From the Editor's Desk - December 2005
Welcome to the December issue of Wavelength.
I would like to begin with a goodbye note to a dear friend
who stayed with us for a whole year, bringing us closer, knitting
our concerns and hopes together; I wish to write a short note to
the year that prepares to leave.
| “Dear old year 2005,
it's time to say goodbye now. You go back to where you came
from, sit by a warm fire, gather a quilt around your shoulder;
and in a month, when the next year is born pass the torch to
it. We shall continue to work hard; we promise to take your
legacy forward; not letting it waste, but making it grow in
our minds and our hearts.” |
Winter has finally arrived. It has begun to impact our lives
in its usual romantic manner. We run so hard all through the year,
never finding time to look at the beauty around us, or to review
where we are in the race of life, or consider whether we want to
really go where we are headed. Then one morning winter arrives.
It slows down our pace; it expands the time that we spend in reflection.
To help you reflect upon the path you want to take, Wavelength introduces
a new serial “eLearning Project Management.”
True to our tradition, we introduce eLearning project management
through our Mystery of the Month article,
“eLearning Project Management – A
Different Ballgame.” This article tries to simplify the
understanding of a vast, complex, and challenging facet of eLearning.
The links for the serial have been selected with care, and I hope
they will deepen your understanding of project management further.
I am also happy to announce the launch of yet another unique
course by Wavelength. The “Object-Oriented
Design in ActionScript 2.0 Certificate (OODAC) course”
starting in early January, is designed to enable ActionScript programmers
achieve higher levels of sophistication, reusability, and scalability
in their applications through object-oriented programming in ActionScript
2.0. It is my opinion, that Instructional Design and Technology
should move in tandem to ensure that the content that we develop
is correct, instructionally sound, and cost-effective. If we can
design courses that require minimum fixes and create course architectures
through effective programming, we can bring down our cost without
sacrificing quality.
The ActionScript Developer Certificate (ASDC) course received
an overwhelming response for its first two groups. The third group
is scheduled to begin in early January. The next IDCWC course group
will also start classes in early January. The third IDCWC Course
Group completed their course on November 27, 2005. Do remember to
check the site for FREE ID and ActionScript workshops.
This is all for now. I will look forward to your views and
opinions. Thanks for being here for me and for Wavelength.
Warm Regards,
Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)
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