Posted by under Best Practices,Columnists,Musings,People on March 26 2008, 11 comments

I’ve had some people ask me to post some more of my thoughts on instructional design and certification. They were interested in the conversations Cammy Bean and I have had about those topics, and wondered where those conversations were going. Today Cammy e-mailed me, and she and I have been going back and forth, and [...]

Posted by under Columnists,People,Reading Responses on February 15 2008, 5 comments

Cammy at Learning Visions asked me to whittle my list down more. As a former English teacher, I relish the thought of making my writing “tighter.” So while the purpose of my initial post on how to get an instructional design education without paying tuition was meant as a “here’s what you need to know,” [...]

Posted by under Columnists,People,Reading Responses,Research,Theory on February 13 2008, 15 comments

Well, yesterday Cammy has responded to my post on the disconnect between academic instructional design and practical instructional design. Subsequently, the last five hours or so has been interesting. First of all, I see that Stephen Downes has mentioned our conversation on OLD~Daily, and that has led to a number of comments on my blog [...]

I’ve never shied away from my adoration of Cammy Bean and her Learning Visions blog. If you don’t know who she is, she describes herself by saying: I’m Cammy Bean, the author of Learning Visions. My business card currently says “Manager of Instructional Design”, but I do a bit of everything. If you’re interested, read [...]

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Check out Brandon Dorman’s blog. He was a student worker of ours at BYU-Idaho when I was there. Now he’s a professional illustrator with a book on the NY Times Bestseller list. He’s amazing. For more, check out his website. Below is his illustration of my favorite baseball player of all time, Ted Williams.