Over the last two weeks, I have looked at what exactly it means to flip a classroom and a couple of flipped learning models. Today, let’s look at the benefits and challenges of flipping. Flipped learning can be really awesome! Higher levels of engagement If you’ve read my previous posts on flipped learning, you already […]

After skipping a few weeks of Aritculate learning challenges, I hopped back in the saddle this week. This challenge was nerdily fun. David asked us to create an interaction about an instructional design principle and frankly, I had a hard time choosing! I went with 4 part Learning Objectives and had some fun with it. […]

About 2 weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Mangione, an instructional designer who produces a podcast series called Eye on ISD. Each week Chris discusses a few ISD topics and interviews a guest in the field. We had a great time chatting and I’m thrilled to share our conversation, along […]

This week’s flipped primer installment just happens to correspond nicely with the Articulate eLearning Heroes challenge of the week - I love it when those things happen! The Articulate challenge is to share your favorite eLearning tools. I shared a few of my favorites, and there is a wonderful list being compiled. And in this […]

Alright.  I have already talked a bit about flipped learning - what it is, how to do it, pros and cons, and tools for implementation. This last installment is a set of examples of how flipped learning is being used in the workplace.  There are some cool uses in here so please read on! New […]

An old friend came to stay with me this past week, someone I love dearly but hadn’t seen in about 5 years. He (Dave) lives on the west coast, I live on the east coast and therefore we don’t get to see each other often. We had a wonderful time catching up and had lots […]

Today is the last day of school for the kids in my town. For many that means the start of several months of forgetting much of what they just crammed into their brains for finals.  Admittedly, I was never that kid.  I read all the time, even really boring things like math text books (yeah, […]

Hey everyone, I am now officially a guest blogger for ATD (the Association for Talent Development, formerly ASTD).  My first post, about my path to starting my Master’s program, was just published. Enjoy! -Allison  Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: ASTD, ATD, education, instructional design

Yesterday I signed up for my third triathlon.  I did my first tri a few years ago and became hooked.  I don’t have the time (or money) to do more than one a year but I look forward to these events with great enthusiasm. To celebrate round number three, I’d like to write one of […]

  Image Credit: David Anderson I am jumping back in to the Articulate eLearning Challenges this week!  David has asked us to do a short interview with ourselves, answering the following 10 questions: 1. Tell us a little about yourself and the types of e-learning projects you most enjoy. 2. How did you become an […]

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 […]

This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge was to create a flat office or desktop theme based on your own work space. I love the visual design challenges so I jumped into to this one wholeheartedly! What is flat design? For the visual design newbies out there, flat design is a style that focuses on making images […]

I was one of the lucky folks that got to beta test Storyline 2 and lemme tell ya’ - it was hard to hold my tongue.  I am so happy that it was officially released last week so I can share my excitement about this upgrade! So happy that, for the next few weeks, I […]

Somehow, magically, I was ahead of the game last week. Not long after I published my Sliding Along with Storyline 2 post, David posted that this week’s ELH Challenge would be to create something using the new sliders feature! Imagine my surprise and delight when my post was featured on the challenge page. I could […]

I managed to kill 2 birds with one stone today and built a quick little demo that both demonstrates some motion paths in SL2 (which I wanted to do on the blog this week) and completes this week’s ELH Challenge! This week’s challenge was to create create some pictograms for a specific industry or topic.  […]