About Me

Learning & Teaching at the Speed of Life!
I've been a professional educator with a passion for innovation & design thinking since 1970!


What can I do for you?
As a teacher of teachers and design thinker (whether working in a classroom, on-site or on-line) my role as a professional educator is

to determine whether the gap between

current learner performance
and the target performance
is a learning problem.

how to design instruction
that will support the learning needed
to close the gap and meet the target performance(s).

• design online discussion forums?


• seed & facilitate online discussions?


• use discussion forums to support transfer & application of learning to new learning & worlds of work


• use mind mapping as a tool for learning, planning/designing, instructing & assessing learning


• use information mapping to support more effective online communication


• use content* analysis to increase the precision and effectiveness of your learning, communication and instruction (*Facts, concepts, processes, procedures and principles all have different information structures & elements. Are they making work or doing work for you?)


• increase your visual literacy and the visual literacy of those you instruct


• use the power of the visual, graphic & design arts to teach


• translate learning theory into field & workplace based practice (especially cognitive load, information processing, and learning object theory)


• design performance support, including the design & use of job aids


• Become a Claybody: Someone who can and will find ways to work clay into the teaching of everything


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My Squidoo Modules Sandbox

My Squidoo Modules Sandbox as a Lab My Squidoo Modules Sandbox is where I examine and experiment with modules before putting them to work in lenses. My Squidoo Modules Sandbox as a Referent Lens I'll refer back to this lens for the visual & written...

The Ubiquitous Pencil

This is a resource lens about the ubiquitous object we call a pencil. It is designedto seed & feed the curiosity of lifelong learners andprovide in-class, on-line & home school students and their teachers with starting points for interdisciplinary i...

The Ubiquitous CSI Flashlight

CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, and CSI: Crime Scene (Las Vegas) each bring a fact-filled forensic fiction to our television landscapes, each week. They have done this successfully for several seasons of new episodes, series DVDs, and syndicated reruns....