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...
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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...
Learning Design
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,...
Instructional Designer Onboarding – a Multi-Modal Approach
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in...
Motion Graphics from Keynote to Video
My process for creating animated motion graphics is unconventional but it has distinct advantages over the industry standard method of using Adobe AfterEffects or...
UbD is the Ultimate Learning Technology
This is a pretty dense, fiber-full article about backward learning design by one of my instructional design heroes, Michael Feldstein. It introduces the concept of Backwards Design (part of Understanding by Design, which he also introduces). Most importantly, it makes the case that designing course strictly aligned with learning outcomes enables us to collect data programmatically, scalably, so we can make timely interventions that result in better student learning overall.
Planning a Complex Project with FoldingText and Markdown MindMaps
I recently started planning a three-day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active learning experiences, with the...
From “Just in Case” Learning to “Just in Time” Learning
In this post, we’ll discuss the difference between “just in case” learning and “just in time” learning, showing the ideal use cases for each.
Use Twine for Branching Learning Scenarios
The open source writing tool Twine bills itself as an “Interactive Fiction” authoring program – a way for people to make text-based choose-your-own-adventure games...
Best Markdown Editors for Writers and Coders 2017
Over the years I’ve been exploring Markdown as a content development tool, I’ve tried most of the Markdown editors available for Mac and Windows....
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