This week has been pretty cool for me. I’ve been jamming to all sorts of music, and Soundcloud has suggested some great songs. Plus, I’ve been reading up on conversation theory and how it can help with learning. It’s a completely different angle on much of the instructional design research I’ve investigated previously. I’ve also…
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Week in Review | 31-23
A bit of a podcast heavy week this week, lots of great listening while doing housework and the like. Enjoy! What I’m Listening to https://on.soundcloud.com/uAKcL What I’m Reading Reconnection.Vision: A pathway for change from the children of the future. Thirteen young people from Yukon and northern British Columbia, representing various backgrounds and professions, have responded…
Week in Review | 30-23
I’m excited to share with you my weekly review, where I get to talk about all the awesome articles, books, podcasts, and music that I’ve been enjoying lately. It’s a great way for us to connect and maybe even discover some new things together. So, let’s jump right in and see what I’ve been seeing…
Week in Review | 29-23
Welcome to my latest experiment, a weekly blog post series where I share what I’ve been listening to on Soundcloud, what articles I’ve been reading or am reading, and which podcasts have caught my attention this week. I’m excited to share my latest discoveries with you and hope you’ll find them as interesting and enjoyable…
On blocking Gutenberg
Pat Lockley reading my mind this week. I use a few content management systems, and learning management systems. I’ve actively had to use, and train others on, the big four LMSs in higher ed in North American in the past three years (BBL, Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace). Everytime I engage with these systems I have…
It’s Dangerous to go Alone – Preparing Learners
I’ve been thinking about self-paced learning a bit more lately than usual, the things we make, and the tools we use to make them. I’m a big fan of the contributors to the webcomic The New ID and found this gem, Click Continue Comic Strip, again the other day. It got me thinking about a…
Will HTML be replaced by a new technology?
Today’s reading is about elearning authoring tools. It’s a bit of murky territory and I’m trying to set the criteria to limit my reading and tools under consideration. For example, the learning guild produced a report about the top tools learning and development professionals use in their work (2021). Many of the usual suspects are…
Creating a CPR in Veterinary Medicine Scenario in H5P
Through the end of 2022 I had the privilege of working with Jen Loewen on a branching scenario about CPR in veterinary medicine. This was a really cool project and a perfect example of an approach to instructional design that started with design & prototyping and used iterative feedback to dial in the design and…
Better to Write in Second or Third Person for Scenarios?
When it comes to scenario-based learning approaches, Christy’s blog is often a first stop for me to see what she’s either experienced or dug up from literature. This particular question has come up from time to time working on scenarios: Is it better to write in the second or third person for scenarios? Christy offers…
Guru-itis potentially fatal to good teachers
I encountered this article via Downes OLDaily, Grant Frost, frostededucation, Feb 10, 2023 “Among professional fields of study,” writes Grant Frost. “I am not sure any can quite match education when it comes to the prevalence of what I like to call ‘Guruitis’,” a term he uses to describe “the penchant that educational authorities have for…
Reclaiming ProComOER
I’ve worked as an instructional designer (or very adjacent roles) in higher education for over ten years. Over that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work on hundreds of courses and projects involving staff training, knowledge bases, tutorials, etc. When I look back on the projects I’ve worked on in that time, the ProComOER is…
On missing flash and hitting pages
I bumped into this post via Pat Lockely on Linkedin and it made me reflect on a couple of things, including kicking me into gear to write a bit about a project from last year I’ve been meaning to write about, so thanks Pat! I’m doing a lot of work in articulate 360 or storyline…