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The BizCats says...

In these tough economic times, sales training has really taken a back seat to other priorities.. For small businesses, bringing in an outside trainer - no matter how good he or she might be - is just not in the cards. It's not that it isn't important or even valuable but it's one of those "we'll wait until things get better" budget items. But maybe you haven't heard about Catalyst Sales eUniversity where the training is not only world class, it's totally free!

Catalyst is an online "e-university" offering over 50 self-paced elearning courses in both sales skills and sales management skills - and they're all free for you to use - not samples or "lite" versions either; they're the full courses. Catalyst has been a major "player" in the sales training business since 1995 with many leading global corporations as their clients; what's more, they were one of the pioneers in online learning for sales.

The Catalyst courses are now an integral part of The BizCATS web site (www.thebizcats.com). In addition to the elearning curriculum you can network with other members, promote your business, and enjoy "Catalyst Livestream" broadcasting sales videos 24/7 from leading speakers and trainers. And this kind of training is a great way to re-motivate your sales reps and get everyone thinking about success in the Recovery.

Course offerings include Value Selling Strategies, Territory Management, Large Account Selling, Channel Selling, and Customer Leadership. Management courses include Coaching, Performance Assessment, Hiring & Interviewing, and more.

A question you might have is "Why is this all free? What's the catch?". Catalyst and The BizCATS are simply pleased to offer something that just might help invigorate business and help you get through these tough times ... we think it would be tough to find a better offer!

Check it all out at www.thebizcats.com under the "eUniversity" tab ...

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jalam1001 says...

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karel says...

Hoy me desperté tempranito a una reunión (intercontinental) de trabajo Skype, es importante el dato, no por presumir, sino porque en mi trabajo actual es de todos los días y varias veces al día.

Es importante el antecedente, porque mientras esperaba a que llegaran mis compañeros de trabajo, revisé el mail, (como hace todo el mundo¿?), y en la lista de discusión de e-learning en la que estoy estaba esto esperándome:

"Buenas tardes, no pude estar en el taller del domingo pasado de moodle y sclipo, me interesaba bastante, pero mi padre se enfermó y no pude asistir, les quería pedir el favor, haber si alguien me puede mandar las notas que tomaron sobre estos temas por que para mí es muy importante conocer sobre las nuevas herramientas para trabajar en virtualidad.

Un millón de gracias para quien pueda ayudarme, ademas les deseo una
Feliz navidad!!!!!!!!!!!"

Y lo primero en que pensé, fue en ese estudiante mediocre que se la pasa pidiendo apuntes para fin de semestre, ese que mata o enferma a algún familiar en cada fecha de evaluaciones parciales...

Luego mientras pensaba en contestarle (para eso son las listas), reflexioné, sobre esa casi que obsesión con el asunto del analfabetismo funcional en nTICs.
Parto del principio que en la lista la mayoría son PROFESORES, maestros, gente que debe guiar a las nuevas generaciones en el conocimiento, (auch!), claro es una lista para ventilar dudas sobre como la web 2.0 o como se aplica el conectivismo, las mejores formas de hacerlo, aprender de las experiencias de otros, etc, etc, etc.; sin embargo éste es el mail me ha hecho caer en la cruda realidad de los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje mediados por tecnologías, y por nuevas tecnologías.

Es obvio que las tecnologías per se, no necesariamente cambian los modos de hacer las cosas, pero en este caso en el del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, so creo que lo afectan, y no porque se use o no en clase, porque afecta a los aprendices en su cotidianidad, las TICs están formando parte de nuestras vidas, unos las usamos (o somos mas dependientes de ellas) que otros pero a todos nos afectan. Ahora bien, en el proceso de marras, y desde el punto de vista cognitivo son mediaciones y alteran la forma de aprender, el modo de adquirir la información (velocidad, calidad, sentidos afectados); pero eso ya lo sabemos.

