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	<title>Sealund's Serious Games Blog</title>
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	<description>Serious Games = Serious Learning! (TM)</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Importance of Processes</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=467</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in all project management, instructional systems projects have three levels of structure: an underlying methodology; processes for design, development, evaluation and implementation; and standards for outputs at each phase. This posting focuses on processes which will support the ability of team members to be creative and innovative within guidelines.
Processes for each project phase
The processes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival Cruise Lines Presentation at SALT – August 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=462</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the official sponsor of the SALT Washington Interactive Learning Technologies Conference in Reston, Virginia, on August 15-17, Sealund we had the opportunity to co-present a session on learning games for sales professionals with our client, Carnival Cruise Lines.
Avatars on Board at the Sealund-Carnival Cruise Lines Presentation

At the SALT Conference, Sealund and Carnival teamed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PaRR Presentation at SALT – August 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=454</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the official sponsor of the SALT Washington Interactive Learning Technologies Conference in Reston, Virginia, on August 15-17, Sealund we had the opportunity to co-present a session on real-time simulation courseware with our client, PaRR Inspections.
Real-time Simulations for PaRR Disaster Recovery Inspections
In a real-time simulation, the computer clock runs at the same rate as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund Sponsors SALT – August 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=449</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sealund was the Official Sponsor of the SALT Washington Interactive Learning Technologies Conference in Reston, Virginia, on August 15-17. The Sealund team had a great time interacting with conference attendees, and we&#8217;re pretty sure everybody learned while doing &#8230; after all, isn&#8217;t that what simulations and games for learning are all about?!
In addition to introducing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding Children Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=447</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tampa Bay area has recently had an abundance of rain (overabundance, some may say) but avoided the devastation of a direct hit by Hurricane Isaac. For many children in the area, the nation, and around the world, though, life holds an abundance of nothing except (one hopes) love and considerable financial devastation. So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to NAWCTSD</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=439</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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I recently visited the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Services Division in Orlando, Florida to brief them on our training design and development capabilities. This Training Services Division provides complete training solutions, including requirements analysis, design, development and full life cycle support. NAWCTSD prides itself on providing continuous learning across a wide variety of applications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacations = Productivity</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=434</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Avatar Simulation Training for Business Continuity &#038; Disaster Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=431</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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How would you feel if, in the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Like a Dolphin</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=424</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Play + Relate + Create = LEARN!

Dolphins have brains very like ours and both eyes facing forward, and they’re mammals just as we are. Okay, we can’t find objects we mislay or hidden objects in games by echolocation as dolphins do (although some people have learned to do that, too), but we can certainly learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A “Moving” Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=419</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are exciting times at Sealund and Associates! We’re marking our 27th anniversary with a move to bigger, higher-tech office space.
Another Year of Serving the Best Clients in the World
This year Sealund hits another milestone, our 27th anniversary of providing Innovative Custom Training Solutions to our clients. We are privileged and honored to work with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custom Learning Solutions @ SALT, February 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=414</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being the Official Sponsor of the New Learning Technologies Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT) 2012 this February kept us busy! We featured several CUSTOM Innovative Learning Solutions in our booth, and our Designers and Engineers demonstrated several of the past year’s successful solutions, including Real-time Simulations, Serious Games, Mobile Learning, Stereoscopic 3D, Custom eLearning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Gamer Demographics 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=408</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serious Gamer Demographics Related to Leisure Gaming

The Entertainment Software Association found that in 2011, the average game player’s age was 37, with most gamers in the 18- to 49-year-old bracket, and the proportion of female gamers increasing to 42%. As adult interest in leisure games expands, so, we assume, does adults’ willingness to learn from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defense Acquisition University: Custom Project: The Artemis Game</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=406</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=406#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOD Custom Training for Contractor Proposal Evaluation

