Boxes and Arrows
JULY 10, 2008
As we discussed in “part one&# :[link] the skills in research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and writing define the recognized areas of User Experience design. However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. Each UX Dreamteam has a finely tuned mix of skills and qualities, as varied as the environments in which they operate.
Xplaner
JULY 24, 2008
I am working with my group on our final project. Of course I have a beta class delivery due right at the same time. I am so awesome at scheduling things like that! (oh yes, that is sarcasm). For our final project, we must make an image map of our causal maps. I am a little annoyed at this, as no instructions were given besides “upload it&#. There was not much instruction given about “what is&# an image map, just a link to a wikipedia page.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 10, 2008
Discount for Boxes and Arrows readers: Get a 10% discount by purchasing the book “directly from Rosenfeld Media&# :[link] Just use the code WFDBA. The scene is all too familiar. You’re presenting wireframes of the registration process for a new web application when the discussion veers down a dark alley. The sky has turned the color of black ink, and you can smell sulfur in the air as one team member after another debates the alignment of form labels.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 31, 2008
I'm on Day 2 of 12-hour training days, so this is a quick post before I have to embark on a 2.5 hour drive to Paterson, NJ. It's also somewhat incoherent, as it's 5 a.m. I'm doing training on career assessments and how to use them effectively with people and I must tell you that it's a continual eye-opener. I'm working with government staff who help unemployed people develop career plans and (supposedly) prepare them for the workplace.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 30, 2008
It's Web 2.0 Wednesday and this week I have two options. Day in a Sentence In comments a few weeks ago, Kevin and a few others suggested that we tie into other Web 2.0-related activities that are currently going on, so this week we're going to take Kevin's advice and participate in an activity he's been running on his own blog, the "Day in a Sentence" project.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 29, 2008
I was driving home from a meeting yesterday when I heard Theresa McPhail's "This I Believe" essay on NPR. When she was four, her brother died in an accident, which caused a seismic shift in my mom's attitude toward safety. Suddenly, everything around us was potentially dangerous. Overnight, the world had gone from a playground to a hazardous zone.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 24, 2008
The eLearning Guild is currently working on a comprehensive report to explore how social media tools are being used to support learning. How are blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks, etc. being incorporated into training and development? If you're a member of the eLearning Guild, then your feedback is needed. You can go here to take their survey.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 23, 2008
Last week I took a little break from Web 2.0 Wednesdays to ask if it's something we should continue. Although I didn't intend this initially, what I realized afterward is that by posting that question and having a discussion about it with you in comments, we engaged in one of the more meaningful activities that occurs courtesy of Web 2.0. We were able to, as an international group of learners interested in shared learning, reflect on the value of an experience and discuss whether or not it shoul
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 22, 2008
These are some notes I found in in one of the artist sketch pads I use to capture my off-line ideas (yes, I do work offline). They seem particularly appropriate to share in light of yesterday's post on being a "career untouchable. " Tips for Creating a Personal Learning Plan. 1. Reflect on successes, challenges, etc., from the previous year.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 21, 2008
I've always said there's no such thing as job security. Whether we realize it or not, most of us are essentially independent contractors, working at the whim of our customers, assured of employment only as long as we are able to add value in some way. This weekend I started thinking about ways to become a "career untouchable." That is, how do we position ourselves so that we are always providing value to our customers, whether they are an employer or some other kind of customer.
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Xplaner
JULY 20, 2008
This blog post discusses PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) and how they are needed based on how this new industrial revolution we are in is changing education. The author discusses a 7-country study on ICT Learning (ICTs stand for Information and Communication Technologies) showed workers primarily use Google for informal-based learning. Quoting from the post: Managers were often unaware of this learning, although they were frequently aware of the problem which inspired it.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 18, 2008
A.J. Jacobs, Esquire writer and author of two hilarious books is a man after my own heart. As he explains in this TED Talk, he spends much of his time immersing himself in learning experiments, such as what it's like to outsource your life (the best month of his life) or to be " radically hones t" (the worst month of his life). Not only do these become fodder for his writing, they also teach him some important lessons.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 17, 2008
So much of the stupid stuff we do at work is because we don't really trust the people around us. We don't trust them to do the right thing. We don't trust that they are essentially good and competent or that they want to do good work for our organization. We especially don't trust that they will do the work. That's why we have dumb systems of control in place, like measuring people's "work ethic" in terms of their willingness to sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 16, 2008
When we ended the Comment Challenge several weeks ago, several people asked me to keep things going on a weekly basis with " Web 2.0 Wednesdays ," where each week we'd do a different "challenge activity" related to Web 2.0 and learning. The first week there was a lot of participation, but in the past few, there's been a precipitous decline. So here's what I'm wondering--should we keep this up?
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 15, 2008
According to Business Week and a study conducted by Rapleaf , the growth of social media (most notably social networks like Facebook ) is being driven by women. Some key quotes: Among twentysomethings, women and men are just as likely to be members of social networks. Facebook , MySpace , and Flixster. are extraordinarily popular. But we found that young women are much more active on these sites than young men.
