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...
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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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Collaborate via Wiki for a Web-Native Content Development Process
Using a wiki as a collaboration space for a web-native content development process with subject matter experts.
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...
Building Critical Thinking Into Self-Paced Online Learning
Until recently, I worked on Propero.org, a collection of accredited, self-paced, online learning courses where students work at their own pace and pick up...
Good MF’ing Online Learning
Every so often, I go visit this website for inspiration: MotherFuckingWebsite.com It starts with the text This is a motherfucking website. And it’s...
Against Dead Air in Education(al Multimedia)
In my first career, I was an AVID video editor and worked in Hollywood editing television shows for Paramount TV, MTV, E Entertainment, Lifetime,...
PROsocial Deconstructivism –
In reading Michael Feldstein’s article on AntiSocial Deconstructivism, I found myself agreeing with some parts of some of the points he was intending to...
Action-Oriented eLearning with the Humble WebQuest
One challenge about creating reusable eLearning content is that designers often fall back into the banking model of education, creating a passive and dependent learning...
Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker for Enhanced Video eLearning in HTML5
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a...
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