Learning, Technology & Change

it really is amazing what you can do without when you must. Our home is going up on the market so the agent came by and suggested that we cleanup. Now our place is not dirty, my wife would never let that happen. All the sweaters you don't wear,But might want to; extra dishes, utensils, printed articles you intend to read... should we throw them out? doesn't that just increase waste, where we might print/buy it again later on when we Do need it? Perhaps we need to examine how we managed without it and just continue. Or if it's aspiration-based clutter just give ourselves a reasonable deadline to put it into practice. The idea of aspirational clutter is one that hits home. Things that you don't use, but embody qualities that you aspire for yourself. A treadmill doubling as a clothes hanger; one day you will get in shape. Books you've never read that fill shelves; the budding philosopher that never bloomed. The extra server, more of a footrest than anything; the proje...

Imagine turning Out-of-office on, turning off the cellphone, grabbing a few books and just going. Imagine just sitting around and being quiet (can be pretty hard to do) Imagine not being constantly bombarded with some Critical piece of information that you must pay attention to for the next 45 seconds until the next piece comes. The whole idea of going off the grid is a wonderful concept for me. Except for my allergy to just about everything, going camping, visiting a cottage/cabin is awesome. Being enslaved to a little envelope in the bottom right corner of my screen, or a vibrating piece of plastic in my pocket is quite pitiful. On our honeymoon, the cottage didn't have cable, or a phone line - we didn't even have neighbours. When it's a bad thing you're "isolated", but if you're at peace with yourself it's "solitude". Haven't been camping in two years. Probably only going car camping, but it's a start. The raccoon cooing isn'...

With the increasing use of rapid eLearning tools - what does this mean for the traditional eLearning developer. The tool is designed to allow the subject matter expert to build professional content without developer or instructional design skills? Have those skills been eliminated? Will the tool perform ISD, or ADDIE ? Perhaps it can help facilitate this process, but there is a human component required. SMEs are not being trained in ID before using a rapid eLearning tool. So what's happening? It would appear that the process is becoming more agile, at the expense of the ID and developers. Is this the price of progress? I'm not convinced; I think what that moves toward is lower-quality content. Without the proven methodology in place the quality of the material must decrease.

I really didn't think I would come to this. I used to think blogging was too self-indulgent (along with most of web 2.0). I've come to the realization that the blog is a requirement for successful brand-management, where the brand is yourself. Will a blog become a better judge of employability than a resume (or even a linkedin profile) ? It would seem that blogging is a a necessity. I'm not sold on micro-blogging yet. Perhaps i'm just getting old. I don't want to have to do this, but i can't help it - not my fault.