Weekly Bookmarks (4/4/2010)
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Custom E-Learning Training & LMS Solutions Kineo – New Skills for Instructional Designers
Slides from a presentation on ID skills, specifically at the intersection of instructional design and IT. Especially interesting were the comparisons of word clouds from descriptions of graduate programs in ID with word clouds from ID job descriptions.
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Working with SMEs in elearning » Making Change
Very practical tips for dealing with SMEs who want to dump lots of information and preserve their text-heavy PowerPoint slides
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1. Read what they gave you.
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2. Involve them from the beginning
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3. Ask them to help identify what people need to do
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4. Ask them to help brainstorm activities and limit information
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- If a person doesn’t know that fact, what do they do wrong on the job? How would that affect our goal?
- How could you tell by watching me do my job that I know that bit of information?
- What mistakes do new people make?
- What mistakes do people make when they get over-confident?
If your SME keeps suggesting fact checks instead of more realistic decision-making activities, you might try the following questions:
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This helps remind the SME that the only information that should go into the material is the info that’s required to perform the activities
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A List Apart: Articles: Contrast is King
When designing so colorblind users have full access to your content, you aren’t stuck with black and white. Using contrast is important.
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YouTube – UsingMoodle’s Channel
Lots of great tutorials for Moodle
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.