My AhHa Moments building a Scenario-Based eLearning Course
The final project for OPWL 551 has been a massive undertaking, even though I currently work in the field of instructional design I never imagined one project would wrap my mind as this has. While I am confident in my design abilities (always room to grow) and even my technology skills in Articulate, pulling it […]
Teachers ARE Instructional Designers!
After 8 years in the classroom, I started my journey to transition outside of the classroom in early 2021, I was fortunate to find several great communities that were instrumental to my growth, I have written about them here and here. Now I hope to give back to other teachers who are making their transition. […]
Week 6 Reflection on Learning
Starting my new job has been wonderful but changing my working hours and environment has been so hard. While I don’t have to lock myself in a dark room when I get home, I AM tired especially with our (have to drop my son off at the YMCA) daily commute. That being said I glanced […]
Week 5 Tool: The Learning Coach Podcast
Every day I commute to work in Southern Oregon, coming from California the commute is a dream, about 40 minutes distance with an easy freeway with very little traffic. However, as I bring my son into town to go to school I cannot listen to my normal true crime podcasts and had to start looking […]
Storyboarding for eLearning Design
When I started my journey into Instructional Design and I heard about storyboarding I felt a bit overwhelmed. I was convinced I had never done it before, but as I started to review my past courses at Boise State I found that during my Youtube for Educators course I had created a great storyboard for […]
Finding a Mentor in Tim Slade
Inspiration Post #6 Tim Slade has been such an amazing force in my life recently, after many recommendations I joined his eLearning Designers Academy. As someone who started out “just working at a department store,” he has become a leader in the ID community and his book was one of my first purchases when I […]
Learning Reflection #5
As a transitioning teacher, it has been extremely tough, I never expected that while many start at 0 in the hiring process I am starting at -10. I have to prove myself competent, I have to prove my tech skills and the fine line between relating my experience as a teacher and being seen as […]
Teaching to L&D
Post #5 – OPWL 551 I recently watched the recording of Devlin Peck interviewing Sara Stevick on her transition from K12 to Instructional Design. Sara has been a wonderful asset to teachers transitioning to the ID world, she has created a whole network of free resources for teachers to use to ease the transition. These […]
Analyzing Content for eLearning Design
OPWL 551 – Post 3 Recently I went to an interview and they asked how I would know what I had created was engaging and would bring the learner in. I was caught off guard, being a classroom teacher within a special education classroom I felt that I was a professional at being engaging, I […]
OPWL Summer Learning
This summer I will be chronicling my journey through several Organizational Performance & Workplace Learning (OPWL) courses. My goal is to be keeping up with my studies and reflecting on my learning through this blog. My journey into Instructional Design started nearly 6 months ago as I began to find myself burnt out on Teaching. […]