"Sometimes shifting your perspective is more powerful than being smart." Love this.

Always ask WHY.

This is so true and often forgotten. Culture and environment dictate thoughts, knowledge, assumptions, everything.

Is this referring to ADDIE? I didn't realize ADDIE was the big bad wolf until this class....

Selecting a solution before designing training - it's a temptation I have because, hey, technology is shiny and fun! Identifying measurable goal/learning objectives is critical to selecting the proper solution. Identifying learning gaps (what is needed and how to get there) is part of this.

While I understand the purpose of this chart (making sure that the learning intervention is appropriate to the need - and not all of that is a full online course), I worry about the subjective nature of the problem identification part (environment, knowledge, skills, or motivation). What if 2 designers totally disagree on what the problem is and how to solve it? Where is the definitive answer here?

Taylor - I see that these project documents are pretty much always a pdf or report style (you have a page requirement of 8-12 I believe). Is that the only method you will accept? Waht about a website? What about an infographic? What about video?

Oh boy. This was interesting. :)

Frying an egg - building on existing knowledge. Constructivism?

Eggnog is always to blame.

This was a fire hose of info. Good, basic overview, but extremely fast.

Is this a word?

Love this word - just learned it last semester. It's entails the principles of adult learning (like pedagogy - but "peds" refers to children).

I've had two classmates tell me how good this is so I just ordered it from Amazon!

I'm happy to read this as an English major. Textual literacy is important: we need to be able to engage the written word and communicate effectively through our writing.

When will we get more details about this and is it something we should be working on the entire semester or just the last 2 weeks?

I did my first one - the diamond-shaped poem about the eclipse. Hope this was on point. #kindafun #creativityrocks

Thank you for the calendar! I'm super visual so I printed this and it helps! :)

Does this mean PowerPoint slides or flipagram slide shows?

Twitter - I am just not a tweeter. Here we go with an old account I dusted off. I tweeted the Daily Create but didn't put it on my blog. We have to do it in two locations, right?

I appreciate this post-911 realism that the narrator speaks about, but I feel that it generalizes an entire generation. Take the dated cosmetic commercial; it is certainly dated but is not that different from the commercials still around today promoting the ideal standard of female beauty. Yes, we are all more connected and see different cultures (via being always online) but I think the old standards of beauty are still being narrated (we saw a shot of a transgender woman who embraces this ideal standard of female beauty). We have a long way to go.

Stories told to create tribe or community that come to mind: religion or family narratives used to bring people together and give them meaning and purpose. Stories can be powerful - both positively and negatively.