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Decisions, Decisions! – Engage Brain and Train!
Decisions, Decisions! – Engage Brain and Train!
A humorous Choose Your Own Adventure branching scenario sample by Jonathan Hill. The look and feel matches the classic books. Jonathan includes a tip to consider adding decisions in the beginning that have no impact on the outcome (just a cosmetic change), but provide a tutorial or practice on using the controls.
·engagebraintrain.com·
Decisions, Decisions! – Engage Brain and Train!
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
App for creating poses for characters. These are just outlines, which you'd have to illustrate yourself in another app. Kevin Thorn demonstrated this as a way to create custom characters for scenarios, which you can pose in exactly the way you need. This is a browser-based app, currently $19.
·galshir.com·
Pose - Easy Character Guidelines by Gal Shir
How to Use Plain Language to Improve Learning Outcomes | Scissortail Creative Services, LLC
How to Use Plain Language to Improve Learning Outcomes | Scissortail Creative Services, LLC
We all probably know we should use easier to understand language in instructional writing, but this article provides more specifics on how to actually do that. The before and after writing example shows what a significant difference it can make.
·scissortailcs.com·
How to Use Plain Language to Improve Learning Outcomes | Scissortail Creative Services, LLC
Identify your superpower and learn to leverage it - Chris Lema
Identify your superpower and learn to leverage it - Chris Lema
What are the things you're good at, but take other people a lot of time and effort? What do people compliment you on, but you downplay it because it feels so easy to you? What can you do well that surprises other people? Chris Lema shares questions to reflect on your skills to identify your special strengths. This isn't about instructional design, but it seems relevant to our field where there's a wide range of skills under the general umbrella. Within that broad scope of L&D, what's your superpower? This is also another way to think about identifying a niche for freelancers and consulting businesses.
·chrislema.com·
Identify your superpower and learn to leverage it - Chris Lema
How to Use RSS Feeds
How to Use RSS Feeds
Helen Blunden explains how to use RSS to subscribe to specific feeds, including filtering for specific topics on a blog or subscribing to a YouTube channel. While following folks on social media can be a good way to discover new things and to interact with others, RSS gives you control and customization over what you see. If you feel like there's too much noise on social media and want a way to focus on reading just what you're interested in, RSS helps you do that.
If you’re relying on social networks to serve you up the content you want to read – you’re not in control.
To many people, I’m may be a bit of an old fashioned kook because I still use them religiously but the truth is, I wouldn’t be finding great content and sharing it to you if I was just relying on my social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn to serve this content up to me. After all, my networks are reading similar content, retweeting and sharing the same stuff. An RSS Reader allows me to control what is coming to me but also is flexible enough for me to add to or delete feeds as my interests change.
·activatelearning.com.au·
How to Use RSS Feeds
The State and Future of Learning & Development in 2021: See What the Experts Think!
The State and Future of Learning & Development in 2021: See What the Experts Think!
Jeffrey Dalto collected responses from a number of L&D professionals for insights on how COVID-19 has affected L&D and how this affects the future trends for the field.
We’d like to thank all of the contributors for sharing their time, knowledge, and insight. They include Connie Malamed, Arun Pradhan, Patti Shank, Cara North, Clark Quinn, Stella Lee, Zsolt Olah, Julie Dirksen, Mike Taylor, Jacinta Penn, Guy Wallace, Emily Wood, Kassy Laborie, Alexander Salas, Michelle Ockers, Shannon Tipton, Christy Tucker, Linda Berberich, and Richard (Dick) Clark.
·convergencetraining.com·
The State and Future of Learning & Development in 2021: See What the Experts Think!
VEED
VEED
This browser-based video editing tool is aimed at marketers for creating quick social media videos. They have a free account level which includes a watermark. This might be helpful to students or others looking for a way to create a quick sample for their portfolio without spending money.
·veed.io·
VEED
Share everything you know - Chris Lema
Share everything you know - Chris Lema
Chris Lema writes about the benefits of blogging and sharing your knowledge generously. While this isn't explicitly about training or learning, it is a form of working out loud or showing your work. And while this is about blogging, the same concepts apply to any other method of sharing: videos, podcasts, etc.
·chrislema.com·
Share everything you know - Chris Lema
You're Hearing Voices: Episode 28 - Anu Gopu (e-Learning and Instructional Design)
You're Hearing Voices: Episode 28 - Anu Gopu (e-Learning and Instructional Design)
Podcast interview by voice over artist Dan Hankiewicz with guest ID Anu Gopu. Anu talks about her journey into instructional design and how to condense info from wordy SMEs who want to include everything. Anu also talks about who she learns from in the field (including me).
·yourehearingvoices.libsyn.com·
You're Hearing Voices: Episode 28 - Anu Gopu (e-Learning and Instructional Design)
How to Find Your Next 20 Clients Online in 63 Days
How to Find Your Next 20 Clients Online in 63 Days
Specific tactics for finding new clients as a freelancer or consultant. This is broken into three phases: an initial phase to get your first 5 clients and learn what you like the best, a second phase of defining your ideal client, and a third phase of scaling by partnering with others and teaching new audiences. eLearning and instructional design freelancers may not even need the third phase (which includes a lot of building a large audience), but I like the targeted alternatives to cold emails here.
<p>If you don’t know who your ideal client&nbsp;is, answer these three questions:</p> <ol> <li>Who is doing work you respect?</li> <li>Who would be fun to work with?</li> <li>Who could give you additional exposure if you worked for them?</li></ol>
·videofruit.com·
How to Find Your Next 20 Clients Online in 63 Days