The future of Training is Learning
The people from TechSmith (Camtasia, Jing, Snagit…) recently polled their community for best practices and tips for creating effective screencasts, software animations, screen demo’s, whatever you want to call them.
They bundled the result in a 3-page booklet, in a kind of “tag cloud” format. Quick to read, and very valuable!
You can download it from their blog.
How do you follow the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas if your boss didn’t want to pay your ticket?
Is this the way we will work with computers in the future? Multi-touch gestures are not new, but this kind of pushes it to the limit:
We are getting pretty close to Minority Report. More info on http://10gui.com. Thanks to Gert for the tip.
Jane Hart keeps a list of Top Learning Tools, submitted by learning professionals from all over the world. This is my top list:
1. SharePoint: has become my platform of choice for knowledge sharing. The My Site stores all my content, shared or not shared, and makes it accessible from anywhere.
2. OneNote: because of its integration with other Microsoft Office products, I prefer OneNote over other note taking tools like Evernote.
3. Captivate: has been my favorite screencasting tool since version 1.0, because of its ease of use and flexible outputs.
4. Camtasia: my alternative for Captivate when it comes to recording complex applications that need real-time recording.
5. Jing: an ideal screencast recorder for “quickies”
6. WordPress: a versatile weblog with a great community around it
7. Delicious: has replaced my favorites and is quickly becoming my personal web memory
8. Google Reader: allows you to follow hundreds of RSS feeds, share posts, rate them…
9. TweetDeck: Twitter is great if you want to follow the “buzz” of the moment, but it would be impossible to manage the stream without an application like TweetDeck.
10. Adobe Presenter: one of the easiest PowerPoint converters with video, quizzing and SCORM support.
A lot of IT projects fail because users struggle with the change that the new tools bring them. As an IT implementer or trainer, it is good to “unlearn” everything you know about the software, and view it from a user perspective.
The video below shows that what is simple, is not always obvious!