Japan Infographics
Just for fun — some signs from Japan. Very different information design from american signage.
ADDIE and Crankiness
eLearning Roadtrip posted a really interesting question here: What is it about ADDIE that makes people so cranky? <snip> following last night’s #Lrnchat, I found myself getting a little cranky listening to others getting cranky and taking potshots at our venerable old instructional design process model, ADDIE, for…well, I’m not sure for what or why, … Read more
I’m on a Quest
I’m on a quest for good learning game engines. When I do talks about games for learning, I always get the question: “I/we thought that was great! I/we are a 1/2/3 person team, and we just have an lms guy/part time web developer/high school student using dreamweaver/old copy of powerpoint. How do we do learning … Read more
Creating (the Illusion of) Accomplishment
Just read an awesome article on Gamasutra (I <3 them) on Creating the Illusion of Accomplishment by David Rosen. What was most awesome about it was how matter of fact it was about the issue of creating a sense of accomplishment in games. Of course that’s what games are about. In fact, it’s about parodying … Read more
Nifty Serious Game
So a small-ish study came out a little while ago that said that texting while driving was very, very dangerous. Shocking. But apparently a real occurence in the world. So, what needs to happen to change that behavior? I would guess that there are a couple of attitudes at play: I know it’s a bad … Read more
It’s a Process, not an Event…
I really like this idea of using email as a tool for orienting new employees: http://blog.mindleaders.com/mindleaders_weblog/2009/07/maximize-the-power-of-email-in-your-learning-program.html When I was doing e-Learning consulting, new hire orientation projects always made me nuts. Basically, there were no behavioral objectives, and it was always tempting to firehose the information. Just like you aren’t going to remember the names … Read more