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20 Mar

Practice and Sharing: The Keys to Success

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

These were the two messages that stood out over three days in Sydney at last year's iDesignX Australian Instructional Design Conference (21st March) sponsored by B Online Learning & Articulate and the eLearning Design Workshops with Tom Kuhlmann and David Anderson (22nd and 23rd March). I was fortunate to attend all the sessions and for me it was a dream come true to not only be in the same room as Tom and David but to hear and learn directly from them (I also got to meet them which was an incredible experience and a real highlight too). Practice As someone with a...
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06 Mar

Showing My Work #9

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, Show Your Work |

Often when we talk about our work, we talk in terms of ‘what’ we did. The Showing My Work series of posts aim to also capture the ‘how’ something was done. E-Learning Heroes Challenge #71 – Teaching Math Concepts with E-Learning. The brief: This week your challenge is to design a short lesson to teach one or more math concepts. The inspiration for my demo came from one of the source material examples that David provided, where teachers are using LEGO bricks to teach kids fractions. I also went to their website to check it out further. My idea was...
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05 Mar

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 10/3/15

Posted by Matt Guyan | OzLearn |

On Tuesday 10th March at 8:00pm AEDST (UTC +11hrs), @OzLearn is having its next monthly twitter chat. This month, the conversation will be based on David D'Souza's (@dds180) blog post - The Death of L&D: A Post Mortem and we'll be talking about the future of the L&D profession. You can read David's interesting post by clicking here. To join the chat, go to Twitter at 8pm on 10/3, search for @OzLearn and join in the conversation (don’t forget to add #ozlearn to your tweets). There is also an OzLearn LinkedIn group where you can view the Storify of the chat afterwards. Hope you can join...
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01 Mar

Flipped Networking

Posted by Matt Guyan | PLN |

On the 17th and 18th of February, I attended and presented at the Ark Learning Assembly in Melbourne. Over the two days there were many interesting speakers talking about a range of topics including working out load, gamification, MOOCs , knowledge management as well as organisational case studies. For me though the hands down, without a doubt, best part was meeting people who up until the Assembly, I had only known online. One of these people, Vanessa North, who I knew through Twitter, summed it up best when she called it ‘Flipped Networking’. As she said, “you used to go to conferences,...
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23 Feb

3 Things I’ve Just Discovered in Storyline 2

Posted by Matt Guyan | Storyline |

Storyline 2 has heaps of great functions to help create fantastic eLearning, so many in fact, it’s hard to know them all. But in the past couple of weeks I’ve come across three hidden ones (well, hidden to me) that I wish I had known earlier. I wanted to share them here because if they're new to me, chances are they'll be new to someone else too. #3 - Moving Objects with Arrow Keys Ok, I’ve known for a while that you can move objects (shapes, text boxes, images) using the arrow keys but sometimes I found that they didn’t move...
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