Season 2 of Dear ID is finally over! In this episode, I share some stats about my 2016 year of projects, takeways from Season 2’s focus on tools and tech, and what’s next for Season 3 of Dear ID. I’m sick (for the first time in forever!) but I wanted to get out this season review. Thank you so much for listening in! Season 2 has been awesome!
Some Stats
We’ve grown tremendously this season in listens!
There’s also been a little movement in the most-listened-to episodes, though Jane Bozarth is holding the number 1 spot.
2016 Year of Projects
It’s been a great year and a great season for learning and making. Here’s what I’ve been doing:
Books I Read This Year
(Highly Recommended, All!)
- Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Design for Real Life by Eric Meyers and Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- You’re My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro
Learning Opportunities We Learned About this Season
- Torrance Learning xAPI Cohort (keep an eye out for the 2017 cohort announcement): http://www.torrancelearning.com/
- Designers for Learning: http://designersforlearning.org/
Tiny Projects I’ve Shipped This Year
- This Podcast!
- Adapt Sample Course
- Adapt plugin for HTML5 Games
- Google Forms Branching Scenario
- xAPI Experimental Project
- Last 7 projects for the Front-End Development Cert in Free Code Camp
Tiny Games I’ve Shipped This Year
See most of them here: https://anthkris.itch.io/
- A Bike for All Seasons (mini game in the Adapt course; created using Phaser JS)
- Sweets for Sweeting (created using Construct 2)
- Paleo (created using Phaser JS)
- Espiritus (created using Phaser JS)
Wrapping Up
Right before recording this episode I had a crazy idea. I’d love to have a cohost or a series of cohosts next season. If you wouldn’t mind talking with me for a few episodes in Season 3, reach out!