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Me: Im an instructional designer. Im sort of distracted by the naked boy who just ran by (not mine). Now, I say that I write training manuals for companies, and then I quickly mention the different delivery methods for training (as examples). billbrandon had this comment on Twitter: I usually just tell em Im a writer.
Those future trends include Spontaneous Learning Systems (SLS), Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS), and highly personalized learning services. degrees in educational psychology. He has spoken to groups around the world about education and eLearning. You can read more about Clive on his blog. He holds M.A. Connie Malamed.
Im not looking for the obtuse theory books. Dr. John Curry was kind enough to post a really detailed reading list in his post How to Get an Instructional Design Education Without Paying Tuition (gotta love that title!) Im already feeling a bit overwhelmed. Friday, February 15, 2008 Essential Reading for Instructional Design?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Im a (K)nitwit! Dan Roddy recently shared a link to a great article on tips for writing in a more conversational tone. Photo credit: Learn to Knit by abbynormy Posted by Cammy Bean at 12:50 PM Labels: instructional design , knitting , writing 3comments: Janet Clarey said. Good for you! Very cool.
I primarily focus on the content, the writing, and the schmoozing with the client. (My Some of these discussions about tools is similar to the arguments that the main stream media has made about blogs and wikis. But Im not sure I can get people to hold their answers back. 1:32 AM Tom Kuhlmann said. Good post and comments.
Instead, say, While Im unable to issue a refund, Im happy to come up with an offer for a discount on your next order. Mistakes here can cause unintended offense, so educate yourself on common cultural preferences and remain curious about how your customers perceive you. Whichone will you work on first?
So, what do I do if Im not doing that? Marketing: I write the fact sheets. Proposal Writing: When the sales demo goes well, I write the proposal. Proposal Writing: When the sales demo goes well, I write the proposal. Write all the design documents, project plans, change orders, etc. The website copy.
My ID education has been completely on the job and informal. Im curious what other folks experiences has been. He told me that I had no business applying because my 5 years of education and training experience was totally irrelevant to instructional design. Im so happy to see you post this up. 10:22 AM Jody Baty said.
Monday, November 05, 2007 Instructional Design Inspiration As I mentioned last week , Im in the midst of designing my first custom eLearning course in quite awhile. Now that Ive been actually doing some writing, Im having to put it all to work. Ideally, Im trying to figure out how to make this a bit interactive.
Im no Facebook super-user and I havent experienced a huge time suck from it, but I suppose its possible. Update: Also be sure to check out this Facebook post over at the Read/Write Web that follows this same "study." So Im not sure the issue is people leaking secret information, but maybe just companies afraid of being bad-mouthed.
Im a convert. Sidebar: This, Tony Karrer , is why schools still need to teach good writing. Likewise with writing. Yes, Im an English major who writes mostly text bullets instead of novels. So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? So Im curious: what drove you to revisit theory? Thankfully.
What is Good Writing? Rubrics and Good Writing One of my favorite conversation topics is always looking at how school has changed from when I went through. When I was going through school, I often felt that my writing assignments were judged arbitrarily. Still, there's a push to better define good writing. They don't.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Jott This Blog I havent had so much time lately to blog, as this project Im working on has been quite grueling. I find my best time for thinking up excellent blog entries is late at night when Im lying in bed. That is, of course, if Im even awake after the kids have finally fallen asleep.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 The Big Question This months big question from the Learning Circuits Blog: What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learned that connecting with the blogging community has helped me get more passionate about my work as an instructional designer. Me: "Well, well have to write him a letter."
Nevertheless, Im trying to keep up. Day 18: Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep Within Your Blog This task is about spreading germs. The goal of this task is to write a post that links back to some of your greatest hits, unearthing those old treasures from way back when. Im not going to bother with a full-blown survey.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 My Blogs Personality Type Well, it isnt very glamorous or creative sounding. But I suppose this is an appropriate description of my blogs personality? Check out your own blogswriting style at Typealyzer. And please, dont leave my blog alone. My ID blog matches my own MBTI test (INTJ).
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 My Personalized Personal Work Learning Environmental World Tony Karrer asked in the comments on my PLE post yesterday , Im curious if you distinguish your learning environment (tools, skills, etc.) Most of what Im doing outside of work these days involves the care and feeding of two small people, ages 2 and 4.
And Im not implying that Im a Second Life naysayer. A thoughtful post on one educators experience in Second Life (and a nice historical perspective). Its not talking about training or education per say. Ive been exploring the use of Second Life for a client for whom Im developing an e-Learning strategy.
Friday, June 08, 2007 Instructional Designers Tools Theres been a good conversation going on over at Christy Tuckers Experiencing E-Learning blog about instructional design. Christy has been writing about how to get started in instructional design and what technology tools you might need. Maybe Im not an instructional designer at all.
Thursday, April 26, 2007 Memoirs of an "Instructional Designer" I dont have a masters degree in instructional design or education. My current business card says Im a "Manager of Instructional Design". A brief history: Education: English and German Major. My boss had an educational technology degree from Harvard.
" This adage works for me most of the time as Im designing eLearning courses. Right now, Im feeling like just getting to good would be an achievement. Right now, Im proofing a storyboard thats full of endless text bullets and boring software demos with no interactivity -- and theres really nothing I can do about it.
Marshall McLuhan) -- Im not trying to be a smarty-pants here, but I looked this up and Gary was close: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. calculators -- can write on a whiteboard with your finger. As he writes the equations, the whiteboard solves them. We march backwards into the future." Take the Survey!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Blogging is the new Graduate School Im not the only one getting an informal masters degree out here. In a guest post on the Brazen Careerist, Ryan Healy writes, "maybe blogging is the new graduate school." If you offer intelligent opinions or advice on a credible blog, then you are an expert.
