Learning Visions

OCTOBER 29, 2008

" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Right now, Im proofing a storyboard thats full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and theres really nothing I can do about it.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Im about halfway through Michael Allens new book, Designing Successful E-Learning. Between you and John Im going to need to ask for a visit to Ikea for a new bookshelf too! I prefer the get-down-and-dirty variety. These are my current faves.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007 Instructional Design Stress I have to confess that although I call myself an instructional designer, its been quite awhile since Ive done anything like that. But I havent "done" a course in ages. And now Ive got a two-hour custom course on my plate. Im excited. Im nervous.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

Im curious, have you had a chance to listen to yours or any of the others? Im happy with how they turned out. Currently Im playing the role of a learning consultant, taking care of solutions and operations for learning services. Some of us will still be creating the course with the objectives. Curry said. Thanks again!

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Learning Visions

MARCH 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Jott This Blog I havent had so much time lately to blog, as this project Im working on has been quite grueling. I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. That is, of course, if Im even awake after the kids have finally fallen asleep.

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Learning Visions

JULY 26, 2007

Thursday, July 26, 2007 My Top Ten Tools for Jane Hart Jane Hart asked me to add my own top ten list to the mix. Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. Im #34 on the list. Google Reader All the news I need to know about e-Learning in one place.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 22, 2007

Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Half of Companies Blocking Facebook Christy Tucker has been musing on Social Networking as LMS: Problems and Opportunities. Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible. Of course, no company can do so, but many of them still try.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). I follow of course with “I design training for businesses…&# 9:34 AM Michelle said. Of course my brother-in-law once responded with "yeah, we have that stuff at my work, but I never take em." Oh, I see."

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Mass Chapter ISPI November Meeting Im speaking at the next Mass Chapter ISPI Meeting, thanks to the always energetic Jean Marrapodi. e-Learning Tools Crash Course: Deciding What Authoring Tools to Use and When So youve heard about PowerPoint, Articulate, Captivate and Flash.

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Learning Visions

MAY 1, 2009

Friday, May 01, 2009 Name That Tool I just got a FaceBook query from someone and I thought you all could help: Im looking for a tool you might have come across, but I dont even know what product/programming group it belongs to. So if you say, yes I have signoff authority for travel vouchers, I could tell this tool to mark four courses.

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Monday, May 21, 2007 Learning Styles as Fortune Telling My research into understanding the role of learning styles in e-Learning continues. Im struck by why I find this topic so interesting. And on that note, I think Im pretty much done now with my learning styles assignment. As a practical person, I tend to avoid theory.

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Learning Visions

MAY 31, 2007

Thursday, May 31, 2007 My Job Description I work at a small e-Learning company, which means I play lots of different roles. The focus here the last few months has been less on creating custom courses for clients and more on building Templates and Learning Portals (think LMS-lite). Havent written a course script in a long time here.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

In fact, Ive had very little of interest to add to any conversation of late, mostly because Im much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions Im handling there. Hey Cammy--you know me, I think you can always apply the personal to the professional, so Im with Karl that you should blog about the Wii. Which is fine.

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 8, 2008

Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. The courses I develop are 3-credit graduate courses for K-12 teachers, taught over 9 weeks. What do you do? What do you design?

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 5, 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007 Youre So Immature: e-Learning in Some Organizations Earlier this week I was musing about messes in Messy Learning OK. Im just about to kickoff a new project with a manufacturing organization to produce some custom courses. Im gonna call them an "immature e-Learning organization." Games are scary.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007 How Does Gender Matter in the e-Learning Brain? Im wondering if any e-Learning designers out there consider these differences when creating courses. I know Ive asked the question about gender split, but I can honestly say Ive never designed a course with a specific gender in mind.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Friday, September 12, 2008 Connectivism: Week 1 With little time these days, Ill be auditing the auditors version of the 12 week Connectivism course happening now. Cammy, Im glad youre doing the auditing. In my own lazy way, at the very least. Am I growing new knowledge? (As As opposed to building it?) More on this later?

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 21, 2008

Im co-opting it and encourage all of you to do the same. What have you done lately to create a course that will intrigue and inspire your learners? Im writing financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! So much on-demand training consists of boring page turners.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 8, 2007

Friday, June 08, 2007 Instructional Designers Tools Theres been a good conversation going on over at Christy Tuckers Experiencing E-Learning blog about instructional design. I think Im somewhat of an anomaly in the field. I think Im somewhat of an anomaly in the field. I dont build courses. I dont do any programming.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 20, 2007

Monday, August 20, 2007 31 Days: Days 17, 18, 19, 20, & 21 If youve been following along with the 31 Day Challenge, you may know that its starting to wear thin. Nevertheless, Im trying to keep up. Then again, Im not trying to stay on top of hundreds of comments a day. Im not going to bother with a full-blown survey.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2009