The Department of Defense has recently implemented the custom game, the Artemis Exploration, developed by Sealund &#38; Associates in collaboration with the Defense Acquisition University, to train contract managers to evaluate contractor proposals. We’re honored to add Artemis Exploration to our growing list of custom serious games for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Let’s Meet” Conference Room Serious Game Engines Wins Brandon Hall Silver Excellence in Technology Award</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=400</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the “Let’s Meet” Conference Room Serious Games Engine?
The “Let’s Meet” Conference Room Serious Game Engine enables training developers to create an unlimited number of custom simulations for training employees to communicate effectively in meetings for any purpose they set as an objective, with any materials and situations they can imagine. It’s both flexible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund @ SALT 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=398</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=398#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SALT Washington Interactive Technologies Conference on August 17-19, 2011, at the Reston, Virginia, Hyatt Regency Hotel was a wonderful experience for the participants, as SALT conferences always are. Our presentation with Northrop Grumman found an appreciative audience, and a contest at our booth stimulated the creative juices of enthusiastic participants using our newest tool, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Learning on the March with Troops</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=383</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, the military has been successfully  using eLearning with highly realistic simulations, particularly in the most  motivating gaming model, to prepare troops for combat and other military  situations. Previously, due to technological and security limitations, those  learning games have been limited to desktop/laptop hardware delivery. Now,  training delivery media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Wingman™ for the Air Force</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=376</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyber Wingman™ is released at AETC

Cyber Wingman™ was a big hit with airmen at the 2011 AETC Symposium in San Antonio, Texas in January.  The theme of the Symposium was “Developing America’s Airmen Today…For Tomorrow:  Recruit, Train, Educate…Innovate”.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) invited us to co-exhibit in their booth.  We demonstrated the Cyber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Learning Apps Have Real Impact!</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=374</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of recent articles have described the impact mLearning apps have had for many kinds of users, from sales to military to personal subjects like household finances. As the iPad is becoming an increasingly common business tool, when it becomes the learning delivery medium, too, learners gain valuable hands-on experience with the physical medium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You CAN Take It with You – Alaris Financial Literacy eLearning™  iPad Mobile Apps</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=371</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=371#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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The iPad and other mLearning devices let you take your learning experience with you. You can now get one of our innovative Alaris Financial Literacy™ custom-designed Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) curricula as M-learning apps for your iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad, as well as online courses. The Reducing and Eliminating My Debt curriculum gives you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund @ I/ITSEC</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=367</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sealund team had a blast at the National Training and Simulation Association’s annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, November 28 – December 1, 2010. Of course, we weren’t alone! The approximately 20,000 attendees, about half of whom were from government agencies, included international participants from 57 countries.
NTSA I/ITSEC Conference

The overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=359</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Business
As we build relationships of trust with our worldwide clients, we sometimes meet client teams in their home offices. We made such a client call in London just before Christmas. While the client meeting was our primary focus, we were fortunate to be able to see the city decorated for the holiday &#8230; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IADT Graduation Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=355</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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I was honored to deliver the commencement address at the International Academy of Design and Technology’s annual Graduation Ceremony on Saturday, July 31st, 2010, at Ruth Eckerd Hall. The audience of IADT instructors, staff, student body and the graduates’ families and friends formed a sea of eager faces, and I hoped that I could inspire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy – Your New Year’s Resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=351</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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We all make New Year’s resolutions – and more often than not, we break them. After all the holiday meals, we often resolve to reduce our weight and increase our exercise habits. How about reducing the weight of your debts and boosting your financial muscle? If you’d like to improve your personal financial habits during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Game Engines - Control Your Budget and Generate Revenue</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=349</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Purchasers of Serious Game Engines have thought of more ways to be innovative than the engine vendors could have imagined. I’m not only talking about the creativity they’ve shown in adapting the games to their content, they are also generating revenue with their high-value content games! Here’s how it works &#8230;

Games for Fun, Learning, and [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=321</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Sealund enjoyed participating in the SHRM 62nd Annual Conference in San Diego, California, on June 27-29. The Sealund booth featured Serious Games Engines to take your content to another level while reinforcing and applying important concepts and skills, for the hundreds of Human Resources professionals attending the SHRM conference.

Human Resource professionals and Managers were very [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=330</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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The eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon conference in San Diego, CA, on June 15-17 was a clear sign that mobile learning has arrived!
In today’s fast-paced, global business environment, with Smart Phones in more and more people’s hands, mLearning is becoming the preferred learning medium as companies and schools need to connect with learners any place, any time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Solutions 10 Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=339</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone enjoyed discussing using virtual learning environments (VLEs) for training at Learning Solutions 10 Conference in Orlando, Florida, March 24-26.
Virtual Learning Environments Buzz

The session participants discovered why VLEs are all the buzz in corporations and organizations worldwide– they increase retention. From community colleges to government organizations and global corporations, using VLEs are where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Games Just in Time</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the new Let&#8217;s Meet&#8482; Serious Games Engine
You can now create online learning games in minutes with our new Let&#8217;s Meet&#8482; Serious Games Engine. The easy-to-use wizard allows you to develop learning games that engage learners and effectively reinforce your content. Let&#8217;s Meet&#8482; Serious Games Engine provides you with just-in-time training at your fingertips.

