Hard and soft information
Sometimes when I draw a Rich Picture, I will use the term “soft information”. “Hard information” includes verifiable data and knowledge. So, soft information includes feelings, perceptions, opinions,...
View ArticleMusings on time travel in media
Time travel has always been an implicit function of media. A book gives us tangible access to the past, present and future. The way in which a book is constructed reflects the way we Westerners view...
View ArticleUsing a card sort test to build a taxonomy
A few months ago I was asked to build a taxonomy for a new wiki portal for informal learning. The portal was to be an authoritative source of information, knowledge and wisdom for the practioners of...
View ArticleThe learner research toolbox
Suppose you want to know the characteristics of a specific learner group. Research methodologies from the field of software design can be effectively adopted for such research, either before or...
View ArticleLxD layers
This diagram is loosely based on something we had tacked on our cubicle walls when I worked for Daimler-Chrysler’s elearning division about five years ago. These layers are not necessarily in any...
View ArticleFruit flies like a banana
Vote for my SXSW presentation at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5683 I agree about the banana, but I’m not so sure about the arrow. Not everyone conceptualizes time as a relentless hurtling...
View ArticleThe essence of information is not its content but its resonance
Not so long ago, when content was more of a novelty, words, pictures and numbers in sequence were called “information.” But that’s a misnomer today. Most of the river of symbols that flows through our...
View ArticleVisual language
Survival There is a certain survival nature in our proclivity toward pictorial information. Being able to accurately assess one’s situation at a glance is an important factor for defending as well as...
View ArticleThe Horizon Report: ubiquitous learning in the cloud
The Horizon Report, 2010 edition, is out. Four key trends as key drivers of technology adoptions in higher education, 2010 through 2015 The abundance of resources and relationships made easily...
View ArticleResonance
The key to our flowering at this final stage of our evolutionary cycle lies in the simplicity of being in resonance. - Jose Argüelles The image is of Sacred Spaces village at Burning Man 2010.
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