THIS truthiness is precisely what I needed.. Family members are urging me to retire early from the 9 to 5 and become a consultant, in part because my new boss is toxic, but mostly because they have read outright falsehoods on LinkedIn regarding freelance instructional design. I am grateful to your for this and your other videos generously sharing your rich experience.
Good video but it would be really useful if you showed Rise content as you described how to use it in a way that 'doesn't suck'. Since it's a visual medium, it's essential to see the product as your describe it.
PS - TODAY - I like a more focused gig, micro-interactions, come back for more. I help more people very efficiently, get half upfront and half when done. And something by a rate / hours to sustain minimal income needs. 15 years in the ball of yarn!
I'm working on my BA design thesis and my mentors are torturing me!!! They kept on insisting their ideas on me. Tough because I'm getting feedback from 5 mentors who all have different ideas and expectations. At this point of confusion: I will ignore them, do what I believe is best for me, and defend my thesis. Whatever the outcome is so be it.
Thanks for this descriptive video on how to create an interactive story. I was confused about the structure beforehand but your video was simple and easy to understand thankyou.
I really liked this ice breaker, Anna. Thanks for sharing it. Before starting, I think I would ask them to place bets on themselves on whether or not they could accomplish it. Might make for an interesting conversation about goal setting.
Really, you got jokes on disease riddled countries, aka poor, underprivileged citizens of the world. You my 'friend' are disgusting to say the least. Apologies are unnecessary. Do better
How do you change that which you cannot measure? Define “attitude” such that someone can objectively measure it before and after an intervention. (Trick request. You can’t, you can only define a behavior.)
Thought I'd share my key takeaway. “ACME” (Anna’s framework reframed) Active learning, collaboration, mastery, engagement. Active Learning is evoking personalized meaning making (encouraging the relating of prior experience and valued personal interests to the current learning objectives) Collaboration is creating perspective generating opportunities (Evoke empathy through recognizing other ways of understanding - deictic frames - the context, both the independent and dependent variables one can act on, the frames of relating and options for responding, and the potential consequences of action alternatives) Mastery is about using multiple exemplar training (simple to complex - an email, an interactive story, a zoom session, a workshop, a job aid, each reinforcing the same core lesson and accessable when sought out) and evoking a willingness to fail appropriately into the action needs of the moment. (creating safe-to-fail opportunities) Engagement as empowerment. Providing a sense of control within the learning environment/experience. (Evoking the agency of the learner - echoes of Self-Determination Theory)
“Multiple Exemplar Training” to assist in: recognizing a context, attending to the variables present in the context, considering the framing options for understanding and responding, understanding the possible consequences of those responses and how they change the context.
I like how you presented this! I really struggle not overwhelming my students and spending far too much time on feedback. Do you have any strategies to help yourself ignore other mistakes that are not the primary focus?
I've used Rise to create workforce training. What I find challenging is how do I leverage this tool for systems training. Also, I would love to hear your thoughts on how to make writing "conversational" if one has to teach someone how to perform a bunch of tasks on a software system. I can relate to this in the context of interactive storytelling and scenarios but how can I make writing sound more "human" and less like a cyborg when creating technical training!
This was helpful. I use Adobe Captivate and iSpring. I am also a video editor, and I am considering Articulate. After a while, one gets overwhelmed with software programs.
I'm gonna my first scenario, never done it before, for my new open world VR (virtual reality). The theme is disconnection but I need a scenario for my composer to have a guide for them to write music. Any video recommendations of your own? Because you have so much content lolz. It's great but i'd love your recommendation.
please do show us how to take rise to the next level, especially design-wise. I feel most courses look the exact same... (though I know, of course, that looks arent what matter most in learning... )
Anna, I read down thru the comments, and I gotta say, I admire your integrity as well as your willingness to mentor. Thank you for all you do here; I'm learning tremendously from you. Have a great 2023!
Love this, and will come back and review more than once. I'm currently reading The 4 Kirkpatrick Levels, and what you said at 3:00 resonates with me. So much training I've experienced never exceeded Level 2, never reinforced, and was often supplanted by something else within a couple of years..ultimately meaningless. So, yeah. And props to you for the Jim Rohn reference! :-)
Hi Anna - thanks so much for making this video - I've been on the brink of jumping into freelance and have been hesitant for all of these reasons (I still am a little reluctant) but your insights have allowed me to incorporate some different thinking into my business planning. What bigger/better problem can i help solve and focus my thinking on but my own? Thanks so much!
I like the video Anna. Only writing because you asked for feedback. In inserting my own take, I think I'd point out the roof as being kin to Frank Lloyd Wright's design, it is not necessarily NOT structurally sound, just creative, the rain would run off appropriately.....I like to find a positive first when supplying feedback that might be seen as negative in the student's eyes. Then I'd probably ask the student to look up what type of birds would use a house with this size hole, to make sure we're drawing the bird they (the student) wants to attract. The student would then find their error on their own and/or maybe choose the bird they'd like to have use their birdhouse and adjust the size of the hole without the teacher even mentioning the danger of a squirrel or how it might be a bit too big. (Plus bonus, they learn a little about birds!). After that in talking about how the rain would roll off of the existing very creative and abstract style roof, the discussion about how wood can absorb water needs to be addressed and suggestions for treating it can ensue.
Thank you for the information!! You mentioned using GSuite and the Google alternatives to MS Office. I'm new(ish) to Instructional Design so forgive the lack of awareness on my behalf, but do you not need Microsoft Powerpoint or do you do without PowerPoint and strictly use the Google alternative? I was making a general assumption that I'd need Powerpoint because if I made something in the Google alternative or Keynote that my stakeholders would have issues with incompatibility. So I'm guessing you've not yet encountered that and maybe it's not a concern..?
