Archive for the ‘Learning & Development’ Category
“Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands” – NYTimes
Another article that has implications and relevance for KM. The central thesis of the article is that people, even highly skilled “knowledge workers”, can only learn so much via software. Grappling with physical/tangible objects increases their understanding of their own software products.
The take-away here for KM (for me) is that technology is good but don’t forget about the analog.
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Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands
By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Published: August 16, 2008
Here’s the school mentioned in the article: Tinkering School
Tiny Talents – “how-to” websites
Speaking of learning, here’s a nice article on a collection of how-to websites:
Tiny Talents
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: August 15, 2008
Screen casting for L&D
I’m starting to experiment with screen casting to pilot some demonstrations under the L&D (learning & development) banner.
Not familiar with screen casting? Here’s a helpful article by Beth Kanter, “An Introduction to Screencasting”
I’m going to be testing the following free packages:
We’ll see how the effort goes. Might have to go commercial.
