Tag archives for grad school

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

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 graduate courses (for my Master’s degree in Instructional Systems at FSU) Development of Computer Courseware: [...]

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Rummler Report

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 [...]

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If the world is changing, why am I studying about the guys that sent us down the wrong path?

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 [...]

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Lessons learned from my Web 2.0 class: we need something NEW

I just wrote my final (official) blog post for my summer class about Web 2.0. One of the biggest things I learned this semester is that we have to stop this idea that we can apply old themes and metrics and ways of doing things to these new tools. I am not saying we need [...]

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Help build out a wiki about using tech to help with Asperger’s issues

I’m working on the first assignment for my Web 2.0 course. I have to make an example of “produsage”. What I settled on was creating a wiki so people can share how they use technology to overcome issues that come along because of Executive Functioning deficits (here is the link to the wiki). For example, [...]

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