Author Archives: grrowingideas

When I created my final project, I tried to incorporate a sense of consistency and familiarity for my learners. The course itself asks the learner to go out into the wide Internet world and come back with new knowledge. I see my job is to give them the structure of a home, a safehaven. WithContinue reading “Multimedia”

The little people have returned to my home. It’s the Method of Loci, a cognitive activity that attempts to increase long-term memory by creating mental connections with vivid visuals. The premise goes that the practitioner creates a memorable image that incorporates all of the components that need to be memorized. Oftentimes these memorable images involveContinue reading “Method of Loci – Revisited”

Self: A person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others. We are all unique, aren’t we? Doesn’t the definition of “self” preach individuality? Don’t we all see and experience and digest the world around us through custom-made filters? Yes, we do. So when that unique, custom-made, individual person undertakes a learning experience, who is inContinue reading “Self”

Did I just finish my first Instructional Design project? I think I did. When I check the files in my computer and the coursework I created online, it looks as though I accomplished a goal that had seemed unattainable as recently as two weeks ago. A global pandemic had something to do with that. SoContinue reading “What Just Happened?”

I was sick for at least two weeks. Fever, cough, head and body aches, but a negative flu test. A full three weeks later, and I still have the occasional cough. My son is one week behind me, having spent time with me hours before I presented with a 102.8 fever. My husband never gotContinue reading “COVID-19”

It is March 10th, and every single day in March I have been sick. It actually started on Saturday, February 29th with a low grade fever. By the next day, I was running a 102.8, and Tylenol could only get me down to a 101.5. I went to the doctor on Monday still with theContinue reading “Staying Focused”

My title for today’s post is in German. That is because my father spoke German before he spoke English, and he truly wanted his native language to rub off on his five daughters. My father’s “Wie geht’s” didn’t just translate into a casual greeting. When he asked me, “Wie geht’s,” he truly wanted me toContinue reading “Wie Geht’s?”

For these past two weeks, I have immersed myself in the Analysis portion of ADDIE. As a newcomer to Instructional Design, I have quickly learned that ADDIE (Analysis-Design-Development-Implementation-Evaluation) is my new foundation. Barbara Bichelmeyer (2005) proclaimed what almost everyone already accepted, ADDIE is THE conceptual framework for Instructional Design. So analyze, I must. What IContinue reading ““A” is for “Analysis””

When speaking of instructional technology during its infancy days, Robert Reiser (1987) presented teaching and learning as a systematic process that supported individualized instruction. Although this definition is thirty or more years old, I agree with it today. Learning is tied to the goals and needs of the individual, and the instruction that encourages andContinue reading “My Philosophy of Learning”

It took me more than a few years to select Instructional Design as the focus of my master’s degree. During this time, I was intent upon finding a flexible career that would support my life goals when I retire from the traditional face-to-face classroom. I wanted a career that (1) used my brain, (2) couldContinue reading “Real World Instructional Design”