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| Website: | Learning Mashups | ||||
| Blog: | Music and Food for Thought | ||||
| Occupation: | Senior Educational Technologist | ||||
| Languages: | English | ||||
| Country: | Seattle, Washington USA | ||||
| Skype address: | Jim Baker | ||||
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Home | Jazz Awareness Interaction | Is This Jazz? | My Sandbox
November 22, 2009
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About Jim R C Baker, MA
A creative professional with a solid background experience in new and emerging learning technologies of ensuring client satisfaction by overseeing and enhancing efforts to maximize learner capabilities, he:
- brings perspective, business acumen, plus instructional design and project management skills to deal with ambiguity;
- dedicates himself to fostering teamwork to produce quality decisions using interpersonal, organizational, time management, and communication skills;
- drives for results; and,
- is quick to learn, self-motivated, and reliable.
References about Jim in print
- “Be sure to read [Jim's] Summary and Recommendations" - Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick, Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels (3rd)
- Blended training evaluation design in “The Regence Group: Blended Measurement” - Chris Moore, Chief Learning Officer, February 2008
- Blended training evaluation samples - Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick, Implementing the Four Levels: A Practical Guide for Effective Evaluation of Training Programs
Professional experience
- Senior eLearning Specialist REGENCE 2001 - 2008
- Human performance improvement technology consulting; eLearning instructional designer/developer; Project Lead HR courses, sales training with follow-up online resources including podcasts; Team Lead instructional design; Co-founder of Regence e-Learning Community of Practice; Database management system designing and reporting
- Distance Learning Instructor PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF EXTENDED STUDIES, DEPT. OF ENGLISH 1971 - 2001
- Instructional design and development undergraduate and graduate degree courses in the dynamics of culture and group processes; Author instructional materials; Teacher field research, data organization, and analysis; Adviser distance learning
- Performance Systems Consultant INTERMEC 1997 - 2000
- Research, analyze, and recommend employee performance solutions; Training Manager of global sites using learning management systems (LMS) and online library; Negotiator $250,000 training budget; Project Manager facilitator training of subject matter experts (SMEs); Team Lead SAOP R/3 user readiness; Facilitator project management workshops; Developer web-based training (WBT); Facilitator product webinars
- Information Systems Instructor BOGLE & GATES 1995 – 1997
- Instructional design of desktop and network applications for attorneys and staff; Team Lead curriculum planning and design of blended learning; Author course materials and job-aids; Facilitator; Tutor; Developer web-based training (WBT)
- Managing Principal J. C. BAKER & ASSOCIATES 1987 – 1995
- Consultant computerization of manual processes; Developer of CD-ROM and web-based training (WBT), including university textbook conversions; Community College Instructor relational database management systems (RDMS); Instructor-led training (ILT) project management certification (PMP) and consultative sales training
Publications and presentations
- Jim Baker, Evaluating an Information Technology Skills Training Program in Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick, Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels (3rd) and Implementing the Four Levels: A Practical Guide for Effective Evaluation of Training Programs
- Jim Baker, Measuring Learning Success: More than an Afterthought presented at ASTD Techknowledge Conference
- Jim Baker, Criterion-Referenced Measurement of eLearning presented at ASTD Cascadia Regional Conference
- Jim Baker, Kirkpatrick’s Levels 1, 2, and 3 Evaluations presented at Questionmark Perception User Conference
- Jim Baker, eLearning Measurement Tasks and Techniques at Regence presented at Dev Con
Education
- Certificate, Assessment, American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)
- Certificate, Communities of Practice Workshop (Senge certified training), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Certificate, Information Management, University of Washington Extension
- Doctoral coursework and exams in American Studies, University of Oregon
- Master’s degree in American Studies, University of Oregon
- Bachelor’s degree in history/philosophy, Willamette University
- Coursework in history, University of California at Berkeley
Professional Interests
- Adoption of innovation
- Communities of practice in learning
- Evaluating education and training
- Facilitator training
- Instructional design
- Localization
- Music and culture
- Open Education Resources (OER)
Personal Interests
- Blog: Music and Food for Thought
- Wikipedia articles: Gregory Short | List of compositions by Gregory Short, northwest composer of classical music often based on ethnic musical materials
- Wikipedia list of composers: Northwest composers
Reflections and insights
Creativity: It is hard when the creativity is squeezed out of the job. It is the loss of creative experience. It is the devaluing of creativity. If you return creativity into the workplace you will find the simpler, more productive, and effective, and functioning workplace. There can be an undercurrent of fear and the need to control and have control over people and a system. The travesty is that each human soul finds it difficult to introduce that creativity in a way that really allows one to thrive. You may see it in offices or in the way one dresses or how one communicates a creative expression. Yet when you have to hide or squeeze in and make excuses or receive ridicule or challenge for your creative expression, it is not a very healthy environment for the true self.
Culture: A dilemma in US society and the western world more broadly is that many of us walk away from opportunities of being more fully present, being more fully ourselves, relaxing into our lives, and appreciating the simpler things. This culture does not invite us to simply be present, and be ourselves in the face of all the chatter and directives. The concern is that what will be revealed in our self is unlovable, ugly, dark and seedy. Yet in the transparent moment, there is a great illumination of joy and darkness gets swept way, transformation continues with awareness, and grace is so easy.
