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RSS Generator - FetchRSS
RSS Generator - FetchRSS
Generate an RSS feed for any website, even if it doesn't have its own. This is really useful for keeping everything in your RSS reader rather than checking a much of separate sites. h/t Mike Taylor
·fetchrss.com·
RSS Generator - FetchRSS
Write better elearning scenarios: active or descriptive choices – Learningworld Design
Write better elearning scenarios: active or descriptive choices – Learningworld Design
In branching scenarios, descriptive choices "You tell him he is right" feel very different than active choices ""You're right!" I agree with the author that there are no hard and fast rules in branching scenarios; there are times that both can be used effectively.
The most important aspect of branching scenarios and interactive stories are the choices presented to the player/learner. Choices are what make interactive stories different from other creative writing outputs such as novels, plays and movies.
Choices can feel totally different to a player depending on how they are written, even if they seem to have the same outcome.
·learningworlddesign.co.nz·
Write better elearning scenarios: active or descriptive choices – Learningworld Design
Share a secret - One Time
Share a secret - One Time
Need to securely send a password or other sensitive information? This site lets you create a secret link that can only be used once, and then disappears.
·onetimesecret.com·
Share a secret - One Time
Spaced Learning Resources
Spaced Learning Resources
Resources from Sarah Mercier's session on Spaced Learning for the Learning Guild OLC on 4/6/22. This includes an Airtable plan for a spaced learning campaign.
·learningninjas.com·
Spaced Learning Resources
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking
Julie Dirksen's curated resources on systems thinking, including book recommendations and videos
·usablelearning.com·
Systems Thinking
Top 35 Instructional Design Blogs and Websites in 2022
Top 35 Instructional Design Blogs and Websites in 2022
How did Feedspot determine who was on their list of 31 (not quite 35) ID blogs and websites? It's not quite clear; it's based on reach and domain authority rather than quality, supposedly. But one of those blogs only posts 5 times a year? A number of these are organizational blogs. A few of these blogs are new to me, so you might find something new too. You'll have to search for the blog by name, since the links are to subscriptions in Feedspot rather than actually to the blog. Still, it's good to potentially find some new sources.
·blog.feedspot.com·
Top 35 Instructional Design Blogs and Websites in 2022
How to Create Branching Scenarios (5 Instructional Design Tips) — The Interactive Story
How to Create Branching Scenarios (5 Instructional Design Tips) — The Interactive Story
Kimberly Goh shares tips on branching scenario structure, comparing the time cave vs. branch and bottleneck structure. She recommends skipping both of those and using a gauntlet structure, which she calls a "mastery loop." This is her "optimized branching structure." She builds on to it a little more by showing more consequences for bad choices, but it's still ultimately a friendly gauntlet that always forces you back to the right path. I'm part of the "some people" who often discourage the limited gauntlet structure; I don't think this is a true branching scenario. But, it is an interactive story.
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In a Mastery Loop, every time you make a poor decision, you see the poor consequence play out, then you automatically get to make the decision again. Once you make the right decision, the story continues. There’s really only one way to get to the ending, and it’s always the best ending.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Some people discourage the use of Mastery Loops because they feel it’s overly controlling to “force” people to eventually choose the right path.&nbsp;</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">But if your business problem is relatively simple, and doesn’t require a lot of nuanced decisions, a Mastery Loop might be the best format to use.&nbsp;</p>
·theinteractivestory.com·
How to Create Branching Scenarios (5 Instructional Design Tips) — The Interactive Story
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
This hasn't been updated in 2 years, but it's a tool for adding Google Analytics tracking to Twine games. While getting xAPI to work with Twine is still probably the ideal option for most learning applications, analytics data would provide a lot of useful info too.
·github.com·
GitHub - ChapelR/tw-analytics: Quickly add Google analytics to Twine games (and other web apps) from the command line.
Make sense of rounded corners on buttons | by Shan Shen | UX Collective
Make sense of rounded corners on buttons | by Shan Shen | UX Collective
Rounded corners on cards and buttons can be helpful to users for differentiating between items and recognizing what is clickable.
Rounded corners are easier on the eyes. When we align cards in a row, it’s easier to count the total number of cards when they have rounded corners.
<mark class="xl xm if">Fully rounded buttons are excellent in interfaces that have adequate space.</mark>
·uxdesign.cc·
Make sense of rounded corners on buttons | by Shan Shen | UX Collective
GuidedTrack – Home
GuidedTrack – Home
A no code tool for building web apps and interactive surveys. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like you could use this for building branching scenarios. In the info for educators, it says you can make CYOA lessons that adapt content and grade automatically. You can start with a free plan to try it out.
·guidedtrack.com·
GuidedTrack – Home
Can You Accept Volunteer Labor? - HR Daily Advisor
Can You Accept Volunteer Labor? - HR Daily Advisor

Volunteering can be a great way to get some experience when you're first getting started in a field. However, you should volunteer for a nonprofit. You can't volunteer for a for-profit company.

