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...
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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“This is important, tell me why it’s great” – A Fallacy
One training mistake I see a lot is a sign that we need to stop and think deeper.
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
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,...
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