#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee

Most eLearning designers and developers working in the enterprise don't have much say in the LMS or authoring tool provided by the company. But success practitioners always have a few tech tools and toys that level up their production capabilities. Building your own tool kit is part of being a successful eLearning practitioner in today's work environment, and even more so in a post-COVID workplace. Join us for a fast-paced show and tell conversation with our favourite media stage host, Nick Floro. Nick is known for his curation and sharing of the best applications and platforms that support all the other aspects of the work we do. We'll run through some apps that you may have heard of but didn't know they could do that, or maybe we'll even surprise you with an app or two you've never heard of. There's only one way to find out! Nick has over 25 years of experience developing e-Learning solutions, applications and web platforms. As a learning architect designing amazing experiences for audiences. He has worked with hundreds of start-ups, organizations and Fortune 500 companies to help them understand the technology and develop innovative solutions to help their teams and customer base. Nick has won several awards from Apple and Fortune 500 organizations for productions and services. Nick is passionate about how design and technology can enhance learning and loves to share his knowledge and experience to teach, inspire and motivate. Nick is a founder and president of Sealworks Interactive Studios. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Nick: @NickFloro https://twitter.com/nickfloro Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenkerChris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

This week we're going to check in with our friend Kevin Thorn for another episode of Drink'n'Draw. Kevin is an award winning eLearning developer, illustrator, storyboard creator, LEGO activist, game designer, graphic designer, and man of many talents.  We are grateful to have him join regularly for what we like to call Drink'n'Draw sessions.  Each session is unique, and always filled with helpful tips and tricks for every learning solution designer and developer. So grab your coffee, your pen & paper, and relax with your peers and colleagues on the next IDIODC.Haven't had the chance to watch past episodes of Drink'n'Draw? Watch them on Crowdcast here: 1. Drink’n’Draw - Hands on Practice Sketching Instructional Designs With Kevin Thorn 2. Drink'n'Draw - Creating Icons for Learning Projects With Kevin Thorn 3. Drink'n'Draw - Visual Thinking for Instructional Designers with Kevin Thorn, CNHCheck out Kevin Thorn, CNH on his LinkedIn.Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique custom design and development studio specializing in online learning experiences.After retiring from the US Army, Kevin pursued a career in corporate IT and Training & Development. With his combined military and industry experience, Kevin started the Studioz in 2012 working with clients in various industries solving problems in a wide-range of creative projects.Based in the North Mississippi Delta, Kevin, the Chief NuggetHead harnesses a bench a creative practitioners in instructional design, elearning development, illustration and graphic design, animation, and serious comics. Kevin is a well-known industry speaker and trainer on elearning development, design workflows, and is also a certified facilitator in LEGO®Serious Play® methodologies.Academic stuff: BS in Information Technology Management from Christian Brothers University (2003) and MS in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Memphis (2018).Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Kevin: @LearnNuggetsBrent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions.Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

The Learning and Development community is uniquely positioned to respond to racial injustice and the first step is to listen. Join us on our next episode as we invite black voices Jessica Jackson, Myra Roldan and Nyla Spooner on the show to share their experiences in the L&D field and the ways they are using and asking you to use resources to respond to racial injustice.Jessica Jackson brings a myriad of educational experiences to instructional design. Her background in teaching, social justice dialogue facilitation, restorative justice practices, and DEI consulting provide a robust toolkit to respond to racism in the workplace. She is the current xAPI Cohort Host and an Instructional Designer and Project Manager at TorranceLearning.  Find Jessica on LinkedIn here.Nyla Spooner is an experienced instructional designer creating opportunities for people to develop and unleash their expertise. Having worked across multiple industries including commercial film, oil and gas, and retail - she has a keen sense of what it takes to facilitate real change in an organization. She has committed to helping 100 women of color enter the learning and development space over the next 5 years through peer mentoring and hosts a podcast for new instructional designers called, "I'm New Here".Find Nyla on LinkedIn here.Myra Roldan is a TEDx speaker, author, Award-winning Instructional Designer. Myra has an MBA, MSEd and a Bachelors of Information Technology/Computer Science. Myra's passion is empowering people to explore and develop themselves holistically. She strives to evoke transformation in people by creating programs to enable them to become curious learners who develop the tech skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Her friends, students, and colleagues believe that her superpower is the ability to make complex technology accessible by making it easy for someone with little to no technology know-how to understand and get excited about the tech.Find Myra on LinkedIn here.Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Jessica: @LearnsJessNyla: @NylaLXDMyra:@MyramadeBrent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions.Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Do you listen to podcasts? If so, you may have wondered how you might leverage the podcasting format as part of your learning solutions within your company. Oh, you haven't had that thought? Why not?Podcasting is more than just digital versions of news programs or repurposed comedy shows. Podcasting is an amazing way to deliver audio content in a format that is easy to access and available to all employees with a computer or mobile device. In fact, it's a great vehicle for delivering learning content. Internal corporate podcasts are beginning to grow in popularity.This week we have an amazing guest to talk with us about the power of podcasting. Evo Terra, also known as Pod Yoda has a long history with podcasting and one of the earliest producers and advocates of the format. He also has the distinction of being the first IDIODC guest with a Wikipedia Page. Join us for a what I know will be a highly informative conversation about corporate podcasting... and learning. "I'm incessantly curious, risk tolerant, and not afraid to ask the hard questions. But I'm also a pragmatist and seasoned biz ops professional. I'm the contrarian voice that invents solid practices where needed; the champion of change and innovation with a keen eye on the balance sheet. And I know how to inject confidence into under-appreciated team of good people doing good work.I embraced the web when it was young, dragging a multi-billion dollar company along with me as they kicked and screamed all the way to the bank. I’m among the first dozens of podcasters, where there are now nearly a million. I've lead teams of innovators, presented to thousands of people around the world, have authored 2.5 books in the “for Dummies” series, and continue to push the envelope of media and technology."" - Evo TerraBecome virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Evo: @EvoTerraBrent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions.Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

