1. Articles

This area is a storehouse of articles and thoughts. Feedback is definitely invited. Send comments to: Schatz @powerstart.com

• Search Evaluation - submitted
• The USE Method - In Press PIQ
• The Trouble With Training Is Training - Short article from PI
• Design for Instructional Designers - Important and ignored. Drawn from Alexander and Petroski, how can we develop a language to begin to evaluate what designers do. Published in PIQ
• Unqiue Meta Data Schemas - In press with ETR&D
• Making of the ILF. How do we examine and learn from the mistakes and success of a large research project?
• The Dissertation - Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems - insomnia?

2. Other Writing - older articles and white papers

Information Design, Effective Communication With Print, Computer and Web

This is my latest work. It is a series of short chapters on using and thinking about media. I violate the rules for online text. This is not chunked for the web. It is really intended to be a printed book. However, I have not found a publisher to date and would rather get the information out and, hopefully, get your feedback. So, read, enjoy, and tell me what you think.

• Show/Do/Cue The short article. This article appeared in the October 96 edition of THE Journal.
• Show/Do/Cue The long article. This is a longer version I am currently working on for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Comments on this one will be greatly appreciated.
• Authoring Process This article, written with Dr. Irene Thomas, is the basis of our work for multimedia in education.
• Interaction- A Revolution Waiting This is the draft of a new article on one of the most important powers of the new communication.
• A Model for Meta tagging knowledge building blocksSome of the foundational work in the development of my approach to developing unique meta data schemas for learning objects.

3. Presentations

• TechLearn - November, 2004 - The Trouble With Training Is Training Training as an intervention is fundamentally flawed for many of the needs of today's society. Training isn't the problem, it is developers who see training as the only solution.

Here you can see several presentations we have built over the years.

Go to the portfolio page.