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WAVELENGTH – The ID Newsletter of India – August 2007
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Wavelength Launches the IDSP - Online!
An Online ID Course for Senior Professionals
Details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm
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Hello Friends,

Welcome to this issue of Wavelength.

As the Monsoon packs her bags and her eyes shed the parting
showers that cool us, making us ready to welcome the Autumn;
the leaves turn greener, and the trees grow shadier.

It is the time to contemplate new growth...it is the time to
harness new energy...and so it is also the time to decide
where the energy should be spent. Where the training
department's energy should be spent, is the question that is
the prime concern of most training managers.
This month's Mystery of the Month article focuses on the
relationship between performance and training.

At Wavelength, we've been busy working on polishing the next
online gem that would interest the Senior Professionals of
the eLearning and Training industry. I would like to thank
the applicants of our new online course IDSP Online
(Instructional Design for Senior Professionals Online
Certificate Course) for their interest and trust. I assure
them that the IDSP Online will stretch the boundaries of
online content delivery quality set by IDCWC Online, even
further. If you are interesting in applying for the course,
please write to our Trainings Coordinator at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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NEW*** ELearning Development Services (EDS) from Wavelength:
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Wavelength's eLearning content development skills lauded by
our online audience now ascend another step. Wavelength now
launches its eLearning Development Services (EDS) for
organizations that do not have their own eLearning Development
function. If you are a non-eLearning organization, interested
in connecting with Wavelength for our eLearning Development
Services, please write to us at connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

About our training programs/courses:
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The 5-Day Instructional Design & Content Writing workshop
in September: (Sep 24, 2007 to Sep 28, 2007)
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Wavelength is organizing a 5-Day Instructional Design and
Content Writing Workshop, which shall be held at Wavelength
from September 24 to September 28, 2007.

If you are interested in attending this workshop and wish to
speak to your Head of the Department for a sponsorship (you
are also welcome to register as an individual,) or if you
wish to sponsor your team members for it, you will find the
required details at:
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/instructionalDesign_trgworkshop_sep07.htm

This workshop shall cover the content outline of the IDCWC
course offered by Wavelength. If you are interested, please
write to us at connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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The 1-Day Flash Components workshop in
September (Sep 15, 2007 - Saturday)
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This workshop assists you in mastering the use of Flash
components. If you are comfortable with Flash but would like
to learn the effective use of Flash components, you are
welcome to register for it. Please read the details of the
workshop at
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/flash_components_training_sep07.htm
write to us at connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com for details of
the registration process.

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FREE Workshop - Printing Technology Orientation Workshop
(September 16, 2007, Sunday)
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This workshop provides you a window into the world of printing.
It introduces you to the different types of printing methods
and helps you identify the different factors that influence
the printing method selection. This workshop also gives you a
quick overview of the different software applications, the
pre-design settings and the pre-press procedures for printing.
Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/print_workshop1.htm to
read the details and register.

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The Instructional Design for Senior Professionals Certificate
(IDSP Online) Course:
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The IDSP Online course shall begin on November 01, 2007. We
are currently receiving applications for this course. If you
are a professional working in training, eLearning, or academics;
and have more than 4 years of experience in any of the above
areas, you are welcome to register for this course. The
details of the course are available at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm

If you are interested in joining the November - December 2007
session of IDSP Online please send us your completed application
form. You are also welcome to write to us at your queries to
our IDSP Online Course Coordinator at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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The Instructional Design & Content Writing Certificate
(IDCWC Online) Course:
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The sixth session of the IDCWC Online course shall begin on
October 01, 2007. If you are interested in joining the
October - December 2007 session of IDCWC Online and you
haven't sent in your application yet, please do so. You are
also welcome to write to us at your queries to our
IDCWC Online Course Coordinator at idcwconline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

The details of the contact courses are provided in the
calendar that follows the Table of Contents.

I would like to thank our subscribers of the ID as well as the
media newsletters for their continuous support and inspiration.

Thanks and Warm Regards,
Shafali.

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Table of contents
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From the Editor's Desk
***NEW*** IDSP Online
Mystery of the Month
ID Section
Technology Section
Media Section
Site of the Month
Views
Laugh-a-little
Innoken Games
Signing Off...

