the BIG event
Has it really been 3 weeks since my daughter got married? All that planning and commotion, anxiety and sleepless nights, confusion and happieness, and it’s over?? I’ve been joking that a wedding is like a colonoscopy, the prep is far worse than the actual event and after it’s over, you have a glow, but remember very little. It’s all a blur. But, life does go on!
Today I start my first post for Instructional Design, Sitka, (Palmer branch). It strikes me that just as my life is marked by actions “before” and “after” The Wedding, so too is my life changed by this new job– miles and miles away from the home office. For years I’ve preached my philosophy “teach from the beach” joking that as an instructor for students at a distance, I could live in Hawaii and teach students here in Alaska. Now I’m working hundreds of miles from the UAS Sitka campus with people who understand that distances can be overcome by the use of technology and that people really do work in home offices. Hooray!!
I read an article, before gas prices doubled, that employers need to prepare for catastrophes (natural or manmade) where/when employees will not be able to make it to the office to work. The article stressed that our lives will be paralyzed if we don’t figure out how to communicate and work together at distances. Today, with the price of gas making it nearly impossible for some people to afford to commute to work, this becomes more than just a futuristic notion and more just plain common sense. At any rate, the UAS Instructional Design Team is giving it our best shot, working with each other and our clients both in person and using distance technologies. It’s a grand adventure and we’re off and running!
That said, at this blog you will find work related information, personal dribblings, fun stuff, and in general, hopefully, something of interest.
Posted by Kathi 
