{"id":1818,"date":"2016-12-29T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2016-12-29T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T21:37:02","slug":"blogmas-day-7-what-have-i-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/blogmas-day-7-what-have-i-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogmas Day 7: What Have I Been Up To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been on Winter holiday for 7 days now; what have I been up to outside of spending time with family and blogging?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m toggling between several good reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/slide-ology-Science-Creating-Presentations\/dp\/0596522347\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483046771&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=nancy+duarte\" target=\"_blank\">Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations<\/a>\u00a0by Nancy Duarte<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grit-Passion-Perseverance-Angela-Duckworth\/dp\/1501111108\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483046839&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=grit\" target=\"_blank\">Grit: The Power and Passion of Perseverance<\/a> by Angela Duckworth<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moonglow-Novel-Michael-Chabon\/dp\/0062225553\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483046884&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=moonglow\" target=\"_blank\">Moonglow<\/a> by Michael Chabon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also have two other Duarte gems cued up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Resonate-Present-Stories-Transform-Audiences\/dp\/0470632011\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483046771&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=nancy+duarte\" target=\"_blank\">Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences<\/a> by Nancy Duarte<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Illuminate-Through-Speeches-Stories-Ceremonies\/dp\/1101980168\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1483046771&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=nancy+duarte\" target=\"_blank\">Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols<\/a> by Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Working<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s been relevantly quiet for a winter break; usually this is when all of my clients are scrambling to have things done&#8230;but I have been doing a bit of work here and there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Storyline development for two clients<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Assessment development for one client<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Storyboarding for one client<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Sprout development<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Catching up on some e-learning heroes challenges\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Coming down the pipes, entries for:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">#154: Using Pantones Color of the Year in E-Learning<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">#152: Combining Text and Images in E-Learning<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">#148: Checklist Interactions in E-Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Administrative work (yay taxes!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After itemizing, it seems that I&#8217;ve been busier than I originally thought. I guess I&#8217;ll have to take a vacation soon, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Napping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have been napping like a champ! To anyone who knows me, napping is one of my favourite pastimes, and I have definitely been catching up on relaxation this break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been on Winter holiday for 7 days now; what have I been up to outside of spending time with family and blogging? Reading I&#8217;m toggling between several good reads: Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations\u00a0by Nancy Duarte Grit: The Power and Passion of Perseverance by Angela Duckworth Moonglow by Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-instructional-design","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s3cq-tk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}