Judy and I welcomed Julie Dirksen, a.k.a. UsableLearning, to The ToolBar to talk about usability, the learner experience, and to pimp her awesome new book, Design For How People Learn: Voices That Matter. It was a great show, with some great drink choices. Check it out.
Oh, hey, look what Judy and I did a few weeks back: our 8th episode of The ToolBar.
It was a fun show. We talked about DevLearn. I drank the lovely Saint Arnold Santo.
I’m really looking forward to recording this week with special guest, Julie Dirksen, Instructional Designer, usability guru and author of Design for How People Learn. I wonder what she’ll be drinking?
Required Reading (from Jane Bozarth)
Please Don’t Call Them Avatars… Unless They Are Avatars – Word.
Can I Use – Great resource. Thanks Judy!
Learning 2011 Conference Backchannel – David Kelly does a great job with these collections
Human Centered Design Toolkit – For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? (via Jason)
How To Think And Communicate Visually
Team Treehouse – What do you want to learn today?
Now Entering the Decade of Learning – Great link from Chad
Kurt Hanks – Paradigm mapping. Awesomness (via The Beard)
When are you going to learn that HTML5 is not the technology you want to use for authoring content! It may be how you want to deliver it, but those two things aren’t necessarily attached to one another.
- Reuben Tozman – “DevLearn“
I’m at DevLearn, the premier conference in the learning industry.
This is always a great conference. The Guild does a great job getting excellent keynotes in. I also get to attend Kevin Thorn’s precon session today, How to Put the Story in Storyboarding for eLearning. I’m really looking forward to learning from him.
Between Kevin (@learnnuggets) and Aaron Silvers (@aaronesilvers), I should drastically improve my ability to communicate visually by the end of the week. This is most excellent.
I brought my iPad, iPhone, and a Snowflake microphone for recording snippets, and, maybe, a full show with Judy. Judy and I plan to interview vendors and some other learning celebrities for our elearning podcast, The ToolBar. If you have a request for questions we should ask vendors, let us know.
This is my fourth or fifth DevLearn. I always learn something new and grow my personal learning network (PLN). If you’re going to be here, look me up! Ping me via the conference app, Twitter or my contact form. I look forward to meeting more folks I’ve only interacted with online.
I’ll be posting a lot of photos and session reviews. I also recommend the following resources whether you’re attending or not.