Xplaner
JULY 13, 2008
Allison posed this question on my About page. It was a strange journey. I knew I wanted an advanced degree in Education. I knew I wanted to focus on adult education. I also knew that I wanted a program that 100% distance, since I have to travel sometimes. I started looking for a program that would help me develop programs for adults on the autism spectrum.
Xplaner
JULY 13, 2008
I tweeted this question earlier: are there studies that show ways to measure social learning? More specifically, are there studies or research that shows ways to measure the ROI of using social media tools and processes for corporate education? I know there are posts on ideas of how social media should be used for education. For instance, Tony Karrer recently had a post on the questions that should be asked when doing an analysis for implementing eLearning 2.0: Content.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 12, 2008
After yesterday's post on NTEN's WeAreMedia Project and the process we're going through to build the curriculum, I got some great comments from people on the balance between allowing community curriculum to evolve and needing to provide some level of direction. First was some good advice from Betsy Hansel to trust the process: I think the dilemma is that you will not see exactly what happens to the module as it goes out there.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 11, 2008
From the slideshow by Neil Perkins, What's Next in Media , via Beth Kanter. Replace Neil's title with this- Learning 2.0: Workplace Learning Professionals Take on a Broader Role and the word "audience" with "learners" and I think this slide sums up a lot of how social media changes what we do. This is a sort of elaboration on my earlier thoughts about instructional designers and trainers as digital curators that breaks it down into some more discrete kinds of roles.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 11, 2008
Last week, Beth Kanter and NTEN started up the WeAreMedia project where we're experimenting with developing a curriculum the networked way. Beth has posted an awesome reflection on the process that I wanted to add to. The essential strategy for designing the curriculum has been to set up "swarms," where calls are put out each day for people to respond with resources, tips, links, etc. that relate to a particular topic or question in the curriculum.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 9, 2008
It's Wednesday, which means it's time to play around with Web 2.0. This week's activity is to try out one (or more) of the tools on this incredibly comprehensive list of tools for every kind of learner and learning style. There are a few ways to go at this: Find a tool that matches with your learning style. Try it out to see if it's easier for you to use because it fits into your preferred mode.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 8, 2008
| View | Upload your own. I am completely digging on Sacha Chua's blog. To me, she's a model for great personal and professional lifelong learning and clearly someone with a growth mindset. You'll also see from her Slideshare presentation above on Gen Y and Web 2.0 that her blog is part of what got her a job at IBM. Here's Sacha's personal learning plan.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 7, 2008
From the NYT: WHY do some people reach their creative potential in business while other equally talented peers don't? After three decades of painstaking research, the Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck believes that the answer to the puzzle lies in how people think about intelligence and talent. Those who believe they were born with all the smarts and gifts they're ever going to have approach life with what she calls a "fixed mind-set.†Those who believe that their own abilities can expand over
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 3, 2008
Here in the U.S., tomorrow is the 4th of July, Independence Day , the anniversary commemorating when the 13 American colonies declared their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. This morning I started thinking about how things might have gone down if the colonists had access to social media. Here's what I'm thinking: Jefferson and Adams would probably have been Twittering about King George--the "bill of particulars" in the Declaration that lists each of the colonists' compla
Xplaner
JULY 2, 2008
I am editing this post, because this month’s Biq Questions are: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? Shouldn’t they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organizations? And then shouldn’t the learning organization become a driver for the organization?
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 2, 2008
Earlier this week I talked about the need to extend explicit invitations to people about participating in the Web 2.0 world. Although many of us have fully embraced the social networking and interaction that is typical of this new evolution of the Internet, a huge number of people still see the Web as a passive form of entertainment rather than as a place to interact.
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Boxes and Arrows
JULY 2, 2008
Well, we've run into a bit of a hitch with the NTEN social media curriculum development project. Yesterday, Holly Ross, NTEN Executive Director, posted this discussion thread on the wik i: We've hit a snag in the road, and we need your help to get past it. It seems the lawyers affiliated with an about to be published book ( [link] ) aren't too thrilled about our title.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 1, 2008
Via Christine Martell at Blog Cascadia comes this learning framework from Ray Jimenez on choosing social media for learning. It's based on Ray's reading of Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research. Ray points out that the tendency in using social media for learning is to force creator status on everyone: The tendency in early adoptions of social networking in learning is the over emphasis on learners becoming active participants.
Boxes and Arrows
JULY 1, 2008
Yesterday we launched Day One of the Be the Media project where we trying to build a curriculum module in one week. Here's today's task : Under what circumstances should your organization NOT pursue a social media strategy ? Leave a comment, write a blog post (tag it with "bethemedia"), drop your thoughts in the wiki or point to a fabulous blog post or article that answers this question.
Xplaner
JULY 20, 2008
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