Ah, the “aha” moment… while currently only garnering about 199,000 results on Google, in the circles of training and education where I live, the phrase “Aha Moment” has definitely crossed the annoying- phrase threshold and is well on its way to the point of no return… somewhere between “multi-modal” and ”at the end of the day.” Recently, I heard someone [...]
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Rather than trying to accelerate my Masters by taking courses this summer, I’m going to take a step back and review everything I’ve learned so far, and especially, the semester just ended. Having gathered the materials, readings and exercises from my instructional design courses, I’m now going to do a re-run of it, at my own pace, [...]
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At the outset of a learning session, one strategy that instructors sometimes use is a thing called a learning contract. Unfortunately, instructors don’t always do a good job of it, and the learning contract becomes like one of those shrinkwrap legal agreements that you get before trying out / installing software. The user (learner) is presented [...]
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From my nephew, on Facebook: “… thinks a true optimist says the glass is half awesome” Comment from overbearing uncle “The glass is undervalued by half its potential: Buy it, fill it, resell at a 100% profit. THAT’S how it’s done, Boy.” The truth is, yes, the glass is, in fact, half awesome…. if not wholly [...]
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They say it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, and/or it requires more energy to frown than it does to smile. I disagree. ..but don’t just take my word it… here’s a nice Snopes article that deals with this little smiley aphorism: http://www.snopes.com/science/smile.asp I think that it takes WORK to smile, [...]
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