Category: Consulting

  • Some thoughts on what we know about content that haschanged. #TK10PRE #TK10

    Almost everything we knew about content, as learning professionals, has changed. Teacher (up front, knows stuff), Learners (in audience, don’t know anything) Teacher decides where we are going because they are up there and students are in the back (audience) Teacher picks the text and it IS THE RIGHT TEXT. Whatever we teach must be…

  • Relax! Everything You Know About Content is Wrong – Dick Carlson

    Well, I made it. I am in my first session at #TK1o – Relax! Everything You Know About Content is Wrong with Dick Carlson. #TK10PRE In this session I hope to learn: How to Integrate tools like Twitter, Facebook, and e-mail lists into our e-learning projects Design a successful free/pay mdoel for learning content Create a…

  • Teamwork and Elearning

    I worked with a great group of people for the last three days. We were “sequestered” and working on developing an elearning module using Captivate, Presenter, PowerPoint, video, audio, document data files, and graphics. Our group was past forming, storming, norming, and were defintely performing. We have many lessons learned and will be documenting them…

  • Hurricane Gustav and Social Networking

    The ReadWriteWeb blog had an interesting article which demonstrated how social networking tools are being used to provide up to date information on the storm. It was interesting to see the way that Twitter is being used to provide updates from organizations such as the Red Cross. clipped from www.readwriteweb.com On the third anniversary of…

  • How I Passed the PMP Exam

    I just wanted to give the details on what helped me pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification exam. Here are the things I did: At first I was going to take the CAPM exam because my job title is not Project Manager. I am a teacher. Two Project Managent training professionals told me to reconsider because even…

  • PMP Certification

    I took the Project Management Professional exam today and I passed.

  • Games in Training

    Tonight I went to a UMBC ISD Training Forum on The Power of Play: Effective Training Through Games and Similations. It was great. The topics and speakers are below. I have also included links to games in training websites that were given to us tonight. I will update this post with my notes this weekend.…

  • Micca Presentation from 2007

    Social Computing in the Enterprise PowerPoint and References PowerPoint social-computing-in-the-enterprise.ppt References Benedictus, L. (2006, November 4). Feed Burner, Dick Costolo. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved November 8, 2006, fromhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/page/0,,1939196,00.html Blog. (2006, November 4). Wikipedia. Retrieved November 4, 2006, fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Blogging for business. (2006, November). T+D, 60(11), 14. Bull, G. (2006, November). A tool for collective intelligence. Learning…

  • Sleep Deprivation Seminar

    During the Sleep Deprivation seminar, Dr. Teodor Postolache introduced us to many eye opening topics. 🙂 During the seminar Dr. Postolache said that 40 million Americans manifest sleep disorders. He also said that over 100,000 motor vehicle accidents can be attributed to sleep disorders. It was very interesting to know that sleep can be measured.…