Social Media for Trainers: Blog Book Tour Stop #5

The Social Media train in on the move – and here we are at stop #5 of the Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning, (2010), Pfeiffer blog book tour.

What is Social Media for Trainers? 

Why it’s Jane Bozarth’s latest offering to the corporate training community – a short, sharp look at using social media tools to enhance the instructor led classroom.

The book is full of hand-on practical advice – and overview of some of the key tools – and lots and lots of examples.

But don’t listen to my word on it.  Hear it yourself from the author, with whom I chatted – not once, but twice! – on the subject of said book.

Check out both of my auditory offerings:

Getting Social with Jane Bozarth – an audio interview broken down into eight short ‘chapters.’

Jane’s guest spot on the Instructional Design Live show on EdTechTalk.  (link lets you download a recording of our Elluminate session).

Get yourself a copy!

Once you’ve finished listening, go buy the book!

Audio Interview with Tom Kuhlmann of Articulate

If you've been around eLearning for at least a few weeks, you've heard of Articulate and Tom Kuhlmann. Tom writes the Rapid eLearning Blog, sending out weekly doses of practical tips and info.

I was fortunate to interview Tom last week. We could have gone on for hours...

We talked about:

• The controversy surrounding rapid eLearning -- rapid or crapid?
• Empowering subject matter experts and the democratization of eLearning
• Getting better at visual design
• Committing to the craft of eLearning

Listen to the interview with Tom Kuhlmann and then let me know your reactions.

Anything you would have liked to have heard more of from Tom?

Audio Interview with Will Thalheimer on Common Design Mistakes

I had great fun last week talking with Will Thalheimer on common design flaws in e-Learning.

In case you don’t know Will, he’s an amazing asset to the e-Learning community, providing a bridge between research and practice.

According to Will, the top three mistakes learning designers make:

1. We’re too focused on information presentation.

2. We fail to minimize forgetting.

3. We isolate our e-Learning.

The conversation continued and Will added on a few more common mistakes in e-Learning design.

Listen to my conversation with Will Thalheimer on e-Learning design.

A Conversation with Karl Kapp

A few weeks ago I recorded a 30 minute interview with Professor Karl Kapp.

We talked about virtual worlds, his new book on 3D Learning Environments, and how instructional designers may need to shift their thinking in the coming years.

Go to the Kineo website to download the full interview or listen to the podcast in short clips.

While you’re there, you might also enjoy listening to Steve Lowenthal’s conversation with Anne Laures, retired Director of Learning Services at Walgreens on her experience with eLearning.