This is a form I developed years ago when I first joined the L&D industry as a Training Coordinator, brand new to instructional design. I was assigned to a project with a client and needed to interview each business unit to perform needs analysis on their training needs. Pulling together what I learned from my […]
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Description: An interactive map featuring my favorite spots at Death Valley National Park, including hikes, short strolls, view points, and scenic drives. Background: When I was researching and planning my visit, I was frustrated at the lack of resources out there that showed the spatial relationship between different points of interest. Hence, when creating my “guide” after our
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I created this “interactive map” of Death Valley National Park shortly after my husband and I visited the park in 2021. My inspiration first came from my frustration when researching and planning for our trip. The information available on the internet was very segmented and it was difficult to string everything I jotted down together
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Background: For this interaction, I have a video walking through 16 sections of a technical document. Instead of a linear video, I added a slider 🖱️that allows the user to clearly see all 16 sections, which section they’re on, and to toggle between different sections. Description: This is done by tying the slider variable (0 to 16)
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Description: A SlideShare presentation to share my Top 10 takeaways from attending the DevLearn 2019 conference. The design of each slide matches the theme of the takeaway. For example, Takeaway #7 was exploring alternative authoring tools and I used the look and feel of a source code editor. Background: I had a lot of light
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Hello world! 👋 A few weeks ago, I did something awesome. I spoke at a learning conference for the very first time, at DevLearn 2018 in Las Vegas. To my surprise (and what felt like horror at the time), I had a packed room of over 450 attendees! My topic was on “Transforming Boring Content
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Before embarking on the design and development of your e-learning course, it is useful to create a design system to create consistency in your design. Here are some important questions to think about for your course design: Photos or illustrations? Realistic or conceptual? What type of fonts? Thick or thin? What type of colors? Bright or
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A couple days ago I discovered something called Learning Battle Cards. It is a deck of cards with 108 different instructional methods and can be used to “introduce design thinking into the instructional design space”. While this sounds super cool, $99 for a deck of cards is a little steep for me. Which is why
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2017 was a big year for me, career wise. I joined Welk Resorts. I joined Welk Resorts back in August as the Corporate E-Learning Specialist, leading their online learning strategy. It is a very exciting opportunity since I am the first in this role and had the autonomy to create standards, systems and processes from
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