Category: instructional design
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What Does Success Look Like?
Today’s Bloganuary prompt is how do you define success? If you’d like to participate, consider sharing your post here…I’m dropping a link once I hit publish: https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/how-do-you-define-success/. It’s a great question for an instructional designer, because it helps us create stuff that’s actually useful. If we’re trying to grow a specific skill for our learners,…
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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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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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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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Last Summer
Last summer I was still working in higher education as an “eLearning Specialist,” doing zero eLearning and doing too much “teaching people how to Zoom for the 700th time.” I was very bored. Be careful what you wish for…because a few months later, I left that job, and I haven’t been bored since! But I…
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Connections > Content
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and I was finally inspired to take a break from doom-posting (intermixed with exuberant joy-posting, because that’s just my style) on Twitter to write a lil’ post about why we struggle with design vs. delivery. 🧵 embed below. If the Design is Good, Why Do We Miss in…
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ID Highlights of the Week
My mom and sister visited last week and it was the best vacation and family time I could have hoped for. I napped a ton, we visited great places, my mom brought baby and childhood pictures that are now hanging in various places to remind myself that I didn’t always live in deep angst (that’s…
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