When you visit Tony Karrer’s blog, there is a link entitled: For First Time Visitors. The New Visitor Guide helped me a great deal to easily access articles pertaining to topics of my interest in Tony’s blog. I really liked the idea of having a New Visitor Guide, especially if your blog is loaded with posts and you continuously update it with new posts. So I decided to organize my posts in a similar fashion (giving due credit to Tony Karrer) and help my readers access my posts easily.
This page has all the posts available in this blog, neatly categorized under various topics and titles.
Instructional Design Process/Concepts
- Needs Analysis in Instructional Design- An Introduction (Part 1)
- Needs Analysis in Instructional Design – An Introduction (Part II)
- Needs Analysis in Instructional Design (Part III)
- Here’s How to Avoid Needs Analysis Paralysis – Interesting Post
- What Would Constitute an Analysis and Design Document – Any Thoughts?
- The Whys and Whats of Learning Objectives in Instructional Design
- Quick Tips to Design the Course Flow for an E-learning Course
- What is Instructional Strategy?
- What is Social Learning?
- Meta-Learning?
- How Technology Can Persuade You to Learn!
Instructional Design – Job, Role & Responsibilities
- The Role of an Instructional Designer
- The Role of an Instructional Design Reviewer
- The Value of Instructional Designers – Interesting Post by Cammy Bean
- Quick Tips for a Lone Instructional Designer
- The Difference Between Technical Writing and Instructional Design
Tips for Job Seekers
- How to Build Quick Elearning Demos for Your Portfolio
- Are You Looking for Ideas to Build Elearning Demos for Your Portfolio?
- Top 4 Things That You Can Do to Get Started with Instructional Design
- Are You a Fresher Looking for a Job in Instructional Design?
E-learning Examples
- “Try Me” Simulations – Effective Teaching and Learning Tools
- Simulations in Learning
- Interesting CTV News – Video game helps kids learn about Shakespeare
- Apollo Games: Speare – A Critical Review
- Candy & Clyde – An Instructional Game
- CSharp for Sharp Kids – Just for Kids uh?
- A Short Online Course on Eclipse
- Good Examples of E-Learning
- Creative Video on E-learning and Web 2.0
- Rook’s Binocular and Avian Resurrection – Interesting Instructional Games
- Computer Tutor: An Excellent Example of Game Based Learning
- What is a Scenario Based E-learning Course?
- What is a Linear E-learning Course?
- How Humour and Fun Work Wonders in Learning
- Got 2 Minutes for Learning?
- Anandadhara – An Asynchronous BL Approach to Teaching Music
- Using Case Studies/Scenarios for New Application Training
Instructional Design Theories/Models
- Grabbing the Learners’ Attention – Learning from Gagne
- How Would You Design a Bloom’s Taxonomy Interactive?
Instructional Design Tips & Tricks
- Designing an Effective Instructional Design Strategy – Learning from Gaming
- Visualization Skills – Learning from Gaming
- How to Innovate on Interactivity Models in E-learning
- Assessments: Their Goal,Types and Adding Creativity
- How to think of an Instructional Strategy?
- Applying Instructional Theories/Strategies in Game Based Learning
- Engaging Interactions for E-learning – A Nice Read
- Using ‘Trial and Error’ to Devise Effective Instructional Strategies for the Gamer Generation
- My Comment on B. J. Schone’s Post – Scattered Steps
- Visual Menus: Structure with Style – by Cathy Moore
- How Games for the Brain Help in Designing Low Budget E-learning Courses
- Whoa! A Bug – The Importance of Testing and Evaluating an E-Learning Product
- How to Make a Myth or Fact Learning Interaction Interesting
- How to Develop an Engaging Low Budget E-learning Course?
- Engaging Interactions for E-learning – Interactive Timelines
- Do you Test and Evaluate your E-learning Courses?
- Why do we create boring materials?
- How to Avoid Cognitive Overload in E-learning – Any Thoughts?
- How to Use Images Effectively in E-Learning – Any thoughts?
- What We Can Learn About Instructional Design from Post-It Notes – An Interesting Read
- How to Build E-learning Scenarios?
- Creating Custom Images for Your E-learning
- 10 Sure-Fire Tips to Becoming a Rapid E-learning Pro…Rapidly!
- Did you know?
