This semester I’m taking a course named Multi-Media Design and Development. Our first assignment is due tomorrow, we had to do design a lesson using a free, online animation tool.
My lesson is on adding tags to community generated content. I think it is hilarious. For your enjoyment, I present “Community Alert: Solving the Case of Missing Information“.
My last semester starts today, and its going to be a doozy!
I’m taking one class: Multimedia Design and Development. I think its going to be about designing learning games based on the books we have. I even created a new Second Life persona.
I’m interning for Pistachio Consulting, and my internship is going to be all about microsharing. I think it is going to kick my butt, but I’m so excited about the opportunity and the work I’ll be doing for Marcia Conner.
I also have to pull my portfolio together. I’ve been collecting artifacts for it here, here, as well as offline. I just need to figure out how I want it to look and feel.
I was thinking of starting a wiki for everyone in #lrnchat who is graduating this semester – anyone interested?
There’s also other changes afoot for me, so the next three or four months are going to be crazy! Good thing I have practice with that.
I’ve been talking at #lrnchat about our report on Geary Rummler. Its 90% done, so I posted it on slideshare. We have to fix a couple of things, the biggest one is our citation page.
Please bear in mind the assignment was based on a chapter about Rummler, and we only have about 7 minutes to present, and we’re the last thing anyone has to do for the semester…..
My partner and I are doing an oral report on Geary Rummler. Remember, I am in a 100% distance program, so this should be interesting.
Actually, lots of what I do and consume at work is 100% distance.
I found a video of some of Rummler’s lectures at Motorola, and I am finding myself very annoyed that I never got to meet him. That he isn’t around for #lrnchat.
I know this is quite selfish, but I would have loved to have had the opportunity to talk to him.
If you have any suggestions for what my partner and I need to include in our report about Rummler, let me know. Maybe I’ll set up a wiki to collect more info.
Here’s the link to the videos I am watching. Rummler seems so straight-forward and real.
Weird blog post title right?
I’m taking two performance courses this semester. In one of the courses we are studying the origins of Human Performance Technology (HPT). I’ve been blogging that homework (see here , here, and here). As I’ve learned about the history, I’ve had a growing feeling of unease.
I blame it on CCK08 – last year’s Connectivism and Connected Knowledge course. That class really got me thinking about what it takes to create an environment for learning. And what I learned there is very different than what is in practice, and to some extent what I’m learning at school. (The course has started up for this year, check it out here).
I made a nice network of folks from that class as well. One of them, Mike Bogle, wrote a post a couple of days ago that describes part of how I feel. In the post he said this:
How on Earth can I make a difference and affect change in a culture that is almost diametrically opposed to my way of thinking? How can I reconcile the growing notion that so much of the culture I am currently situated in, I completely disagree with, and likewise disagrees with me? Quite literally I’m grasping at straws for an answer right now.
He was talking about his experience in higher ed, but I feel the exact same way sometimes. Mike and I aren’t in the “mushy middle”, and I want to believe that at some point we’ll start to see the change we hope to affect.
But then I do my HPT homework.
Why am I studying about the guys that dismantled indigenous ways of learning in favor of industrialized performance management? Are these guys really the founders of HPT? Or were the behavioral scientists of the 50s and 60s trying to undue the damage that was done by treating people as mere extensions of machines (or resources)?
I know I have lots of explaining to do. What is indigenous learning? I’m going to save that for an upcoming blog post. All I can say is it is the opposite of the Gervais Principle of management, which states:
Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves.
I think its all triangles as opposed to circles. I’ll explain more in the next post.