The Let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3D VLE Animations – Fast, Effective and Fabulous</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=302</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your place or ours? With our growing library of 3D avatars and other virtual learning environment (VLE) objects, you can get the courses and games your learners love (and learn best from!), in the environments you need with the avatars your learners can relate to … faster and more cost-effectively than ever. Best of all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Games Engines Updates</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=299</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Our clients form a very creative user community, and they love our Just PlayIt!™ game, so they’ve provided wonderful ideas to expand and improve it.
Just PlayIt!™ is a Jeopardy-like, Single Player, 3D Serious Games Engine that offers you a software tool to create 20 Questions, Answers and Feedback. In addition, you can customize your Serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Avatars and Growing</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=291</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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As more and more clients request avatars to appeal to their learners, our avatar library is growing rapidly. I look at it as the most diverse family under the rainbow.
What do you have more of?
Everything! Each avatar is configured with its own unique personality, and they’re all 3D.  Our Sealund Avatar Animation Technology (SAAT) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaris Financial Literacy™ Channel Partner</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=289</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our channel partners who offer Alaris Financial Literacy™ eLearning to their employees, customers and other business network members do well while doing good. They receive up to 50% of the revenue for each course taken, and the learners gain better control over their financial health.
VeteransPlus, Our Newest Channel Partner

VeteransPlus (VP) has become an Alaris Financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Human in the Loop” Sims &#038; Games – What You Get for the Money</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=280</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of Serious Games and Simulations professionals has been investigating the real cost of &#8220;human in the loop&#8221; simulations, and it&#8217;s been an interesting discussion. The benefits of immersive sims have also been measured for several years now, and I think you&#8217;ll find that the statistics entirely validate our early sense that the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mLearning: Why Mobile Learning Works Better</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=279</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile Learning technology has matured beyond the &#8220;wow&#8221; factor to the point where it can be fully integrated with your LMS and deliver content in truly engaging formats, with interactivity including simulations and games, and assess comprehension.
Still, you may ask whether the cost of formatting and delivering courseware through mobile devices is worth it. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3D Stereoscopic Games and Sims – Why “Wow!” Works</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=274</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always looking for instructionally sound uses for the latest technologies because learners enjoy using them, and we all know that the fun-factor increases retention. So I was quite excited to find an instructional rationale for 3D stereoscopic technology!
Perception is Reality 
Depth perception can play an important role in learning in virtual reality environments. Increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund’s on the Go with Custom mLearning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=273</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Our clients&#8216; employees, like modern learners everywhere, are expressing a preference for learning available at their fingertips wherever they may be, so Sealund&#8217;s mTeam is developing custom mLearning applications and introducing mLearning versions of our existing courseware, based on our new mLearning Methodology to ensure learners of the instructional soundness for which Sealund &#38; Associates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity Games &#8212; They&#8217;re Not Just for Training Any More</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=269</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning Games in Learning Organizations
Remember the &#8220;learning organization&#8221;? Such organizations facilitate the learning of its members and continuously transform themselves, so they&#8217;re resilient companies that can adapt to rapidly changing markets. You may say, oh, that concept is so &#8217;90&#8217;s, but in today&#8217;s economy learning organizations are the only survivors and newcomers must also be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mLearning: The Next Big Thing is Here, Now</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=265</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008, Ambient Insight reported that the US market for Mobile Learning products and services was growing at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 21.7%, and indicated that the demand was &#8220;relatively immune from the recession.&#8221; (Adkins, S.S. (December 2008). &#8220;The US Market for Mobile Learning Products and Services: 2008-2013 Forecast and Analysis&#8221;) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy Month Activities for KIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=263</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found some great fun activities for youngsters, in addition to the blogs already on this page about some of the regional events, online resources, and activities for adults related to Financial Literacy Month in April. Now I want to encourage you to share with children some other online activities that will help them see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy Month Activities for YOU</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=260</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve already written on this blog page about some of the regional events and online resources related to Financial Literacy Month in April. Now I want to encourage you to enjoy some of these online activities that will help you “spring” into your own financial literacy.
Fun and Informative Activities for You

Check your knowledge with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund @ SALT</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=250</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a very successful few days at the SALT New Learning Technologies 2010 Conference on March 3-5 at Orlando’s Gaylord Palms hotel and convention facilities. We entertained hundreds of attendees at our booth, culminating on the 5th with our 25th Anniversary celebration, where we used the “old technologies” of a big balloon display and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund &#038; Associates Celebrates 25th Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=282</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Reflection
We’re 25 years old! The time has flown, but this landmark anniversary made me stop a moment (or five or ten) to reflect on our evolution to this point and where we’re heading next.

