Archive for July 22nd, 2008
You’ve heard the old engineering joke, right?
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multi-million dollar machines.
They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who has solved so many of their problems in the past.
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Blog talk never stops …
Janet Clarey: Balancing innovation and execution.
Seth Godin: Three laws of great graphs. (via)
Connectivism: Patience and elearning in Africa.
Smashing Magazine: From the wayback, but raising usability concerns about web applications is always in order.
Weblogg-ed: A little bit of considered Twitter hate centered on good questions about whether it’s actually helping drive conversation and learning or just managing to be a distraction.
eLearning Slam: Two thought-provoking posts, one on cost justifying an LMS and another on rapid course content creation.