- What Everybody Ought to Know About Instructional Design – An Interesting Read
- Designing Attention Grabbers for Your E-Learning
- An Example of Customizing Tutorials to Meet Varied User Requirements
- 6 Quick Steps to Create a Game Based E-learning Course
- Quick Tips to Create Quick Custom Images for Your E-learning Storyboards and Demos
- A Scenario Based Approach for Software Product Tutorials?
- Quick Tips to Create Software Product Tutorials
- Introduction to the Instructor Led Training ToolKit
- How Do You Learn to Write Effective Voice Scripts?
Thoughts/Reflections
- Do SMEs hijack E-learning Projects Sometimes?
- Online Software Tutorials – Are they useful or messy?
- Do Classroom Trainings Need a Revamp?
- Games Gadgets and Gizmos for Learning – Worth a Read
- My Second Life Woes
- Should You Customize Your Learning Design for the Digital Natives?
- Relevance is the Key to Effective Training/Learning Material
- To Lock or Unlock Elearning Course Navigation
- Do Instructional Design Training Programs in India Need a Revamp?
- What I learnt in 2008
- Should Copyright Laws of Free Image Building Tools Be Flexible?
- Why Instructional Designers Should Play Games?
- Why Instructional Designers Must Be Good Storytellers? Any Say
- Open Forum : How is Recession Affecting Instructional Designers?
- Do you think Instructional Designers Must be Tech Savvy?
- How I Learnt to Work With Camtasia
- Technical Writing vs Instructional Designing – Is it really a tug of war?
- 7 Invaluable Thoughts about Film Making That Applies to Instructional Designing too!
- Reflections on Abhinava’s LH Theory
- Have You Thought of Character Driven Stories for Your E-learning?
- Open Discussion: Current Job Interview Techniques and Processes -Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
- A “Hello World” Approach to Teaching Instructional Design
- Why You Should Have User Centric Tutorials for Software Products
- How Reverse Engineering Helps You Gain Instructional Design Skills Faster
- My Experience and Lessons Learnt While Creating a Demonstration for a Mobile Application
- Why Enhanced Reading Comprehension Skills Are a Must for Instructional Designers?
- Is it Skill or Will?
- How Would You Explain Instructional Design to a Layman?
- Is the Mute ON/OFF Button Ruining Your E-learning Course?
- Clarity of Expectations – The Key to Effective Training Programs
- A Tribute to All Web Resources that Make Life Easy!
- The Importance of Readiness Assessment for Online Training Programs
- Time to Eliminate Software Product Tutorials?
- How Do You Learn to Write Effective Voice Scripts?
- Do You Tell Your Learner “You’re Doing it All Wrong!” to Teach the Right Way?
- What are the Challenges with Online Training?
- Is it Okay to Punish Your E-Learners for not Paying Attention?
- Why Learning From Videos is Difficult
- A Question to Answer – No/Incorrect Source Content, What do I do?
Case Studies
Tips on Storyboarding
E-learning/Instructional Design Tools – Tips, Tricks and Templates
- Storyboard Templates for Instructional Design
- Top 8 Reasons Why Captivate Rocks
- Photoshop Lesson for the Day : 4 Easy Steps to Extract an Image
- A Soft Skill Simulation Using Captivate
- PowerPoint: What is Appropriate When and Why?
- How to Get Creative with PowerPoint Animations?
- Here Are Some Time Saving Tips for Your Next Software Demo
- Important Information Regarding Use of Toondoo For E-Learning
- Camtasia Tips: How to Increase Call-Out Length
- A Short Video Tutorial on How Layers Work in Photoshop
- How to Achieve Smooth Visual Effects in Videos Created Using Camtasia?
- 6 Reasons To Use Amplify for Collaborative Learning
- Instructional Design Review Checklists – Key to Quality E-learning
E-learning Design Challenges
- E-learning Design Challenge Series – Designing a Web Based Course on Water Conservation
- E-learning Design Challenge Series – Designing a Game Based Course
Game Based Learning
- The Gamer Generation is here!
- Play Peter Packet
- The Thiagi Group
- Yipeeee I am a Gamer 4.0 – What type of a Gamer are you?
- Resources for Game Based Learning
- Learn Cooking Through Games!
- Magic Pen – A Game of Shapes
- Home Sweet Home Series : Instructional Games for Interior Design Lovers
- Enhancing the Instructional Value in the Home Sweet Home Series
- The Wizard of Symbol Game – Interesting Instructional Strategies
- Ribbon Hero – A Cool Game to Hone Your MS Office Skills
- Gaming Can Change The World!