We’ve moved from smaller offices to larger offices, and then to more efficient office layouts for collaboration, as our teams have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaris Credit Management Course Rule 508 Compliant</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=244</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our best-in-class Alaris™ Financial Literacy eLearning curricula have always included the Credit Management curriculum, Measuring My Debt, to teach people about the different types of debt that exist, including the difference between good debt and bad debt. The course also gives learners experience in gathering the necessary information to determine the total amount of debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Product: Interactivity Creator</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=246</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Effective Fun for Learning
We’ve known for a long time that the more fun learners have, the better they learn, and learners perceive rewarding interactivity as fun. Our clients always ask for the most interactivity they can get in eLearning, so learners can experience the adventure of exploring new topics and reinforce what they’ve learned. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy Month is Coming</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=242</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Financial Literacy Month is April, and the Financial Literacy Update, a newsletter published by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, announces events related to it. These include:

National Credit Union Youth Week
April 18–24, 2010 (Nationwide)
Michigan Jump$tart Coalition 2010 Professional Development Conferences
March 25, 2010 (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
April 24, 2010 (Mackinaw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Credit Management Course – Considering Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=232</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bankruptcy has increasingly become a necessity for private citizens everywhere in the world. CNN Money reported that in the third quarter of 2009, the total number of bankruptcies filed had risen 33%, the highest level since 2005, and the American Bankruptcy Institute, an industry research firm, recorded 388,485 bankruptcies filed during the last quarter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara’s Participation on the Florida Council of Student Affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=239</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I was honored to sponsor the Florida Council of Student Affairs luncheon at their State Meeting in Tallahassee on Thursday, February 11, 2010, and serve as a guest speaker during that event. Tonjua Williams, PhD, Vice President, Academic &#38; Student Affairs, St. Petersburg College had invited me to speak to this assembly of student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASTD TechKnowledge™ 2010 Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=222</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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The ASTD TechKnowledge™ 2010 Conference at the RIO All Suites Hotel &#38; Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 27-29, 2010 was a smashing success!  http://www.tk2010.astd.org We were hoping that, in this case, what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas but would spread with great impact into the world of training.

On Wednesday, 1/27 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Governor Charlie Crist Joins Us for Coffee</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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With St. Petersburg Honorable Rick Baker, my husband Phil and I co-hosted a coffee reception for Florida Governor Charlie Crist on Saturday, February 6, 2010. The crisp, clear morning weather lit up our great room, and our guest of honor lit up the conversation.

