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Free Teacher ➡️ ID Chats

Are you a teacher looking to transition to instructional design who wants free guidance? Starting this upcoming Monday, I will be setting aside a few time slots weekly for free 1:1 chats.

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Tips for Landing Your First ID Job

The hardest job hunt will be the first. The lesson for transitioning teachers is to broaden your job search for your first official ID role.

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Design Thinking and ADDIE

As instructional designers, we created learning products. This is an opportunity to think like a designer and weave elements of Design Thinking into our ADDIE processes.

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Transferable Learning

A habit I have picked up on to meet the needs of the business is making learning transferable.

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Career Move Announcement AND Podcast Appearance

This post is a two-fer, as I’ve got some big changes in the coming weeks. I am going from a hybrid arrangement in the financial services sector to a fully remote position as a Senior Technical Instructional Designer at a software company.

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Equitable Partnerships Boost Women’s Careers

Being in an equitable relationship with a supportive partner is a HUGE privilege and bolster for my career as a woman.

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Lessons from Amazon’s Mentoring Programs

Today I attended a webinar called ‘How Amazon’s Mentoring Programs Support Employee Career Growth.’ My senior manager recommended it to me because I work in a DE&I work stream promoting mentoring opportunities at my organization.

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Using an LMS and an LXP

A traditional LMS still serves an important role for organizations, but the more modern LXPs are an opportunity to surprise and delight learners with friendly interfaces and pathways.

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Coming Around on Captivate

I develop a lot of technical product training for our in-house software, so I’ve been using Adobe Captivate more and more over the last year.

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Cara North Aids a Righteous Cause

Cara North offered to review my Nashville Defenders project and I was blown away by how gracious and thoughtful she was.

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