Category Archives: education

December Big Question – What did you learn about learning in 2009?

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It’s the last day of December, the last day of 2009, the last day of a decade. But I still want to answer December’s Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2009? Grad School Personally, I took five … Continue reading

How do knowledge workers work?

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This blog post is courtesy @quinnovator and his latest post on Distributed Thinking and Learning. So if you are one of my school team mates, sorry but I had to get this out of my head before editing any more … Continue reading

Big Question: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?

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I’m going to make this post quick, because I’m actually supposed to be working on a gap analysis for one of my classes. A colleague and I have been presenting this presentation: Social Media Ed Svcs Overview View more presentations … Continue reading

New Tag Cloud builder – Tagul

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Someone tweeted a link to Tagul. It makes very nice tag clouds. You can save clouds, and have the option of updating the clouds automatically. If you click on a word in the tagul, it opens a google search with … Continue reading

Anyone can be an ID. But should *anyone* be an ID?

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This is my response to last week’s #lrnchat. I was inspired to write it after watching an internal (EMC) discussion about training. Anyone can perform the ID function You heard me correctly. ANYONE. I have to say I was so … Continue reading

ASTD Big Question: Working effectively with subject matter experts

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The topic for ASTD’s September Big Question is working with SMEs. Before I start let me explain how we do this at EMC. Those of us who develop technical training are expected to become an SME in the technology for … Continue reading

July’s Big Question: New Skills for Learning Professionals

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July’s big question is very timely for me! Here is the question: In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what … Continue reading

Where do I spend my time? June’s Big Question

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This month’s ASTD Big Question is all about how people have time to participate in social media. Here is the exact question: How much time do you spend and how did you find time for all the relatively newer things … Continue reading

Was Kirkpatrick influenced by the guys who thought up “planned obsolescence””?

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A few days ago Clive Shepard wrote a post entitled What’s the Problem with Kirkpatrick? Who is Kirkpatrick? For those of you who aren’t all geeky about instructional design, Donald Kirkpatrick came up with the four levels of instruction back … Continue reading

ASTD Big Question: Am I still stuck?

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Wow! This month the ASTD Big Question is about a blog post I wrote back in December! The post was called “I think grad school is making me crazy“. Basically, I was venting my frustration about learning new ways of … Continue reading