Hopefully my absence on the blog has been missed but since this is only my second posting, I probably overestimate my importance to my own blog, so where have I been? My Father and believe it or not his twin brother both passed away and I was to their memorial service in Montana. Sometimes delays have wonderful unintended side effects and for me the time away allowed me to step back and get a new perspective on my action research project. Often, I can get so near sighted, that I forget that the project is a larger more encompassing endeavor than my gaze allows it to be.

Oddly enough one of the first people that crossed my path was Robert Tadjiki who is a nationally recognized Life Skills teacher. I told Robert of my action research plan and that the object of my research was Life Skills students and their interaction with electronic media. Robert was excited to say the least and wanted to schedule a coffee date and so Friday afternoon Robert and I are sitting down to plot out a strategy.

In the mean time the ADDIE system has really caught my attention and I find myself thinking about this framework of curriculum development and have caused me to really rethink the way I develop lesson plans and scope and sequence. I’m still looking for tutorial software to start my research with and I have also started to look for training software that has a higher level of cognitive challenge.