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Events Calendar
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Online Courses:
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1. The sixth session of IDCWC Online (Instructional Design
& Content Writing Certificate Online) course begins on
October 01, 2007. Read details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_online.htm
Please send us your queries at idcwconline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

2. The first session of IDSP Online (Instructional Design for
Senior Professionals Certificate Online) course begins on
November 01, 2007. Read details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm
Please send us your inquiries at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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Training Workshops:
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1. 1-Day Flash Components Training Workshop
(September 15, 2007) Read details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/flash_components_training_sep07.htm

2. 5-Day Instructional Design & Content Writing Training Workshop
(September 24-28, 2007). Read details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/instructionalDesign_trgworkshop_sep07.htm

If you are interested in registering for any of the above
workshops, please write to us at connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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Contact Courses:
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1. Classes for the Instructional Design & Content Writing
Certificate (IDCWC Contact) course begin on September 30, 2007.
Registrations are on for this group. Read details at http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_details.htm

2. Classes for the next Flash ActionScript 2.0 Developer
Certificate (ASDC) course group begin on September 16, 2007.
Registrations are on for this group. Read details at
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/actionscript_certificate.htm

3. Classes for the next Flash Certificate (FCC) course group
begin on September 09, 2007. Registrations are on for this group.
Read details at http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/flash_certificate.htm

4. Classes for the ActionScript 2.0 with Object-Oriented
Programming (AS2OOP) course begin on September 29, 2007.
Registrations are open for this course group. Click on
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/actionscript2_oop_details.htm

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FREE Workshops:
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1. 3-Hour FREE workshop "Printing Technology Orientation
workshop." (September 16, 2007, Sunday)
Read details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/print_workshop1.htm

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From the Editor's Desk
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http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/editorial.htm

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NEW*** IDSP Online - The ID Course for Senior Professionals
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The IDSP Online (Instructional Design for Senior Professionals
Certificate course,) from Wavelength addresses the
instructional design needs of the Senior Professionals. It is
a two-month course that will help the Senior Professionals
structure the vast storehouse of practical knowledge that
they've acquired over a period of time.

The details of this course are available at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm
but here is a synopsis for your convenience. This course is
of interest to all those professionals who are currently
working as:

*Senior/Training Managers
*Senior/eLearning Project Managers
*Instructional Design Reviewers/Analysts
*Senior Trainers
*Sales/Marketing Managers
*Lecturers/Readers/Professors

It is important that the applicants have more than 4 years of
experience in any of the following areas:

*eLearning
*Training
*Education

This course is designed to address your need to learn instructional
design, analyze instructional design problems in relation to your
work, and come up with instructionally sound solutions within
moments. It assumes that you have ample experience to evaluate and
map the instructional design concepts to your work, and that you
have moved beyond designing courses and writing scripts personally.

The first session of IDSP Online shall begin on November 01, 2007
and end on December 31, 2007. If this course interests you,
write to us at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

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Mystery of the Month
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The operations department of most organizations would usually
like to have the training department conduct a training
program as the panacea for all performance-related ills. In
such a situation, the training manager is caught between the
client's demands and the trainer resource crunch.
The good news is that many performance issues are not training
issues at all. Ironically, the bad news is that such performance
issues are beyond the ambit of the training department's scope of work.
These non-training performance issues are monkeys that no
department or department personnel wants on his or her back.

This month's Mystery of the Month article,
"A New Leaf - Performance Vs. Training" discusses this issue.
Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/performance_training.htm
to read it.

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ID Section
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ID Concepts
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/r/mrs331/idm.htm is an
interesting page for those who want to compare the different
instructional design models in existence, with ADDIE; and
determine which enchants them the most. Among those listed,
the Dick & Carey model and the Morrison, Ross, and Kemp
model would be familiar to instructional designers and trainers
respectively. The project managers may want to take a closer
look at the Seels and Glasgow model.

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Language & Culture
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"The Impact of Electronic Communication on Writing" at
http://reading.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d188.html discusses how
the electronic means of communication has influenced our writing
behavior as well as writing performance. If we treat technology
(the online world) as culture, we should be able to draw some
interesting inferences here. The web-culture is universal and
breaks the regional cultural taboos in many respects. Read
this article for a fresh viewpoint.

An abstract from the Encyclopedia Britannica, which is available
at http://www.appiusforum.com/scripts.html, discusses the
historical development of the Indian scripts. Check it out.

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Writing Style
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Language is defined as: "Communication of thoughts and
feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as
voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols."
(Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/language)

Our writing style is our characteristic way of using
language so that the "communication" becomes more interesting,
intriguing, and clear. Read "Writing Well" by Dan Simmons
at http://www.dansimmons.com/writing_welll/archive/2006_01.htm
This seven-installment guide is written in style...I am
confident that it will keep you engaged:)

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Technology Section
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Learning Content Creation Technologies
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If you are new to mobile content creation, read
"Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers" at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/02/06/mobile_browsing.html
This article was written in 2004, so it may not be as
technologically relevant today, but it does provide an
overview of how content is created for mobile learning.

The beginning of this article is of general interest, but
the latter part is technical and may be of more interest
to the programmers.

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Learning Content Management Technologies
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According to an IDC report, the global mobile learner
population is expected to cross 850 million by 2009 (just two
years from now). That is a staggering figure.

To become better acquainted with the mobile learning scenario,
click www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0532.pdf to read
"Enabling Mobile Learning."

