Comments on: “What can I build with this chisel?” http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/what-can-i-build-with-this-chisel/ Dyspeptic grumblings about tertiary education Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:00:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sharon Boller http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/what-can-i-build-with-this-chisel/#comment-29 Sharon Boller Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:30:46 +0000 http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-29 Your post brought a smile to my face. My company IS a learning solutions company that routinely designs solutions for an array of corporate clients. It would be very odd NOT to have customers coming to us with the proposed tool already in hand when they request that we build something. This isn't unique to Web 2.0 technologies, though. It's been going on as long as I've been in the business...which is a long time. Whatever technology is hot, is the technology folks are sure they need to be using. It is the learning designer's job to help the client marry up the right solution and the right building tools. When I entered the learning industry, video was the hot rage. Suddenly, everything that was done as instructor-led could be done better on video. We simply keep swapping out technologies - but the behavior never really changes. I look at it this way - part of what I bring to the table in expertise in tools and solutions. Customers trust that we'll help them figure out both. Your post brought a smile to my face. My company IS a learning solutions company that routinely designs solutions for an array of corporate clients. It would be very odd NOT to have customers coming to us with the proposed tool already in hand when they request that we build something.

This isn’t unique to Web 2.0 technologies, though. It’s been going on as long as I’ve been in the business…which is a long time. Whatever technology is hot, is the technology folks are sure they need to be using.

It is the learning designer’s job to help the client marry up the right solution and the right building tools. When I entered the learning industry, video was the hot rage. Suddenly, everything that was done as instructor-led could be done better on video. We simply keep swapping out technologies – but the behavior never really changes.

I look at it this way – part of what I bring to the table in expertise in tools and solutions. Customers trust that we’ll help them figure out both.

]]> By: kellyd http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/what-can-i-build-with-this-chisel/#comment-23 kellyd Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:06:14 +0000 http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-23 Gah. This syndrome is the bane of my existence too, in the world of eSupport. Seems we spend too much time building new, shiny and expensive chisels that we can't get anyone to use. Trying to change that, one brick wall at a time. :-) Gah. This syndrome is the bane of my existence too, in the world of eSupport. Seems we spend too much time building new, shiny and expensive chisels that we can’t get anyone to use.

Trying to change that, one brick wall at a time. :-)

]]> By: Invention: the Mother of Learning? | willisays http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/what-can-i-build-with-this-chisel/#comment-21 Invention: the Mother of Learning? | willisays Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:31:33 +0000 http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-21 [...] Only today another one of the staff for whom I provide educational design support said: “How can I use this Second Life thingy in my online course? Or that new Google thing?” My face fell and a sense of deja vu swept through me yet again. In the last six months I have been asked this question, with slight variations, perhaps 30 times, i.e. ”how can I use [insert your favourite educational technology/social software application here] in my courses? more [...] [...] Only today another one of the staff for whom I provide educational design support said: “How can I use this Second Life thingy in my online course? Or that new Google thing?” My face fell and a sense of deja vu swept through me yet again. In the last six months I have been asked this question, with slight variations, perhaps 30 times, i.e. ”how can I use [insert your favourite educational technology/social software application here] in my courses? more [...]

]]> By: Willis Whitlock http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/what-can-i-build-with-this-chisel/#comment-20 Willis Whitlock Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:43:33 +0000 http://thwartwise.wordpress.com/?p=30#comment-20 My district contacted me the other day. It seems they have contracted with Schoolwires to provide CMS services. They want to show teachers how to make web pages with it. This is a very expensive chisel. I protest, but they reckon the money is spent. So I'm learning Schoolwires to present in a week. My district contacted me the other day. It seems they have contracted with Schoolwires to provide CMS services.
They want to show teachers how to make web pages with it.
This is a very expensive chisel. I protest, but they reckon the money is spent. So I’m learning Schoolwires to present in a week.

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