Tag Archives: video

Two Underutilized Software Training Technologies

By vic.uzumeri | Published: October 26, 2009
There are two technologies that are familiar to many software professionals, but somehow don’t see much use in the rest of the organization. The first technology is computer screen movie capture (aka screencasting) and the second is the ability of virtually every laptop and most video cards to support multiple monitors.
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Options for Embedding Video IN a Document File

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 24, 2009
With companies effectively using video on websites, why would anyone be interested in the fairly challenging task of embedding video directly in Word and PDF documents? In general, there is little need to embed video directly inside of office documents. However, there are situations where embedding may be the best (or only) way to ensure [...]
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Macro SMEconomics 101

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 22, 2009
This article was inspired by Learning Circuits’ Big Question for September 2009. One of the fundamental tenets of management says that you must manage your business around your scarcest resource. Over the past year, priority options collapsed to just one item – money. It’s easy, in these desperate times to think that the money constraint [...]
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Why we need a ‘Work Networking’ Metaphor

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 17, 2009
One of the profound joys of talking to experts is that they can ask that one question that bursts your bubble. I just had that experience with Tony Karrer – master of the eLearning Technology blog. I sent him some links to our CoSolvent Community Server, along with the blithe statement: “We are trying to [...]
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Direct: from Brain to Action

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 13, 2009
What are the three biggest headaches in eLearning? Getting the knowledge out of the expert’s brain Embedding the knowledge in the learner’s actions Everything in between
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Video Speaks Every Language

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 10, 2009
Text-to-text translation is an inherently risky process. There are at least 5 distinct intellectual steps in the process of sending text-based expert knowledge to someone in a different language and culture. Each step demands the engagement of a motivated, knowledgeable expert to move the information forward to the next stage.
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