A few months ago, I wrote a post on Tips to Stop Sucking at PowerPoint. But as we all know, you may have the snazziest presentation on the block, but you’re only half-way there. You, yourself, have to bring your A game. In other words, you have to offer the total package.
Clive [...]
Continue Reading →Last Saturday, I was talking with a past colleague and good friend Virginie, an instructional designer working in the field for 10 years now. We talked about some of the struggles we go through in this profession. We tried to pin point what was the one character quality that all instructional designers should have. We both agreed [...]
Continue Reading →In a recent research report published in the Personality and social psychology bulletin, Polman and Emich demonstrate how when we make decisions for others, we are going to make decisions that are more creative than the ones we make for ourselves.
This is just the latest extension of research into construal level [...]
Continue Reading →Managing all the content that comes at us can get overwhelming. We can set up systems to tag, categorize, filter, sort, organize and essentially manage content at various levels. And once we’ve sifted through all the content that is sent to us, and we’ve decided what it is that we want to share, how do [...]
Continue Reading →Not only is this blog post by Angela Colter a great reflection piece on the difference between liking content and understanding it, it also is chock full of tools to help you analyse your content and better it. In addition, the pros and cons of these tools are outlined.
Though primarily targeted at [...]
Continue Reading →The title is bold and direct, I know. I like it actually, because when a PowerPoint presentation sucks, it really, really sucks. So sometimes, we just have to call it what it is.
The bottom line is that we cannot escape PowerPoint in today’s business and/or [...]
Continue Reading →Of course the jet airplane and in-vitro fertilization are there.
But what surprised me was that GPS technology is around since 1978! And even more surprising, to find high-yield rice. You *do* learn something new every day!
To select the 50 most pioneering inventions of the past 50 years, PM consulted [...]
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Kristina Schneider is organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. 
Her book Edublogging: a qualitative study of training and development bloggers investigates the value of edublogging as a form of self-directed learning and its potential contribution to communities of practice.
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