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It's been 20 years since I started working at my first instructional design job. I took some time to reflect on that first ID role, how my journey started, and how that shaped my experiences now. Check out the post to see a few slides from the first branching scenario storyboard I designed. https://lnkd.in/eWyubAia

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A quick tip for submitting proposals for conferences: If you include a link to past presentations or slide samples, please double check the permissions. I'm seeing a lot of Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive links that aren't set to public viewing. That means that I can't see your samples when I review your proposal.It's not necessarily a deal breaker, but your samples aren't helping you get accepted if no one can view them. You're missing out on the advantage those links would provide.

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As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. This blog post includes links related to:✍🏻 Prompting tips for working with LLMs and Midjourney 🤖 AI tools💵 Freelancing🧠 Neuroscience mythshttps://lnkd.in/egEAraqK

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I previously shared a tool for generating tints and shades of a main color to help maintain a consistent color scheme. Several people asked about accessibility with those variations of colors. Lighter tints and darker shades aren't accessible or inaccessible on their own. Color contrast is a question of how you pair colors together. A light tint can be accessible as text on a dark shade or vice versa.This Accessible Color Palette Builder lets you enter six colors for a color palette to determine which pairs of colors work together for readable text with sufficient color contrast. It also shows which pairs of colors don't work for contrast within your color scheme. https://lnkd.in/eygDHsPy

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Hadiya Nuriddin, MA, MEd's newest book, "Quality Management in Learning and Development," approaches quality management at a much deeper and more systematic level than the typical method in our field. Instead of doing a little review right before launching a training program, this approach is a way to focus on quality through your entire process.Read my full book review: https://lnkd.in/e5uRCBcs

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Writing is one of those critical skills for instructional designers and LXDs. Even if you use ChatGPT, you need to know how to write well (partly so you can recognize the problems in AI writing and fix them!). However, I've noticed that a lot of IDs don't get much, if any, formal training in writing effectively. Even in graduate programs for IDs, this isn't a skill that tends to get as much explicit, dedicated focus in coursework.Kayleen Holt is offering a solution for that gap in so much instructional design training. Her new course, Smart Writing for Sticky Learning, gives participants hands-on practice and personalized feedback with the types of writing we do as instructional designers. The course starts 6/26, so register now if you want to level up your writing skills. Check out the post below for more details. Save $50 with coupon code iLXD50off. (No affiliate link here, but I've worked with Kayleen and know the quality of her work.)

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You know that annoying thing where you copy text from an application and the formatting becomes gobbledygook when you paste it elsewhere? It's one of those problems I often run into working in LMSs or moving content from one format to another. I've been using a little app called PureText for years to solve that problem. It's a tiny free program that strips out the formatting so you can paste as plain text. It basically does the same thing as if you pasted the text into Notepad to remove the formatting, then copied the clean version. Instead of multiple steps, you just assign a keyboard shortcut to paste as plain text.https://lnkd.in/eeBgyVwiSometimes the solutions we need aren't fancy AI programs--they're just sensible utilities like this.(Sorry Mac users, it looks like this is Windows only. If you know of a comparable option for your system, please share it in the comments for others.)

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"Research says..." How many times have you seen a claim about research and wondered if it was accurate or applicable to your own work? The LDA just published this checklist to help you think critically about research when you want to dig deeper past the clickbait headlines and superficial summaries.The checklist is free, but you do need to register as a free member in LDA to download it.

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Expanding on my previous post about converting classroom training to online, in this post I dig deeper in how to design online and blended programs based on existing classroom training.🎯 Review and revise the learning objectives.✅ Plan the assessment.✍🏻 Identify practice activities.📄 Focus on necessary and important content.🔎 For blended learning, identify the modality for training components.https://lnkd.in/eWnZ6gny

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