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EPOC headset, by Emotiv, allows users to directly control video game activity through their brainwaves. It uses a set of sensors that monitor the human brain to directly interface with most wireless-enabled PC's, as well as video game consoles. This means the actions of your virtual character in a video game can be directly controlled through your mind.

The MyArtSpace project developed an approach to inquiry learning between classrooms and museums. Children develop an open inquiry question in the class supported by the teacher, then on a visit to a museum they try to answer the question using mobile phones by collecting evidence that includes both prepared content on the phone and voice, images, and video that they collect as evidence. That is then shared and presented back in the classroom. MyArtSpace is now a successful commercial system, named OOKL, adopted by over 100 venues (http://www.ookl.org.uk/web/index.php) . 

LearningGuide Solutions' flagship Electronic Performance Support Solution (EPSS), LearningGuide™, delivers targeted information to your employee's at the most critical "moment of need."

Tony's Recent Posts First take on IBM acquiring Coremetrics - 16-Jun-2010 Get your updated vendor subway map - 15-Jun-2010 When infrastructure vendors use niche products for Enterprise 2.0 - 11-Jun-2010 Updated Web CMS evaluations spotlight mid-market .NET vendors - 2-Jun-2010 Selecting Social and Collaboration Software - 28-May-2010 Drupal Gardens: A Critical Review of the First Bloom - 20-May-2010 Categorizing the Collaboration and Community Technology Marketplace - 13-May-2010 Office-SharePoint 2010 Launch After-Party - 12-May-2010 Ten reasons why governance is like sex - 7-May-2010 When SharePoint's own partners won't use it as Web CMS - 3-May-2010 How Do You Know When it's Time for a New Web CMS? - 30-Apr-2010 Don't get trapped in SharePoint 2010 Beta - 23-Apr-2010 Webinar - Avoid ECM and WCM Project Failure - 22-Apr-2010 The Web Analytics Marketplace, circa 2010 - 21-Apr-2010 Updates to Web CMS vendor evaluations, plus Kentico - 19-Apr-2010 Pathbreaking research focuses on Human Cloud - 1-Apr-2010 Social as a Service, not an Application - 30-Mar-2010 Finding the best vendor means treating bidders right - 24-Mar-2010

2-8 minute segments of past Online Forums: Better Beginnings: How to Capture Your Audience in 30 Seconds with Carmen Taran * 4 minutes 30 seconds Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Creating Meaningful e-Learning Interactions with Ethan Edwards * 5 minutes 40 seconds Boredom-proofing Learning Content: Tips for Making Learning Content Compelling with Patti Shank * 5 minutes Learning by Viewing vs. Learning by Doing with Ruth Clark * 6 minutes 39 seconds Visually Thinking e-Learning with Donna Safko 5 minutes 36 seconds Great Tips and Tricks for Developing e-Learning with Captivate 4 with Joe Ganci

Managers of L&D gripe that they are not invited to "sit at the table" with C-level movers and shakers. This is a fool's errand.  The tail does not wag the dog. L&D's function is helping people acquire the know-how to fulfill the mission and gaining management's support to carry it out. In other words, L&D needs to invite senior management to huddle with them at another table: governance.

Instructional Design Wizard walks users through creation of pedagogically-sound courses containing a variety of learning experiences focused on appropriate learning levels.  Through an intuitive and accessible drag-and-drop interface, Course Builder organizes and manages the development of a course, its lessons, and its materials, building on the course blueprint provided by the Instructional Design Wizard. Its integration with Learning Environment tools allows a seamless experience for creating items and associating them with one another from one interface, providing a consolidated view of the course

Industry examples.

free service to make it simple to test your SCORM content, to see just how it will look when it runs in an LMS.

22 Products Named by Readers Articulate, Adobe, SkillSoft and eCornell take home the most honors in this year's "Best of Elearning!" awards. The "Best of Elearning!" awards are chosen by this magazine's reader community via an open-ended online ballot

1. StatCounter2. Clicky3. KISSinsights4. Facebook Like Button5. TweetMeme

A free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time!

big ideas about social media, the most popular social sites, including Facebook and Twitter, music, videos and photos, geo-location services, education, privacy and safety, social good, activism and government, from Mashable.

So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Many of these tools and services are free or have a free trial period

includes some of the most popular Google Wave technologies. Among those included are: Map Gadget, Mind Map, Yes/No/Maybe Polling, Diagram Editor, Listy, Concept Draw MindWave, and more! Easy to use stand-alone web pages are created. Works best with Chrome

Social Learning Examples in the Workplace.

vftnetworks.com, formerly TrainingPayback.com, started as a quest to help organizations use a Web 2.0 application to help learners and trainers track learning impacts. The idea was to use social learning, collaboration and widgets and tools to facilitate learning applications. Today, vftnetworks provides organizations and businesses two distinct solutions: (a) vftnetworks for social and collaborative learning and (b) social learning for generating profit and revenues.

The sites mentioned, well most of them, solve at least one problem really well. The list highlights the lesser-known or undiscovered websites and misses out all-time favorites like Google Docs, Wikipedia or IMDB that most of us are already aware of.

Coming Soon. Anyone will be able to create and deploy mobile learning content with our easy-to-use mLearning Studio; choose templates, add text, images, audio, video and quizzes, then publish. The content is delivered in a fully HTML5 compatible mobile course player with cross-platform support for iPhone, iPad, and Android (2.2 and higher); support for Blackberry coming soon. 

A 'freemium' service, be your own Big Brother! (I'm trying it out)