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I struggle with routines
The end! Kidding. But I did already forget that Bloganuary is a thing. It’s not in my Todoist app or calendar, so…I’m blogging while I cook dinner. Good news, for me— the last few prompts didn’t call to me. No FOMO about writing a poem about rain, tracing back my family tree (hello trauma my…
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Why I Design
So, Bloganuary is apparently an organized thing with prompts. Today’s prompt is “why I write” and because I don’t always like to follow instructions, I’m switching it up to why I design (while still reluctantly calling myself a designer, because it still feels to me like…I’m just a little kid trying to wear high heels…
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Your goal is to be part of the everyday
…not the once-a-year. That’s a line from Nick Shackleton-Jones’ How People Learn (p. 169) and it inspires me. Throughout the last year (and a bit longer), I’ve been trying to learn how other Instructional Designers design. Where they design, what they design, why they design. The stuff that rises to the surface is elearning modules,…
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Bloganuary!
Does this count? I promise tomorrow will be marginally better.
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Thanksgiving
I’m at my mom’s in PA. We picked up my sister Emily yesterday — she’s here from Texas for work-related leadership training. You can bet I already grilled her on the training and instructional design approach. We had a lot of fun talking about the group interactions, and the “work style” personality quiz that the…
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When 1 becomes 2
The title of this post is a riff on one of my favorite Spice Girls songs, “2 Become 1.” Feel free to listen as you read the rest. The Spider Plant Story I bought a spider plant at Home Depot last year (or this year, who knows, but it was a long time ago). I…
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My First Year as an Instructional Designer
I’m writing this post 15 minutes before work, on purpose — because I get stuck trying to make reflective posts perfect and they don’t need to be. Today is something to celebrate: It’s my one year anniversary of working as an instructional designer in Happiness at Automattic. Happiness is the customer support division, and if…
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Tired is not the word
Originally posted on edifiedlistener: Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com Tired is not the word you use when you really mean weary when you really mean tapped out when you really mean that you just don’t have the words or the patience or the foresight or the wherewithal. Tired is not the word you use.…
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