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Entries from June 2008

Blogs and Podcasts, the Viking way

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Not so much a post about e-learning today, but more about how Web 2.0 technology is being used to share information in the most extreme environments and circumstances.
If you’re a regular reader of the E-Learning Curve Blog, you’ll know that I include archaeology and the study of ancient cultures among my personal interests. Recently I [...]

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Tags: blogs · information sharing technology · video podcast · web 2.0

Blogs and Podcasts, the Viking way

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Not so much a post about e-learning today, but more about how Web 2.0 technology is being used to share information in the most extreme environments and circumstances.
If you’re a regular reader of the E-Learning Curve Blog, you’ll know that I include archaeology and the study of ancient cultures among my personal interests. Recently I [...]

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Tags: blogs · information sharing technology · video podcast · web 2.0

Learning to go the right way…

June 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

…it just goes to show you where a mis-typed URL can land you: I was on my way over to the Xyleme Learning Pulse blog - I quite like The Blunted Edge opinion pieces there - when I accidentally dropped an extraneous “e” in front of “Learning” (finger memory I guess?).
Anyhoo, I was promptly [...]

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Tags: e-learning

Learning to go the right way…

June 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

…it just goes to show you where a mis-typed URL can land you: I was on my way over to the Xyleme Learning Pulse blog - I quite like The Blunted Edge opinion pieces there - when I accidentally dropped an extraneous “e” in front of “Learning” (finger memory I guess?).
Anyhoo, I was promptly [...]

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Tags: e-learning

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

After yesterday’s short digression into some of the finer points of heuristic evaluation, today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.
Now read on…
authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform from authorGEN Technologies. After creating a [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.

Now read on…

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 4: assessment of authorStream and SlideShare

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

After yesterday’s short digression into some of the finer points of heuristic evaluation, today I’m returning to the matter at hand: an assessment of the features and functionality provided by the authorSTREAM and SlideShare hosted presentation distribution services.
Now read on…
authorSTREAM is a web-based PowerPoint presentation sharing platform from authorGEN Technologies. After creating a [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · content authoring · elearning content · media distribution · slideshare · training evaluation model · webtop authoring tools

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 3: heuristic principles in evaluation

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last couple of days I’ve been looking at the presentation-sharing channels authorSTREAM and SlideShare and how these two services enable the delivery of content via the Web. Both services rely on common read/write Web design and interaction patterns; like many other social sharing services, users are able to add tags, rate, comment, and [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · heuristics · nielsen · slideshare · usability guidelines

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 3: heuristic principles in evaluation

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Over the last couple of days I’ve been looking at the presentation-sharing channels authorSTREAM and SlideShare and how these two services enable the delivery of content via the Web. Both services rely on common read/write Web design and interaction patterns; like many other social sharing services, users are able to add tags, rate, comment, and [...]

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Tags: assessment · authorstream · heuristics · nielsen · slideshare · usability guidelines

Online Presentation Tools as a Knowledge-Sharing Channel 2: SlideShare

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday I started this short evaluation of web-based presentation sharing by going through the steps required to publish a presentation on authorSTREAM; today’s presentation was generated and shared via the SlideShare hosting service.
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Today’s presentation, Technology in Education, is a draft version of something I’m working on so it’s a little rough around the [...]

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Tags: learning channel · slideshare · technology in education · webtop authoring tools