Comments for Xyleme Learning Blog http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old The Next Generation of Learning Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:59:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on Working/Learning Carnival, 6th Ed. by Ken Allan http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/10/27/workinglearning-carnival-6th-ed/#comment-5144 Ken Allan Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:16:54 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/10/27/workinglearning-carnival-6th-ed/#comment-5144 Kia ora Leean Sorry I've taken so long to get to this stage! Thanks for your write-ups here. I appreciate the work you have done behind the scenes. It does not go un-noticed. Ka kite from Middle-earth Kia ora Leean

Sorry I’ve taken so long to get to this stage! Thanks for your write-ups here.

I appreciate the work you have done behind the scenes. It does not go un-noticed.

Ka kite
from Middle-earth

]]> Comment on Clear Thinking -> Good Writing by Ken Allan http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/10/24/clear-thinking-good-writing/#comment-4622 Ken Allan Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:04:13 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/10/24/clear-thinking-good-writing/#comment-4622 Kia ora Dawn! I think you have got it right here. I am not an instructional designer, but I am a teacher. I have been preparing learning resources for juniors and adults for years. When any learning is done by reading text, there is no sense in presenting the first barrier to learning in the text itself. Kids and adults alike can be switched off before they get to the learning just by the look of an austere block of text. Ka kite from Middle-earth Kia ora Dawn!

I think you have got it right here.

I am not an instructional designer, but I am a teacher. I have been preparing learning resources for juniors and adults for years.

When any learning is done by reading text, there is no sense in presenting the first barrier to learning in the text itself. Kids and adults alike can be switched off before they get to the learning just by the look of an austere block of text.

Ka kite
from Middle-earth

]]> Comment on No cream, thanks, just skimming by Britt Watwood http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/09/29/no-cream-thanks-just-skimming/#comment-4022 Britt Watwood Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:12:00 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/09/29/no-cream-thanks-just-skimming/#comment-4022 Interesting post! Like Will, most of my reading is online, but I still like books, and am currently reading Presentation Zen. What jumped out at me from this book is that it is not Powerpoint that is bad, but bad use of Powerpoint by most presenters. The same could be said of many applications - it is not the Pointy-Haired Bosses enabling these, but rather as you note, the ones holding the mice. Interesting post! Like Will, most of my reading is online, but I still like books, and am currently reading Presentation Zen. What jumped out at me from this book is that it is not Powerpoint that is bad, but bad use of Powerpoint by most presenters. The same could be said of many applications - it is not the Pointy-Haired Bosses enabling these, but rather as you note, the ones holding the mice.

]]> Comment on If I Build It, Will They Come? by Dawn http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-599 Dawn Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:09:46 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-599 Spot on. Very few people tend to enjoy writing to the point where they'll do very much of it, or for very long. Most are content to lurk, maybe one in fifty or a hundred will boldly step out and write in a bare environment, another small handful might follow that one. Though this dynamic changes, too, when the environment is more private. A small email list might elicit feedback from everyone on it at different times, because the 'audience' is known to all the participants. It's less intimidating than the open Internet, when you don't know who's reading. Spot on. Very few people tend to enjoy writing to the point where they’ll do very much of it, or for very long. Most are content to lurk, maybe one in fifty or a hundred will boldly step out and write in a bare environment, another small handful might follow that one.

Though this dynamic changes, too, when the environment is more private. A small email list might elicit feedback from everyone on it at different times, because the ‘audience’ is known to all the participants. It’s less intimidating than the open Internet, when you don’t know who’s reading.

]]> Comment on If I Build It, Will They Come? by Eamon Costello http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-596 Eamon Costello Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:07:28 +0000 http://www.xyleme.com/blogs_old/2008/03/11/if-i-build-it-will-they-come/#comment-596 interesting thoughts. I think mass is critical too. we\'ll never get the number of users needed for classical web 2.0 user-generated stuff in even very large classrooms. web 2.0 kind of breaks down at small scales. interesting thoughts. I think mass is critical too. we\’ll never get the number of users needed for classical web 2.0 user-generated stuff in even very large classrooms. web 2.0 kind of breaks down at small scales.

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