We also enjoyed our time with newly-elected Mayor of St. Petersburg, Bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy Programs Expanded in 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=224</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks’ Programs for Customers
The 2009 consumer credit crisis combined with the way the TARP funds bank bailout has been playing out has motivated banks and other financial institutions to bolster their image and their own financial stability by offering financial literacy information to their customers. Examples abound.
In April, 2009, Sarah Spear of the Association of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankruptcies, 2009-2010</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=223</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN Money reported that in the third quarter of 2009, the total number of bankruptcies filed spiked up 33%, the highest level since 2005, when 2,078,415 were filed before Congress amended the Bankruptcy Code. “The American Bankruptcy Institute, an industry research firm, said 388,485 bankruptcies were filed during the last quarter, compared to 292,291 filed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy – U.S. Citizens Have a Lot to Learn</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=234</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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With CNN Money reporting that in the third quarter of 2009, the total number of bankruptcies filed spiked up 33%, the highest level since 2005, and the American Bankruptcy Institute, an industry research firm, recording 388,485 bankruptcies filed during the last quarter of 2009, compared to 292,291 in the same period of 2008, it’s clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game-Based Learning vs Standard eLearning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=193</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The “Both … And” Approach
The eLearning community has long used games as part of eLearning, the question isn’t “Which is better?” The question is “How can we use both most effectively?”
The answers need all our creativity because we assess each problem that has a learning solution for the right combination of elements that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feed the Children Education Sholarship</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=189</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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This year, we at Sealund were honored to contribute our  annual Sealund Education Scholarships to several children whose families are  served by the Feed Our Children Ministries in Tampa, Florida. Feed Our Children founder and community minister Pastor  Moses Brown, Th.D., also distributed the Sealund Thanks-Giving packet in the  holiday baskets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporting Live from the Real Economic Impact Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=201</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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 I am so excited about the Real Economic Impact Tour that I have to write this blog live from the tour. It’s such a hopeful experience for improving financial literacy for those who need it the most. The representatives from the cities on the REI tour have tremendous passion for their role in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think of Resources Before Thinking of Bankruptcy</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=186</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the season for giving, and I think  the best gift I can give you is peace of mind, or at least suggest some  resources that can help you find it. First, let’s talk about today’s tough  financial realities, put them in perspective, and then take a look at some  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Small Business Summit</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=205</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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The business of Florida is …
Business! On November 5, I attended the Florida Small Business Summit, at Governor Christ’s invitation. The summit’s theme, Road to a Brighter Future, had an ambitious agenda, including topics such as The Unique Challenges of Florida’s Small Businesses, Florida’s Economic Gardening Program, Cutting Red Tape for Florida’s Small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy for Young Adults</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boom in eLearning, On-campus … and Off
With nearly 12 million young adults taking some or all (1.25 million post-secondary learners) of their classes online today, and that number is projected to exceed 22 million by 2014, according to the research firm Ambient Insight, it seems logical to me that these learners will extend their comfort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity Games – They&#8217;re Not Just for Training Any More</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=200</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Learning Games in Learning Organizations
Remember the “learning organization”? Such organizations facilitate the learning of its members and continuously transform themselves, so they’re resilient companies that can adapt to rapidly changing markets. You may say, oh, that concept is so ‘90’s, but in today’s economy learning organizations are the only survivors and newcomers must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Are Immersive VLEs Effective – and How Effective Are They?</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=208</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Why and How
We know what virtual learning environments (VLEs) are, and we know they provide highly realistic settings for learning games because they simulate situations in which learners have to apply knowledge and skills to win. But why do they work so well? How do gaming mechanisms in the VLE games work with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VLEs for Impact, Tampa Bay ASTD, September 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Want My Avatar! This is fun!

Members of the Tampa Bay Suncoast Chapter of ASTD met new friends and mentors in their September 17, 2009, meeting. After greeting new chapter members in the real world, they were introduced to our Alaris™ mentors and citizens in our virtual world.

After exploring Alaris’s™ virtual offices, homes and towns, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaris Spices-up Salt</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=170</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Our Booth
We unveiled our new Alaris Financial Literacy eLearning at the SALT conference in Washington, D.C on August 20th.  The Alaris eLearning programs—at http://www.sealund.com/alaris&#8211; provide personal financial literacy to consumers throughout the world.  Alaris Financial Literacy eLearning achieves superior retention by engaging users through best practices of instructional design, technology and virtual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Relatable Avatars</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=147</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effectiveness  of Avatars You Can Identify With
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Studies  conducted on avatars for educational purposes showed that avatar usage in game-based learning increase learners’ motivation and level of  engagement. Yavuz Inal reported that “Avatars are gaining more importance where  interactivity, learner engagement, cultural factors, communication, embodiment  and motivation are important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Financial Literacy Education – a Net Savings</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

 
  


Is my company losing dollars because of financial illiteracy?
The study provides an illustration of the employer cost of employees’ lack of financial literacy for a company with 1,000 employees, 15% of whose workers have poor financial literacy, and that a modest two-thirds of those workers can benefit from financial education if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Immersive Virtual Learning Environment Games Work</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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We know that highly immersive virtual learning environments  (VLE) work. Have you ever wondered why? Research and experience reveal  why immersive VLEs are so effective.
Transfer of Knowledge – For one thing, skill transfer  from learning to application is a shorter leap if the learning environment  closely simulates the application environment. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taxonomy of Play</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=149</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you:
Know in your gut that “learning really is our natural state” …
Design learning around the learners’ processes rather than around the instructor’s convenience …
Recognize that learning games are so effective partly because the assessment is inherent in the game-play and gives learners immediate feedback …
Then:
How do you envision a taxonomy—hierarchical classification—of play as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund Gets Virtual at SALT Orlando</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=157</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  
 
