Instructional Designer in Washington DC
Cory is a tractor-truck driver. As a child, he was always fascinated by the rumbling 18-wheelers that dominated the highway behind his home. He counted giant headlights rather than sheep at bedtime. Cory is grown up now, and the bills are piling up while his wife’s belly grows with their first-born. Cory’s dream isn’t as a…
I kind of hate the idea of training for memorization – we have the internet in our pockets! But a recent post on E-Learning Heroes sought help on just that, and had a good reason to do so: winery staff need to memorize specific characteristics about different wines. I found this task fascinating, so I…
My last post was about updating evaluations based on Will Thalheimer’s book, Performance-Focused Smile Sheets. In a word, we failed. But as learning professionals, failure = learning. We learned that we had a really hard time reporting on the results, we weren’t giving our stakeholders the information they wanted, and learners were still getting a bit of…
In the spirit of sharing my work, I wanted to share how we updated our smile sheets. We knew our evaluation forms needed some help. They were long, tedious, and didn’t really give us the information we needed. So, we looked to Will Thalheimer’s book, Performance-Focused Smile Sheets. I set to work creating new evaluation…
I went to dinner with a new friend Sunday evening. We have a lot in common, we both enjoy video games and nerdy things. I’ve read the first book in the Death Note manga series, she’s going to lend me the rest when we hang out again. Earlier that day, I’d gotten lunch with another…
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be featured on Kris Anthony’s new wonderful Instructional Design podcast, Dear Instructional Designer. I did want to give you a mini taste of one thing that I talked about: the important skill of business communication. As instructional designers, we are constantly interacting with clients, SMEs, stakeholders, you name it….
We are working on a series of courses as a part of a huge change management initiative. One of the courses I designed is now live with our staff going through it, while I am still working on a few more courses in the series. And because one of them is live while I’m working…
In my previous post, I mentioned that a training director revamped her entire department based on another post I made. I asked her to share how she changed it, and if it would be okay to share on my blog. I absolutely love bringing out the best and seeing the positive changes in others through…
I haven’t written for a while. I could easily use the excuses of “work has been stressful” (it has) or “life has been stressful” (also true), but when are either of those things not true to some extent? Really, I struggled because I didn’t feel like I had anything exceptionally meaningful to say. I suddenly…
The question comes up from time to time: “I can’t afford Articulate/Captivate/whatever – how do I create an e-learning portfolio?” Fortunately, there are still tools you can use to create a captivating e-learning portfolio for cheap, or even free.
