IDEO is one of the companies I admire for solid and contemporary product design and especially follow their Play and Digital Experience areas on their website. recently heard on twitter that they’d launched a toolkit for educators to assist with Design Thinking at [link]. If you’re a K12 educator, you’ve probably heard about this one by now. IDEO has broken design thinking down into five elegant steps and describe them as: 1. Discovery – I have a challenge. How do I approach it? Interpretation – I learned something. How do I interpret it? Ideation – I see an opportunity. What do I create? MORE >>

I'm a little overwhelmed by the response to my post yesterday entitled Seven reasons teachers should blog which as I write this, is racing toward 2000 views in just 24 hours. Thank you to all those who have taken the time to stop by and read it. It is turning out to be one of my most successful posts of the year, and not just because of the hit rate. It seems that many teachers are interested in blogging (or edublogging), but for various reasons are not yet in there, getting their hands dirty. Some of those commenting on yesterday's post added further reasons why teachers should blog. MORE >>

It seems to me that right now this is a wide open field.  There are people looking at applying the Kirkpatrick model, there are people measuring the use of social learning tools, and there are people talking about something similar to Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method. In the spirit of my blog posts on Re-evaluating Evaluation and Revisiting Kirkpatrick , I decided to start with Don Clark ?Big Big Dog, Little Dog blogger?and and his take on using Kirkpatrick’s four levels to create and evaluate social learning. Identifies specific metrics to demonstrate and deliver on those expectations. MORE >>

A quick survey of what passes for online courses these days immediately reveals the ways in which we are not thinking creatively about how technology can best support and enhance education. read more MORE >>

Steve Woodruff's recent article on the 12 Most Important Questions for Your Identity may be geared toward companies, but I think are just as useful for individuals. Below are my re-writes for individual professional development. . What do you REALLY want to do? . This is really the most vital question you can ask yourself. It is the question that can (and should) drive all of your professional development actions. . Where do you really ring the bell? . This question is about your strengths, your most important qualities--your positive core. Where is there a hole in the market? Look around you. MORE >>