A Small Pep Talk
A small pep talk for instructional designers who don’t feel like technology wunderkinds.
You can learn to be tech-savvy.
The other day I used javascript to program a fun little typing animation in Storyline for funsies. Me! The person who swore she was allergic to Adobe Creative Cloud because Apple Pages works just fine, thank you very much.
Jokes on me. I’m currently going through Adobe Illustrator tutorials with practice files because I WILL learn how that pen tool works, gosh darn it.
I’m realizing how many of my experiences tinkering on computers in the early 2000s as a myspace era teenager are now paying off. My friends and I used to edit No Doubt music videos we filmed in iMovie, and now I develop training videos in Camtasia. I would spend hours writing custom css in livejournal so I could wax poetic about teenage angst with a sparkly background, and now I use css to build branching scenarios in Twine.
Turned out my tech foundation was a lot stronger than I gave it credit for.
We are learning professionals so we know how people learn (including ourselves). This means we can figure out ways to teach ourselves new tech skills!
Being an instructional designer keeps me on my toes, technologically speaking, and that’s the way I like it. New digital tools aren’t a barrier; they're an exciting challenge.
