Colbert v. Michael Steele Rap Battle
This is hilarious. The editing job by the Colbert crew was spectacular.
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(Via VR)
How Not to Use Articulate
This CPR course won the Gold Medal in the Articulate Guru Awards. I’m not sure why. It goes against everything Ruth Clark (and others) teaches about cognitive load. Either they didn’t get very many entries, or the judges only cared about how many Articulate features the course used.
Check out this slide:
In addition, there are four – I repeat, FOUR – different kinds of audio going on at the same time. WTF!
- Background music
- Background audio from emergency calls (looped)
- Video audio (sirens)
- Narration
All that content is competing for attention from your brain, which means very little of it is going to stick.
I understand if the judges gave the award only for “effective use of product features.” However, the rules page has the second bullet as “Effectiveness of course content to transfer knowledge,” which this course clearly lacks.
Anyhow, this is just a reminder to make sure your content, and how you present that content, whether in a course, or in a website, or in classroom training, is useful, concise and is not there just so you can say you used every tool in your toolbox.
TweetDeck to Facebook – FINALLY!
Finally. Other Twitter desktop tools have had it, but I don’t like those Twitter tools for, well, Twittering. I prefer TweetDeck, and now I get the bonus functionality to post to Facebook if I want – awesomeness!
TweetDeck Joins The Facebook Connect Army (via TechCrunch)
This Week in Browsing
- 10 Things People Don’t Seem to Get About the Watchmen – Saw it last night – solid B.
- How WordPress will die – doubtful
- Lifehacker: Best Home Server – WHS FTW – I need a home server – recommendations?
- Top 10 Room Designers – Good for my home office configuration
- Catch Your Own Lobster – Brilliant!
- Customize SharePoint – Spoke on this at an online conference – interesting discussion
- Revolutionary 6th Sense (TED) – awesome, and a little scary
- Freelance Folder – another good freelancer resource
- Guinness Home Pub (via Uncrate)- wow
SharePoint in Corporate Learning
I’m speaking tomorrow at an online conference around SharePoint in Corporate Learning put on by Tony Karrer and the Learning Trends team. My focus is on our new employee orientation program at Administaff. Come join us!
