Some people are born to blog; others are not. That’s the only explanation for blogs that begin with great fanfare in their first post, only to have the next four posts apologize for not blogging.

As for filtering, I think you need to be authentic whether you’re buttoned up in person or off the wall.

jay

That was “your” spelling error, not mine.

Oh, and I fixed your spelling error too!

Not everything you say has to be genius or perfectly plotted. But, most likely everything you say about eLearning will be something new for me and your two other readers.

You need to write more. You’ll get more readers, you’ll get more search traffic, you’ll engage people better, you’ll educate people…. In short, you’ll get more business.

PS. Abrasionist, if it were a word, would be spelled like I just spelled it. Not with an extra “i” before the first s. Take it from a guy who sold grinding wheels and sand paper for 6 years: I know abrasion.

The “cognitive organizer” has been a very useful concept to me as well. Here is another example that I’ve used in the past.

In the pre-work (or even very beginning of the class) ask the learners a question that they don’t have the knowledge to answer yet. Don’t provide them feedback on the answer.

Then, as you go through the training, they will naturally start applying their learning to that question. As you teach, you will see “the lights come on.” At the end of the class (or e-Learning lesson), ask them the same question.

We’ve used this in e-Learning and gave the learner the opportunity to see their original answer and then modify it based on their learning. It is always interesting to see the change in the answer.