The SALT conference in  February provided a lively expo and a program of diverse sessions in pleasant  meeting rooms at the Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort and Conference Center. All  of us from Sealund &#38; Associates had a wonderful time meeting old and new  friends, and easing corporate training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund Gets Serious (Game Engines) at eLearning Guild Annual Gathering</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=162</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Sealund’s Busy Booth
The 2009 eLearning Guild Annual Gathering hosted hundreds of excited eLearning professionals, all seeking increased resources with decreased budgets. We were sure we could help them meet that challenge. Our booth attracted between 300 and 400 visitors, all eager to discover more about how serious games can boost retention and transfer of knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Sleep-In” for Better Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why it’s easier to apply a new skill  the day after you learn it than during the first day of learning it? Sure, the  first practice with any new skill is awkward, and we all know that repeated  practice “makes perfect.” But somehow “sleeping on it” makes using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Serious Games on the Workplace</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=154</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achieving higher rates of both direct knowledge and skills transfer

Corporate educators know from research and our own experience that workplace performance after learning new information and skills depends on the learners’ depth of engagement during their learning experiences. The more engaging the learning, the higher the retention of knowledge and transfer of skills directly to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Learning for Competitive Advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=128</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Uncommon Common Sense 
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of what we already know. I just read the results of one piece of research that reminded me of this:
A well-trained workforce is a competitive advantage in a down economy.
ASTD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (I4cp) are about to release the study &#8220;Learning in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning is Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all learn from our experiences, everywhere we go, whatever we may do. But I think we learning professionals take little instructional design lessons from our experiences, too. Don’t you often ask yourself, what was it about that experience that made me learn something so quickly, so surely?
A Learner’s Tale 
I just had an experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-learning Economies</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-learning has been part of workforce development for so long, we often take it for granted. In the past decade, its principles have been applied to the design of the latest workforce development tactics &#8212; from economical information delivery tools like knowledge bases to high-cost/high-value reality simulating serious games. E-learning design best practices have ensured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Serious Games on the Workplace</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Serious Game?
“A Serious Game is a software application developed with game technology and game design principles for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment.”  Wikipedia
You achieve higher rates of both direct knowledge and skill transfer to the job
Corporate educators know from research and our own experience that workplace performance after learning new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Update:  Excursion Creates a Brainstorm</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=102</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sealund hosted a brainstorming session at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. The purpose for this brainstorming session was to use the surroundings of a “theme park” and the excitement of roller coasters to evoke thoughts and ideas for enhancing Sealund’s current Serious Games Engines, and to explore the realm of new learning environments.  At daybreak, teams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Games Create Innovations in Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=119</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=119#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Hall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Innovations in Learning]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games Engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning Conference in San Jose, California was different from previous conferences Sealund has been invited to because it was created to host an atmosphere for “live learning” to take place. With its “Head in the Clouds” theme and use of newer technologies for communication like Wiki, Twitter and Facebook, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Learning Environments: A Virtual Success at Training Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=117</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=117#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Clearwater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Managed Learning Services]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games Engine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Training Industry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Learning Environments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Virtual Learning Environments are the next big wave in the training sector, and Sealund was invited to showcase one of its newest Virtual Learning Environments, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Meet,&#8221; at the Training Industry Managed Learning Services Conference in Clearwater. The conference began with a networking event which allowed the attendees to meet Sealund’s associates and learn about Serious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SALT Sets the Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=97</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=97#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sealund was invited to participate in the Society for Applied Learning Technology’s (SALT) Interactive Technologies Conference and Expo on August 20-22. The SALT Conference is a premier venue for the presentation of cutting edge, state-of-the-art technologies for education and training systems, job performance improvement systems, and knowledge management systems. Many of the nation’s defense agencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training World 2.0:  A Huge Success!</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=93</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[conference]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IQPC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Training World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ In response to its overwhelming success with deploying Serious Games Engines, Sealund has been invited to speak on Serious Games at various conferences throughout 2008 and 2009. Sealund was sought out by the International Quality and Productivity Center (IQPC) to be the inaugural speaker and chair for its ground breaking event, Training World 2.0 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Games Go Undercover</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=89</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=89#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MCTFT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sealund Serious Games Engine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEPSI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carlene M. Peterson, Ed.D. and Barbara Sealund


