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ThoughtWorks: Day 1--Induction with a difference.

ID Reflections

The power point has slides with the dreaded bullet points (the color scheme varies between blue and grey; the org logo features on each corner; it's corporate, remember!) The slides transition from one set of bullet points to the next. The session ends.thankfully. Follow what!!! Scratch head).Then,

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Happiness is what it takes to make learning happen.

ID Reflections

Slide 81 talks about the pillars of Happiness. Refer to slide 129. Creating this happiness as an experience should then be the primary goal if we are to hook learners or customers. These can be attributes of training programs as well and such training programs would be the ones most likely to lead to a change in behavior.

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Pecha Kucha: My brief take on this presentation format

ID Reflections

In it's almost Zen-like simplicity of 20 slides of 20 seconds each, it is an extremely powerful vehicle. It is almost impossible to get away with dumping 5 bullet points on each slide and present that as a Pecha Kucha presentation. The form cannot be taken for granted. It is finicky to the extreme and demands perfection.

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Who are Instructional Designers? The existential dilemma.

ID Reflections

Go through the slide share: [link]. The role is essentially an amalgamation of BA, and L&D, and Human Capital Management functions. Maybe, it’s time to rename instructional designers to Learning and Development Facilitators.

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The Meaning is the Message

ID Reflections

As Stephen Downes says in slide 22 , Knowledge has many authors, knowledge has many facets, it looks different to each different person, and it changes moment to moment." We often forget that the "user is the content." This leads to failed communication.

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Quality or Quantity: What matters in the learning business.

ID Reflections

It takes years to develop design sense; years to understand why a certain sentence just sounds more right than another; years to design a learning experience as opposed to slides full of chunks of text. Quality, in spite of all the parameters, remains largely unmeasurable.

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In Response: Signs of Authority-Important Presentation Traits

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And this happens because the presenter has forgotten that the slides are only there to aid, reinforce and support. No one waited for the other to catch up (as happens when the audience has finished reading the bulleted points on the slide and is waiting for the presenter to finish reading them out).

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