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Blog by Email? With Posterous Maybe Even My Mom Can Blog

I feel your fatigue. I feel mine. But I keep finding them interesting! Call me a fanboy (it’s a legit word in the dictionary). Tossing a linktribution to HeyJude (HeyJude! Hi) who has clued me into many new tools, I gave a go at Posterous: Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we’ve been steadily growing and adding features. We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn’t like how hard it was… so we made a better way. That’s posterous. We’re super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do. How wild- you can set up an account without… setting up an account! So more or less, any way you can email something- text, words, pictures, [...]

Great Design Challenge (hey Mom!)

Presentation number two today was my part in the The Great ILS Challenge 2.0 a presentation idea that intrigued me when Mark Oehlert first described it; as a knock off of the Great Design Challenge done at the Game Developers Conference. Last year a roomful of lucky attendees got to watch as three top-notch designers created game-based solutions to deal with an incredibly difficult learning challenge. This year we’ve invited three more ILS/Serious Games experts to step up to the challenge. The Guild understands that, whether you call them Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS), Serious Games, or the greatest thing since sliced bread; you are looking for ways to use these powerful technologies and methodologies to improve learning outcomes for your organizations. You are also looking for inspiration and ideas for any and ALL of your e-Learning projects. The premise is the 3 panelists are presented a scenario for a project, [...]