so that you…
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Back at it this afternoon... (quotes are loose)John Howley, legal expertise"Tell your lawyer what you need from them." This is the great incentive to get your lawyer up to speed on the things you require.We have developed in the common law tradition, in which judges…
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Session 646 was titled "What if Amazon and Google Partnered to Build an LMS?" Good thought, and something we're thinking about all the time. Google and Amazon are doing some things really well, and we'd love piggy back on many of those concepts.Thoughts from the…
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Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) talked this morning, and spoke on his vision of the future. This is a guy with tremendous credibility in predicting the future. The most interesting thing he shared (to me) was this: Technology, to kids, is like air. It's just there.I'm pretty…
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Yup, I skipped my 200 level session for the blog... it was basically more of the same from my 100 session.So, Session 320::Rapid Online Prototyping. (The link is the wiki page from the conference... pretty cool stuff.)Richard Culatta led the session, demonstrating how freely available…
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Session 108::Special Session for Learning Suppliers, Vendors, and Freelancers.Elliott Masie and Cushing Anderson got us (learning vendors) together to give us some of their insights on the industry. Again, more thinking follows, but the biggest thought for me was this (again, paraphrased)We need to find…
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Sorry for the loss of momentum... lack of connectivity is a blogging killer.We got started this morning at 8am with another excellent general session. Again, great guests.Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, was certainly interesting. He had a number of interesting things to…
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Part of the excitement about attending a conference like Learning 2007 is that it isn't about SCORM and the related technologies exclusively.Highlights of the session for me:Elliott, as he is wont to do, sent us to talk to two people we didn't know. In each…
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A quick note of warning... several posts are forthcoming on Learning 2007, a conference put on by Elliott Masie and his crew. Each year, I attend several conferences related to SCORM and the eLearning industry. Some are exciting, others are not.Put simply, this is a…
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Three Mondays ago, we got a resume from a guy down in Orlando named Lewis Vance. We liked his brains and we liked his vibe. Two Mondays ago, "Andy" Vance stopped in to interview after spending the weekend driving the tractor on his Dad's Tennessee…
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