Instructional Designer + graphic • web
Saturday, August 31, 2019
A lil' musical break...Katy Perry live performance
Katy Perry - Hey Hey Hey (Live) | KISS Presents https://t.co/R1VmHQu0rr via @YouTube@katyperry
— bostmag (@bostmag) August 31, 2019
- I love any new Katy Perry music #SmallTalkVideo but performance is still one of my favoritesđź’›
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Webinars for our Instructional Design course.
Our class is finishing up with our webinars that we produced and shared with each other. First of all I will say that this group of students are so creative and very interested and doing their very best. I have come to see most ID's have a spirit of wanting to share their knowledge and just keep improving themselves and everyone around them.
Here is what I have learned:
Things can happen in Webinars. Do not take it too serious a good sense of humor really helps. Our class had really great presentations and everyone had great speaking voices and communication throughout. Between sharing our assignments and communicating in our coffee chat and forums I would say we do feel like we know each other and have a great communication in our courses so that is a good start. But it was more than that - everyone had great feedback and the topics helped expand our learning in the course.
I read that using the "you"... "your" language helps put the viewer into the spot of thinking how the learning relates to them. Do you have to do perfect in a webinar? No, being human is normal and we all lose our places, forget a section, how you handle the come-back is the most important. This adds to the live feeling if you just wanted to hear someone talking then you could just have a conference call, right? There is something fun about being able to ask questions, chat with the speaker and more.
I absolutely loved this assignment. I had to do a webinar for a freelance project and I did ok because I knew the person but now I could really do great. I wouldn't feel so lost in how do I do this or share my screen, etc. As more people are able to work remotely webinars are going to be the norm. Our class is ready for this change and ID is the perfect profession to utilize webinars with SME's.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Article on Micro vs. Macro Learning in Workplace Training.
In Goyettes article he explained the importance of utilzing both Micro & Macro learning in the workplace: (See link above and MLA reference at the end of this blog post.) Here is his statement on using both types of learning in the workplace. Following his quote is my reference of how I have used Micro and Macrolearning in my job.
Use Both Approaches for Maximum Effect
"Both micro and macro learning are valid approaches to training and development in the workplace, and they are best used in conjunction with each other. For example, when learning time management skills, employees might be able to pick up a few tips and tricks through micro learning by reading articles or lists, but these are often only quick fixes that don’t last in the long term or they don’t provide enough information to fully develop new time management skills. On the other hand, if employees learn the larger concepts of time management through macro learning but do not have the reinforcements of micro learning tactics, they are not as likely to apply their new skills and change behaviors. Using both approaches in tandem allows you to teach larger concepts, support retention, and encourage the application of new skills for lasting behavior change." - written by Paul Goyette in his cited article on www.eagleflight.com website.
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To relate to my last post on the two types of learning I will expand my points to include an actual workplace experience and how these relate to a project I worked on.
I was tasked with doing the Email marketing design for my companies Creative Services Department. The project included these tasks that I had to use Micro and Macro learning to achieve my goals.
Email Marketing was new to the department and I was asked to use a traditional print layout created by our remote Art Director and also had to take into account our creative services managers opinion, the clients customer service rep. at our company and my opinion as a digital designer to have the project mobile first. While I was only listening to how the project was being asked to be created and take in to account everyones input. I chose to use Micro and Macrolearning and testing to complete the projects. As these were ongoing projects and might get more complicated as we go and did I was glad I did both of these types of learning to be prepared. My manager and the outside art director could use Microlearning to be able to communicate what they wanted and learn about what was possible for responsive email designs for IOS and Android best practices. This could expand into Macrolearning for future projects or if they were also starting to do the actual Email designs. But for the beginning projects I was jumping in right away so I used Microlearning to check-up on my Email HTML skills and Macrolearning for future and ongoing projects.
I feel this relates to Goyette's article that states both types of learning are beneficial in a workplace scenario. I was using both because I was ultiimately responsible for completing the projects successfully right away. Vs. the other employees needing to communicate their goals for the project (thus using Microlearning to be able to direct me on the projects with digital lingo) to me and then in the future keep adding to their skills too.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Micro vs Macro Learning Microlearning is something that is great for someone who is in an industry such as Instructional Design. If you need to stay current in your skills you can use small microlearning resources. These might include YouTube, TedTalks, Meetups or Webinars. I participate in all of these options. While it is important to know how to obtain a skill from PT. A-Z for some projects sometimes you do not have the time to become an expert but if you can partake in microlearning you can get a good start and expand your skills with further learning and time. Also if you are managing a project and need to be knowledgeable but do not have to know exactly how to complete a project this is a good way to guide other learners or workers. Check out the next page for Macrolearning applications. (See 3 pages below attached designed from this paper).
Macrolearning is something that is great for someone who is in an industry such as Graphic Design. You might need to learn how to do something from beginning to end and how to utilize the learning into an actual task. This might be like your boss saying hey we need to start creating email marketing. While you might not have time to learn everything you can utilize Macrolearning to take entire courses online on a site like Lynda.com or on an email service provider. You might not only need to know how to create and design the emails but how to deploy, manage your lists and how to track subscribes. So you need to go into more indepth learning and know how to actually perform these tasks. If you are the one doing this task you would use Macro vs. if you were directing someone you might use microlearning to get an over-view how to consult.
Friday, August 2, 2019
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Our class is finishing up with our webinars that we produced and shared with each other. First of all I will say that this group of stude...