Asking a company if you can do free work for them tells that company that you believe they will violate federal law to take advantage of you. You're not doing them a favor. You're asking them to do an enormous amount of work by having an attorney help them create an unpaid internship program just for you.

Most for-profit organizations cannot accept volunteer, unpaid labor without running afoul of the FLSA.
Even interns must be paid in most circumstances—if they’re performing tasks that benefit the employer (as opposed to just learning and observing), they’re completing work that is entitled to pay. This is true even if the intern <em>offers</em> his or her services for free just to get started with the organization.
·hrdailyadvisor.blr.com·
Can You Accept Volunteer Labor? - HR Daily Advisor
How to Determine if an Individual Is a Volunteer or an Employee
How to Determine if an Individual Is a Volunteer or an Employee
This article explains the difference between volunteers and employees, as well as listing the 7 factors for determining if an intern can be unpaid or not. (The quick answer is that it's likely cheaper and easier to pay an intern than to legally offer an unpaid internship.)
There are no general regulations that permit volunteering of services to an employer in the private sector. All hours worked must be paid.
·shrm.org·
How to Determine if an Individual Is a Volunteer or an Employee
Body Liberation Stock: Body-Positive & Size-Diverse Stock Photos for Commercial Use - Body liberation boudoir, portraits, stock, HAES & more | Seattle
Body Liberation Stock: Body-Positive & Size-Diverse Stock Photos for Commercial Use - Body liberation boudoir, portraits, stock, HAES & more | Seattle
If you need more diversity in stock images, this site has a range of body sizes and people with visible and invisible disabilities. Images start around $5 each, which seems pretty reasonable (and much better than the $40/image I have seen on some other specialty sites).
·bodyliberationphotos.com·
Body Liberation Stock: Body-Positive & Size-Diverse Stock Photos for Commercial Use - Body liberation boudoir, portraits, stock, HAES & more | Seattle
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
Bookmark manager that takes screenshots and allows highlights like Diigo. Although I have relied on Diigo for a long time for saving and tagging bookmarks, the site hasn't been actively developed in several years. This might be a viable alternative.
·raindrop.io·
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
Fancy Font Generator
Fancy Font Generator
Generate text with different fonts to paste in other places like LinkedIn. This is one way to make a large block of text easier to read by adding headings and dividers, like in your About Me section on LinkedIn
·messletters.com·
Fancy Font Generator
Hack: How to Add Custom Characters to Scenario Blocks - Overview
Hack: How to Add Custom Characters to Scenario Blocks - Overview
While the Rise scenario block doesn't have a way to add your own customer characters, you can use this trick from Tom Kuhlmann. It's a bit of a kludge, but you can swap out the images in the published file. The image file names aren't obvious, but Tom shows how he uses PPT to keep track of which label goes with each image.
·articulate-heroes-authoring.s3.amazonaws.com·
Hack: How to Add Custom Characters to Scenario Blocks - Overview
Tiiny Host – The Easiest Way To Host Your E-Learning Course
Tiiny Host – The Easiest Way To Host Your E-Learning Course
Need a quick way to share an elearning course? This looks like a very simple way to do so, much simpler than setting up an Amazon S3 account. This might work as an option for students in my branching scenario course to host their scenarios. However, on a free account, the uploaded content is deleted after 7 days--this is meant for quick reviews of sites, not for long-term hosting. You can do a paid account, but there are probably better options for the cost at that point.
·mike-taylor.org·
Tiiny Host – The Easiest Way To Host Your E-Learning Course
My tips on how to formulate a price for your workshop
My tips on how to formulate a price for your workshop
One person's breakdown of how much time is required to deliver a 6-hour workshop. This includes 9 hours for creating slides and materials, which clearly only includes adapting existing materials and not creating them from scratch.
·rantanensusanna.com·
My tips on how to formulate a price for your workshop