On-Stage Teleprompter using Free Open Source Tools
Clip, organize, store, sync, and display your chord sheets using free and open source tools. This workflow is years in the making, now perfect.
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March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 10, 2023
The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
August 24, 2022
Microlearning is not a Platform, it’s a Design Choice
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
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Edit Video with your SMEs using Text Transcription in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into...
eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
Clean Up your Browser when Screen Sharing
This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether...
AI-powered Tools in Instructional Design 2023
A friend emailed me asking about the latest AI-powered tools that we instructional designers might use in our work. 2022 witnessed an explosion in...
By The Power of WordPress! Verified on Mastodon by my Blog
Unlike in certain birdbrained areas of the web, Mastodon allows you to verify your account by associating it with your WordPress blog. Following this...
iOS is Cool but Android is Better — Fight Me!
I tried to get into Apple’s iPhone after years as a happy Android user, but even in 2022 there are significant areas where the...
Stages of Learning and Edtech Improvements
There are multiple stages each learner goes through in the process of learning something new. Learning (as well as “online learning” and “eLearning” and...
Interactive PDFs for eLearning – How and Why?
I was struck when I joined the world of corporate training about how widespread the use of interactive PDFs was as an eLearning tool...
Notifications in Online Learning: Alert with Care
Online learning tools like LMSes and 3rd party apps offer a variety of ways to notify learners of key events in their course. The...
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