From the Editor's Desk - December 2006                                         Previous Editorials >>>

Welcome to the December issue of Wavelength.

Winter though delayed considerably, is finally here. I asked December how it managed to accomplish the feat of bringing us the seemingly unwilling to arrive, winter? “After all, isn’t it November that is supposed to bring winter to us?” I asked it. December shrugged off the little snowflakes that it had gathered on its journey from the mountains to the plains, and smiled at me. “I like to achieve the impossible,” December smiled. “November has a lot of experience in bringing winter to us. Yet experience has to be used to create new knowledge in the changing times. There have been climatic changes, and winter blamed humans for causing it. It was on strike and didn’t want to arrive this year. November knew about the climate change; but it didn’t keep its knowledge updated – it didn’t know about the measures that humans were taking to make this world a better place for their children and their fellow creatures! I knew about these measures, and so I was able to convince winter to come along. I kept up with the times.”

December’s message is for all of us. All of us have our bit to do when it comes to saving this planet for our children and also all the other species that inhabit this planet. We were created as the most intelligent species to be entrusted with the responsibility of keeping this planet alive for humans as well as for all other living beings. This delayed winter is a warning to us…let’s heed December’s advice. Let us do our bit to add value to our dear Earth.

Our bit to add value is to help the world learn…effectively. This is what we, the instructional designers and the trainers, do. We develop content and deliver it in an effective manner. When learning is effective, it is retained; it is applied; it is developed further; it is used to create new knowledge! But then, trainers mostly address the adult audience, and work with the assumption that the learner would invariably be interested in learning. What happens when the learner (or the trainee) isn’t interested! How do we then add value to this world? How do we harness the energy of the heckler? This month, the Mystery of the Month article “Training – The Dark Side” delves into the psyche of the heckler and tries to arrive as some instructionally designed ways of bringing the hecklers into the mainstream discussions of any training program.

Wavelength held the Autumn Training Workshops in November. We thank all the organizations and the individuals who participated in these workshops. Wavelength is also happy to announce the second episode of these training workshops in form of the Spring Training Workshops in February 2007. If you or your organization is interested in participating, please send your queries to springworkshops@vibrantwavelength.com

The IDCWC Online course shall begin its third session on January 01, 2007. Individuals who are interested in going through an instructional experience in instructional design are welcome to apply for this session. Your applications should reach us latest by December 18, 2006. Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_online.htm for the details of this course and the application process.

Wavelength has also brought a New Year gift for it readers. This January, we open 3 FREE Workshops. There has been a lot of demand for the FREE Instructional Design Orientation workshops and the FREE ActionScript Orientation workshops, which we shall hold on January 14, 2007 and January 21, 2007 respectively. This year we also introduce a new FREE workshop for the trainers. The first Instructional Design for Trainers workshop will be held on January 07, 2007. Please visit the respective pages and register your seat for these workshops. These workshops will be held at Wavelength, Noida. To view details of the FREE workshops click the following links:

1. FREE Instructional Design for Trainers Workshop - January 07, 2007 (Sunday)
2. FREE Instructional Design Orientation Workshop - January 14, 2007 (Sunday)
3. FREE ActionScript Orientation Workshop - January 21, 2007(Sunday)

The next course groups for the IDCWC and ASDC contact courses are scheduled to begin on December 17, 2006. If you wish to enroll for any of the above courses, call us at 9810324284/9810412297/0120-4315505.

I wish you the best for this beautiful month, which brings us to the threshold of a new year. I hope that the New Year is a huge bundle of lovely surprises for all of you. Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Warm Regards,

Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)

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