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Prepare for a Flurry of Blog Posts

Tom King — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:20:00 +0000

There has been a noticeable lack of recent entries here. My mother recently suffered a stroke and I travelled back to be with her and my siblings. Though the stroke was debilitating and exhausting, her condition quickly stabilized. She has now begun the arduous process of therapy and recovery. Thanks to all who provided prayers, thoughts and other support.

Prior to leaving (and since), I’ve seen a few items of interest and had a few thoughts about flows & storyboards, a "Google Pack" for elearning, and elearning simulations. This week I am in San Diego attending AICC and IEEE LTSC/SISO Interface Standards meetings, so I’ll have some information to report as well.

Mobilemind RSS Feed Change- January 12, 2006

Tom King — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:00 +0000

Just an administrative note that the proper feed is now: http://mobilemind.net/rss/index.xml

In an attempt to somewhat satisfy Feed Validator, I changed the file extension of my feed to “.xml” instead of “.rdf”. This eliminates a few of the Feed Validator errors. I’m hoping that will make things more palatable to technorati and the Macromedia/Adobe MXNA Feed Aggregator.

Comments ON

Tom King — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:01:00 +0000

I made some updates to my blog template (roll-over tool-tips for the sidebar links, changing “Macromedia” to “Adobe/Macromedia”, updating the IEEE LTSC and IMS links, permanent links to entries via the title of the post, etc). Apologies if this made your RSS aggregators freak a bit as I republished quite often– editing blog templates can be a trial-and-error-and-error process.

The most noteworthy change is that comments are on now. Hopefully, I’ll write something new and comment-worthy soon. Meantime, feel free to comment on older posts.

The other interesting news is that I managed to pass the W3C Markup Validation Service check for XHTML 1.0

Moving on from Macromedia/Adobe

Tom King — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:39:00 +0000

In case you missed reading it at my official Macromedia blog (Elearning Moving Forward), I have moved on from Adobe. December 9, 2005 was officially my last day. Hopefully Silke Fleischer (and others?) will continue the Elearning Blog in my absence.

I just got a new laptop today and I can’t wait get started on some new projects. All the software I ordered from Adobe just can’t arrive soon enough.

Here are some of the things I plan on working on in 2006:

Updates to the AICC PENS documentation and Test Harness
(see forum posts here)
A PENS Test Suite/Server-side Validater in PHP (Hint: send an email to mobilemind@pobox.com and I’ll let you know where the test suite lives right now)
Updates to this site and the blog format
Posting more regularly on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog (there’s serious dust on my last entry)
Getting more proficient with S1000D
Thinking about a consistent way to track learner activity in virtual classrooms (see Learning Circuits entry above)
Working with lots of the friends I’ve made over the years
Doing more with simulations and Captivate and Flash and maybe even Flex
Maybe even writing a book

My Official Macromedia Blog Moved

Tom King — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:00:00 +0000

My official Macromedia blog moved. The new URL is: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/tking/

New RSS feeds are:
RSS 1.0 -http://weblogs.macromedia.com/tking/index.rdf
RSS 2.0 – http://weblogs.macromedia.com/tking/index.xml
Atom – http://weblogs.macromedia.com/tking/atom.xml

Rapid Sabbatical

Tom King — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:21:00 +0000

Thanks to Macromedia’s great benefits I spent six weeks on sabbatical. Though a sabbatical is rare (but greatly appreciated) in corporate form, it is also a bit shorter than the typical academic sabbatical, which can be a semester or full year to focus on other interests.

I’ll be continuing my elearning and technology blog on my section of the official Macromedia blogging site- http://www.markme.com/tking/.

The RSS junkies amongst you can use the RSS feed for that site.

Time for a drive

Tom King — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:47:00 +0000

I’m going on another drive and will be blogging once again. Send me an email if you’re interested. I’ll reply with the URL for the latest sports car excurision web site. The previous “Mobilemind” roadtrip blog is still online. Let … Continue reading →

Blog Portability, or Tom gets official

Tom King — Tue, 18 May 2004 03:28:00 +0000

Now I’ve gone and done it. Macromedia decided that my anecdote and pun-laden posts are worthy of an official Macromedia blog. — http://www.markme.com/tking/

I copied almost everything that I posted from here over to the new URL. I still have to figure out how to add my own links for standards, events, etc.

Being “official” is good news for all of us involved in elearning with Macromedia products… more visibility AND a comment mechanism.

Oh, I just realized something. Depending on what you think, that comment mechanism may not be so good for me. I’ll take my chances and count on your kindness.

Going Mobile

Tom King — Sat, 01 May 2004 06:04:00 +0000

Vacation time for me. I’ll be back with more posts soon.

Tom

News, resources and experience

Tom King — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 00:01:00 +0000

To me, a good blog is a personal encounter that provides news, resources and experience. I’m going to try to do just that for elearning, right here. I enjoy a blog with the kind of stuff that Google can find, but I’d never know to look for.

The news and resources stuff is obvious, since we’ve all stumbled on gem-quality links that way. I hope you’ll find some of those here.

The challenge will be to make this blog personal and experiential– those are the things that turn bits of data into bits of wisdom from someone you know and trust. That will take time and a few more posts, but I’ll try to do that too.

How? I’m not entirely sure. 15 years of experience will help… I’ve earned my M.A. in Instructional Design, done it for a living, built custom CBT/elearning, sold tools, helped design/build/popularize an LMS (and elearning standards) and more. The most valuable part of all that was the good friends and good contacts I’ve made along the way. I’ll do my best to benevolently exploit all of them.

Oh, and watch for quirky puns, analogies and anecdotes. Those are things that make context and make something memorable. I may forget the exact content of this Jay Cross post on “mobile learning”, but I will forever remember his boyhood home phone number– 2. “When I was a little boy growing up in Hope, Arkansas…”