Es la actitud, es el modo de enfrentarse al conocimiento, con o sin TICs.  Eso es lo preocupante eso es lo que me angustia.
En Freakonomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics , Levitt y Dubner tocan el tema del porqué hay gente que lee y otros que no, independientemente del "nivel cultural" o "socio económico" y la respuesta es, porque vieron de pequieños a adultos cercanos, figuras de ejemplo hacerlo, porque los motivaron a hacerlo.

Eso al relacionarlo con el asunto en cuestión me hace pensar que la actitud paternalista (en el sentido peyorativo) de las escuelas de formación básica y media, en las que no se motiva en lo absoluto a aprender por el gusto de hacerlo y que no hay consecuencias serias si no se hace (el asuntico de presentar los logros varias veces hasta que el profesor se aburre y pasa al muchacho), esto claro, disque para mejorar los indicadores de educación y "evitar la deserción" de las escuelas, nos va a matar como sociedad.  Pero es harina de otro costal.

La actitud, eso es lo preocupante en este momento, si los maestros, los guías, los tutores, no pierden esa tara de querer que les den todo en un curso, y no buscan la forma de autocapacitarse  no hay riesgo de que puedan transmitirle eso a los aprendices todo es una farsa y estamos condenados al fracaso social.

Me da mucha tristeza tener que admitir(me) esta reflexión, pero el lastre cultural al parecer es mas fuerte que la voluntad de algunos...

E-learning no es solo usar algún LMS para pasarle sus "pogüerpoints" a los estudiantes o pedir los apuntes en word...  Es el cambio de actitud a una actitus activa en el proceso de aprendizaje, tante de alumnos o aprendices como de maestro, tutores o como quiera llamarlos y eso es lo que no está pasando (no tanto como debería)

:-(

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Combine the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment with Second Life and run or host a game show... all for education. A meeting of two great applications, one cheesy TV format and great potential.

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C4LPT is the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies. Among their bottomless well of great resources, Social Learning in a Box came to me in the nick of time for my current project. The course, like most C4LPT resources, are free. The centre also provides consultancy services.

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jalam1001 says...

Summary and Future Plans
As a relatively low cost mobile device, the iPod Touch is an easy to use device that does not require much training or support and allows a wide range of applications. However, the data during this work shows that Twitter was the main attraction, with students accessing the service via a range of devices and continuing to do so when the iPod Touch devices were no longer available.

Twitter is also very attractive as a data collection tool for assessing and recording the student experience, with a wide range of free and increasingly sophisticated online analysis tools available. Very little work is required to collect and analyse data aggregated via the RSS feed of a hashtag yet this approach provides a surprisingly revealing insight into students' lives. Use of an optional hashtag also allows students to opt out of data collection by simply choosing not to tag messages they do not wish to be aggregated (in addition to other channels such as private direct messages).

The academic departments involved in the study were so impressed with the affordances of Twitter that they have continued to use it in their pedagogic academic practices and plan to work with other bodies in the University such as the Students' Union to promote the use of Twitter as a lightweight communication channel in the coming academic year.

Alan Cann
Department of Biology

Jo Badge
School of Biological Sciences

Stuart Johnson
Student Development

Alex Moseley
Course Design and Development Unit

University of Leicester
alan.cann@leicester.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to JISC TechDis (www.techdis.ac.uk) for their support under the HEAT3 scheme.

References:
Aspden EJ and Thorpe LP (2009) Where Do You Learn? Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 32(1). Available at www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/WhereDoYouLearnTweetingtoInfor/163852  [Accessed 20/7/09]

Boyd D (2009) Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody. Available at www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/06/11/twitter_is_for.html [Accessed 20/7/09]

Nielsen News. (2009) Twitter's Tweet Smell Of Success. Available at blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success [Accessed 20/7/09]

Sysomos Inc. (2009) Inside Twitter - An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World. Available at www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter  [Accessed 20/7/09]

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deerwood says...

