One of the best places to eat at WDW, or anywhere in Orange County, is the Wolfgang Puck Express at Downtown Disney in the Marketplace. Small place and a smaller menu but the food is excellent.
I skipped out on the end of the General Session Sunday night for a BBQ Chicken Quesadilla and Butternut Squash Soup which was FABULUOUS. I could eat the soup every day.
I had that, bought my son a toy and hit the road for home just in time to see the BoSox clinch the AL pennant.
See you Monday.
CDH
Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Keynote Two: Jenny Zhu from ChinesePod
Second keynote is Jenny Zhu from Chinese Pod, which teaches people from all over the world how to speak Mandarin Chinese using the web and podcasting.
She is from Shanghai and this is very interesting...a truly impactful way to deliver training.
We're learning some words in Mandarin.
Pijiu means Beer in Mandarin Chinese. There you go...that was worth the $1000 registration fee.
Jonathan from the CIA is brought up to interview Jenny. He lays out some serious Chinese chops and conducts a conversation with her that is garble to me. He is apparently asking her success tips for her podcasting efforts.
Her realization is that learning all happens differently for everyone. In the beginning, they tried to put too much information in one lesson and in one format and and all on one level. So over time, they changed this to make everything digestible in smaller doses.
She's very hip and young...this is a great example.
Mandarin is very tonal but supposedly very easy to learn to speak...I might check it out.
The CIA guy thinks they have created a best practice for language instruction. Jenny speaks to the structural choices users can select which has made a huge difference.
More Mandarin:
CDH
She is from Shanghai and this is very interesting...a truly impactful way to deliver training.
We're learning some words in Mandarin.
Pijiu means Beer in Mandarin Chinese. There you go...that was worth the $1000 registration fee.
Jonathan from the CIA is brought up to interview Jenny. He lays out some serious Chinese chops and conducts a conversation with her that is garble to me. He is apparently asking her success tips for her podcasting efforts.
Her realization is that learning all happens differently for everyone. In the beginning, they tried to put too much information in one lesson and in one format and and all on one level. So over time, they changed this to make everything digestible in smaller doses.
She's very hip and young...this is a great example.
Mandarin is very tonal but supposedly very easy to learn to speak...I might check it out.
The CIA guy thinks they have created a best practice for language instruction. Jenny speaks to the structural choices users can select which has made a huge difference.
More Mandarin:
CDH
Malaria No More
Learning 2007 is donating $25,000 to provide a mosquito net from each participant at Learning 2007 for people in Africa to stop the malaria pandemic. That's 2087 nets and they're taking more donations at the conference.
For more information, check out their site...I had no idea this was such a huge deal.
Malaria No More
There is also a nice example of a gaming as learning tool put on their site developed by folks from the conference.
CDH
For more information, check out their site...I had no idea this was such a huge deal.
Malaria No More
There is also a nice example of a gaming as learning tool put on their site developed by folks from the conference.
CDH
Keynote One...Dr. Butch Rosser
Our first keynote out of the gate is: Butch Rosser...Surgeon. Author, Playwright from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
He dresses well. Walks, talks and prances like a preacher.
Dr. Butch speaks to the idea that over 100,000 people die each year due to medical mistakes.
His idea was researching the idea that surgeons who warm up with video games or use video games prior to surgery actually improves a surgeon's ability to perform, especially with new surgical techniques, related to laproscopy.
His ways to succeed, especially with those that question what you're doing. His response is to crack the toughest nut possible. Find the hardest thing that has to get done and find a process to make it work. He took a 300 hour training process and moved it down to 12 hours. He just said it again...find the DARKEST CORNER. The thing no one wants to do...if you can do that and then show it off, you can also get buy in from others.
His research with training surgeons with a gaming process enabled all surgeons to succeed...no limit on age or knowledge level. Minimized failure rate because of design and use of gaming.
They bring out the Wii from Nintendo...oh, it doesn't work.
The session is interesting because of how it ties the idea of gaming to the idea of learning in a way that shows real efficacy and value.
CDH
He dresses well. Walks, talks and prances like a preacher.
Dr. Butch speaks to the idea that over 100,000 people die each year due to medical mistakes.
His idea was researching the idea that surgeons who warm up with video games or use video games prior to surgery actually improves a surgeon's ability to perform, especially with new surgical techniques, related to laproscopy.
His ways to succeed, especially with those that question what you're doing. His response is to crack the toughest nut possible. Find the hardest thing that has to get done and find a process to make it work. He took a 300 hour training process and moved it down to 12 hours. He just said it again...find the DARKEST CORNER. The thing no one wants to do...if you can do that and then show it off, you can also get buy in from others.
His research with training surgeons with a gaming process enabled all surgeons to succeed...no limit on age or knowledge level. Minimized failure rate because of design and use of gaming.
They bring out the Wii from Nintendo...oh, it doesn't work.
The session is interesting because of how it ties the idea of gaming to the idea of learning in a way that shows real efficacy and value.
CDH
Champlain Kids...
To highlight the connection between learning and gaming, Elliot has brought in four kids from Champlain College who are supposedly gaming experts...creating two games during the session. This is similar to other "ongoing conference" activities I've seen in the past.
CDH
CDH
Elliot fries an egg...
As a precursor to Bobby Flay's session tomorrow, our host Elliot Masie decided to fry an egg...he made a "frog in the hole," something I haven't eaten since I was a kid. Basically it's bread, butter and eggs fried in a skillet. I can still smell it.
This is supposedly a bridge to the idea that anyone can cook so anyone can create learning...not a bad metaphor.
CDH
This is supposedly a bridge to the idea that anyone can cook so anyone can create learning...not a bad metaphor.
CDH
Opening Session
Beginning precisely at 7:29 PM...and thank God there is better Wi-Fi at the Coronado Springs this year. It's light years ahead of last year.
The session kicked off with a weird introduction to the all countries attending.
The Veterans Administration is a key partner this year with the conference and they arranged a color guard presentation with a real military color guard marching in and presenting the US colors and then marching out. Weird.
More later,
CDH
The session kicked off with a weird introduction to the all countries attending.
The Veterans Administration is a key partner this year with the conference and they arranged a color guard presentation with a real military color guard marching in and presenting the US colors and then marching out. Weird.
More later,
CDH
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