Seems to be very nice games ... not necessarily high tech, but thoughtful about they want to teach

Learn is fun !

Every time we engage in learning I think that in addition to acquire new knowledge and connect and expand with what we already know, we also move our "learning muscle" ... our willingness to dive in the unknown, to endure the fails and errors for the reward of the new ... enjoy this compilation of Rick Mereki and his 2-people team experienced during 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights and 38 thousand miles ...

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

"Flipping the traditional classroom script " - TED video

I stumbled upon this video, I found very interesting, especially:
- The realization of the type of expectations about proficiency
- The humanization of the classroom experience
- The importance of useful data available to the teacher to intervene the class



I can hear the naysayers about the problem of how the teacher will spend his/her days do not providing content ... I hope to find p[laces where they are courageous enough to at least pilot test it !

Great rule of thumb to verify understanding after training ...

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother"

-- Albert Einstein

Developing products that works for different languages

Recently I had the opportunity to watch the movie Babies, and I think is a great example for instructional designers of how - with one single product - you can address audiences that may not speak the same language ...

The recipe for that of course includes use universal things that everyone can relate & make the product very very visual :0)

Here is a trailer of the movie:



Source:http://focusfeatures.com/film/babies

Tool to create customized comics

Through Brian Remer from The Firefly Group (http://www.thefirefly.org/),I discovered this convenient tool to create my own comics.

It has many applications, for instance ...

• the comics (final product) can be used as a part of my instructional materials, or

• the creation of the comic (process) can be used as an activity to use to make learners reinforce what they learned, creating a comic about that.

The tool presents you with the empty frames and you can choose the characters (from a selection) and then choose balloons for thoughts or talk, you can add your own text and make some modifications to the characters such us size/scale, add objects, flip the direction the character is looking at, and choose expressions ...

Check it out at: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

Visually Interesting Statistics

As an instructional designer I am always looking for good examples of how to captivate an audience and convey a message effectively.

Here is one of my favorites examples, a TED Conference presentation by Hans Rosling:



By the way the topic of the session is very interesting too.


Source:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html