But I find them painfully boring to read and to write. Ray Sims has written a great summary on Writing Learning Objectives , with citations to some good resources, including Vicki Heaths post Learning Objectives: Writing Learning Outcomes So They Matter. And Clive is definitely on the top of my Blogs I Like list!
Im losing my steam, but trying to stay somewhat on target. So go ahead and "Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog". Day 13: Search for an Affiliate Program My blog is not about making money. Ive got good awareness of what many other e-Learning bloggers are writing about.
Thursday, August 09, 2007 With Community Comes Great Responsibility In reflecting over the benefits of the first week or so of the 31 Days to Better Blogging Challenge , the biggest thing for me has been the overall boost in community. Im a touchy-feely-people-kind-of-person. Its awesome. Christines going to set up a netvibes page.
Other benefits of working with two monitors: 1) Have a source document open on one screen and be writing a proposal/storyboard/script on the other. 2) Watch an online Adobe Connect presentation in one screen and blog about it in the other. So the search feature -- I get that and Im sold. Very useful feature. Take the Survey!
Im guessing youre designing online distance learning courses. Im in the weird place of for-profit education, which really has characteristics of both market sectors. Having just a bachelors degree seems to be fine as long as you arent working directly for the universities (Im not sure about K-12 online). What do you do?
Im not a techie -- far from it. Im an instructional designer with an emphasis on writing and schmoozing. Google Alerts A nice adjunct to Google Reader; Im always discovering something new via my "instructional design" alert. Im #34 on the list. Gmail Gmail love. Thanks, Karyn -- shes got it. Take the Survey!
Monday, September 17, 2007 31 Days: Days 26, 27, 28 Im cleaning house and trying to to finish up with the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Challenge. Join us at the Building a Better Blog Ning Group. For those of you who are new to my blog, the 31 Days Challenge was started by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Task complete.
Im curious, have you had a chance to listen to yours or any of the others? Im happy with how they turned out. Currently Im playing the role of a learning consultant, taking care of solutions and operations for learning services. Hope to continue blogging and learning from you!! Jay Cross is at Internet Time Blog.
Ive had the same profile picture up for months -- on my blog, in Facebook, MyBlogLog, and now here. So Im going to try to mix it up a bit. Im still smiling. But Im wearing a different purple shirt. The power of the personal; building a friendlier world through blogs. I do, indeed, often look like that.
I havent signed up anywhere, I havent taken part in any of the sessions, but Im like a moth drawn to the flame: as I peer in on all the conversation beginning to happen, I cant help but join in. Little nuggets that stand out to me: George Siemens writes, in Connectivism: Learning Theory or Pastime of the Self-Amused?: Take the Survey!
Im co-opting it and encourage all of you to do the same. Imwriting financial industry software training course storyboard #10, in a series of 29 courses! Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. So much on-demand training consists of boring page turners. I know I do.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Kineo Top Tips Although my blogging volume may be down, my writing volume certainly is not. Amidst client projects and presentations I think Im actually writing more than ever. Thanks for sharing :) I have spread the news further here: [link] Through my new swoosh delicious blog (whatever!).
Monday, March 23, 2009 Market Differences in eLearning Im a fan of the number 42. Here IDs sometimes work as technical writers and TW sometimes write courses to optimize the cost. I was wanting to bring this up as a discussion in my blog sometime. Do watch out, Im very keen to know what people would say. Take the Survey!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 31 Days to a Better Blog: Days 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 This whole 31 Days to a Better Blog exercise is proving harder to stay on top of than I had even imagined. Well, I didnt even have an About This Blog Page. Day 7: Plan a Weeks Worth of Blog Posts. Im not trying to make money off this blog.
This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Oh, except Im the developer and audio engineer too. And Im "lucky" enough to have access to the software. Im wondering if theres anything better out there. Most of the learning blogs speak of out of hte box immersive simulations. 3:30 PM Wendy said. Thank you.
Mark writes, "You wanna know what a PLE is? I said a similar thing in a comment on Tony Karrers blog the other day: Isnt the main tool of the PLE our very own little brains? Then I realized Im a constant notetaker, in the pen-and-paper sense. I love being part of raging debates -- its really fun, isnt it?) Take the Survey!
Even when youve got a blank page in front of you and you start writing: paragraphs, commas, periods. More importantly, we educate the SMEs upfront. If youre providing SMEs with the templates, Im not sure theyll be altering them. Im not saying there is no place for templates (honestly!), But what is a template?
Friday, April 03, 2009 On Reflective Learning I clipped this a year ago, with the intention (I suppose) of writing more on the subject in order to become more engaged with the content and thus more capable. I didnt do it anything with it then and Im not going to do much with it now, except share it with all of you: Steve Hargadon Web 2.0
Im a linear reader in recovery and have been actively learning how to skim books and not feel guilty about it. Although Im not in active instructional design mode for any projects right now, I did jot a bunch of ideas. those born between 1991-2000), Im a bit of an ape (no offense to apes, mind you). Do They? ) No boomers here.
The list focuses primarily on the use of eLearning, technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. December 2011 November 27-December 1, 2011 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE): Reaching Across Boundaries, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Friday, August 10, 2007 31 Days: 8, 9 & 10 Day 8: Run an Advertising Audit on Your Blog. Obviously, thats not my focus so I took Micheles advice and tried to do something from Darens Get Your Blogging Groove Back series. I attempted to write a linking post. My house might be a mess, but Id rather my blog were neat and tidy.
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