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Summer is here! While I would like to be lying  around eating bonbons or napping my days away, I have three kids, a husband, and… Read More »SMART Technology Training

If you stumble into a project management job on your path to total world domination, you may wonder how all your instructional design experience will… Read More »ADDIE & Four-Step

Attacking the task of creating an effective and stimulating training can stress out even the most seasoned instructional designer. For those designers who are rather… Read More »Design Models

I have spent the last three days in an intensive training about Standards Based Instruction. It was intended to prepare me to train others in… Read More »Bloom’s and the Standards

Technology today moves at the speed of light. What was cutting edge yesterday (can you say Betamax) may not necessarily stand the test of time.… Read More »Get Social!

It is easy to look at students with severe and profound disabilities and label them by saying “They can’t…”    I have found that I am… Read More »Let’s Try! Remembering, Understanding, and Technology

Working with students with profound and severe disabilities is a challenge. What presents as the most challenging aspect is finding a way to allow students… Read More »Diverse Learners

In the post industrial world, is the age of wonder over?  The answer to that question is yes and no. The needs of the labor… Read More »Wonderment: Is the Age of Wonder Over?

This blog series has gone through the Analysis, Design, and Development phases of the ADDIE instructional design process. Up next: Implementation and Evaluation. Implementation is… Read More »The IE of ADDIE

The development phase is where the analysis and design are further developed to create a complete training module. Truly, development “is the link that connects… Read More »Develop with ADDIE