"There are a lot of challenges that instructional designers and trainers face in developing and delivering courses in a corporate environment. For instance, usually there is barely time to get the material together, let alone organize it well and produce"
Challenge students?! Are you crazy?!

"Seriously, where else are you going to get a combination like that? I've got three video clips for you today, and one of them is not fiction. See if you can figure out which one. Firefly is back! That's right, Nathan Fillion has"
Firefly is back, Singing Batman, and Cyborg Rats

"I think it's official: I'm addicted to Kathy Sierra's blog. Yesterday she made a great (if a tad long) summary of some pretty basic points she made earlier in the year that apply to learning. Here's a bulleted list of her main"
Instructional Design reminders

"This is a follow-up to my previous, spoiler-free post. I have a few observations about continuity problems in Superman Returns. Spoilers below! If you want to read it, take your mouse and click & drag from here until the end of"
Review: Superman Returns :: Spoilers!!

"[tag]Christian Bale[/tag], [tag]Michael Caine[/tag], and [tag]Christopher Nolan[/tag] (all of whom worked on [tag]Batman Begins[/tag]) join [tag]Hugh Jackman[/tag] to create one of the best magician movies I've ever seen. Actually, this movie crosses a few genres, but I won't list them"
Review: The Prestige

"If you're not a parent or don't want to talk about the logistics of sickness, move along... nothing to see here. You've been warned. So after Thanksgiving dinner was over and we were all about to head home, my nephew got sick."
Not for the queasy - where to get sick

"Smallville's a repeat tonight after the mid-season cliffhanger two weeks ago. Not sure where the plot is going? Come on... Chloe is still possessed by Brainiac, Doomsday is a raving murderous monster who just wants to be loved, and Clark"
Smallville fix

"That is some seriously well-integrated CGI. I love it. The Stormtrooper's "Boo-ya" at the end kills me. To be a total geek, here, I gotta say that a beam meant to take out a planet would not stop at taking out one"
Tuesday TubeWatch: Death Star Trek Wars

"NBC.com > Heroes "They thought they were like everyone else... until they woke with incredible abilities." When I first heard of this show, I figured it would be an X-Men rip-off, similar to Mutant X. After having watched the preview, though,"
Heroes preview

"I mentioned last week that I was a guest on a podcast over at Lee and Dan's Midnight Movie Club. The show has now been released so head over and listen. You should be able to pick me out. I'm"
Greetings, Program!

"Hey, guess what... this review will be completely devoid of jokes about having seen this movie before. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Off the top of my head I can't think of any movie I've seen Denzel Washington"
Review: Deja Vu

"Slice of Scifi - Science Fiction TV & Movie News, Interviews & more » Animated Star Wars Moving Along The animated Star Wars series is on track. Some tidbits from Ron Coleman, animation supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic: Fifteen episodes are"
Animated Star Wars - gettin' ready to rock

"To continue with the theme of my last post... Clark Aldrich talked about the similarities of video games and training simulations in one of his blogs for ASTD's Learning Circuits: Computer games must teach skills that are actually used and improvised upon,"
Video games and simulations

"Alex & Emma is a thoroughly predictable love story with half-realized characters and little to no tension. Luke Wilson was boring and a bit unnatural in his acting (his brother Owen might have been able to make the character somewhat"
Review: Alex & Emma

"Learning2005 learningwiki.com - Mistakes Elliot Masie's Learning Wiki has a page for common mistakes trainers/instructional designers make, as reported by subscribers to his newsletter. He received over 700 responses -- the wiki page is just an 'executive summary'. Some of the"
Training Mistakes