Performance & Value Focused Instructional Designer

I'm a 14+ years experienced technical instructional designer who works collaboratively with subject matter experts, business partners, and stakeholders to create high-quality and engaging training solutions for a diverse audience.

I believe that the thorough and complete ADDIE process is the core of successful performance improvements.

A Blog

I've been up to a lot of different activities lately so you'll find a lot about that here. I've also started writing a little review of each book I read because I enjoy doing that. Not because it's about technology or design but it's fun.

Enjoy!

Idea Management and Design – You Mean PKM?

Yesterday I started the first of my four-part series covering my thoughts and impressions on the four topics presented in week 3 of the MSLOC430 cMOOC. I started with crowdsourcing,...
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The Things We Can Do With Crowdsourcing Are Limitless (But Hard)

I'm going to take the next four days to post a topic a day from the MSLOC430 cMOOC I'm participating in, or maybe the correct term is reading in. I don't...
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Communities of Inquiry

I want to preface this post with the following information: Before a few days ago I had never heard the term Community of Inquiry, which is exactly why I've chosen...
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When You’re Feeling Unmotivated

I sat down this evening to write a post I've had in my idea pad for some time. I was going to write about mobile and the enterprise. Tonight I...
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Social Learning Has Never Been About a Single Tool

I noticed a ReTweet from Shannon Tipton yesterday morning where she was disagreeing with the flop part of the following blog post: What eLearning Trends Will Pop, Flop and Flip...
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Learning From Others

Over a year ago I began to share what I am learning at the moment. I did this through the hashtag #LrnToday which I also encouraged others to do. It’s...
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Closing Out 2014 With Learning Reflection

This post was originally combined with yesterday's post, could you imagine? Too much. It has been an eventful year though, so it's only fitting that I have two eventful posts....
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Closing Out 2014 With A Bang

I was working on a combined post with two distinct parts. One part a reflection on my new Udemy course called Catapult Your Career: Building Your Website Portfolio. The second part...
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Rethinking The Holiday Rush

The holidays is always the busiest time of year. Everyone is out and about doing last minute errands and trying to get that last project out the door before going...
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