Are You a Fresher Looking for a Job in Instructional Design?

By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon Times are changing. Getting a job as a fresher is no longer so easy, I guess. At least that’s what the popular job portals in India tell me.  I was checking some popular job portals and found that most employers require candidates [...]

Instructional Designers Meetup Jan 30, 2010 Across Cities in India

January 30, 2010 is going to be an eventful day. Instructional Designers across cities in India are going to meet in groups in their own city. This is going to be the first meeting organized by the Instructional Designers Community of India this year. More than 50 Instructional Designers have RSVPd for the meetup. This [...]

Ribbon Hero – A Cool Game to Hone Your MS Office Skills

Microsoft has launched the prototype of a game called Ribbon Hero which will help people boost MS Office knowledge and skills. You just  have to download and install Ribbon Hero. It acts as an add-in in MS Word, MS PowerPoint etc. How does it work? Every time you use a feature in MS Word or MS [...]

Learning in 3D is Fascinating!

I get surprised when I hear people buying virtual stuff. I always wonder why they do it and what kind of satisfaction they must be getting in buying things that they cannot touch and feel. Well, I realize I am not quite different from those people. I get so involved in playing Farmville and get [...]

Is it Skill or Will?

Consider this story: A girl who works in a call center wants to become an Instructional Designer. Her writing skills are average. However she has this strong urge to learn. She gets motivated by creative work. She is willing to put in lot of hard work. She finds Instructional Design interesting. She has gained some [...]

Got 2 Minutes for Learning?

I just read a blog post by Upside Learning and got inspired to write this post. What I learnt? Upside Learning has partenered with Skill-Pill of UK and are working on developing 2 minute learning videos that you can access on your mobile. You can access these videos anytime, anywhere. Skill-Pills can cover topics such as [...]

2009 Top Posts – The Writers Gateway

This post is in response to the Big Question December 2009 – What did you learn about learning in 2009? I guess this year I learnt much more than last year. Let me quickly list some highlights here: I have written better quality articles. I have gained good instructional designing and technical writing skills. I [...]

How Humour and Fun Work Wonders in Learning

Sometime back I had written a post on character driven stories for e-learning. This post talks about including emotions in e-learning that make a great impact on the audience. While strong emotions can make an impact, something light hearted can also make a great impact. I have always felt amazed at how some creative people come up [...]

Why Enhanced Reading Comprehension Skills Are a Must for Instructional Designers?

By ruparajgo | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon In school I am sure all of us have go through reading comprehension exercises. I am not sure how many of us enjoyed it though All of us understand what Reading Comprehension means. The web definition of Reading Comprehension is the level of [...]

My Experience and Lessons Learnt While Creating a Demonstration for a Mobile Application

I just finished a demo for a mobile application for a client and the good news is that he is really impressed. This demo was to introduce people to a particular feature in a mobile phone. It also had to cover the steps to use the feature. The objective was to make an impact and [...]