TLDCast Podcast

In this Storytelling Playlist episode, Christy Tucker shared an excellent presentation titled "Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-Based Learning that Engages Participants". Christy discussed how to hook your learners using story and scenario based learning - and why it works. She also shared things to consider when you create your narrative, including what not to do. Christy has an excellent blog you can find at https://www.christytuckerlearning.com/.

This is the first episode of The Storytelling Playlist, a new series focused on how you can use story and narratives to enhance your instructional design. Our first guest is Rance Greene from needastory.com. Rance is a Senior Performance Consultant in the healthcare industry, and a current ATD Chapter President in the Dallas area. Rance has a background in acting, dance, theater, and songwriting - so bringing Story to instructional design was a natural progression and he now has a book coming in April that describes just that. That book is called Instructional Story Design. We talked to Rance about his book and how he got into storytelling. We also talked specifically about how stories strengthen instructional design, and that included a spontaneous telling of a wonderful narrative you'll hear in this recording, but sidenote: it's better with the illustrations Rance displayed so a YouTube link in the show notes is included below for you to check out. Give this episode a listen and you'll feel inspired to place more effort into building story into your projects. Youtube video of Bullet and Story's story: https://youtu.be/aopg7X0a4Nc https://www.needastory.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/rancegreene/ https://twitter.com/Rance2ya

In our final episode of the Certificates and Certifications Playlist, we talked with Matt Pierce, Techsmith Learning and Video Ambassador. Matt leads the Techsmith Academy, and is also the lead for their Camtasia certification. Matt is always an excellent guest, and in listening to this episode, you'll understand that it's not just about having a certification to display on your resume or LinkedIn profile, it's also about your journey to get it. Techsmith Academy: https://academy.techsmith.com/ https://twitter.com/piercemr https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrpierce/ https://academy.techsmith.com/

Perhaps the most prestigious certification for L&D has changed: the CPLP is now the CPTD. And we have the perfect guest, StyleLearn a.k.a. Alex Salas, to discuss the change and what it means for you.

Robert Penn is the CEO of SmartBuilder, an eLearning authoring tool that has been helping power L&D teams for over twenty years. We’re talking to Robert about his perspective as a vendor in this industry, what he’s learned about eLearning over the last two decades, and even show some examples of why his tool, SmartBuilder, has had such lasting power.

This is another episode from our Certificates and Certifications Playlist and we're moving on from discussing graduate certificates to industry certifications. This episode's guest, Deadra Welcome, has half a dozen certificates: The CPLP, the CPTM, a Master Trainer certification from Langevin Learning, just to name some of them. I invited Deadra as a guest to answer some questions about the value of these certifications. I wanted to know whether or not they were worth getting, which one has been the best for her, and how others should gauge which certification is the right one for them. And after over a dozen questions from not just me, but our live show audience, I found myself searching out certifications --- after the broadcast was over. Ultimately, if you're putting in the work to better yourself and focus on your professional development, why not have something to show for it? So I encourage you to give this episode a listen, connect with Deadra on LinkedIn, and think about getting better at what you do --- and set up a strategy to make sure you have a certification to show for it.

"Trainers gonna train". That's what I thought of when I logged in to Cara North's TLDCast on conference proposals this last week. Cara included guests Jonathan Rock, Jonathan Hill, and Thomas Sealock in this episode which was all about helping anyone interested in submitting a conference proposal for an industry event. There was lots of activity in this one, and the group did a great job of providing tips to help you get booked as a speaker for an upcoming L&D event. It's always especially fun to watch trainers helping other trainers; it's what TLDC is all about. So check out this episode, it was fun and is worth the listen.

We continue our discussion on graduate certificates with two faculty members of Boise State University, developers of the Organizational Performance & Workplace Learning Master's Degree, as well as online certificates in instructional design, e-Learning, and performance improvement. Meet Lisa Giacumo and Anthony Marks, learn who they are, what they do, and why a graduate certificate may or may not be the right career move for you. Learn more about Boise State's Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) program here: https://www.boisestate.edu/opwl/.

In this episode moderated by host Cara North, Rubina Halwani discusses her recent experience building an eLearning Program from Scratch. Rubina shares what is basically a case study on launching an entirely new eLearning project at a job she was just hired for a few months ago. I'm sure many of you listeners will hear some familiar experiences in this episode, and I'm sure you'll learn a few new things too. Enjoy.

In our first playlist episode on Certificates and Certifications, we had a lot of questions for Christy Tucker about graduate certificates. Christy is a Learning Experience Design Consultant at Syniad Learning and has done a great deal of research on grad certificates, which she's posted about on her blog. In fact, when I was researching this topic, Christy's articles came up so many times it only made sense to invite her on to the broadcast. So the post this conversation is primarily based on, is titled similarly: Instructional Design Certificate or Master's Degree? You will learn more than you expected in this conversation. Christy answered more than a dozen questions on this topic, and I'd say the one thing that stood out to me is not necessarily the importance of the grad certificate or the Master's degree, but the portfolio you create. So give this one a listen, if you're interested in this topic, you're sure to enjoy it - Christy was a wonderful guest and you can find her blog at https://www.christytuckerlearning.com/.