Microsoft released a new version of its rapid content development tool, Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS). Major new feature is the possibility to create “Learning Snacks”, a specific Silverlight based format designed for small e-learning courses with a maximum of 6 topics.
The new version of LCDS includes the ability to upload your learning snacks onto Microsoft Snackbox, a public learning portal (based on SharePoint Server 2007, by the way) for community content.
Microsoft posted a video about the user experience in the coming version of Windows, Windows 8:
It is of course very early to draw conclusions out of this, but these are mine:
The full press release can be found on the Microsoft site.
Via the Mobile Cowboys site, I found this video. It explains the use of a rotary telephone, and seems to be created in 1927.
It is interesting to compare this to the e-learning material we create nowadays. Especially the speed (or lack of speed) is quite surprising. And it is good to realise that skills that we take for granted, are not necessarily “obvious” and sometimes still need explanation.
If you are trying to use the Belgian Tax-on-web application with Firefox 4, you might get an error message ssl_error_renegotiation_not_allowed when you try to log in with your Belgian eID.
This seems to be caused by a change in Firefox 4 regarding SSL authentication (more info on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Renegotiation).
It can be fixed by changing a preference in Firefox. Follow these steps:
Watch a brief demonstration of this procedure.
This should solve your issue. Changing this preference is a security risk, so it is a good idea to repeat the procedure and set the preference to FALSE once you are done with Taxonweb. Or you can add the URL of the sites to the preference security.ssl.renego_unrestricted_hosts to set this option for a specific site.
Don’t forget to check the Taxonweb configuration guide for Firefox if you encounter other issues.
On a regular basis, Microsoft produces nice videos about their view on Information Worker Productivity in the future. This video shows the very near future: all products shown in the video are available as far as I can see. We are only waiting until companies implement them all, and until information workers start acquiring the competences to work with these tools in an efficient way…
