Welcome to this blog!

Hello,

My name is Gordon Paustian and this is my blog created in tandem with my OLP course through Idaho State University. If you've found this blog and weren't looking for it, congratulations! You may or may not find something useful for what you're looking for. I will be posting to this blog and replying back and receiving comments from my other classmates in this course as we work in these blogs through the semester and hope that if you found this one interesting then you can do the same with theirs.

I will be writing posts here about technology and it's uses in education or ways to communicate and share ideas across an organization or in the public domain. During this semester this blog will help me gather ideas and thoughts on uses for different aspects of education and the sharing of ideas. I will also be using some of what I share here in my personal and professional life, so as I continue to work through this semester I will be sure to let you know of things I have ended up taking with me outside of the course and applying to a real world example.

Thank you for your time!

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A semester in reflection

As we look back over these last few months I've recognized that I did participate in some of these concepts over the course of my career, though using specific tools for each was not my typical method. I've worked in the Food Industry as a Quality and Regulatory specialist for the past decade and so I've spent a lot of time looking through regulatory bodies' rules, however I haven't done much to engage beyond my immediate contacts. As much as I've avoided it, I think Twitter will now remain as a crucial point in gathering information from sources that actively posts materials here or respond to questions through here. Even as someone who doesn't like to remain connected at all times, getting a daily summary or semi-daily summary when I want to check in on Twitter and responses is important as well. It is also useful in keeping conversations short and sweet and avoiding conversations which go on too long and cover too much information for the reader. Pati...

Being Yourself

There are two sides of us when we hold a job, one of the most recent analysis tools I've used is regarding a DISC assessment. We can lead a natural and adapted style depending on our job and what is expected of us. This is a tool that asks you a series of questions and related them into four categories: A free assessment can be found here: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/ODAT/ Dominance: How we act to express ourselves, by being outgoing in making our demands known to others. Influence: The ways we interact with others to gain approval or make ourselves known. Steadiness: Being calm in the face of stress, value of cooperation. Conscioentousness: How we follow regularity, order and adaption to changes. These are concepts we can use to identify ourselves and how others can be identified. Using this assessment, my team recently was able to find out what they were doing from the perspective other than their own. Much of the assessment was accurate to t...

Gamification in Learning

I wanted to take this chance to highlight one of the programs I had mentioned in last weeks post, Coorpacademy. The reason I wanted to bring this up is because it highlights one of the topics mentioned this week regarding the use of turning learning into a game. You can take such parts like your own personal score: Or you can view how you are doing up against colleagues: And even challenge your colleagues to a one-on-one to completing courses. This has lead to a great amount of interest in the learning activities presented here, especially with the backing of leadership in the company to have your colleagues find things they are interested in. While they learn these skills they can apply them to their work, reflect the ideas back on each other and further use what each other knows to become more proficient with application of the skill rather than just the knowledge of it. If you're looking for a resource available for your local or even international...

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