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Visiting Union and Doin’ Some Googlin’

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Today, I get to spend the day at Union University with Dr. Anna Clifford’s classes. Anna is always so generous and invites me to come visit with her students and share a little of my knowledge with them. For the past few times, we’ve been concentrating on Google…

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Mar 10

Welcome Dr. Clifford’s Students

I just wanted to offer a quick, “Hello” to those of you who are in Dr. Clifford’s courses at Union University.  I know you guys will be dropping by, and I will be dropping  by to see you all tomorrow.  I hope you find the posts interesting and insightful.  Be sure to

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Mar 08

It’s finally happened…to me

‘m excited to say that it’s finally happened to me. Today, one of my presentations made it to the home page of Slideshare — even it was only for a little while.

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Mar 05

Putting it all together: What I learned from teaching adults

Guest Blogger PostAs the opportunity arose to teach, I was hesitant because of the enormous responsibility I felt to ensure that the content presented would be understood and applied by the students in my class. As I began to teach, I had no idea the impact this might make on their lives. These individuals were characterized as the nontraditional student (NCES, 2002). My concerns were whether I was going about the right way to teach such a group of adult learners.

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Mar 05

The Perfect SCORM: Is there an impact to elearning or not?

Guest Blogger PostSCORM is a standard. That is the bottom line. It is a way to move content across Course Management Systems (CMS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS). It is a way to package information and move it between various conformant platforms. Standards make our lives easier. Imagine going shopping for a queen size mattress and none are the same size. Standards are important, but if SCORM is just a standard, then is it important to learning?

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Mar 02

EPSS: It’s all about the money, isn’t it? (Not really)

Guest Blogger PostAs the world has moved from the industrial to the digital era, concepts as training, instruction, and even education have been reconsidered under the needs and challenges that the new era has brought. In some centuries, industrialized countries have moved from learning a craft by apprenticeship to more and more specialized training. Nowadays, the number of tasks and skills that a person needs to have in order to succeed, changes within and between jobs. Under these conditions, a linear vision of training and education to support job performance seems not to be the most efficient approach, either economically or from an instructional point of view…

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Mar 02

Get more from your multimedia in elearning

Guest Blogger PostWhen designing and developing an elearning course you will always be incorporating some combination of text, images, audio, and video. There are several important things you need to keep in mind when working with various types of media…

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Feb 26

If you’re creating instruction for the Web, you better be doing these 4 things

Guest Blogger PostI’ve had the opportunity to experience the field of education from a few different perspectives. I’m currently enrolled as a Master’s student in the Instructional Design and Technology program at the University of Memphis, and I spent several years as a high school Marketing Education teacher. I also currently work for the University of Memphis as an Academic Technology Consultant. These experiences have provided me a chance to gain valuable insight into both the teacher and student roles.

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Feb 26

If I had all the time and money in the world, my elearning would look like this

Guest Blogger PostToo many ideas were coming to my mind as I was trying to write about how I would like my elearning to be, if I had money and time. I decided to take a step back to look at the whole picture first then at the details, similar to looking at the shell and then studying the core. This is what I came up with.

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Feb 24

Articulate workshop on March 3 in Ball Hall Room 307a

On Wednesday, March 3 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Mr. Kevin Thorn will offer a hands-on workshop on using Articulate to build rapid elearning. Kevin is the LMS Administrator for Learning Technologies in Human Resources and Customer Satisfaction at Autozone, Inc. Kevin is also one of the clients this semester for IDT 7095/8095. While this is directed toward students in 7095/8095, I am opening this up to other students/alumni/fans of Dr. Grant’s crazy blog. I hope you can attend.

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Feb 19

Trusting your school with the technology may become the issue

Big Brother is watching … only it’s your vice principal. If you thought that getting technology into schools was the primary issue or even getting teachers to integrate was bigger. This might change your mind.

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