The Toolbar

Brian and Judy talk with the fabulous Jane Bozarth about showing your work, mountain climbing, positive deviance, and your questions. Be sure to register for Jane’s June 11 ASTD Webinar, Show Your Work! The drinks Brian drank Shiner Kosmos  Judy drank Lady Grey tea because she couldn’t buy Mens Room Jane drank Grimbergen Dubbel The … Continue reading "#27 – When the Prison Guards Are Out Sick"

Brian and Judy have a super-fun conversation with guest Koreen Olbrish about immersive learning design, technology, and business, her upcoming book, and motivation. We promise, the robot voice gets better after about 10 minutes, and we’re working on the audio quality in general. The drinks Brian drank Chimay Grande Réserve Judy drank Urban Farmhouse Ale … Continue reading "#26 – Learning Objectives are Cute"

Brian and Judy catch up and talk about the tool-related stuff they’re doing at TechKnowledge 2013, which focuses on productivity tools. And we talk about other things we’re looking forward to in 2013. The drinks Brian drank Port Wine Porter from a homebrew buddy, the Brew Consultant. Judy drank Proletariat Red from Lompoc Brewing The links … Continue reading "#25 – Westbound and Down"

Brian and Judy have a great conversation with Chad Udell about lots of mobile learning (mlearning) stuff (naturally), stuff that isn’t mlearning but people think is, home brewing, Letterpress strategy, and (as usual), we talk about other podcast guests behind their backs. The drinks Brian drank Yule Shoot Your Eye Out from Karbach Judy drank … Continue reading "#24 – You Can’t Beer Everybody"

Brian and Judy do the great DevLearn wrap-up, and also talk about Brian’s series on accessibility and usability on the ASTD Learning Technologies blog, and team collaboration iOS apps. And we look ahead a bit to TechKnowledge 2013 and some very cool stuff that’s coming soon on Emergent Radio. The drinks Brian drank Phil’s Existential Alt from … Continue reading "#23 – The Great DevLearn Wrap-Up"

Brian, Judy, and Megan Bowe talk about the Tin Can API and related issues: personal data lockers, data sharing, analytics, learning from the marketing department, our upcoming DevLearn presentations (no longer upcoming), and designing for the unknown. And, out of frustration with Skype, we talk VOIP tools. And Megan issues a challenge. The drinks Brian drank … Continue reading "#22 – Because I’m a [Robot] Unicorn"

Judy talked and drank with Kris Rockwell and Reuben Tozman, and it was pretty much like this (thanks, Kris). We talked about the parallel evolution of humans and technology, innovations in learning, HTML5, Tin Can, mlearning, gaming, gamification, and some of the new cliches of the learning world, including The Matrix and Captain Sully. It … Continue reading "#21 – We Got Your Buzz Words Right Here"

Brian and Judy caught up with — just  each other! — to chat about combining development tools, HTML5, podcasts, iPhones, conferences, and just stuff. The drinks Brian drank Newcastle Brown Ale. Judy drank Rogue Dead Guy. The links The ToolBar t-shirts — for sale through October 11! Brian’s DevLearn Pre-Con with Trina Rimmer DevLearn Junto … Continue reading "#20 — It’s My Everything"

Connie Malamed and Judy delved much more into design thinking and applying it to that voo-doo that we do…with sprinkles of Tin Can, knowing when you’re done, and egos. We even talked about tools a bit — for wireframing, prototyping, and user testing. By the way, if you’re enjoying these more design-related episodes, be sure … Continue reading "#19 1/2 – Instructional Design Thinking"

In our nineteenth episode, we were thrilled to have Connie Malamed, The eLearning Coach, join us for a conversation that could have easily lasted another couple of hours. We covered more about being a consultant, design thinking and design processes, and some of our favorite podcasts. We’ve both been big fans of Connie’s for a … Continue reading "#19 – Design Outing"