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Okay, that’s a bit extreme, but sometimes it felt like Comcast stole my vacation, at least. This is also the story of my absence from this blog over the last week or so. I save up most of my vacation time all year so I can use it for the week leading up to and following Christmas. . . . → Read More: The year Comcast stole Christmas It’s a popular debate lately: are these social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.) bad for us? Recently an Oxford professor, Baroness Susan Greenfield, made some rather provocative speculations about the cumulative effect frequent use of these sites can have on our physical brains. As reported by ars technica: Greenfield said that sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, . . . → Read More: Tuesday TubeWatch: Social networking will eat your brain! What is wrong with parents? Today, my wife and I went to see two vastly different films, Wall-E and The Dark Knight (reviews to follow). In both films, there were families in the audience that made me want to go up to the parents and say “What are you thinking?! You have an important role to play . . . → Read More: Kids in the movie theater 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 . . . → Read More: Limits of Responsibility – ASTD’s Big Question for March My company has recently shut down all access to YouTube. I get that. I completely believe that many people are using company time and bandwidth to watch all sorts of inappropriate — or just plain time wasting — content. From a certain perspective, I can support the decision to prevent that from happening. There is a war . . . → Read More: I’m a casualty of war The Tech Effect | LeadershipJournal.net The issues of how – and whether – to integrate technology into training go beyond the borders of corporate training or academia. The same issues confront other professions as well, such as pastoring a church, as covered in the article linked above. I was struck, as I read through the article, at . . . → Read More: Media and technology issues for learning and persuasion Corporate Training & e-Learning Blog: BIG for 2006: LCMSs, Podcasting, and Outsourcing The ratio of average CEO pay to average . . . → Read More: CEOs – taking more than their share? I finally got around to seeing Crash tonight. As you have probably heard, this is an excellent movie. A little hard to follow at times, but well worth the effort. There is really no way to summarize this movie. There is no bad guy, no good guy (well… I’ll come back to that), no happy ending in . . . → Read More: Review: Crash Parkin’s Lot: Stupid in America Godfrey Parkin takes the notion (supported by a study) that America’s public schools, on average, produce substandard education, and applies it to corporate environments. As he says, the condemnation of America’s school system is nothing new. I’ve heard it all my life. In fact, my friends even joke about understanding things “despite our . . . → Read More: America’s schools ineffective? Challenges for corporate learning Creating Passionate Users: REAL motivation posters There was also a great post in the comments that I’ll quote here: This all relates to item 10 of Deming’s 14 points; eliminate slogans, exhortations and targets . . . → Read More: Creating Passionate Users: REAL motivation posters |
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