I have long drawn inspiration from Austin Kleon and today was no exception. He’s a fantastic curator and documenter of his sources of inspiration. In today’s roundup of his week that had been, he linked to this article about Barnes & Noble’s turnaround. They’ve struggled to survive for years to find a niche and landed…
My niece just sent me an article from BuzzFeed titled Teachers Are Absolutely Loving The Student Who Made A Tool That Shows If Your Essay Was Written By AI. So continues the cat and mouse game between teachers and learners in the name of academic integrity. The article is an interesting read about Edward Tian,…
As I’m prepping my course for the spring term, I’m working on my (very lengthy) handout and resource materials associated with a major assignment in the course, a literature review on a topic related to the implications of technology use/innovation in education (e.g., equity, access, privacy, eWaste, etc.) I asked ChatGPT to help me produce…
Back at it in the new year and one of the first agenda items at the team meeting was discussing the 2023 AECT Convention Proposal Call that opened in late December. The 2023 convention will celebrate AECT’s 100th year as an organization! Happy centennial – or, as I just learned, “centenary” for some outside the…
As a sort of New Year’s resolution, I signed up for an annual membership at the Art Institute of Chicago. It’s in the neighborhood, but like too many things we take for granted in our neighborhood, I hadn’t been in years. The Art Institute of Chicago website offers nice overviews of some of my favorite…
As I prepare for the new semester, I’m spending time contemplating the implications of chatGPT, a recently released AI tool that returns a detailed response to your instruction prompt. While I’ve had a blast playing and thinking about the possibilities as a writing tool, I’m also struggling to integrate it within the work we’re doing in my course.
Today, I was inspired to … remove the tree from our condo, and I documented the process using a new to me iPhone app called Life Lapse.
Today, I was inspired to … take a photo of my birthday roses to celebrate today’s Rose Bowl game. #GoBadgers #OnWisconsin
This great newsletter popped into my inbox today from the folks behind Sprint. It’s got links to resources relevant to designers (aka “developers” in the instructional design world), including: This is a guide to teach yourself design created by Karen X. Cheng in 2013. Some of the resources are likely out of day, but lots…
One problem with calling professionals in our field instructional designers is people think we should be experts across the design spectrum (e.g., Graphic Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Web Design, etc.) While most instructional design programs have courses on message design and development (where those other design disciples might come into play), most programs tend…