The new book "Design Thinking for Training and Development" offers a primer on design thinking, a human-centered process and problem-solving methodology that focuses on involving users of a solution in its design. For effective design thinking, talent development professionals need to go beyond the UX, the user experience, and incorporate the LX, the learner experience.The author Sharon Boller joins us for a conversation on learner experience design and shares some practical case studies that have successfully implemented an LX strategy. "I joined TiER1 Performance in 2019 after selling Bottom-Line Performance to them. BLP was incorporated by my husband and me in 1999. Our focus was on “the right learning solution,” and we grew the company to a $4M+ company over the span of 20 years. In 2019, in a desire to expand both capabilities and capacity, we joined forces with TiER1, whose focus is “strategy activation through people.” In addition to L&D solutions, they focus more broadly on talent development, change management, strategic communications, and mergers and acquisitions." - Sharon Boller Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Sharon: @Sharon_Boller Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions.Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow  Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Now that you've been forced to train online for 2 months, you're probably wondering how to up your vILT (or virtual instructor led training) game. There are only a handful of virtual instructor-led training professionals I trust, because they've been doing it since long before the global pandemic. Karen Hyder is one of those professionals. She understands the technology, as well as the subtle, and no so subtle, tips for engaging your attendees. vILT is NOT the same as training in the classroom, as you've now likely discovered.  Join us to discuss some of the common mistakes new virtual trainers make and the tips to improving your online training sessions."My goal is to teach those who are delivering training content online in a synchronous virtual classroom technology how to do it effectively. I've been working with trainers, subject-matter-experts, teachers, trainers, authors, accountants, sales staff, tech wonks and all of their learners for over 17 years. Their online learning sessions are highly interactive. Participants ACTUALLY participate. The benefits of using the technology are numerous. It's cheap, especially when compared to physical classroom, (incl. travel expenses, classroom space, etc.), it's accessible to anyone with a computer and internet connection and it's efficient." - Karen HyderBecome virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Karen: @KarenHyderBrent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODCBrent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions.Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow  Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

With many organizations finally taking online learning seriously, we're hearing this question a lot: "How Long Will it Take to create this eLearning". And sometimes it's asked this way, "How much does it cost based on how much time is required by the employee".   The numbers are often debated but it's important to figure out these details in order to be successful in your career. Christy Tucker is a learning experience design consultant who has reviewed the most popular research and benchmarks on the topic. We'll be talking with her about what's she discovered and how she's adapted these numbers to reflect her own design and development experience. Join us and learn how you can use them too! Christy a learning experience design consultant who develops engaging e-learning that makes a difference in how people do their jobs. Her goal is to create online learning that uses technology and storytelling to draw participants in and lets them practice new skills in ways that they can easily apply in the workplace. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag: Christy: @ChristyATucker https://twitter.com/christyatucker?lang=enBrent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenkerChris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC   https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow  Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Master story designer Rance Greene shares his powerful process to discover, design, and deliver instructional stories. Chris and Brent will talk with Rance about how to unearth the root of the performance problem, create action lists for learners, and convince stakeholders of stories’ effectiveness. This conversation will introduce you to developing an ability to take full advantage of story’s power and build training that intellectually and emotionally connects with your audience. Best of all, your training will prepare and motivate your audience for action. Rance Greene has always loved a good story. His work as an actor, choreographer, visual artist, playwright, teacher and speaker revolved around creating and delivering the right story for his audience. Rance started sharing his Story Design approach with talent development professionals in Dallas, Texas. It became apparent that the interest in bringing stories center stage in training, leadership, and communications was intense. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag: Rance: @Rance2ya https://twitter.com/rance2ya?lang=enBrent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenkerChris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC   https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

The state of the L&D industry is STRONG! This week we have the amazing Dr. Will Thalheimer back to discuss the current state of the learning and development industry. Dr. Thalheimer joined us for our first episode of 2020 and we talked about New Year's Resolutions for instructional designers. Well... a few things have changed since then and the industry is scrambling to help the world adjust to work and instruction conducted 100% online. These are interesting times and Dr. Thalheimer always has interesting ideas for us to consider. Join us as we revisit the state of the industry and see if you're current state is tracking the same way, or if you need to make some adjustments. Will brings research-based wisdom to the practice of workplace learning as the CEO of Work-Learning Research Inc. Consultant, Research Translator, Author, Speaker, Instructional Designer, Writer, Advocate, Gentle Curmudgeon, Debunker. Will: @WillWorkLearn https://twitter.com/WillWorkLearnBrent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenkerChris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC   https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Over the last couple years Brian Fanzo has transitioned the majority of his business to being a keynote speaker... well, now make things a little different. So he's going through the same career pivot that a lot professionals in our industry are going through and he might be able to help. Brian Fanzo is a digital futurist keynote speaker who translates the trends of tomorrow to inspire change today. His customized and personalized programs showcase real-world stories and examples of forward-thinking people and businesses. He teaches companies of all sizes how to leverage technology in real time in order to engage their customers at the right time. Brian has a gift for bringing people together online and offline. He has worked in 76 countries, highlighting his passion for change, collaboration, and technology. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Brian: @iSocialFanz https://twitter.com/iSocialFanzBrent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenkerChris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC   https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.