Seeing Through New Eyes

You know you always learn more when you go through the interview process. Well, I have had an opportunity to be on the other side of it. With the chance to be on a search committee and do the interviewing it has opened my eyes to so many different things that go into interviews and unique thoughts that I would never had imagined the interveiwers were noticing. It has especially been good for me since the organization is full or instructional designers. The position I helped interview for was not, but hearing insights into that field was very helpful. This probably sounds like one of those, oh duh situation where you're thinking everyone should know that, but it was a nice reminder for me. I certainly will approach applying for jobs and interviewing differently now. Here's a list of a few things I know I"ll work to improve now: resume (look and feel), correspondence-keeping it very professional, eye contact in face-to-face meetings, work on all my small fidgits and quirks, ...

Below are my screen shots from Netlogo. Flocking: Ants: In the flocking simulation I found that the three turning sliders changed the dynamics of the flocking. And that the slider for minimum-separation changed if flocking would actually occur. Whether or not the birds flocked didn't interest me. What I loved was when flocking did happen, that the turning dynamics of them could change. This caught me by surprise. I hadn't thought of flocking in terms of straight lines or curves before. So, individually we all change slightly day by day (straight lines and curves). It may depend on how much sleep we received, how hungry we are, how much knowledge we have of the project we are working on, what personal things are going on in our lives, etc. The interesting thing about it is that with a different turn the dynamics of the flock or project changes. The ants simulation showed that the higher the evaporation rate, the less number of ants that actually did any gathering o...