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By Jeff, on January 5th, 2006 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 points:
Get past the brain’s “crap filter” [i.e., point out why it's important] Learning is not a one-way “push” model Use visuals to improve (and speed up) understanding, retention, and recall Use redundancy . . . → Read More: Instructional Design reminders
By Jeff, on December 15th, 2005 Kathy Sierra has a great blog (Creating Passionate Users). I’ve only been following it for a couple weeks, but I’m really impressed. She writes about (predictably) making people passionate about your subject matter. In her case, that’s computer – and more specifically programming language – documentation and training. As luck would have it, that’s one of my interests.
Her latest post is about keeping your writing interesting. Here’s a quote, but I encourage you . . . → Read More: “Interesting” idea
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