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Purchase of service: how we managed to avoid explanation | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Purchase of service: how we managed to avoid explanation. July 30, 2015. I’ve been collaborating on a course with my colleague, Tanis. An unexpected benefit has been the ability to float an initial idea, talk about it, and have it improve from the discussion, from feedback, and from new ideas these things engender. Many pension plans allow. For an Ontario plan) and here. The nugget emerged as we juggled three goals for th...

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Improving performance | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Doing more than “training”. Show what you know (the Building Job Aids edition). October 4, 2015. In my Building Job Aids. Workshop (presented last Tuesday at DevLearn 2015), participants analyze multiple case studies, applying techniques and using job aids to, well, build job aids. Among the skills they practice are the ability to choose the right type of job aid for a task, and the ability to use that type effectively.

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Excelling at assembly, or, vats improvement | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Excelling at assembly, or, vats improvement. November 20, 2014. November 22, 2014. In a previous post. I showed a fictionalized example of an actual guide for assembling a piece of industrial equipment. These instructions weren’t particularly well done, and I set myself the task of making some improvements. I also wanted to explain what I did, and why I thought it was an improvement. Revision, page 1. On to the revision!

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Shots in the heather | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Shots in the heather. August 3, 2014. August 11, 2014. Here’s a Gaelic proverb:. Is iomadh urchair tha dol ‘s an fhraoch. Many a shot goes into the heather.). I joined a choir. I haven’t joined a choir before, so I’ve been learning different but interrelated things:. The lyrics to songs I didn’t know (which so far is “all the songs we’ve been practicing”). The melodies of songs I didn’t know (see above). In addition I hav...

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Working out loud, 42 days in | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Working out loud, 42 days in. June 19, 2015. Lots of people in my extended network have been working out loud — sharing what they do, and the thought process behind it — long before #WOL as a term got very far down the street. This informal reflection (often followed by informal exchange) has made a tremendous difference in how I learn things and how I get better at things. At the Google Play store. I made sure to put the...

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Mission, vision, policies, &c | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Mission, vision, policies, &c. 425 R, -6.00 L, mild astigmatism. Blog policies that actually make sense. We’d rather not moderate, but off-topic, blatantly inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate or vapid comments may be removed. Repeat offenders will be banned from commenting. Let’s add value. Thank you. From www.37signals.com). Link goes to their detailed, intelligent comment policy). Get your own blog. Complex learnin...

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On the job | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Otherwise, it’s babysitting or psychotherapy. The ooh versus the ah: tools, authoring, and learning. July 28, 2015. July 31, 2015. A prolific and generous e-learning consultant, just published a column in Learning Solutions Magazine: The State of Authoring Tools: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going. Oh, boy, we’ve got learning NOW! CC-licensed image by Patrick Finnegan. 8221; Not a one. I clearly recall the next stage of ...

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Singing in Gaelic, thanks to Sibelius | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. Singing in Gaelic, thanks to Sibelius. May 11, 2015. May 11, 2015. I decided I wanted to write about two things: why I wanted to learn this particular software, and how I’m not learning the way the program’s developers think I should. I’m not even learning the way I might have thought I should. It’s going to take me a couple of posts; this is the first. What I wanted to learn. Last year, I joined the Victoria Gaelic Choir.

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Tech | Dave's Whiteboard

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Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents. Mission, vision, policies, &c. The ooh versus the ah: tools, authoring, and learning. July 28, 2015. July 31, 2015. A prolific and generous e-learning consultant, just published a column in Learning Solutions Magazine: The State of Authoring Tools: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going. Oh, boy, we’ve got learning NOW! CC-licensed image by Patrick Finnegan. He mentioned two of the ancestors of modern elearning: PLATO. 8221; Not a one. I clearly recall th...