Audio can enhance presentations but often complicates them due to technical issues and distractions. Effective audio should serve a clear purpose, like reinforcing key ideas or signaling transitions. Background music is challenging and can hinder […]

Summer break for teachers is supposed to be a time to relax, recharge, and temporarily forget the painful sound of crowded hallways. I’m not suggesting teachers spend their entire summer break taking courses and attending […]

Technology has permanently integrated into a countless number of professions and environments, but summer camps still fear technology interfering in their outdoor regiments. QR codes may be all you need to keep summer camp working […]

If you’ve ever built learning experiences and training modules, you’ve probably ended it with ten multiple choice questions because that’s what everybody does. Question 1. Check. Question 2. Check. Question 10. Congratulations, you’ve clicked enough […]

Teachers, trainers, camp counselors, tutors, and anyone working with children have access to thousands of online learning tools. The problem is that not all of them were designed with child privacy in mind … or […]

Instructional designers are most useful when they can make their own graphics, edit videos, build slide decks, create job aids, take screenshots, and somehow become the unofficial design department too. Tools like Canva and Adobe […]

Some only use about five Excel functions forever. SUM. AVERAGE. Maybe COUNT if they’re feeling adventurous. Excel is capable of saving people hours of work if they learn a few less obvious functions. Here are […]

A lot of schools and businesses think building a live streaming studio means having to transform a room into a NASA launch center. It really doesn’t. The two biggest purchases are usually: That’s basically the […]

K-12 teachers figured something out a long time ago: if their students are staring at a screen anyway, you might as well make it part of the lesson. That same idea works surprisingly well with […]

Managers think that workplace training needs expensive software with dramatic animations and enough buttons to launch a satellite, without even considering using free training tools. Somebody mentions Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate and suddenly a […]