Dr. Edward Hoffman briefly discusses his approach and strategies for developing leaders.
Dr. Edward Hoffman serves as the Director of the NASA Academy for Program/Project and Engineering Leadership (APPEL). In this role he is responsible for the development of program/project leaders and engineers within NASA.
In a project-based organization like NASA, performance takes place in a team setting. After the highly publicized failure of two Mars missions in the late 1990s, NASA began providing direct support to project teams through its Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership. A decade later, the Academy has supported hundreds of project and engineering teams across the agency.
The Academy’s approach to direct team support includes:
• Online team performance assessments;
• Team building and team effectiveness workshops;
• Technical life cycle support; and
• Intensive coaching, mentoring, and consulting with expert practitioners.
Data collected from these interventions make clear that the optimal performance and learning come together at the team level.
How does this impact us as Instructional Designers and Web Developers?
What resources are there to ensure 508 compliancy?
Cheryl Johnson is a Performance Solutions Specialist and founder of RWL Tech, with ten years of experience in learning, development, and performance. With a pioneering attitude, she has made strong contributions in the areas of learning with emphasis on behavioral change.
She is recognized for innovating and building programs from scratch and pioneering the use of technology in education. She is currently engaged in the design and development of virtual-world training solutions using an artificial intelligence engine to provide individualized custom training solutions. She was also recognized for her dedication to developing learning solutions that drive performance at work and in one’s personal life.
Working with an associate, she developed a powerful interactive patented online training solution for voice recognition technology before online learning was considered effective. Her unique value is the ability to identify needs, address gaps, and develop long-term strategies to influence positive change. The keys to her effectiveness are a true passion for learning, strategic thinking patterns, and a desire to facilitate self-discovery.
Whether it is through staff development, training, teaching, learning, or evaluating, she firmly believes
that setting goals, learning, and creativity are the essential ingredients to personal empowerment, growth, and ultimately, success.
Contact Cheryl Johnson by telephone at 703.380.1094
Overview
Defined: “Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. “
Checkpoints
• Standard 1194.22 – 16 checkpoints
• (a) Text Tags
• (b) Multimedia Presentations
• (c) Color
• (d) Readability
• (e) Server-Side Image Maps
• (f) Client-Side Image Maps
• (g)&(h) Data Table
• (i) Frames
• (j) Flicker Rate
• (k) Text-Only Alternative
• (l) Scripts
• (m) Applets and Plug-Ins
• (n) Electronic Forms
• (o) Navigation Links
• (p) Time Delays
• Additional e-learning considerations -
• Tab Order
• Focus
• Feedback
• Any type of player has accessible feedback controls
World Wide Consortiums Priorities
W3C is a worldwide organization dedicated to making information accessible.
Each of these 16 checkpoints has a priority level assigned by the Working Group based on the checkpoint’s impact on accessibility.
• [Priority 1]
– A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents.
• [Priority 2]
– A Web content developer should satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will remove significant barriers to accessing Web documents.
• [Priority 3]
– A Web content developer may address this checkpoint. Otherwise, one or more groups will find it somewhat difficult to access information in the document. Satisfying this checkpoint will improve access to Web documents.
Some checkpoints specify a priority level that may change under certain (indicated) conditions.
Dr. Kapp and Daniel Bliton discuss the role of audio with elearning.
Topics include: When to use audio; the affective domain of audio, the role of the voice and more.
The highlights (1.5 min)
The full entree (25 min)
Dr. Karl Kapp
Dr. Kapp is a professor of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. Dr. Kapp is also the author of several books including a new one coauthored with Tony O’Driscoll, Professor of the Practice, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. The book is titled; Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration.
Dan Bliton is a learning strategist with the Booz Allen Hamilton’s Learning Team who has been a featured speaker for both virtual and live conferences. He is a passionate learner and has been designing computer-based and Web-based training solutions for over 22 years.
One of Dan’s long-time passions is the use of visual storytelling (comic books, webcomic, and manga) as a vehicle for organizational communications and training. Dan is an advocate for visual storytelling and other innovative training approaches. He is the creator of the documentary film “The Machinima Primer (compressed)” which looked at use of video game technologies for storytelling and the rapid production of movies.
A returning expert, Robert Jordan. We discussed about different forms of informal learning, informal learning in the workforce, different ways to enhance informal learning and more!
Listen to this podcast featuring an interview with Kathy Napierala.
Kathy Napierala came to the e-Learning field through her background in video production, multimedia, and Web product development. She has more than 10 years e-Learning design, development, and management experience with such organizations as United Way of America, Marriott International, GEICO, the Library of Congress, and Fannie Mae. She has recently joined JBS International, Inc. as the manager of their Instructional Media Center.
The Webcomic, “The Secret in the Cellar – A Written in Bone Forensic Mystery from Colonial America”, won the 2009 Best Practices in Distance Learning Programming Gold Prize from the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA).
Developed by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the Webcomic combines graphic novel techniques and interactive activities to tell a story.
On the Panel:
Robert Costello, National Museum of Natural History
Dan Bliton: Project Designer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Paula Dosch-Haworth: Instructional Designer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Annabelle Reitman and Sylvia Benatti, career management consultants will be speaking at the ASTD ICE on Sustaining Engagement & Succession Planning Through Intergenerational Conversations.
Tom Kuhlmann, Vice President at Articulate, manager of the user community for Articulateand author of the Rapid E-Learning Blog.
Mike Parmentier, Principal at Booz Allen, founder of the Training Education and Performance Support CoP at Booz Allen .
This panel discussion about Communities of Practices (CoP) integrates the academic, private and social perspectives of Communities of Practice.
CoP’s are defined around a shared passion and a common goal driven by the learning from one another. In fact a CoP already exists in your organization whether it is formally recognised or not.
Discussion rises around the tension between the corporate desire to formally capture the knowledge being shared in the community and the requisite grassroots informal learning environment to grow a CoP.
The first section discusses:
Defining a Community of Practice
Infrastructure and Technology
Levels of participation–The lurker
The second section discusses:
Growing a community grass roots style
Measuring the effectiveness
The corporate perspective, capturing and nurturing
Dr. Kapp and Daniel Bliton discuss the role of audio with elearning.
Marshall Brown, President of 
Dr. Nada Dabbagh, Associate professor in the 
