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Dear Instructional Designer

The show about the instructional design journey.

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Episode 22: Interview with Jennifer Maddrell

Episode 22: Interview with Jennifer Maddrell

I’m super excited to bring you my conversation with Jennifer Maddrell, the founder of the Designers for Learning, a non-... Read more

15 Sep 2016

55mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 46: Simon Date on Open Source

Episode 46: Simon Date on Open Source

In our last episode with Simon, we segue from using Adapt (an open source authoring tool) to the Open Source Way and how... Read more

15 Jun 2017

16mins

Ranked #3

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Episode 49: Season 4 Opener - My Freelance Journey

Episode 49: Season 4 Opener - My Freelance Journey

In this episode, I take a walk down memory lane and talk about my journey into freelancing. I talk about how I fell into... Read more

19 Jul 2018

17mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 31: Interview with Hadiya Nuriddin

Episode 31: Interview with Hadiya Nuriddin

Today, I sit down with Hadiya Nuriddin, an instructional design and training veteran, who now owns her own consultancy, ... Read more

17 Nov 2016

47mins

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Episode 32: PowerPoint for Video

Episode 32: PowerPoint for Video

In this episode, I respond to a listener request for more talk about creating effective, interesting animated video. I c... Read more

24 Nov 2016

9mins

Ranked #6

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Episode 25: Interview with Cara North

Episode 25: Interview with Cara North

In this episode, I sit down with Cara North, instructional designer at a major state university. Cara talks to us about ... Read more

6 Oct 2016

46mins

Ranked #7

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Episode 43: A Tale of Two Projects with Zsolt Olah

Episode 43: A Tale of Two Projects with Zsolt Olah

This episode, I talk with Zsolt Olah, one of my ID heroes, about two different projects that illustrate how context is k... Read more

4 May 2017

36mins

Ranked #8

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Episode 52: Interview with Devlin Peck

Episode 52: Interview with Devlin Peck

This episode, I am talking with Devlin Peck, a recent instructional design graduate student who jumped into freelancing ... Read more

30 Aug 2018

44mins

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Episode 39: Supporting Faculty with Online Teaching with Leslie Sandoval

Episode 39: Supporting Faculty with Online Teaching with Leslie Sandoval

This episode, I sit down with Leslie Sandoval, instructional designer of 11 years, and we talk higher ed and a project s... Read more

9 Mar 2017

29mins

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Episode 8: Interview with Mel Milloway

Episode 8: Interview with Mel Milloway

In this episode, I interview the fabulous, versatile, and prolific Mel Milloway. Mel talks to us about development work ... Read more

2 Jun 2016

38mins

Ranked #11

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Episode 18: Interview with Alyssa Gomez

Episode 18: Interview with Alyssa Gomez

This one is for all of you Instructional Design subredditors who are teachers looking to break into instructional design... Read more

11 Aug 2016

41mins

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Episode 42: Online Course for a Student Maker Space with Ellen Hayes

Episode 42: Online Course for a Student Maker Space with Ellen Hayes

This episode, I sit down with our "newbiest" ID yet, Ellen Hayes, and we talk about her process building an online cours... Read more

20 Apr 2017

35mins

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Episode 27: Prototyping Tools

Episode 27: Prototyping Tools

In this episode, I talk about prototyping tools that I've used in the past, and why prototyping is a useful communicatio... Read more

20 Oct 2016

8mins

Ranked #14

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Episode 38: Building a Quiz with Amazon Alexa and Dr. Dave Fusco

Episode 38: Building a Quiz with Amazon Alexa and Dr. Dave Fusco

This episode, I’ve got a real treat: a cutting edge tech project from my friend, David Fusco! David’s interested in emer... Read more

23 Feb 2017

31mins

Ranked #15

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Episode 33: Game Makers for Learning

Episode 33: Game Makers for Learning

In this episode I talk about game makers and why they might be a good option to help you start building learning experie... Read more

1 Dec 2016

8mins

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Episode 28: Twine

Episode 28: Twine

Twine is an open source tool for creating interactive, non-linear stories. It’s a tool for interactive fiction and story... Read more

27 Oct 2016

6mins

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Episode 50: Feast and Famine and Freelancing

Episode 50: Feast and Famine and Freelancing

In this episode, I try my hand at answering one of the toughest questions around becoming a freelancer: How does that wh... Read more

2 Aug 2018

19mins

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Episode 23: Interview with EJ LeBlanc

Episode 23: Interview with EJ LeBlanc

In this episode, I interview EJ LeBlanc, ID business owner, avid experimenter, and a real model for continuing learning ... Read more

22 Sep 2016

56mins

Ranked #19

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Episode 24: Creating with Adapt

Episode 24: Creating with Adapt

If you haven’t heard of it, Adapt is a free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, mul... Read more

29 Sep 2016

9mins

Ranked #20

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Episode 44: Simon Date on MOOCs

Episode 44: Simon Date on MOOCs

The first of three (I say four in audio) episodes with Simon Date, Adapt developer extraordinaire! Simon took me up on m... Read more

18 May 2017

18mins

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