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E-learning Curve Blog is Michael Hanley's elearning blog about skills, knowledge, and organizational development using web-based training and technology in education

Entries from December 2008

Happy New Year from the E-Learning Curve Blog

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

May I wish all my readers a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year. I look forward to bringing you more informative and educational posts in 2009.–

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A Christmas Message from the E-Learning Curve Blog

December 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir agus Athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh, agus go mba seacht fearr sinn go léir ag an am seo ar an bhliain seo chugainn!
A peaceful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you, and may we all be seven times better off at this time next year!–

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A Christmas Message from the E-Learning Curve Blog

December 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir agus Athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh, agus go mba seacht fearr sinn go léir ag an am seo ar an bhliain seo chugainn!
A peaceful Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you, and may we all be seven times better off at this time next year!

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The Winter Solstice at Newgrange – watch it live on the Web

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

5,000 years ago, an extraordinary people lived in Ireland. They were farmers, hunters and builders. Without the benefit of the wheel, and with tools made only of flint, they carved their culture into history. Along the banks of the River Boyne, they built houses to their dead, repositories to their spirit – monuments to immortality.

Brú [...]

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Tags: Newgrange · bru na boinne · history · ireland · lightbox · live online · neolithic · streaming media · tumulus · winter solstice

The Winter Solstice at Newgrange – watch it live on the Web

December 20th, 2008 · No Comments

5,000 years ago, an extraordinary people lived in Ireland. They were farmers, hunters and builders. Without the benefit of the wheel, and with tools made only of flint, they carved their culture into history. Along the banks of the River Boyne, they built houses to their dead, repositories to their spirit – monuments to immortality.
Brú [...]

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SlideShare makes PowerPoint a little more Web 2.0-friendly

December 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you’re a regular (and dedicated) reader of The E-Learning Curve Blog, you’ll recall that in did a compare / contrast between authorSTREAM and SlideShare some months back. At the time I concluded:
So which service is better? Well, I guess that comes down to WIIFM – what’s in it for me. The broad sweep [...]

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Tags: authoring tools · content authoring · e-learning · powerpoint 2007 · rapid elearning · slideshare · toolbar ribbon

SlideShare makes PowerPoint a little more Web 2.0-friendly

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re a regular (and dedicated) reader of The E-Learning Curve Blog, you’ll recall that in did a compare / contrast between authorSTREAM and SlideShare some months back.  At the time I concluded:
So which service is better? Well, I guess that comes down to WIIFM – what’s in it for me. The broad sweep of [...]

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Tags: e-learning

Economic downturn – a Systems Interpretation?

December 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Sadly, I don’t have much time to blog this week, as I’m facilitating a symposium later in the week. I’ll talk more about the event in the future, but today I just want to point you towards Donald ‘Plan B’ Clark’s article concerning the role of leadership training in our current economic troubles. Real soul [...]

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Tags: analysis · economic downturn · leadership training · recession

Economic downturn – a Systems Interpretation?

December 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sadly, I don’t have much time to blog this week, as I’m facilitating a symposium later in the week. I’ll talk more about the event in the future, but today I just want to point you towards Donald ‘Plan B’ Clark’s article concerning the role of leadership training in our current economic troubles. Real soul [...]

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Tags: e-learning

End-of-year Moodle-ings: a chance to review (a book)

December 12th, 2008 · No Comments

The enhanced backup and restore features and new DB module will also assist management of my implementation, as I’m the kind of person who feels like they’re performing open heart surgery – without anesthetic – on a patient, on those occasions when I have to perform some sort of customization on a production system.

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