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Learning to play piano on the Internet
The Swan Method is a new series of online piano lessons devised by Richard Swan, a London based musician and teacher. Richard has an idiosyncratic teaching method which he has distilled into a set of online piano lessons. Basically it’s my…
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Informal learning
Where I fall down with most eLearning advice and practice is that it’s directed internally, towards employees or students, and not externally, ie, towards customers. So, there is a plethora of tips and tricks and ideas for getting people to remember fire regulations,…
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Learning design: thoughts on French museums
I’ve just come back from a holiday in Biarritz, which turned out to be a rather wet and windy object lesson in different styles of learning. Our original plan was to kick back on the beautiful beaches, try a bit of…
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Badges?! We don’t need no stinkin’… Oh, wait, maybe we do.
Badges?! We don’t need no stinkin’… Oh, wait, maybe we do.So, this blog talks about using badges to display a user’s status in an eLearning community – I suppose like the badges you get when you have donated 10 pints of…
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iBooks authoring tool
This iBooks authoring tool looks like a typical Apple product to me: lovely to look at, easy to use.
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Blowing my own trumpet
I don’t really intend to use this blog to blow my own trumpet (much – not when I have a small child to do that for me), but I’m quite unreasonably proud of this: Technical Analysis: Using the Relative Strength Index.…
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Orwell’s six rules of simple English | Saffron Interactive
To Room 101 with you! Orwell’s six rules of simple English | Saffron Interactive. A concise, witty set of rules for writers and instructional designers. If you want a link to the original essay by George Orwell, here it is.
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QR Codes – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time
QR Codes – eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time. I’ve seen QR codes, but didn’t know what they were, or what you did with them. This very helpful blogpost pulls together a bunch of links and resources on QR codes, where…
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Qualia Soup
I really really like this You Tube channel run by an artist and secular humanist who uses animation and graphics to explain controversial scientific issues clearly and unambiguously. I particularly like this overview of Evolution that demolishes many creationist arguments in…
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Sew Mama Sew
One of my (recently taken up) hobbies is sewing. My mother’s family are all sewing demons, and I resisted the bug as long as possible. I’ve never been able to learn from my mother (too impatient), so I’m very interested in…
Welcome to my blog!
I collaborate with stakeholders, learners and SMEs to identify learning needs and establish measurable performance metrics, and use this information to design learning that enables learners to reach their full potential and perform excellently. In this blog, I aim to share my expertise, insights, and experiences.
Sarah Slade 
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