I confess, I have only recently watched this video. I cannot believe that I have not heard of or seen Learning Score before; I can only say that I must have had my head buried deeply in the sand. Learning Score appears to be a fantastic tool for devising lesson plans. These things had been the bane of my life as a teacher and I'm sure the same is true for many other teachers.  Hours would be spent drawing up lesson plans either by hand or on a word-processor; it was probably the most tedious of all teacher tasks. Also, as John Davitt says in the video, you were never really quite sure how the lesson would appear in reality (and there were many times when the reality hardly matched the plan!) What I  immediately like about the software is that it looks appealling; it's not a word-processed grid or template that the teacher has to squeeze everything in. It's interactive and it links dynamically to other resources. What made it appeal further for me is the potential to link  to resources on a VLE. So if you've been spending hours days uploading content onto you're VLE now you have an easy way to make use of them instead of just letting them lie there. Or if you've not yet started loading content onto your VLE, now you have a good reason to start! I've not used the package as yet but if you are able to save the Learning Score files onto the VLE then I can envisage further potential arising. What I'm envisaging is having a Learning Score containing links to other Learning Score files. Each of these Learning Score files would represent a lesson plan and the Learning Score we're adding them into would be a Scheme of Work. Hey, if we then save the Scheme of Work as a Learning Score file and link in other scheme of work files, aren't we creating a syllabus, then a curriculum etc..? At points in the video, John alludes to collaborative lesson planning; with the learners having a say in how much time is spent on a particular part of each lesson. I very much like this idea, not least because it helps the learner have a bit more responsibility for their learning and having a say in the way the content is being presented to them. It also, of course, could help them manage their workload. How about going a step further and having the learner draw up the learning score themself? Each learner could have their own individual Learning Score setting out what they are going to do, how long they are going to spent on each part of it and what resources they are going to access, possibly also indicating what 'output' (essay, video, discussion etc) they are going to produce. Let's then say that they each present their Learning Score to the teacher for approval. The teacher examines each one and approves it or suggests modifications such as extra resources that could be used or alterations to timings.  The learner then takes their own Learning Score away and embarks upon their own learning path. I'd guess that another beauty of the package is that it needn't be confined to class lessons, the Learning Score could cover time spent on activities at home. As I started writing this paragraph, I was thinking of learning activities from home and thinking of supporting Home Access but I guess the term 'activities' could well include social or leisure activities ... mind you I don't know if the package has icons for some of these 'activities' ;) Nevertheless, the possibility of using the package to include home learning is intriguing. Overall, this looks a great piece of software that I'm sure many teachers would love. It has great potential for supporting innovation or transformation in learning. I do feel that not just teachers but also learners would love to use it. Maybe this resource should be made compulsory for any school involved in BSF or Primary Capital building programmes?  

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deerwood says...

