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		<title>Designing PowerPoint Slides that Keep Learners Awake, Engaged &amp; Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noelle Archambeau presented this lively and interactive seminar at our january meeting.   We started our 2012 season off with a packed room of fun and engaged learners! Session Overview:  Whether you design training for live or virtual classes or create self-paced e-learning using a tool like Articulate, you probably use PowerPoint on a regular basis.  Are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=682&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Send Your Graphics to Boot Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presented by Belen Bilgic Schneider of Performance Development Group.  At our December eSIG meeting, Belen presented an online presentation to our members.  Whether you are flying solo or a dynamic duo of Instructional and Graphic Designers, one thing is certain: creating a course filled with content-enhancing graphics is a challenge.  Process models and complex info-graphics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=666&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SharePoint &#8211; Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our October eSIG meeting hosted a Panel of Sharepoint users which included Robin Eisenberg from Pearson VUE, Maureen Longstreth from Dow Chemical, and Karl Grieb from Vanguard. SharePoint, one of the most commonly purchased enterprise applications leveraged in today’s workplace, helps you and your team work better, faster, and smarter. You can access the right people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=662&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How does a company in a failing market survive one of the biggest economic down turns in American History?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our August seminar was presented by Katie Kunkle and Marcelo Bach both from Soundview Executive Book Summaries.  Company profiles are always captivating because different companies want to emulate the great successes, avoid the bad times, and learn how to make the best attributes their own.   Soundview Executive Book Summaries is a company profile that strikes to the core of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=649&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microlearning: Like it or Not People Are Learning Without Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advent of the Internet, Web 2.0, social media, and of course mobile devices have dramatically changed the way all of us obtain information.  Our social and cultural lives have been transformed by technology and the speed of knowledge exchange.  With the world literally at our fingertips with a few strokes on our computer keyboards, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=641&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Lana Bennett</media:title>
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		<title>Tips on Becoming an eLearning Pro</title>
		<link>http://phlesig.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/tips-on-becoming-an-elearning-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eLearning SIG was pleased to host our June  session with Tom Kuhlmann,  author of The Rapid E-Learning Blog. Tom shared some practical tips on getting the most out of the resources you have to build engaging and interactive elearning content. Being able to create courses with minimal programming presents many opportunities.  But the reality is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=633&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transferring ILT to Online Synchronous Training – How’d they do that</title>
		<link>http://phlesig.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/transferring-ilt-to-online-synchronous-training-%e2%80%93-how%e2%80%99d-they-do-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 21:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presented by Kassy LaBorie at our May 19th online meeting Is your organization tasked with creating training for the online synchronous environment? Do you have trainers who don’t even know what that is? Do you have designers who want to get started but just feel stuck? Do you loathe the thought of yet another “webinar”?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=617&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FreeWare, ShareWare, and Pretty Darn Reasonable Ware: Low and No Cost Alternatives to commercial eLearning and Productivity Software</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At our April 21st meeting, Joe Mullock demonstrated low and no cost alternatives to commercial eLearning and productivity software.  Joe discussed the uses of &#8220;classics&#8221;, such as OpenOffice, Audacity, and GIMP. There were even more cool new tools and discussions including, &#8220;Google Docs: So Much More Than Just Docs&#8221;, and &#8220;Is There an App for That?&#8211;Is There More [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=602&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why 80% of training doesn’t stick, and what you can do about it.</title>
		<link>http://phlesig.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/why-80-of-training-doesn%e2%80%99t-stick-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment in training is terrific &#8211; as long as there&#8217;s enough value and impact. Unfortunately, no matter how great the trainer, or how great the content, or how smart or hardworking the trainee, MOST TRAINING DOESN&#8217;T STICK!  In our February online session, Glenn Eckard presented informative and eye-opening statistics regarding training and it&#8217;s value to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=583&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding Cultural Gaffs in Training and e-Learning Design</title>
		<link>http://phlesig.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/avoiding-cultural-gaffs-in-training-and-e-learning-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mlongstreth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Ever worry about offending multi-cultural employees when you are creating training or e-learning modules?  Well you should!  Culture impacts so much in our daily lives that we rarely consider it, even at work.  Catherine Bing is a culture generalist who can point out what we need to consider, where, so that we can be &#8220;culturally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phlesig.wordpress.com&amp;blog=574457&amp;post=563&amp;subd=phlesig&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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