TLDCast Podcast

Erin Chancellor is an instructional designer with a passion for providing learning opportunities to help people better their careers. She dives into needs assessment, analytics, and project management with enthusiasm, and strives to make learning easily accessible to everyone in this digital age. Her most rewarding work comes from a blend of instructional design, marketing, branding, and building relationships. Currently working in enablement at a software development company, she pulls on her strengths to deliver with excellence at work while also building an authentic personal brand online. Erin holds a master’s degree in Education from Virginia Commonwealth University withan endorsement to teach English to speakers of other languages, and she ha sappeared as a guest speaker on numerous podcasts and webinars in the global eLearning and instructional design space. When not developing curriculum, chatting with SMEs, and designing engaging eLearning courses, Erin can be found tending to her plants and flowers, cultivating the green thumb she inherited from her grandmother.

Cool Tools. This episode was definitely influenced by The eLearning Tools Summit from a couple of weeks ago and all the requests received asking if TLDC was going to do another similar event. We'll definitely be doing another Tool Summit, but also, individual series on community members sharing some of the tools they use in their daily workflows. So in this episode Luis Malbas focuses on the tools he uses to build TLDC events. You'll find tools for writing, images, transcription, messaging and more. Hopefully some of these tools are things you might be able to in your work. And if you have any questions at all about any of these tools, message luis@thetldc.com. SLIDE DECK

In this episode, Danielle Kayal joins host Lisa Crockett to talk about Danielle's background in HR and Organizational Development, and how it intersects with L&D. There is some excellent discussion in this one, including talking about career pivots, leadership training, organizational collaboration and lots more. So give this one a listen if you'd like to hear Danielle's multi-faceted view of the training function.

In this episode we had a community discussion where I introduced a new TLDC idea: Open Table Fridays. Open Table Fridays are going to be a regularly held Friday meeting using a virtual platform, specifically, Airmeet. So what's gonna happen during Open Table Fridays? Volunteer hosts discussing topics such as mentorship, freelancing, working out loud --- basically anything relevant to L&D professionals. And what you'll hear in this community discussion recording are some decisions we made about the frequency of these meetings - weekly, when they are going to take place - Fridays, the duration of every meeting - an hour - and more. So give this episode a listen if you'd like to get caught up on this idea we're formulating and starting in May. Open Table Fridays will be an exciting community endeavor I think anyone involved in TLDC can benefit from. Here are the slides.

In this episode, we had a chance to catch up with eLearning Consultant, Danny Ortegon, and talk about e-Learning and Today's Disrupted Workforce. Danny wrote an article about this specific topic and I caught it on Linkedin. And I wanted to bring it to an episode because although it's a topic we've discussed during the more intense days of the pandemic, we're moving into the endemic stage of things (hopefully) and there are impacts to our careers, our jobs, our organizations, that we probably don't think as much about anymore. We're all kind of burnt out ... but I think it's a good time to step back and reflect and reconsider all of it. Danny has some great points in this one; he's always an articulate guest with a tremendous amount of experience, so it was a pleasure talking with him. Linkedin 2022 Workplace Learning Report

In this episode, we had an opportunity to chat with Kristin Torrence, a long time TLDC Member and currently, Head of Learning Engineering at Talespin, an Immersive Learning company. We wanted to catch up with Kristin and discuss something she's been creating and sharing a good amount of content for: XR or Extended Reality. So XR is an umbrella term that covers virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and any other tech generated simulation reality out there. And Kristin shares some great resources for IDs wanting to get in to XR. And it was really nice to hear about where her career has taken her over the last couple of years. Enjoy the episode and don't hesitate to connect with Kristin if XR is something you'd like to steer your future toward.

Our guest for this Member Showcase was a little different than your typical at TLDC. We had Matt Vosmik, Director of Growth Training at Oak Street Health join us. Matt's background is more on the organizational development and performance management side of things, so it was interesting to hear his career journey and how he relates to L&D. He joined TLDC because he's building a team of instructional designers and was looking for an active group doing the work now - which pretty much sums up what our community is up to. So give this episode a listen if you'd like to look at L&D from a different perspective, a view you might not ordinarily see from.

Meica Hatters was our latest Community Showcase guest. Currently splitting her time working in both Higher Ed and Corporate L&D, she's a passionate learning strategist and is someone that would be great in your network. Right off the bat you can tell she's a people person and an educator to the core. Formerly an HR specialist, she's now in L&D and it's obvious that's where she belongs. Give this one a listen to learn more about Meica and make sure you connect with her. You won't regret it.

Moe Ash was the guest in this episode of TLDCast and we had a bunch to talk about. Although Moe was here to talk about comics and learning design, he also covered gamification, and storytelling. But more than anything, I was impressed by his sense of creativity and how he uses it to produce effective learning. This episode is longer than our typical because as you'll see, Moe is passionate about discussing these topics and could probably go on for hours talking about what we covered. Give it a listen and you'll see what I mean.

Sion Dayson is an American voice actor based in Valencia, Spain. Specializing in eLearning and corporate narration, she has voiced projects for clients including ACUE, Ascend Learning, Blinkist, CHG Healthcare, CloudPay, LG, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Pearson, Western University of Health Sciences, and more. Sion previously worked as a writer and has taught EFL and creative writing in France and Spain. Her passions for storytelling and service make voiceover her dream career. Learn more about Sion's Intersections in Learning and Development!