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Author: Darren

  • Screenr

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    If you haven’t tried this elearning tool out (free) yet then make sure you do. It’s called screenr.  There are many other tools like this but they generally cost a lot of money. Screenr does have some limitations but for free I am sure you can work around them. This excellent tips guide is a…

  • Free Learning Test

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    It’s not often that you find a free test on the internet that is really free and also useful. Try this one out on learning styles. I am interested in your comments regarding how accurate you think it is. The reward at the end is that it comes with tips for coping with your learning…

  • Curriculum Delivery & Technology

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    I’m not going to lie to you and state that I have read all of the reports in the link provided here. You might like to look at some of them. I have two reasons for posting this. One, when I get the chance (not in the near future) I would like to check some…

  • Try this little test out

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    I was reading this small blog post on levity in your school and it occurred to me that the 11 questions that it asks are important to every workplace. Many of you are working in a training department or RTO but some of you are working in roles outside of the learning sector. Levity or…

  • Twitter and learning

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    I must admit that I still struggle with twitter. What I mean is I am not sure what it really does. At the time of writing this I have 830 followers and I don’t really know one of them. I am following (via a little trick) 2,000 people. I started playing with twitter so I…

  • New Youtube Vid

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    Below is the latest video clip of how technology continues to evade our lives. If you don’t think that technology will change how education and training operates then take the 4 plus minutes to watch this and then think about what our world may look like in 5 years. What do you think? Can this…

  • Web 2 Technology and training/teaching

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    I know that many people are confused about the practical uses of web tools like blogs, wikis, twitter and facebook let alone how you could use any of these tools in teaching but a great website has appeared that has some excellent video files explaining each of the tools and how they can be used.…

  • elearning Sucks

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    Watch this slideshow. A very interesting look at elearning and why it really needs to improve. The tools are there, we just need to engage with them and think a little more creatively about our approach to elarning. It is just like a face to face session, the more time you put into preparation the…

  • Speech recognition

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    I made a mention recently in a training session of the impact that speech recognition would have on society and in the education/training sector. I think most of us to date have been frustrated by our brushes with speech recognition, in particular its use in phone services. Imagine the world though where you could just…

  • Moving Sites

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    I thought it would be a good idea to copy an email I received this week in relation to how to copy a google site to another google site location. It has come up in discussion a number of times and maybe useful for some of you at some point. This information came to me…