SXSW Awards: 2003 Finalists
SXSW Awards: 2003 FinalistsEducational Resource Category:
- Campfire Stories with George Catlin
- Face to Face
- Safe As Mother's Milk: The Hanford Project
- Stories Untold
- The 35th Infantry Division in World War Two
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 24, 2003
Fast Company: The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America’s Education Billionaire
Fast Company: The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire"For those reasons and more, Sperling is beloved on Wall Street. For those reasons and more, he is loathed in many academic quarters. His critics accuse him of commodifying education, turning a social good into a market product. They dismiss the University of Phoenix as a "McUniversity" that delivers mass-produced fare at bland locations."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 21, 2003
New Scientist: Designed for life
New Scientist: Designed for life"The cellphone is a very interesting development - it's really an emotion machine. The very success of SMS, despite the difficulty of using it, is that it lets people sort of touch each other and keep in touch throughout the day. It's not about sending factual information, it's about keeping the social structure going."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 21, 2003
elearnspace: Geroge Siemens Interview: ME!
elearnspace Interviews: Maish Nichani :)George Siemens interviewed me last week. Fantastic questions. Thanks George!
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 21, 2003
Living Networks: Chapter 6 - Network Presence: Harnessing the Flow of Marketing, Customer Feedback,
Living Networks: Chapter 6 - Network Presence: Harnessing the Flow of Marketing, Customer Feedback, and Knowledge"Just for a moment, think of how you fit into the global networks. You are at the center of a vast network of connections with other people, consisting of everyone you have ever known and communicated with. As a consumer, most of the messages that contribute to your buying decisions come from this network, from the people that are in some way part of your life. As a worker, your ability to connect usefully with people inside and outside your firm is increasingly the foundation of your ability to create value. Everyone you touch in your life is at the center of their own rich set of connections, together weaving the immense web of humanity."
[Note: PDF, 190K]
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 20, 2003
Cancerfacts.com: Training more important than volume for mammograms
Cancerfacts.com: Training more important than volume for mammograms"After controlling for other variables, the authors found that neither current reading volume (the number of mammograms read the year before the study) nor the number of years of reading mammograms were associated with accuracy. However, radiologists trained more recently interpreted screening mammograms more accurately than radiologists trained earlier."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 20, 2003
Harvard Working Knowledge: Lights, Camera, Presentation! Liven Up Boring Meetings With Video
Harvard Working Knowledge: Lights, Camera, Presentation! Liven Up Boring Meetings With Video"Too many meetings drag to a close; end your meeting with color and action. By closing the meeting with a video, you can motivate the audience to sell more, seek success, or solve challenges. The video can reinforce key points made over a multi-day meeting or leave one or two resonant images in the minds of the audience."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 20, 2003
Silicon.com: E-learning-will its day ever come?
Silicon.com: E-learning-will its day ever come?"E-learning can work but it is not about the technology, which is now relatively cheap and available. What has been expensive is the tuition - those online courses have cost me a fortune! It is also not about brand names.
What is important is providers understanding their customer base, making tools simple to use and having self-motivated users."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Webword: Talking About the Elements of User Experience
Webword: Talking About the Elements of User Experience"User experience" simply refers to the way a product behaves and is used in the real world. A positive user experience is one in which the goals of both the user and the organization that created the product are met. "Usability" is one attribute of a successful user experience, but usability alone does not make an experience positive for the user.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 19, 2003
MSNBC: Microsoft Gets a Clue From Its Kiddie Corps
MSNBC: Microsoft Gets a Clue From Its Kiddie Corps"Threedegrees is a surprising departure for Microsoft. The company that
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 19, 2003
IT Training: An in-depth interview with the Classroom
IT Training: An in-depth interview with the Classroom"Think of the best and most inspiring teachers you had growing up, remember the most wonderful group projects you ever worked on, recall meetings where a lot was accomplished, and then think of the joy of being able to concentrate on a topic, away from the noise and buzz of the workplace. Think of classrooms as a space where great teaching and learning can take place. Reinvent us, reformat us, blend us, but make us part of the magic of learning once again."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 18, 2003
IBM: Challenges in managing organizational knowledge
IBM: Challenges in managing organizational knowledgeMany firms have undertaken formal and informal knowledge management initiatives designed to improve process performance, increase customer responsiveness and spur innovation. But while some organizations have reaped significant benefits from their investment in knowledge efforts, others have run into noteworthy challenges...
