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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

If you have an amazon.com wish list, make sure you put things you really want in it. This Christmas, I had about a dozen books on my wish list and I got them all. One of them was 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weischenk. Sure it’s almost the end…

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Technology for Trainers

My friend and mentor Thomas Toth’s new book Technology for Trainers arrived in my mailbox today.  I already had the chance to read it and I really enjoyed it.  Maybe I’m a little bit of a geek but I think building eLearning is fun and Thomas’ book is full of best practices for doing just that.  Thomas…

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The Accidental Instructional Designer

I just finished reading Cammy Bean’s The Accidental Instructional Designer Learning Design for the Digital Age.  A new member was added to my team at work to help me with Instructional Design duties.  He has extensive video and photography experience but no ID experience.  He attended Cammy Bean’s webinar hosted by Training Magazine and found…

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Disrupting Class

In class we are reading the book Disrupting Class How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen.  Christensen writes in his book that using computer technology will be a way to customize instruction for learners.  He focuses on the US Public School system but I can see what he…

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