From the Editor's Desk - January 2010
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Welcome to the January edition of Wavelength.
This month has been cold and busy – and it is dreadful
combination. But the good news is that it’s beginning to warm
up. In the past few years, climate has stopped behaving, and without
pinning the responsibility of its vagaries on humanity, I want to
say that I don’t like its new bratty self!
But then let me pull myself free of my climate fetish and speak
about other things. Recently, I’ve been forced to wonder whether
we really do ourselves a favor when we push the ID logic under the
carpet and fall upon past successes to glean their elements and
put together a new course? I’ve also wondered how a person
who has barely begun to comprehend certain principles of a discipline,
becomes a teacher and an evaluator in the same discipline? But then,
these are two different matters, and I’d rather not mix them
up.
This month’s Mystery
of the Month Article, “Content Development, Instructional
Design Concepts, and Random Outcomes!” attempts to pull
the cloak off the mysterious “random successes” in content
development. If you are interested, click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/articles/content_development_instructional_design.htm
to be provoked into reflection and then action.
In February, Wavelength is organizing two FREE
workshops. Here are the details.
- On February 07, 2010, join
us for a three-hour
Instructional Design Orientation workshop. This workshop should
help you answer some questions about your career and the skills
that you may need, if you want to walk the ID path.
- On February13, 2010, you are
invited for a two-hour FLEX
Orientation Workshop. This workshop will help you explore
the new FLEX technology and define its scope. It will also help
you chart your own growth path, if you are a programmer from a
planet other than eLearning (C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, ASP, etc.)
The schedule for Wavelength's contact courses is as follows:
The IDCWC
contact course: February 28, 2010
The ASDC
contact course: January 31, 2010
The FAADC
contact course: February 28, 2010
We are currently receiving applications for the April 2010
sessions of Wavelength’s Online courses.Please send your applications
in time. Remember that Time Management is an important trait of
the online learner:--)
If you haven’t checked out my blog The
Zen of Learning yet, do stop by. You might find my
cognitive excursions interesting.
I wish all my readers, a beautiful Spring!
Warm Regards,
Shafali
Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)
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