Dear Instructional Designer

This episode, I try something a little different! A detailed teardown of the interactive video, Will You Fit into Deloitte?

In keeping with the theme of this season, taking a look at real projects ou…

Season 2 of Dear ID is finally over! In this episode, I share some stats about my 2016 year of projects, takeways from Season 2's focus on tools and tech, and what's next for Season 3 of Dear ID. I'm…

In this episode, I want to gaze into the future and talk about three areas I think may be useful for other instructional design newbies looking to develop their skills or dive into a niche area: virt…

In this episode, I make an argument for adding livestreaming to your toolbox to show and share your work without the commitment of a regular blog or podcast, but also staving off the isolation that c…

In this episode I talk about game makers and why they might be a good option to help you start building learning experiences. When I say game makers, I mean tools that democratize making (mostly 2D) …

In this episode, I respond to a listener request for more talk about creating effective, interesting animated video. I could have gone high-tech, but instead, I challenge you to think about using Pow…

Today, I sit down with Hadiya Nuriddin, an instructional design and training veteran, who now owns her own consultancy, Focus Learning Solutions. I was interested in having Hadiya on when I heard abo…

Piggybacking on last week's episode on learning to program, I discuss how we might carry over some of the principles of open source software development as a part of our solution-building toolbox as …

This episode, I talk about my coding journey and how coding helps us to solve more problems as learning experience designers. You may be evaluating whether or not learning to code is a worthwhile en…

Twine is an open source tool for creating interactive, non-linear stories. It’s a tool for interactive fiction and story game development. In this episode, I talk about how it might be used for proto…

In this episode, I talk about prototyping tools that I've used in the past, and why prototyping is a useful communication practice. If you're seeking to help people understand a new idea, there's not…

In this episode, I sit down with Joseph Suarez, a really awesome and excellent instructional veteran of 10 years, who I met on the instructional design subreddit. Joseph talks with us about how his t…

In this episode, I sit down with Cara North, instructional designer at a major state university. Cara talks to us about how she uses the LMS at her institution, paying attention to your technology ne…

If you haven’t heard of it, Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, multi-device, HTML5 e-learning content using the award-winning Adapt developer fra…

In this episode, I interview EJ LeBlanc, ID business owner, avid experimenter, and a real model for continuing learning as an instructional designer. We talk about the latest tool that EJ is adding t…

I’m super excited to bring you my conversation with Jennifer Maddrell, the founder of the Designers for Learning, a non-profit dedicated to getting instructional designers hand-on practice through se…

In this awesome, anchoring conversation for Season 2, Craig Wiggins, major xAPI advocate and all around great guy, talks with us about how we can get back to the real root of instructional design, cr…

Today, I’m talking with Ant Pugh, elearning business owner from across the pond. Previous guest, Alyssa Gomez actually reached out to me, with rave reviews about Ant’s new free subscription learning …

This one is for all of you Instructional Design subredditors who are teachers looking to break into instructional design. Today I sit down with Alyssa Gomez, teacher turned ID, who is currently at wo…