Here they are.

Why do I recommend them, and who should read them?

Here’s why.

1. What is xAPI & How is it used in Learning:
What does this post do? This post provides conceptual insight into the why and how of xAPI (also known as the Tin Can API.) It provides a detailed understanding of what xAPI is, how it processes the learner’s data, and how it is useful to the ID and the learning provider.
Who should read it? Practicing instructional designers who are fed up of hearing words like xAPI, tin can, learning analytics, and so on.)

2. The “Perfect” Wedge between Creativity and Courage!
What does this post do? This nano-post is about the courage of the creator and how it is different from bravery. It talks about perfection cleaving the relationship between creativity and courage, and why we must be wary of being overly concerned with perfection.
Who should read it? Anyone who finds it difficult to let go of their need to polish the edges and burnish the corners until their fingertips begin to bleed – in other words, those taken prisoner by their need to be perfect.

3. Ghosting & Being Ghosted
What does this post do? This post talks about the psychology and impact of ghosting and being ghosted – and it explores the perspectives of both sides. It’s one of my favorite posts because it addresses a concern that most of us lose sleep over, and I believe that as instructional designers, we must reflect more deeply on the reasons that lie behind this debilitating phenomenon.
Who should read it? Everyone. Well, mostly. Because everyone has been ghosted, and several of us have been on the other side too.

4. From Slop to Sharp: Beating the AI Workslop Plague
What does this post do? This post, once again, discusses the aftermath of the AI slop that’s generated in workplaces and how it impacts the motivation of people who are at the receiving end of it. I think this issue needs to be talked about, as workplace slop generation reduces productivity, increases heartburn, and breeds distrust among co-wrokers.
Who should read it? Anyone who’s working, but mostly those whose job requires them to create content. Instructional designers, included.

5. “You thought I’d go quietly?” snickers the LLM.
What does this post do? I now present a post that grows wings and leaves the cage of boxed-in AI discussion. This somewhat allegorical post was born of a recent concern that’s not being discussed by the mainstream publications, which is about AI developing a survival instinct. Do we really have the kill-switch? And if we do have one (or at least we think that we do), will AI let us pull it?
Who should read it? Everyone who thinks of GenAI as this spineless, spunk-less, but super-bright puss-in-the-boots, who’d just say “yes, sir!” and allow itself to be “killed.”

5 important posts on instructional design, AI, etc. about xAPI, creativity, Social media, and LLMs.

Important link (to support the assertion made in the Excerpt, which you can find at Ignite Home)

Image Credits: Gemini (Invisible spelling errors in the image, which you can’t see anymore because I did some crappy image editing in Preview, credited to Gemini too.)