Publishing_Leadership Blog #1 - Thoughts on Publishing and Leadership

Thai Temple close to my house

When I first started thinking about the method for finalizing my action research, I thought a presentation would be the best possible choice.  The only problem is that I didn’t clearly think about the people who would be viewing the presentation. Regardless of whether it’s published or developed as a presentation, the data will ultimately be shown to Buddhist monks in my area.  Since my action research is about teaching Buddhism through digital storytelling instruction, Buddhist monks have expressed a lot of interest in the findings.  Lugging around a computer or something else to show the monks will not be the best possible choice.  I feel going with the publishing method will best suit the needs of the monks.

Secondly, as I continue with my adventure in my new job I have more responsibilities as a multimedia developer and a trainer.  Every little detail from image position to type of instructional content is now resting on my shoulders.  One important detail is my action research and the method I will use to finalize it.  One thing I first thought about was the environment I work in and what works best to convey ideas and facts.  While rich media presentations are quite common, documents with near perfect organization and formatting have been the requirement for all research done in my environment.  I feel my action research will be more acceptable and presentable by going with the option for publishing.  Of course there is a chance that I will not get published, but the paper will be complete and I will have the opportunity to hand it off to scientists and training developers to further analyze my research.  There are a number of courses coming up in the near future that will require new ways of presenting information to the student.  E-learning development has been my specialty for many years and now that I have the chance to combine media development, instructional design, and pedagogical methodologies, a compliant research document on digital storytelling instructional in e-learning will prove to be helpful in my success as a computer and web based training developer.