A couple of months ago, the smartphone app/game Draw Something had been downloaded by 35 million people and was being played daily by 15 million users, making it the hottest smartphone game in the country. But then, suddenly, it seemed, something happened: Its popularity  totally dropped off. What is Draw Something? Problem No. Problem No.

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Join us today for a very special episode of The Forge, filled with practical tips, a hijink or two, and exciting announcements about upcoming TechSmith events. Hint: ScreencastCamp!) This episode will wrap up the 2nd season of The Forge, so we’ll make sure to finish with a bang. The Twitter hashtag is #tscforge. About our guest.

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This morning at 10:15 Pacific I’m taking part in the eLearning Guild’s Online Forum on Advanced and Breakthrough Techniques , leading a discussion about our sometimes-detrimental relationships with rapid development tools and how to separate design from development for the better. hope you can join! Thinking Outside the Toolbox.

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The following post first appeared on Dave Stein’s Commentary on Sales Effectiveness blog , and is republished here with permission. On Monday I attended and presented at ASTD’s (American Society of Training and Development) 2012 International Conference and Exposition. also had the opportunity to speak, at length, with Ken Blanchard.

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Most of us in this field know that Instructional Design is here to stay, but occasionally there are people who pop-up claiming that “this training fluff” is just a fad – that it doesn’t do the company any good – that it is a waste of dollars, so on and so forth. Well, this little list is for that guy. Tweet. instructional design training

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I’m trying to get my mind around how the information we’re finding out about expertise matches to the types of problems people face. Clearly, you want to align your investments appropriately to situations you face. If you look across the literature on expertise, and the recent writing on how our brains work (c.f. meta-learning strategy

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Just released is the eLearning Guild’s new report, Mobile Learning: The Time Is Now , put together by Clark Quinn, who really knows his stuff on this topic. If Clark says the time is now, it probably is. In fact it probably has been since the first iPhone was launched and certainly once we got the iPad. don’t know, perhaps it is. Now you can.

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Stephen Hart has a good series of quotes on informal and social learning on his website. Sometimes the right quote gets the message across faster than a long explanatory paragraph. Informal Learning

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Warning: The first paragraph of this post contains 4 spelling mistakes. dare you to find them. In an earlier blog post, I wrote about how eLearning proofreading can sometimes get tricky. In this post, I have included 5 time-tested tips to help you become an ace at proofreading your own eLearning content. Get Into the Proofreader’s Shoes.

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It seems that to many in eLearning development, coding is a complex luxury that they can do without. Small budgets are prohibitive, and the tools of the trade do everything needed. Right? Why learn to code? Development Strategies Professional Development

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