KnowledgeShift

Creative uses for Standard Technology -

nmunro — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:47:16 +0000

In this week’s show Nancy and Allison discuss how to utilize standard technologies like iPads, Audio Content, Computers and blend them with an entirely different approach to mixing them either with other technologies or with a live audience.

You might also want to view this video that we reference in the show

Amazing Use of iPad – What’s up My Sleeve?

nmunro — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:36:33 +0000

Even though this video has to use subtitles, you don’t need to know what he is saying to be amazed at how creative this street magician is in Japan. This is such a great example of creative use of technology. We did something similar with our voice simulator.

We used a live audience and Improv Professionals to create on the fly a simulated role-play. The audience was asked to give the improvisors ideas on what the role-play should be. The audience decided that the role-play should be trying to sell alligator shoes to nuns. Then they had 8 minutes to write what they nun would be saying to the other person in the role-play, record it and upload it into our voice simulation studio.

Then a volunteer from the audience called the simulator and tried to sell these shoes to the nun. Here is a audio recording of this role-play from the audience.

Selling Alligator Shoes to Nuns (You can try this yourself on our demo page)

Sony was what Apple is today — How their Leadership Failed

nmunro — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:54:34 +0000

I friend of mine, Adam Hartung, is a top online columnist for Forbes. In a recent post Sayonara Sony: How Industrial, MBA-Style Leadership Killed a Once Great Company over 97,000 people have read this post. In summary, Sony forgot how to be innovative and fell into making products for the sake of manufacturing products vs. being innovative and pioneering new markets like Apple is doing today.

Look at how many companies are falling into the same pattern. Most of this is due to pressures of not taking risks, watching the bottom line and “sticking to your core”.

I’d like to say that KnowledgeShift is not falling into this pattern. We are taking a risk ourselves when we realized our voice simulation tool had tremendous potential for use as a speech therapy tool in addition to helping improve professional conversations.

So you can see how we are branching out and creating new markets for Children and Adults who have Autism. Visit our Mobi-RolePlay Site to see how we are disrupting ourselves to support a growing market need for helping these people with improving their Social Conversations.

The “Unconference” Approach to Learning

nmunro — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:22:59 +0000

Last week I went to a leadership conference at MIT for a non-profit organization I belong to. One of the topics of discussion was how to run events that are in the style of the “unconference” format. What if we designed some of our training events this way.

what would be the pros and cons to doing this?

Here are some interesting articles tied to this topic but I’d love to hear if anyone has done this.

How to run great unconference

Unreal unconferences

Mob-rule Learning

Check out our voice simulation technology demos

What Adults Can Learn From Kids— Watch Out World – She’s Impressive

nmunro — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:42:15 +0000

Adora Svitak is one to watch. In this TED video she lays it on the line why adults should take note of what they can learn from kids. She also states that traditional classroom training where the teacher lectures in the front of the room should be changed to letting the students teach each other. This is a philosophy I have encouraged in our “ADDIE to IMPROV” design model and it’s also a method that Steve Jobs recommended to President Obama which is stated in the top selling book “Jobs”. Watching this video is a good 8 minute investment.

For a new learning experience, try out our Role-Play Simulator

Cool or Not Cool — Example of How Google Can Alternate Our Behavior w/Everthing We Do

nmunro — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:13:12 +0000

This video is a great example of how Augmented Reality using all of what Google already does can change the way we interact with the real world. What are your thoughts? Cool or too much?

Join our Webinar April 19th 2:00 Central “How to Leverage Mobile Audio and Voice for Learning Engagement”

Poking Fun at Voice Recognition Software

nmunro — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:42:35 +0000

This is a very funny bit on the challenges of voice recognition software. That being said, the trend is building this type of capability into more applications beyond cell phones.

Try our our voice simulation Role-Playing demos

Replacement for PowerPoint — Cool Stuff

nmunro — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:34:48 +0000

Can someone build a better mousetrap? And by mousetrap I mean a better tool for PowerPoint? In this week’s show, Nancy and Allison talk about some very impressive alternatives to PowerPoint.

http://prezi.com/

www.sliderocket.com

http://www.readwriteweb.com/biz/2010/11/hate-powerpoint-here-are-5-web-based-alternatives.php

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/jun/05/wanttouseappleskeynoteon

Listen to this week’s show

Sign up for our next webinar “How to Leverage Audio and Voice to Accelerate Employee Engagement”

The benefits of adding audio to training

nmunro — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:50:48 +0000

Nancy and Allison discuss the benefits of adding audio to your training programs– and not just narration.

Resources Mentioned:

Radio Lab

GMP Music

The Benefits of Audio -Based Learning

Will Siri Take Over the World

nmunro — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:03:26 +0000

I had the pleasure of recently being interview for eLearning TV. The question was posed “Will avatars or artificial intelligence take over the role of trainers?” Well not yet but in my interview with John Swanstrom of Cogentys you will see we’re not quite ready for this yet but there are some great ways to leverage mobile IVR technology today.

You can test drive some of the technology from our automated role-playing simulations

Join us to see how you can create your own mobile application with voice simulations

Will SIRI take over your Corporate Learning and Development Job? from eLearningTV on Vimeo.