I confess, I have only recently watched this video. I cannot believe that I have not heard of or seen Learning Score before; I can only say that I must have had my head buried deeply in the sand. Learning Score appears to be a fantastic tool for devising lesson plans. These things had been the bane of my life as a teacher and I'm sure the same is true for many other teachers.  Hours would be spent drawing up lesson plans either by hand or on a word-processor; it was probably the most tedious of all teacher tasks. Also, as John Davitt says in the video, you were never really quite sure how the lesson would appear in reality (and there were many times when the reality hardly matched the plan!) What I  immediately like about the software is that it looks appealling; it's not a word-processed grid or template that the teacher has to squeeze everything in. It's interactive and it links dynamically to other resources. What made it appeal further for me is the potential to link  to resources on a VLE. So if you've been spending hours days uploading content onto you're VLE now you have an easy way to make use of them instead of just letting them lie there. Or if you've not yet started loading content onto your VLE, now you have a good reason to start! I've not used the package as yet but if you are able to save the Learning Score files onto the VLE then I can envisage further potential arising. What I'm envisaging is having a Learning Score containing links to other Learning Score files. Each of these Learning Score files would represent a lesson plan and the Learning Score we're adding them into would be a Scheme of Work. Hey, if we then save the Scheme of Work as a Learning Score file and link in other scheme of work files, aren't we creating a syllabus, then a curriculum etc..? At points in the video, John alludes to collaborative lesson planning; with the learners having a say in how much time is spent on a particular part of each lesson. I very much like this idea, not least because it helps the learner have a bit more responsibility for their learning and having a say in the way the content is being presented to them. It also, of course, could help them manage their workload. How about going a step further and having the learner draw up the learning score themself? Each learner could have their own individual Learning Score setting out what they are going to do, how long they are going to spent on each part of it and what resources they are going to access, possibly also indicating what 'output' (essay, video, discussion etc) they are going to produce. Let's then say that they each present their Learning Score to the teacher for approval. The teacher examines each one and approves it or suggests modifications such as extra resources that could be used or alterations to timings.  The learner then takes their own Learning Score away and embarks upon their own learning path. I'd guess that another beauty of the package is that it needn't be confined to class lessons, the Learning Score could cover time spent on activities at home. As I started writing this paragraph, I was thinking of learning activities from home and thinking of supporting Home Access but I guess the term 'activities' could well include social or leisure activities ... mind you I don't know if the package has icons for some of these 'activities' ;) Nevertheless, the possibility of using the package to include home learning is intriguing. Overall, this looks a great piece of software that I'm sure many teachers would love. It has great potential for supporting innovation or transformation in learning. I do feel that not just teachers but also learners would love to use it. Maybe this resource should be made compulsory for any school involved in BSF or Primary Capital building programmes?  

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dm says...

Ecco gli argomenti che tratteremo in questa prima sessione di formazione on-line

1. NSF: La struttura dei file Lotus Domino
2. ACL:  Sicurezza degli accessi  e sicurezza nei contenuti
3. Consistenza ed integrità dei dati : Updall, Compact, Fixup i nostri compagni di viaggio
4. A volte cade! NSD Analizer - Analisi dei Crash del server e come risolvere le normali problematiche dei server


Buona Formazione

davide

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The BizCats says...

Do you use ScreenCasts to power your website and increase engagement with your customers? If not, today’s video blog will show you why its a good idea for any small business or nonprofit! A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often accompanied by audio narration. So just as a screenshot is a picture of whatever is on your computer screen, a screencast is a movie of the ever-changing events being displayed on your monitor.

So why would you need one? Or want to make one for your business? Well, the typical use of screencasts is to demonstrate and teach the unique features of your software product, or service. For example, lets say you just invented Twitter, but your users aren’t really sure how to best use it once they arrive at the site.  A simple screencast can provide them with a narrated video of you using the software in all its intended purposes.

But what if you offer a physical product – perhaps a new type of digital camera – well in this case, you could take pictures of the camera being used in different situations, throw them into a powerpoint, and then create a screencast taking users thru the powerpoint, narrated by you!

In fact, there are so many potential uses for Screencasts from creating product or service tutorials to offering tips and tricks on using your website, to creating an innovative marketing tool for your business – you’re really only limited by your creativity.

So now that I’ve sold you on the idea of screencasting – the question is, where do you find a product that allows you to make one – without blowing out your budget.  Well, at the BizCats, one of our favorite new products is called ScreenR from Articulate.  Some of you may be familiar with Articulate as they are well known for their e-learning development product suite.  But recently, they added this great new software called ScreenR that is 100% free and 100% online…so theres no download or technical knowledge required.  In fact, you don’t even have to sign up for anything.  With just a couple clicks, your are ready to go…couldn’t be much easier!

Whats also great about this product is that once you’ve finished creating your screencast, you can instantly upload it to Twitter, publish it to YouTube, or copy the embed code and add it to your website or blog…which will bring instant life and visitor engagement to your site!

So again, today’s topic was on the use of Screencasting for your small biz and our favorite product right now to do this is ScreenR from Articulate.

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