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Three years ago today, at 11:48pm, I wrote these amazingly insightful words: Check it out… Friday, December 9th, 2005 Looks like I am officially blogging. I am too cool for words. (Ironic, isn’t it.) Thusly did this, my first blogging experience, begin. Pretty sad, really, but there you have it. Now here we are, three years and over 400 posts later, and I figure it’s about time I looked back to see if I’ve ever . . . → Read More: Three years of yammering on…  7 comments  Comics, Corporate world, Learning, Movies & TV, music, Other, Parenting, Personal finance, Reviews, Sci-fi, Technology  Comics, corporate training, Corporate world, crusade, doctor who, e-learning, Eckhart Tolle, free, heroes, instructional design, justice league, Learning, Oprah, Parenting, Personal finance, podcasting, Reviews, Sci-fi, Spider-Man, Superman, Technology, tv To continue in the vein of dissatisfaction with training, let’s take a look at the experience this high school student in Singapore is having with e-Learning (found via Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development): But what was most disappointing was that they expected us to learn fresh, new topics like Maxima and Minima on the dot, and the lessons weren’t even constructed by our teachers, but by this Dr. Brain series that was created by some . . . → Read More: Where are the humans? The Learning Circuits Blog: Scope of Learning Responsibility What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? That’s the question of the month, and it’s clarified a bit in the above linked post: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & development departments have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be delivered through instruction? If so, what is their responsibility? Where is the edge of . . . → Read More: Limits of Responsibility – ASTD’s Big Question for March Official Google Reader Blog: There’s a feed for that?! I’ve never actually used Craig’s List, but the article linked above points out that you can use feeds from that site and others to help you in a job search. It also has some other uses for feed readers that may not be immediately obvious to some people. While I don’t use Craig’s List, I do have the feed from my ASTD job search coming to . . . → Read More: Job Search via RSS TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) Click through. Now. Read the rest of this when you get back. Just don’t forget to come back. (FYI: you may have problems behind a firewall… I did) This is one of the biggest breakthroughs in collective consciousness, collaboration, and visual relationships I can think of. Seriously, this is an amazing tool. The first tool, Seadragon, is impressive enough. Amazing, smooth, manipulation of . . . → Read More: Video: Photosynth demo – awakening to the true power of the web In the e-Learning Guild‘s discussion community, the concept of using stories for training is being covered. At one point, Christy Tucker noted that at a previous job she had worked with a person who had been a high school English teacher and was very good at creative writing. She really appreciated his skills in creating a story to engage the learner and push the concepts through. She then made the point that you didn’t have . . . → Read More: Interviewing for creativity Well, here’s my first post of 2007. I’m going to start off with a gripe. To paraphrase Peter, Paul, and Mary: “Where has all the QA gone?” Quality Assurance is an essential part of any development project, no matter the industry. If you don’t have someone check the final product before you ship it out the door, how do you know it’s any good? What if some minor flaw was introduced somewhere in the process . . . → Read More: QA – Quality Assurance or Questionable Assurance? [article no longer available]Thomson Announces Strategic Realignment of Operations; Company to Sell Education Businesses – MarketWatch [tag]Thomson NETg[/tag] and [tag]SkillSoft[/tag] have been trading 1st and 2nd place in the [tag]enterprise e-learning[/tag] space for years. Yesterday, SkillSoft announced it is purchasing its biggest rival for about $285M. NETg Sale Agreement Signed * Thomson has agreed to sell NETg, a leading provider of continuing corporate education and training, to Skillsoft PLC (SKIL) for approximately $285 million. The . . . → Read More: SkillSoft buys NETg CLO: Survey: One-Third of Candidates Commit a Top Interview Don’t This article is aimed at executive search interviews, but most of it really applies to any interview. Make sure you don’t make these mistakes: Talking too much and listening too little. “Provide concise and specific answers to the [interviewer's] questions. If you go off on a five minute tangent, the [interviewer] may better remember how long you talked, and not what you said,” said Salveson. . . . → Read More: Interviewing mistakes Could Mastering the Ego Be a Learning Executive Solution? The article covers how ego can help and hinder a business. I think that’s important to actively consider. As the article states, it is pervasive and has a big impact. Obviously it doesn’t just apply to the business world, though. It’s a fact of life everywhere. Ego affects any situation in which there is more than one person involved: church, work, school, marriage, siblings, friends… the . . . → Read More: Humility |
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