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...
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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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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...
The Metaverse in Education — How ’bout No?
In response to: What Should Higher Ed in the Metaverse Look like? – from linkedin.com by Joe Schaefer “The Metaverse is coming whether we like...
Alfred for Mac — Ferocious Tools for Instructional Designers
Alfred is my #1 favorite productivity tool for the Mac, and over the years I have developed some ferocious tricks to support the tasks...
From Word Docs in a File to a Non-Linear Visual Knowledge Base using Markdown
Our team maintains a library of basic research about eLearning vendors we’ve worked with, or may explore in future. Until now, these files were...
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