Posts by Betsy:
I love Japanese Pizza, but…
…Pizza Hut Japan, you’ve got to be kidding me:
Please keep your “mini dogs” and their ketchup away from my mayonnaise and corn pizza!
SDoI: Chapter 3: Conducting a Goal Analysis
Goal Analysis Diagram by Elizabeth Lavolette is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. [This is the fourth in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 before proceeding?] Chapter 3 starts out […]
SDoI: Chapter 2: Assessing needs to identify instructional goal(s)
[This is the third in a series of posts about Dick and Carey’s The Systematic Design of Instruction. Want to read an overview and my thoughts on Chapter 1 before proceeding?] This chapter is mainly about writing goals for instruction. However, before getting too excited about designing instruction, Note that while an instructional designer may […]
SDoI: Chapter 1: Introduction to Instructional Design
I’m working my way through The Systematic Design of Instruction (SDoI), 4th ed., by Dick and Carey, and here are my thoughts on Chapter 1: Introduction to Instructional Design. (You may get the impression from this post that I’m disagreeing with what the book says, but for the most part, I’m not. I’m just not […]
The systematic design of instruction
I’ve been working as part of an instructional design team for almost two years now, and I haven’t read The Systematic Design of Instruction by Dick and Carey. (Don’t laugh!) It’s time to correct that. I came to instructional design not from an education background, but from applied linguistics and teaching English as a second […]
Push the BigBlueButton
When I try a web-conferencing product, I expect to find myself in a sterile demo room – alone and left to my own devices. When I tried BigBlueButton, I was momentarily confused. Many people were in the demo room. They were talking, text-chatting, pointing at slides – and one of the developers, Fred Dixon, starting […]
Origami mail
Today, I got this in my email from a friend. Click it to open it and read the message: Thanks, Noriko!
How to Become a Book Club
Our book club has chosen yet another book that the great Internets have no discussion questions for! This time, we’re reading Self Help by Lorrie Moore. Because it’s a book of short stories, we’re focusing on the first one, How to Be an Other Woman. This story is fairly exemplary of the book as a […]
A Wild Sheep Chase
The SOOLG (significant others of literary geeks) book club is kicking off soon, on January 11! Our first book is A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. I really enjoyed this book, but I am completely at a loss as to what it meant and how to discuss it. I am hoping that other people […]
Netflix is great
No, they didn’t pay me to write this. But they did send me an extra DVD. As they sometimes do. <3