cc licensed flickr photo shared by red5standingby A recent interest timesuck addiction um,, interest has been playing Words With Friends… with friends. I’ve been on a lucky streak, and have beaten a few people who are smarter and more educated (people who actually use words like “epistemology” in regular conversation. But its really not about […]
Strange as it sounds, today I had to email my Mom a scanned copy of a copy of my own birth certificate to prove her own birth record. And perhaps the most challenging was helping her decode the email attachment so she could print the record. It goes like this. Her Florida drivers license is […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Now that she knows all about twitter, is Mom trying to pull an Evan Ratliff disappearing act? She grabbed my new issue of Wired before I could even read it myself, and was quite absorbed in the cover article. Lest I blog the wrong impression that Mom and […]
My mom is visiting me for the next 2 weeks. This morning, she said, “Can you explain this ‘twitter’ thing to me over lunch?’. I could not resist rushing out to tweet it 😉 This got some interesting responses, including one from Dean Shareski, who asked me to record the conversation. So at lunch time, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog She called last week while I was traveling, and I must admit in the middle of a conference dinner when Mom called, I pushed her to voicemail. And then there was the rush of getting home and getting caught up in all the "stuff" that I realized without […]
I feel your fatigue. I feel mine. But I keep finding them interesting! Call me a fanboy (it’s a legit word in the dictionary).
Tossing a linktribution to HeyJude (HeyJude! Hi) who has clued me into many new tools, I gave a go at Posterous:
Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we’ve been steadily growing and adding features.
We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn’t like how hard it was… so we made a better way.
That’s posterous. We’re super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do.
How wild- you can set up an account without… setting up an account! So more or less, any way you can email something- text, words, pictures, movies? to post@posterous.com or SMS to their number (in the US only for now, sorry), you can blog.
Presentation number two today was my part in the The Great ILS Challenge 2.0 a presentation idea that intrigued me when Mark Oehlert first described it; as a knock off of the Great Design Challenge done at the Game Developers Conference.
Last year a roomful of lucky attendees got to watch as three top-notch designers created game-based solutions to deal with an incredibly difficult learning challenge. This year we’ve invited three more ILS/Serious Games experts to step up to the challenge.
The Guild understands that, whether you call them Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS), Serious Games, or the greatest thing since sliced bread; you are looking for ways to use these powerful technologies and methodologies to improve learning outcomes for your organizations. You are also looking for inspiration and ideas for any and ALL of your e-Learning projects.
The premise is the 3 panelists are presented a scenario for a project, idea and they need to conceptualize an original or creative solution for it- not actually do it, but present the idea.
Last years one had something to do with designing a game to reduce recidivism among people just out of jail. Now that is a challenge. Ours this year was a bit more nebulous (by design Mark says):
A large, North American corporation that you are either already employed by or hired by, wants you to develop something (we know it will be an ILS) to help them integrate two recent acquisitions, one a company in Africa and the other a company located in Korea. These two new divisions directly impact your production capability and so alignment and a shared culture between all three entities is critical. Design an ILS that will foster this shared culture and common understanding. Challenges include a mix of languages, religious backgrounds, socio-economic differences, and educational levels not to mention time zones. Oh, and the big shareholder meeting is coming up too. Go.
I was stymied for a long while with this. I was thinking the other panelists might take structured or technical approaches, and I mulled it over until the concept hit me. I’d have to say, my idea was off on a different curve- I really appreciated the different approaches taken by the other panelists, who ticked off carefully constructed plans, rationales, outcomes…. I just ran with a metaphor.
So…
I looked for something everyone in every culture has in common, or “what unifies us”… and came up with…. Mom.
That’s what I said.
