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...
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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 17, 2023
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...
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...
Learning Design
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....
Instructional Designers Need a Clipboard Manager (and So Do You!)
Sometimes a big part of the job of Instructional Design involves simply copy/pasting information from one format or platform to another. I’m working on...
Designing Lessons for When You’re Not There
In college I had a writing teacher who stressed the point that Writing represents you when you’re not there. –Alberto Rios It was his...
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