Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans!  I am looking forward to a long weekend of food and fireworks (and trying to soothe frightened dogs). In an early celebration, I participated in David Anderson’s eLearning Heroes Challenge this week with a quiz on avoiding cognitive overload in multimedia learning. (and, now that I am writing […]

A little known fact about me is that my initial major in college was architecture.  I didn’t last very long in the program but to this day I love a good excuse to pull out my sketchbook. David Anderson gave me a great reason this week with his weekly challenge: create an emergency response "course" […]

This week’s Articulate challenge was to create a training video using a mobile device. I decided to make things a little harder for myself than they needed to be and did two very silly, but fun things: Make a video on origami Film, edit, post (and write this blog post! Don’t worry I’ll fix weird […]

As a kid, I hated history class. I loved to read, I loved to solve problems, I hated to memorize. And, while I know I had some great history teachers, I always felt like I had to memorize too much. Except in the 7th grade when Ms. Gautier (Go-chay) was my history teacher. Ms. Gautier […]

The Articulate challenge this week was to create an interactive org chart. Since I am writing a series on storytelling with several guest bloggers, I created a "Meet the Storytellers" interaction. It’s a fairly simple interaction with one little frill - when you click on a person to view more, the information slides in, and […]

Today is the first of our guest author posts!  Jake Hinkson is a film noir connoisseur and scholar who happens to also be great at writing crime fiction stories.  Jake blogs about film, writes essays for various publications, and teaches online workshops on storytelling. He’s a fellow southern transplant who loves cats, gently handles my […]

We have another great guest blogger today! Melissa F. Miller is a practicing attorney and author of the Sasha McCandless legal thriller series. Her debut novel won the 2012 National Fiction Writing Competition for Physicians and Lawyers and she is a USA Today bestselling author. Melissa is an awesome mom, great drinking buddy, and an […]

Our guest post this week is from Rachel Nederveld, a film producer, writer, musician and all around creative genius who also happens to be my sister. She recently wrote a series for Vice on living in the swamps of Louisiana and is currently living out her dreams in the other LA, Los Angeles. If you […]

I was planning to write a post on some tips and tools for storytelling to wrap up this series.  But there are already so many great free and low cost resources out there that I just decided to curate a list and share with you guys. Fun things around the internet: How to Tell a […]

If you stopped by my home page today you might have noticed something new - a video!  I created it as part of this week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge. I have to say, I was really nervous about this one. I like creating eLearning precisely because I am not front and center!  Plus I don’t have […]