This go-round, Im at the other end of things: in a much-needed lull between projects, taking a breather. Opening my eyes, looking around, and seeing what I can see. Audio : Ive been learning the basics of using Adobe Audition for sound recording and have been creating narration for a course were currently building.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Rise Up and sing you e-Learning designers of the 21st Century He calls it unashamed promotion , which I guess it is. A Conversation with Karl Kapp ► February (11) ID Live with Charles Reigeluth on EdTechTalk Kineo Insights Webinar: Kronos Moodle Case Study Kineo Insights Webinar: The Truth About Open Sourc.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 23, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost. According to the reports there has been a substantial growth in hiring of IT professionals in India related to Oracle, Web-Designing, and other courses.

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2008

This manufacturing process training course was originally delivered as a four hour plus death-by-PowerPoint classroom session (if you could see the original PPT source content, youd begin glazing over within a few slides). Within certain parameters as defined by the client (of course). Im glad youre on board with my ducks!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 15, 2009

Tweetdeck Im officially hooked to Twitter and use Tweetdeck to organize and group those I follow. My best column: eLearning, of course! Not only is Twitter great for the occasional laugh, but also a great source of information and links. Im ready for the iPhone. Now I stop first at Twitter. Have a question?

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Learning Visions

MARCH 12, 2007

Monday, March 12, 2007 Free the Learners -- Free the LMS Jay Cross in Free the learners talks about his afternoon omelette and anarchy and then goes on: People ask how to track informal learning in their LMS; my response is don’t. Im wondering if people actually use all that data that does get tracked now for formal learning.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This hasnt gotten onto my radar before -- Im not sure if there are any state-funded online programs in Massachusetts. As I recall, she has two kids in high school who are taking online courses, and thats what got her interested in ID and e-learning. Of course, the direction makes perfect sense and does seem inevitable at this stage.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Of course, we dont get any detail into how Typealyzer works, so its even more suspect! Okay, Im stunned there are so many INTJs here since as a general rule, INTJs are only about 5% of population (Im guessing here). Im an INTJ and it says my blog is an ESTP. I think thats fairly accurate, especially the independent part.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Women, Gaming & the Guild Master Ceiling This post is an addendum to my first review of Karl Kapps book, Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning. Of course they are. Im concerned that women will be excluded if such a focus is put on gaming skills -- or at least the gamer label.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Personal Hard Drive Mark Oehlert made some very sparky comments as he enters into the "raging PLE debate." (I Then I realized Im a constant notetaker, in the pen-and-paper sense. Thats one way for me to process the information Im seeing/hearing, and the same may be true for at least some live bloggers.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 1, 2007

Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8 Random Facts About Me Michele Martin of The Bamboo Project has tagged me for the 8 Random Facts About me meme. 3) I went to the same high school as presidential candidate Oback Barama (although Im 7 years younger and have never laid eyes on him in person). 4) I speak German. Danke sehr. Tim, Danke schon!

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Learning Visions

APRIL 11, 2008

I put myself as academic, since the courses I develop are graduate courses. However, I do work for a for-profit company, which means Im sort of in-between. I figured youre really more interested in what type of courses I design rather than where the money comes from. 1:21 PM Dave Ferguson said. Hiring Women in 1943.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 2, 2007

Thursday, August 02, 2007 Online Portfolios Jennifer Madrell shows us a great example of an online portofolio , which she calls a "svelte and sparkly version of this blog - that is a requirement and capstone project at Indiana University." Of course, I have nothing like this for myself. Of course, I have nothing like this for myself.

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Learning Visions

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Michael Allen says in Michael Allens Guide to e-Learning : "Learners think, Im supposed to do my best to learn whatever is here, so I might as well spend all my time learning it rather than reading about learning it." (p. I called this one out as one of the top things I learned about learning in 2007. How about you?

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Of course, there may be and there are many variations in the quality of instruction that result. Im wondering if we should be talking about tiers of instructional design. Of course, this is all semantics, and maybe it doesnt matter. Today Im feeling more like a hazy purple. Look at our survey results. But maybe it does.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 14, 2008

Im not just thinking about the gadgets and the gizmos that you use or the instructional design "method" behind the process (e.g., Do you ever develop a mnemonic for a custom course? But Ive got a mind to try it out one of these courses. In a recent course, I designed "Think About It!" I dont know if Ive ever done that.

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Learning Visions

MAY 22, 2008

Im not disconcerted, though probably youre wreaking havoc with administrative systems. Im grateful to Baby Girl that she came a couple days early. As you know, Im a big fan of baby girls! Hooray for the new arrival. 8:27 PM John David Roberts said. Congratulations!! Very very exciting news! Congrats, Cammy! Yeah, Cammy!!!!

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