Standing on the edge of some crazy cliff and protecting what?

May 11, 2010

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to [...]

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An open letter to Jessica Peter

May 6, 2010

Update: A few days after this post was published, Jessica Peter was removed from Facebook. I also updated this post to omit the individual company names.
Dear Jessica-
I noticed you have 887 friends on Facebook and that we have 117 friends in common. I probably accepted your friendship for that very reason because I know we’ve [...]

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Silencing my ‘you suck’ self-talk

April 26, 2010

I brought three books with me for my flights to Atlanta and then to Australia. The first one I read was “Self-Promotion for Introverts.” I flipped the book over whenever I set it down (including when it sat on the front seat of my rental car) because I really dislike the “self-promotion” in the title [...]

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AITD 2010 – spreading good intentions

April 26, 2010

in·ten·tion, n.
Pronunciation: \in-ˈten(t)-shən\
1 : a determination to act in a certain way : resolve
2 : import, significance
3 : what one intends to do or bring about
I’m just back from the 2010 Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) Conference in Sydney. And if I could put one word on the message there it was intention.
I [...]

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CLO Summit

April 18, 2010

I had the pleasure of speaking at the marcus evans CLO Summit in Georgia last week. The other presenters and most of the attendees were directors, VPs, or CLOs.
There were also several solution providers that I had the pleasure of catching up with or meeting for the first time too.
The venue was a winery and [...]

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Tales from the road

April 13, 2010

When you live in a rural area, flying general involves a connector flight to a larger airport. Connector flights are the type of flights where they rearrange people for proper weight distribution and balance.
I’ve never been asked to move. I imagine my size isn’t something that would have much impact on the balance of the [...]

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A Learning Paradigm Shift: Cybergogy

April 9, 2010

I was doing some research for an article and ran across a new (to me) term: cybergogy. It’s way cooler than pedagogy or andragogy, no? I’m think I’ll start calling myself a cybergogy strategist. Kidding.
The cybergogy literature references date back to 2003 and it seems most of the conversation has been in the higher ed [...]

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Higher education…higher than what?

April 8, 2010

David Shoemaker, eCornell, highlights a higher ed blog post about the imminent unbundling of courses from curriculum both from colleges offering degrees and entities that do not offer degrees. Unbundling meaning:
…the notion that students could cobble together a curriculum that includes courses designed and delivered by a variety of different institutions …
- Steve Kolowich
Unbundling is [...]

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E-Learning 2010

March 25, 2010

I will be traveling to Australia for the first time in April and I leave in just two and a half weeks. I’m speaking at the AITD conference in Sydney. Totally awesome. Freaking. AWESOME.
I did the Visa thing last month but, true to form, when it comes to traveling, I’m just getting around to asking [...]

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Instructional Design by Example

March 19, 2010

I launched a new blog this week for showcasing e-learning examples. The plan is to provide a centralized location for examples of e-learning courses and details about the instructional design process used in creating them. I also hope to share specifics about the logistics of the courses. Anyone is welcome to submit an example using [...]

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