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Media Section
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This section is now part of Wavelength's Media Newsletter.
For the content of this section and for many other
interesting media-related resources and activities, click
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/subscribe.htm
and subscribe to Wavelength - The Media Newsletter!

Please click the following link to view the August issue
of the Media Newsletter. http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/media_nletter_yw573r_aug07.htm

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Site of the Month
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The Site of the Month for August
(or should I say, Site of the year for 2007?) is http://www.brandbud.com/index.htm

This is the website of a Malaysian Interactive Agency
called Bud. What I liked most about this site was...Everything!
Seriously, almost everything wowed me. However, if I try to
sequence the excellent features of this site, I would probably
put Thematic Integration at the top.

1. The site is built around the concept of bud, the concept of
blossoming...and the entire site is built around the same theme.
The brands (Interactive Agencies work for brands) that they've
worked for, blend seamlessly into the theme.

2. Let me accompany you on a beautiful journey to discover the
bud world. Click the link above, to arrive at an island, the bud
island, and click ENTER. The site loads full-screen but with
the top-bar visible. What loads is bud city. The city and its
magnificent buildings are created in 3D. Each of these buildings
becomes clickable. While you are on this page, don't forget to check
out the little cars, the train, the digital billboard, the copter,
and the steamer animations.

3. I first checked the Bud headquarters. The page loads with a
line-work that displays a blossoming bud. The bud then transforms
into a building of about the same shape. The 3D animation of the
same building loads at the right hand side. Isn't it a subtle but
interesting way of displaying one's strengths? The top of the
building carries the logo of Bud.

4. Next, I recommend clicking the Auto city. This page displays
three buildings (that "grow" from the sketches of three different
buds.) Each of the building display a logo. Can you recognize
them? I could recognize the Lexus and the Mercedes logos. The
theme is simple and catchy - the bud, blossoms into buildings
(that form the bud city) and the buildings are the brands!
Please explore the remaining buildings at your leisure.

5. I now want to take you through some other parts of this site.
Please click the "Meet the Buddies" button in the top menu.
Each of buddies will load separately (I guess it's got to do
with the number of separate items that Flash can load
simultaneously.) Once the buddies have loaded, click each of
them. Check the effect. Isn't it cool? The selected buddy moves
to the front and brightens up when you rollover. When you click,
the details load and the character's position changes.

6. Now click "Philosophy Garden" to check the interactive
rollover effect. The garden drawing reveals the hidden colors
when tickled by the mouse. Another interesting detail is the
shape of the panels. They are all petal-shaped. The videos are
interesting too.

7. Click the "Service Street" to view a street scene, which is
logically animated. The billboards, the cyclist, the
train...everything is executed in a beautiful manner.

8. I think I should stop now and leave you to your own
endeavors. I hope you enjoyed navigating through this site
and found it an instructional experience.

If you haven't clicked the link yet, please do so now. Here's
the link once again...http://www.brandbud.com/index.htm

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Views
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1. IDCWC Online Course Participants' Views:
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Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/trg_participants_views.htm#idcwconlineviews
to read what the course participants feel about the
Instructional Design ONLINE course (IDCWC Online) and Wavelength.

2. IDCWC (Contact) Participants' Views:
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Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/trg_participants_views.htm#idcwcviews
to read what the IDCWC Contact program participants feel
about the Instructional Design course (IDCWC) and Wavelength.

3. ActionScript Course Participants' Views:
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Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/trg_participants_views.htm#asdcviews
to read what the ActionScript Course participants feel about
the ActionScript course (ASDC) and Wavelength.

4. Reader's Views:
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Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/views.htm to read
what readers feel about Wavelength.

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Laugh-a-little
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Laughter is the Best Medicine, so proclaims the Reader's Digest!
Inherent in the statement is the assumption that we all need
medicine - well! Here's your dose.

The first course of this...medicine...is available at
http://www.multilingualplanet.com/mlp_humor.htm. Scroll down
to find EuroEnglish Language.

Read the 26 golden rules of Writing Well by clicking at http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/rules.htm

Check out some funny insurance statements at http://www.slinkycity.com/funny-insurance-claims.html

Before you leave, click http://www.slinkycity.com/english-language.html
to read why English is such a funny language.

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Innoken Online Games
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http://www.innoken.com/games.htm

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Signing Off...
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I hope you enjoyed this issue of Wavelength. I shall meet you
again next month. Venue: Your Mailbox.

See you next month! Bye!

Shafali

Shafali R. Anand
Editor & Publisher, Wavelength the ID Newsletter
Director, Wavelength eLearning Consulting and Training Pvt. Ltd.
shafali [at] vibrantwavelength [dot] com
Wavelength, Link House, 2nd Floor,
C-4, Sector 10, Noida-201301, India.
Ph: 9810324284 / 9810412297 / (0120)4315505
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com

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