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“Undercover Investigations Law Enforcement Officers in St. Petersburg play Serious Games to test their knowledge.   Drug Training for Investigators is a course offered through the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training Program at St. Petersburg College.  The Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) program provides unique, tuition-free, courses covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games Designer and Business Unit Director – a Smart and Serious Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=88</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=88#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[workplace performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your role in getting  the game your employees need
When you know that a  serious game can motivate and engage your employees, and you’re ready to  introduce games into existing courses, the question arises – Do I have to do  anything differently to “get in the game,” or, really, to get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: A Success Story&#8230; PSCU Financial Services deploying Sealund&#8217;s Serious Games</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=86</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[PSCU Financial Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sealund Serious Games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s0 = new SWFObject("PSCU_podcast_06302008.swf","n0","320","280","7"); s0.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s0.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s0.addVariable("javascriptid","n0"); s0.addVariable("width","320"); s0.addVariable("height","280"); s0.addVariable("backcolor","0xFFFFFF"); s0.addVariable("frontcolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("lightcolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("screencolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("autoscroll","true"); s0.addVariable("largecontrols","false"); s0.addVariable("logo","http://www.sealund.com/blog"); s0.addVariable("overstretch","true"); s0.addVariable("showdigits","true"); s0.addVariable("showdownload","false"); s0.addVariable("showeq","false"); s0.addVariable("showicons","true"); s0.addVariable("showvolume","true"); s0.addVariable("thumbsinplaylist","false"); s0.addVariable("autostart","false"); s0.addVariable("bufferlength","3"); s0.addVariable("repeat","false"); s0.addVariable("rotatetime","5"); s0.addVariable("smoothing","true"); s0.addVariable("volume","80"); s0.addVariable("enablejs","true"); s0.addVariable("linkfromdisplay","false"); s0.addVariable("t","autodetect"); s0.addVariable("useaudio","false"); s0.addVariable("usecaptions","false"); s0.addVariable("usefullscreen","true"); s0.addVariable("usekeys","false"); s0.addVariable("file","PSCU_A_SUCCESS_STORY_06302008.flv"); s0.write("video0"); 
Serious Games = Serious Learning!™
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		<title>Serious Games – What’s In It for My Organization?</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=81</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=81#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[NAFTC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You get more direct  knowledge and skill transfer to the job.
Trainers and   front-line supervisors alike have long observed that emotion encodes  experience in memory. The competition inherent in games provides that emotional  boost to learning and its transfer to the job. Any athlete or coach will tell  you that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealund Speaks in the Game Capital of the World!</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=75</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=75#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Lectora]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Trivantis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How cool is this – Speaking at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas about Serious Games!!  We had the honor of being asked by Lectora™ to speak at their conference.  Our topic was “Lectora Wins With Serious Game Development.”  As the conference attendees rolled into our session, one attendee asked me if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Employees in the (Virtual Office) Game</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=73</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=73#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Instructional Systems Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virtual office]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a producer of Serious Games, Sealund’s management team is grateful every day for our development team members’ combination of creativity and common sense, their people skills and technical pragmatism. Because Sealund managers value employees so highly, one of our goals is to support their life balance. We’ve learned that one way to do that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game-play “Rush” and Retention</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=71</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[retention]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Why do we remember what we experience while playing Serious Games?
Neurology explains the effects Serious Games have on players’ knowledge and skill retention and transfer to the job. Emotion encodes experience in memory. It’s like the adrenaline rush people feel during any excitement – especially during competition. Ask any athlete or coach. Repetition—including the actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where’s the Beef? Instructional Design!</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=72</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=72#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Instructional design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job performance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What comes first – the game or the learning?
Consider the Zen of fun. Watch people of any age engaged in having fun, playing any type of game, and you can see how engaged they truly are, full present in that moment, that behavior. We know that engagement enhances learning accuracy and retention. The perspective from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feed Our Children</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=68</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=68#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Feed Our Children ministry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Moses Brown]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the busyness of work and play, it&#8217;s such a blessing to stop, take a deep breath and offer our valuable time to others in need.  My husband, Phil, and I have been blessed to work with Moses Brown for over 15 years in his ministry, Feed Our Children.  Moses founded this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eLearning Guild Embraces Serious Games for Serious Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=59</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=59#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eLearning Guild]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PSCU Financial Services]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a blessing to   be a part of the eLearning Guild&#8217;s Conference this week!  The Orlando, Florida,   Disney setting was perfect for this exciting, dream-like adventure for thousands   of professionals looking for new ways to provide dynamic training solutions to   their organizations.  