I just joined the Article Writing Challenge group and today’s topic is guest post. I’m not sure how to take that. At first I thought I need to run to one of my fellow bloggers and ask them if I can write a guest post for them. That wasn’t something I really felt like doing at 5:30pm. Then I took ...

This week was one of those frustrating weeks where the content material I was getting from my SME (subject matter expert) was missing so much context.  It was very fitting to see on my Twitter feed today from Mark Britz: Not only does context help the learner understand the relevance of why a point has been made within your material, ...

Wow, I can’t believe we’re 3 months out from attending DevLearn 2014.  Not only that, this year marks DevLearn’s 10th Birthday.  That’s quite and accomplishment, but not surprising if you’ve attending any one the prior events. [ujicountdown id="Blues" expire="2014/10/29 00:00″ hide = "true"] I’ll be heading there again this year and am thrilled to be presenting a full-day Pre-conference Certificate ...

I had a fun little idea work just as I hoped and expected today.  I have a course that I am working on and the client provided me with a list of about 10 steps that a user would need to enter in one of our computer systems to produce a certain type of flag on a record. The steps ...

Photo by: Fiona McAllister "Button in a Bandage" CC: BY-2.0 When I think of my LMS I feel a lot like Button.  His face says it all. Talking to my peers I think little Button here could be the official mascot for the administrators of LMSs. Love them or hate them, want them or just plain need them, the arguement ...

Recently I had the honour of being able to present at DevLearn 2014 and prior to that Sunnybrook’s 3rd Annual Education Conference. At each of these I presented on a topic very dear to my heart - FREE E-LEARNING TOOLS.  Why does it mean that much to me Because I work within an industry that doesn’t have a large budget ...

David Kelly just posted a follow-up piece in response to feedback that he received for his "How to Recognize Snake Oil in Your Personal Learning Network" I wanted to share a thought that came to my mind today as I read his piece.  My friend Frank was a lovely man and he is missed by many, so I wanted to capture this ...

In our ogranization have used a few courses from outside our facility that require us to provide utilization stats to the creator/owner of the course (ie. RNAO). My ‘policy’ is to have my SME  or client (fellow staff members), from the department that is initiating the use of the course within our LMS, be the key contact and therefore the person responsible for providing ...

I was just reading Mark Britz‘s post on "Shortening the Social Tool Learning Curve with Open Office Hours" regarding his open office hours experiment and that in 6 hours he had only 3 participants attend.  I love that he is taking the opportunity as a lesson learned.  During the time some questions came up that allowed for further reflection from ...

I had someone recently interview me to ask what my views were on distance education in the workplace, but more specifically what were some of the challenges with providing it by this method. My experience has enlightened me to many issues that after speaking to colleagues in similar situations have also had to find ways to deal with. One of ...