Technical Writing
- Getting Tech Savvy
- 15 Tips to Learn a New Technology
- Tips to Learn a New Authoring Tool
- Tips to design a User Manual (Part 1)
- Tips to design a User Manual (Part II)
- Tips to design a User Manual (Part III)
- What is a Cheat Sheet in Eclipse?
- Product Demos vs Product Tutorials
- A Quick Guide to Developing Product Demos
- Photoshop 6.0 Help Manual Goof-Up
- Meet the Crabby Office Lady
- What I Understand About SOA
- My First Article on Technology – 9 Important Lessons I Learnt
- Writing Instructions is All About Precision!
- How Target User Analysis Helps You Derive the Right Information Structure in User Manuals?
Game of the Week Series
- Play Games @ The Writers Gateway
- Game of the Week – Super Stacker 2
- Game of the Week : The Scruffs
- Game of the Week: Pizza Hot
- Game of the Week : Math Challenge
- Game of the Week: Velma Vision
- Game of the Week: Clowning Around
- Game of the Week: One Man Band
- Game of the Week: Get The Glass
- Game of the Week: Tennis Titans
- Game of the Week: Good Night Mr. Snoozleberg
- Game of the Week: Post It Draw It
- Game of the Week: Pavlov’s Dog
- Game of the Week: Show Jumping
- Game of the Week: Bloxorz
- Game of the Week: Bow Master
- Game of the Week : China 2008
- Game of the Week: Papa’s Pizzeria
- Game of the Week: Edheads Design a Cell Phone
- Game of the Week : Meal Masters 2
- Game of the Week: Word Vine
- Game of the Week : Crimson Room
- Game of the Week: Classroom Pilot
- Game of the Week: Canufit
- Game of the Week: The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective
- Game of the Week : FarmVille
- Game of the Week: Kickboxing
- Top 10 Games Played at The Writers Gateway
Creative Videos
T-Bites
- The Writers Gateway Announces T-Bites
- T-Bite – What is Contextual Collaboration?
- T-Bite: How to Use Puzzles in Your Training Session
- T-Bite: What is Web 3.0?
- T-Bite: What is HTML5?
- T-Bite: Top 5 Sites for E-learning Demonstrations
- T-Bite: Cost of E-learning
- T-Bite: History of Instructional Design
- T-Bite: Depressing Survey of L&D
- T-Bite: Interesting Videos on Augmented Reality
- T-Bite: Top 10 Resources for Learning Professionals
- “T-Bites” Say Good Bye to You!
- T-Bite: Examples of Augmented Reality Games
Online Events
- Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning – My Thoughts on Chapter 1
- Writers Gateway participates in Blog Book Tour
- Interesting Result of Cammy Bean’s Survey for Instructional Designers
- Big Question: Instructional Design – If, When and How Much? – My Response
- Blog Carnival : How Learning Happens at Work
- Announcing the Working/Learning Blog Carnival May 2008
- Blog Carnival: Learning At Work
- Working/Learning Blog Carnival – May 2008
- Big Question: My To-Learn List – Still in the Making
- Big Question: Stuck? Getting Unstuck?
- Big Question June 2009 :Where is your time spent?
Instructional Designers Community of India
- Instructional Designers Meet Up in Bangalore on April 18th 2009
- Successful First Instructional Designers Meetup in Bangalore – April 18th 2009
- Instructional Designers Meetup May 2009 – A Thumping Success
- Instructional Designers Meetup June 2009 – An Instant Hit
- IDConnect – Quarterly Newsletter of Instructional Designers Community of India
Top 10 Posts/ Blog Anniversary/Recognitions/News
- Top 10 Posts of 2007
- Writers Gateway Turns 1 Tomorrow (Feb 21st 2008)
- Writers Gateway Enters Top List 2008
- Writers Gateway Reminisces 2008
- Writers Gateway Presents Top 10 Posts 2008
- Writers Gateway Turns 2 Today
- Role Models in Educational Technology on Ada Lovelace Day
- The Writers Gateway Gets Listed in eLearning Learning
- The Writers Gateway Now Offers Services
- 2009 Top Posts – The Writers Gateway
- Instructional Design Basics for Stark Beginners
- The Writers Gateway Turns 3!
Other Resources
I am looking for well-designed templates for instructor-led training: instructor guide and student guide, possibly student workbook. Can anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Pamela