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Creativity and Instructional Design

I’m listening to the most recent toolbar episode with Judy Unrein, Brian Dusablon and their guest, Connie Malamed. They talk about a number of things, but there’s a lot of discussion of creativity – how to be creative, the importance of creativity for problem solving, and the unfortunate lack of creativity that can happen in … Read more

Why You Should Learn About Tin Can

I blogged! Just not here!! I’m the guest blogger this week for the Tin Can folks.  It’s a post about why should care about Tin Can if you are an instructional designer: http://tincanapi.com/2012/09/04/what-does-tin-can-mean-to-instructional-designers/ I also get to bitch a little bit about SCORM and how is that not fun?

Craig Wiggins Says Let’s Stop Pretending

I tweeted the link to this article about 19 times today, but I’m posting it again here.  Craig Wiggins has been knocking out good stuff on the ASTD Learning Circuits blog all month, but he saved the best for last: Let’s Stop Pretending Every field has them, but Learning & Development has a lot of … Read more

Gameful Webinar – Recording

The recording of the webinar that I did for the Gameful folks has been posted – it’s available  here: http://gameful.org/groups/gameful-webinar-series/forum/topic/gameful-webinar-%E2%80%93-sunday-february-12-2012/ We wound up with a troll in the room towards the end, who kept posting links to -erm- unsavory sites, so be careful about clicking links in the chat (The ones in the actual presentation … Read more

Toolbar Podcast #9: Usability. Don’t Be a Moron.

The Toolbar is a podcast by Brian Dusablon and Judy Unrein that involves talking about the tools that e-learning practitioners use (and also beer). It’s just the kind of satisfying shoptalk that usually only happens at professional conferences or the like. I got to be a guest on this week’s episode, talking about things like … Read more

Is learner motivation your responsibility?

Just had this quick interchange with Patti Shank on twitter: This is a totally fair comment on Patti’s part — you can’t force someone to be motivated (and undoubtedly some of our disagreement stems from semantics – not that THAT ever happens on twitter).  A lot of the conversation around gamification (for a heated throw … Read more