Adam Lossing - Musings of a Digital Nomad

Problem : When my company Nomadic searched for a learning record store (LRS) in Canada, there were was only one discoverable in a web search. Solution : Nomadic has one of the first LRSs mounted on a Canadian server.

View eBook Problem : Textbooks for the Fire Service are almost entirely focused on systems and methodologies rooted in the United States. They are also very expensive and change editions, creating work in the way of course refreshes to update page references. Solution : Develop an eBook off of the Pressbooks platform which allows the course text to be a multimedia living document that students can author content for.

Problem: An expensive fire flow path prop was not getting used enough. Solution: Create annotated video demos for most common ventilation profiles.

This is a work in progress with Langley City Fire Rescue. The decision tree is complete with some of the injects in place. With video no longer playing without an initial click in browsers anymore, the user needs to click the video player to start the animation. This is not the case with a SCORM module in an LMS, where the video plays when the slide is visited. As such, the player controls can be removed from the video player skin, if you have that control. If not, a simple solution is to place a rectangular shape over the player control and match the colour to the background. I am using video because I found that with the injects built into the simulation as .GIF files, the load time is far too laggy to be effective. Problem: Incident commander in the Fire Service do not get enough opportunities to practice decision making, either in traditional table top simulations or on the fire ground. Solution : Provide practice through computer-based simulations, with flow path video t...