Serious Games was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flat Bella Returns to Indiana</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=60</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Lambchop]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a sad day at   the Sealund&#8217;s when Flat Bella returned to Indiana.  You may be asking, who is   Flat Bella?  Flat Bella is a wonderful visitor from Indiana.  Flat Bella is a   replica of a 7 year old girl named Bella.  Bella created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Serious Buy-In on Serious Games</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=55</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[eLearning Guild]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PSCU Financial Serivces]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s top-performing corporations   and organizations are maximizing the success and ROI of their employee training   and assessment programs by deploying Serious Games technologies. Industry   leaders such as PSCU Financial Services, Tech Data, Progress Energy, St.   Petersburg College, USA Funds and The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Games Effectiveness Research</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=48#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Instructional design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[simulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/seriousgames/blog/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Sealund’s Performance Improvement team has been researching the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of Serious Games, with which to assure our clients that Serious Games achieve serious performance. We know from experience that workplace performance, based on retention of knowledge and transfer of knowledge and skills directly to the job, depends on the learners’ depth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: What is an Avatar?</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=79</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=79#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s0 = new SWFObject("what_is_an_Avatar.swf","n0","342","291","7"); s0.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s0.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s0.addVariable("javascriptid","n0"); s0.addVariable("width","342"); s0.addVariable("height","291"); s0.addVariable("backcolor","0xFFFFFF"); s0.addVariable("frontcolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("lightcolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("screencolor","0x000000"); s0.addVariable("autoscroll","true"); s0.addVariable("largecontrols","false"); s0.addVariable("logo","http://www.sealund.com/blog"); s0.addVariable("overstretch","true"); s0.addVariable("showdigits","true"); s0.addVariable("showdownload","false"); s0.addVariable("showeq","false"); s0.addVariable("showicons","true"); s0.addVariable("showvolume","true"); s0.addVariable("thumbsinplaylist","false"); s0.addVariable("autostart","false"); s0.addVariable("bufferlength","3"); s0.addVariable("repeat","false"); s0.addVariable("rotatetime","5"); s0.addVariable("smoothing","true"); s0.addVariable("volume","80"); s0.addVariable("enablejs","true"); s0.addVariable("linkfromdisplay","false"); s0.addVariable("t","autodetect"); s0.addVariable("useaudio","false"); s0.addVariable("usecaptions","false"); s0.addVariable("usefullscreen","true"); s0.addVariable("usekeys","false"); s0.addVariable("file","What_is_an_Avatar.flv"); s0.write("video0"); 
Serious Games = Serious Learning!™
For more information about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: Why Use Serious Games?</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=77</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=77#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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Serious Games = Serious Learning!™
For more information about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working with USF Students of Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always a blessing to work with USF. We had the privilege of sharing our corporate processes with doctoral students from USF&#8217;s College of Psychology (www.usf.edu). Dr. Levine&#8217;s Training and Development in Organizations class visited our corporate headquarters to learn how a  corporation operates. We shared our history, ISD methodologies, how we obtain business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3D Animators are Amazingly Talented</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Hayes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IADT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have had the privilege of hiring several students from IADT (International Academy of Design and Technology) www.iadt.edu 
These students are amazingly talented! Their talent is a gift from God. Their 3D design and development skills are obviously inherited from a lot of hard work and guidance from their talented instructors. Chris Hayes is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training 2008 Conference Summary in the eyes of the beholder, Barbara Sealund</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Dreher]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kaliym Islam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lance Dublin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Clark]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Training 2008]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trainers, developers, managers, speakers, exhibitors&#8230;all looking for answers to the challenge of how do we help them to &#8220;get it&#8221;?  I think another important question to ask is how do we help them to &#8220;want to get it&#8221;?  This is the answer I was seeking.  After almost 40 years of experience in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning how to change NASCAR tires in 24.6 seconds!</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=10</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PIT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sealund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Experiential training at its best.  The Sealand Pit Crew collaborates on how to complete a critical task that requires speed, accuracy, agility, strength, team spirit, and communication.  Training at its best.  We were pleased to see the Performance Instruction &#38; Training company at Training 2008.  They offered an opportunity to compete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure Playing Games Drives Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=9</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hank Aaron]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[interactive learning Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>

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My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Positive Serious Gaming</title>
		<link>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=56</link>
		<comments>http://www.sealund.com/blog/?p=56#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sealundb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Serious Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Click - you select your game token.
Click - you enter the game environment
Click - you immediately experience your first  challenge, and you encounter defeatable obstacles that once conquered,  you move on to greener pastures, or not.

Serious Games offer one of the most realistic news of the business  world as we know it [...]]]></description>
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