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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September 11, 2023
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...
June 13, 2023
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Teachers: Don’t Get an Instructional Designer Job, Transform the Teaching Role with ID
I am subscribed to the r/instructionaldesign forum on Reddit, and this year it is positively overrun with teachers trying to figure out how to...
Old Man Yells at Gamified Learning
Sure, games are fun. But #gamification often falls short of its promises and fails to produce the learning goals we want. #learningdesign
Digital Exhaust: Making Your Work Work Twice
Most of us work from one deadline to the next, in an endless race to check tasks off our to-do lists and stay ahead...
All Together Now? Shared Tech Platforms Across a Diverse Team of Instructional Designers
When you’re working on a team, it’s usually assumed that you’ll all use the same software platforms so you can more easily share projects,...
Sponsored posts? No.
http://pca.st/OYg6 After listening to this episode of the stellar Daily Tech News Show a while back, there was a discussion about “sponsored content”. They...
Recording Screencasts and Lecture Videos via Zoom
The Coronavirus quarantine has given all kinds of non-technical computer users a crash course in Zoom online meetings. This creates an opportunity for those...
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