IDE 632

This semester I am taking the second half of a course I began last semester which requires the building of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment. As students we are to use this site to post reflections and thoughts about the topics we study throughout the semester.
1) The first thing you might notice about the field of instructional design is that we use traditional language but with very definite and specific meaning, one has to be careful with words.
2) The process is not unlike becoming a lawyer what you previously prescribed meaning too is altered by the process and new meaning is derived specific to the nature of what you study, you could almost refer to people outside the field as a lay person
3)You quickly become aware of the deficiencies in educational processes. That is not to say you have the answer to the question, but you know what good instructional should look like.