- Failure to align knowledge management efforts with the organization
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Dan Gillmor: Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Dan Gillmor: Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time"The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and information."
blogging Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 18, 2003
InfoWorld: E-learning hits Web services books
InfoWorld: E-learning hits Web services books"Integration flexibility is gathering steam as most e-learning technology vendors move away from proprietary systems toward open standards, either by architecting new systems from scratch or adding support for J2EE or Microsoft .Net... With the foundation of an open architecture in place, the door is opening to Web services
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 17, 2003
IBM: Trust and knowledge sharing: A critical combination
IBM: Trust and knowledge sharing: A critical combination"Data from a two-part survey of 138 people in three companies were analyzed to discern how trust affects knowledge sharing and how individuals evaluate the trustworthiness of others when seeking knowledge. By applying this new insight, managers can take explicit actions to help build trust -- and, in turn, encourage knowledge sharing."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 17, 2003
Gerry McGovern: Building successful brands on the Web
Gerry McGovern: Building successful brands on the Web"A web brand
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 17, 2003
Yahoo! Finance: NIIT Acquires CognitiveArts
Yahoo! Finance: NIIT Acquires CognitiveArts"Continuing its growth in the e-Learning market, global training and technology leader NIIT announced today that it has acquired CognitiveArts, a leader in designing experience-driven e-Learning and knowledge solutions for large corporations."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
Guardian Interactives: US War Plans
Guardian Interactives: US War PlansTake a look at this infographic to see the US plans to attack Iraq... "Medical Action for Global Security has estimated that 48,000 - 260,000 people might die as a result of war with Iraq, most of them civilians."
interactives Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
New Architect: Are You Cultured?
New Architect: Are You Cultured?When a company decides to globalize its site, the Web team often learns the taboo colors and appropriate dress codes of a given culture, translates the text, and launches. But cultural differences run deeper than visual appearance or language; they reflect strong values. Rarely do globalized sites incorporate the nuances of a culture's
- social hierarchy
- individualism
- gender roles
- time-orientation, or
- truth-seeking attributes.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
Cool Learning: Firefighter protective clothing tour
Cool Learning: Firefighter protective clothing tourNice use of Flash in this tour from the City of Davis California Fire Department.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
Learning Circuits: The Hype on Hyperstories
Learning Circuits: The Hype on Hyperstories"The power of hyperstories becomes evident when, at certain intervals, learners can choose to change perspective and watch the same events unfold from another character
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
User Interface 7 West: 5 Things To Know About Users
User Interface 7 West: 5 Things To Know About Users"The user's intentions, context, knowledge, skills, and experience are the essential things that every designer needs to know. Without this, the team is going to design something that seems useful, but they'll never know if it actually helps the user... Unfortunately, these five things are beyond what normal market research can tell us. Market research can tell us age groups, income levels, geographic regions, even purchase behavior. But it can't tell us the key things we need to know."
interface Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
HR Gateway: CIPD: E-learning ‘shows potential not performance’
HR Gateway: CIPD: E-learning 'shows potential not performance'"Organisations thinking of implementing e-learning for a quick fix, cost-cutting exercise should think again, claims new research released today, as it may deliver training budget savings but does not progress learning in an organisation."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Marketing Profs: 8 Steps to Creating an Infectious Business
Marketing Profs: 8 Steps to Creating an Infectious BusinessComment: Co-relate this article with the process of analyzing performance problems and writing instructions...
"To make it easy for customers to describe what you do, they must easily understand the "idea" of your company. If people quickly grasp the idea and benefits of your business, it
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Boxes and Arrows: What’s Your Idea of a Mental Model?
Boxes and Arrows: What's Your Idea of a Mental Model?All mental models have a few key characteristics:
- Mental models include what a person thinks is true, not necessarily what is actually true.
- Mental models are similar in structure to the thing or concept they represent.
- Mental models allow a person to predict the results of his actions.
- Mental models are simpler than the thing or concept they represent. They include only enough information to allow accurate predictions.
But how are mental models constructed?...