Keynote speeches
William Horton is a popular keynote speaker. Here are some of his recent
keynotes. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to
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Heresy! (Rapid Intake Conference)
Handout file: PDF 4.5 MB
Communicate!
Handout file: PDF 14.5 MB
Heresy! New Thinking in E-learning
Handout file: PDF 4.5 MB
Life
is a game ... or should be
Play is our most important profession. See how
you can make games and gaming principles an integral part of business,
education, training, and life. View live examples of simple, easy, inexpensive
games that transformed tests, tutorials, lectures, business conferences,
and even stodgy university courses into highly effective and engaging
learning experiences.
Handout file: PDF
3500 KB
Horseless Carriages, Learning Objects, and
You
Successful E-learning is more than TV pictures of handouts from training
classes. And it requires more than using new technology to replicate what
works in the classroom. This audience-directed keynote explores how new
technologies and innovation are inventing new forms of learning and creating
new careers.
Handout file: PDF
5500 KB
Don't
bother me with objects! I've got a course to teach!
They’re
lurking everywhere. Are they hiding in your future? Advocates of learning
objects promise the utopia of inexpensive, quickly developed, and consistently
high-quality education. Heard that promise before? Mr. Horton will guide
you through the alphabet soup of standards and technologies to provide
a common-sense assessment of what learning objects offer and what they
threaten. He will show how to harness the economic potential of learning
objects while avoiding the siren call of competent mediocrity. You’ll
even see real, live learning objects on stage. Plus, you’ll see
how to use objects to make your best work available to a world of learners.
Handout files: PDF
4500 KB Excel
spreadsheet (You must have Microsoft Excel
or Excel viewer installed on your computer in order to view this spreadsheet.)
It's not the technology, Stupid!
Effective
e-learning requires more than using technology to replicate the routine
of the classroom. It requires creating true learning experiences that
activate, inspire, and teach remote learners. This presentation shows
some of the simple, practical techniques that clever organizations are
using to invent new forms of training. See examples of learning games,
virtual show of hands, global role-playing, stealth education, e-consultants,
online-guided tours, cyber-museums, and other innovations you can use
right away in your projects. Along the way you will see how to overcome
the myths of e-learning that confine designers and limit success. Plus,
you will see how to make distance learning an essential component in your
knowledge management effort.
Handout files: Girl
Scouts Blended Learning Conference 2003 (PDF 6810 KB)
Distance
Learning Conference 2001 (PDF 3900 KB)
O Brave New Media
The way we communicate is changing. What do these changes mean for you?
O Brave New Media is an irreverent look at the digital this, the electronic
that, the Internet, and multimedia. It offers
advice on how communicators can keep their sanity, their jobs, and their
sense of humor amid these tumultuous changes.
Handout file: PDF 2900 KB