what I did this week (04 April 2015)

04 Apr 2015

This week was about a lot of

and not so much of

Anyway, Rachel - yes, that Rachel - is already back at it. I like the idea of making this a regular thing, so let's get to it:

• Finished David Mitchell's Black Swan Green; immediately downloaded and began his The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. I'm not far in, but a lot about what I'm reading makes me think about the Dutch character (in just one episode?) that was in Samurai Champloo.
• Fulfilled my most recent whip list challenge: working the Wacom and Pencil2D. Here's what I wrote about it (and a not-yet-great sample of what can be accomplished with Krita). I don't know which whip list item I shold tackle next. Let me know?
• xAPI Design Cohort - week 9!
• Spent way, way, way too much time messing with the management settings for ADL's YouTube account(s). I'm beginning to understand why people are moving to Vessel or evening paying to use Vimeo.
• xAPI Thursday!
  • Regular xAPI Design Cohort 0700 meeting. Shout out to Andrew Downes for the company!
  • I spoke very, very quickly about the Experience API in front of a crowd of about 50 people for the Talent Development Requirements Development Working Group meeting at ADL Alexandria. The group asked me (and all of the speakers) a lot of good questions. I hope to have a Storify of the event up soon.
  • xAPI Design Cohort 1500 EDT meeting. The usual, though I don't have any videos to show for it this time around (sorry Rachel).
• Watched the Kirkpatrick Model Good or Bad? The Epic Mega Battle Continues... with Clark Quinn and Will Thalheimer about Kirkpatricks 4 Levels of Training Evaluation. Do yourself a favor and skip past the audio problems that the combatants were having and get to the good stuff. Thanks to Brent Schlenker for hosting/refereeing this tête-á-tête. I'm happy to see Brent push us into more video, especially in the form of Meerkat streams.
• Discussion with Rustici Software's Brian Miller about how we - those who evangelize the technology - are maybe putting the cart before the horse. Brian was kind enough to drop this gem (which deserved the kind of honor that only erasable-marker-on-window can bestow)
• This tweet. [drops mic]
• Passover!