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Goodbye Visionary

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We need more of what Steve had. He saw something that was simply better than what had preceded it, and he was willing to gamble based on that instinct. That required an ability to think first and foremost as someone who lives with technology rather than produces it.

Steve Jobs

Jobs is perhaps the greatest user of technology to every live. He was able to think first and foremost as someone who lives with technology rather than produces it.

How-to Instructions

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I’ve been working on some How-to instructional design materials and came across this How-to video:

I suggest you open this link[below] in a new window, so you can continue to read my comments, as you watch.

Office Organization

Cool ideas to streamline your home office:

The somewhat quirky presentation, I feel, lends to the home-iness of this design. Which allows the viewer to be comfortable and have a sense that ‘This is going to be ok.‘ What I really like is how well this has been compartmentalized: Intro, Get Started, Follow the Steps and Conclusion–it makes for a nicely organized feature of the presentation itself.

In Instructional Design terms, Allison Carter has included several good key design components in this video: Alison is teaching a procedure here and takes the viewer thru several steps….in her Intro and on down thru her Conclusion. So, Alison is:

  • Teaching– in this case chatting conversationally about factual information–office disorganization
  • Teaching the viewer about the concepts of an organized office
  • Teaching the viewer new learning procedures to make their office more organized
  • Teaching and showing the viewer those new learning processes–so they can re-organize their office
  • Teaching the principles of how the viewer’s newly organized office will benefit them.

Alison is able to do all this Content Performance by visually organizing the: Facts, Concepts, Processes, Procedures & Principles within a ‘Display Method [the video]’ that is pleasing, fun, short, to-the-point, and has created a scenario the viewer can easily relate to.

Just read the comments, below the video, to see how readers/viewers became motivated!

I even started to look around my own office and think of ideas where I can use a little re-organization.

  • Did Alison motivate you to get your home office into shape?

Designing Online Learning

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When I am designing an online course, I use lots of check lists and charts to help guide me. Then,  when reading an articles on Three Keys That Make Good Interaction Design Great, these words stood out to me:

  • Optimizing: Making daily activities more efficient
  • Engaging: Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning
  • Empowering: Enabling people to go beyond their limits
  • Expressing: Encouraging self expression and/or creativity
  • Connecting: Facilitating communication between people and communities
  • Disrupting: Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets.

Hello, this list can be used to double check an online course.  Are these being represented in the course I’m designing? Why can’t a check list, like this one, be used to help create some dynamic online design?  I say “Yes it can!”

Art Costa Quote

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“What was once educationally significant, but difficult to measure, has been replaced by what is insignificant and easy to measure.

So now we test how well we have taught what we do not value.”

Art Costa, professor emeritus at Cal State Fullerton