Feedback and notes from my WikiNeighbours
- Very nice to see you have an early start on making your User page. If you have not seen it yet, I recommend that you look at the youtube video clip on Wikis. In WikiEd, as in the video, the most important buttons are edit and save. A third button, Link, is not quite the same on WikiEd. To make a sub page, in edit mode, you simply give it a name. put forward slashes around it, then two square brackets in front and after the result. When you save, the word will be in red. Click on it and it will tell you there is no such page. As soon as you start editing, the sub page is created. Another tip is to borrow from your Wiki neighbours. Browse around other User pages. If there is anything you like, just copy it and paste it in to your user page. Make any modification you need, and there you are.--Phil Bartle 01:44, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- Phil, awesome to hear from you again! I had not appreciated the significance of online collaboration - putting together a hike - for jazz awareness untiI reviewing that wiki vid at your suggestion.
- I am thinking about creating a break-out group in the Jazz Awareness Course! As you may know by experience at conference, break-out groups can be an effective tool for discussing special topics. At eLearning conferences, for example, we have 'online assessment' break-outs to focus on that software in smaller working groups.
- Law students typically form small study groups wherein each active participant tutors the others in civil procedure, criminal, constitutional law, contracts and such. These are very traditional groups that may be migrating from the law library to the Web. Grad students typically meet in formal seminars with professors. On Sunday afternoons, there can sherry to sip - though not yet available online. Ideas?!
- With a Wiki, we are just an EDIT click away from creating a working document for adding and modifying text as a group. Perhaps the shared content could be a typical issue such as "What if I don't like it?" Moreover, if a relevant side issue appears - "Is jazz an acquired taste?" - we could create and populate other documents for such tangential threads.
- Jim, you have been doing an amazing job on your userpage. --Nellie Deutsch 16:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks! Let me know what more I can do. --Jim 18:12, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- Great to see you in the tutorial, Jim, and to see your user page. Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials?--Phil Bartle 06:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
- Phil, thank you for focusing attention on the issue of high quality learning materials. My view is that the measure of the materials can be evaluated in the training. (Research could include data from subject matter experts combined with the perceptions from participating learners.) I do not know of any metrics that show the quality of open-authoring-approach materials, so I cannot tell you what we are getting and using. Let's continue the discussion. OK? --Jim 16:29, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hello Jim! It's great to have you in the EL4C25 Workshop! It's good to see others interested in America's only true art form! Benjamin Stewart 00:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
- Agreed! So far we've come up with the Constitution of the United States and jazz. More contributions to come in this century?! --Jim 18:12, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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: Hi Jim, excellent work, I love Jazz!. --Gladys Gahona 04:02, 29 May 2009 (UTC))
- Hi Gladys, I am glad you you love jazz. :o) My ears, heart, and mind - opened by Cal Tjader's Concert by the Sea (Monterey Concerts, 1958) - are expanding from Jelly Roll Morton through Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood and beyond. Your WikiNeighbor, --Jim 16:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Jim, Welcome to WikiEducator. I'm enjoying perusing your Jazz material. Wonderful work, thanks. Just wondering, do you prefer comments to be added here at the bottom of your user page, or on your talk page? Your WikiNeigbbor, Alison
- Allison, OMG! I am happy to see your question. Ah, the bottom of a page works for now. I set them to watch, so that I have the context at hand.
- Hi Jim, it was a pleasure surprise finding a person who share the love for jazz. I would to share a video with you. This is Michel Camilo, a Dominican pianist, during his performance for the 40th anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, held in a tent on the lawn of the White House. Hope you enjoy it!! --Zobeida Ramirez 20:33, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Zobeida, indeed I do enjoy your gift! This fills my heart.
- I love the robust music for piano solo by the great Spanish composers such as Granados, moved over to exploding jazz pianists such as Bobby Enriquez and Hermeto among others, and now there is the torrential Michel Camilo. Awesome pianist! I am excited by that hot pianism - thanks!
- My warm regards,
- --Jim 20:56, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
(: Dear Jim, It goes without saying that you are already a very skilled Wikieducator and well on your way to becoming a WikiMaster Warm wishes, --Patricia 18:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC))
- Thank you so very, very much for notes.
- --Jim
(: I love the idea of putting a "let's chat" area on the user page. --Nellie Deutsch 20:13, 26 August 2009 (UTC))
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: Hi JIm Nice to meet you! Your User Page is absolutely awesome and very impressive. I still have a lot to learn and it's fantastic to see how everyone else is doing. Warm wishes --Janet Bianchini 16:40, 28 September 2009 (UTC))
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For several decades I served as a Distance Learning Instructor at PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF EXTENDED STUDIES where my roles were Instructional design and development of undergraduate and graduate degree courses. To become more familiar with 'Wikieducator I am building an education resource in collaboration with others participating in WE. Moving ahead, I gratefully accept your constructive criticism and contributions to Jazz Awareness Interaction.
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