It’s finally happened…to me
I’m excited to say that it’s finally happened to me. Today, one of my presentations, “Comparing Instructional Design Models,” made it to the home page of Slideshare — even it was only for a little while. Earlier today, I received the following email:
Unfortunately, I missed capturing the link on Slideshare’s homepage. But I have to say that I am “Wowed!” I heard all this today from a colleague and friend Kevin Thorn, who said he saw one of my presentations get tweeted. So that’s pretty cool. Somebody I don’t know (that’s Mike Taylor) found one of my presentations and decided to share it. That’s awesome! Glad I could help. Since this was new to me, I decided to search twitter to see if I could find out who all were interested in my presentation today. And I found this:
Now, I am pleased to say that my friend Kevin (that’s him above as LearnNuggets) retweeted the original tweet, and then it got retweeted multiple times. The folks who retweeted the presentation include folks that I admire and follow myself, such as Cammy Bean at Kineo and Dr. Allison Rossett at San Diego State.
So, what’s the stuff that caused this reaction? It’s this presentation:
I decided this semester that I would publish all my slides for my “Developing Interactive Learning Environments” course into Slideshare just to see what happens. I guess I got my answer.

534 views.
5 favs.
2 embeds other than me.
So, why has this presentation resonated with others? What did you like, dislike, or abhor about it? Thanks everybody for making me feel appreciated today.


As the opportunity arose to teach, I was hesitant because of the enormous responsibility I felt to ensure that the content presented would be understood and applied by the students in my class. As I began to teach, I had no idea the impact this might make on their lives. These individuals were characterized as the nontraditional student (NCES, 2002). My concerns were whether I was going about the right way to teach such a group of adult learners.
















Some tasks are best taught through formal learning. These tasks have low complexity, require low autonomy, are standardized, are highly specific or routine, or may be time sensitive. For example, Flora McDora created a slideshare to emphasize this point. You can view it here: 
