Hello! Haven’t been here in a while, here’s what’s been going on. I have the great privilege of working right now as the lead instructional designer for the Arizona State University-edX partnership project Global Freshman Academy. Now, those of you in instructional design and open education will be saying, “wow, that’s pretty cool,” or possibly, “better you…
I love learning, most of the time. There’s something about learning to create and edit a Wiki properly that has terrified me. I have avoided it, but no more, now is the time and #ds4oer is helping me reduce the fear and embrace the challenge. So far so good. The link that follows here is my…
I’ll be hijacking this blog for the next short while to participate in some much-needed learning and collaboration. I don’t know how to Wiki, despite the fact that I frequently recommend it as a great collaborative tool for students. Time to walk the walk. Short intro, I’m an Instructional Designer at Arizona State University. It’s…
With gratitude to Rob Hatch and Chris Brogan (Rob reached me first this year), I am reminded of Chris’ three words exercise. The idea is to consider your upcoming year (or your past year perhaps), and choose three words to remind you of your life and professional goals. I did this exercise a few years…
While I get some great inside knowledge laughs, and frequent kicks in the butt about pushing boundaries from reading critical ed tech blogs, I’m developing bad habits. I’m already sarcastic with a tendency to scoff, it’s not a skill set I need to expand. Criticism is healthy, but it is not productive without the extraordinarily hard…
Curating, adapting, adopting, and testing open educational resources (OERs) in curriculum design is a truck-load of work. Don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise. It’s also a risky, experimental proposition with outside-the-box theories and practices, challenging issues, launches, breakdowns, successes, and failures publicly documented every day. Many in the world have no idea what OERs…
My crazy journey to learning design… I will be fifty years old this year (2014), and I don’t really mind you knowing my age. I like being fifty. I’m grateful I’ve lived this long. If I smarten up a bit about my fitness and nutrition I might go on a while longer. I have things I…