Should You Use Audio in a Slide Deck?
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 focus. Always be prepared for failures, ensuring the presentation works without audio. Use sound judiciously to support, not overwhelm.
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Digital Skills Teachers Should Learn This Summer
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 webinars. If you’re going to try to learn something new this summer, focus on small skills that will actually save you time once September arrives.…
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QR Codes Might Be the Most Underrated Tool at Summer Camp
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 efficiently. Just because we are promoting a “device free environment” for the campers, doesn’t mean that there’s no place for technology at summer camps. A…
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Multiple Choice Is Boring: 5 Better Ways to Measure Learning
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 buttons to prove you’re a cybersecurity expert. The problem is that multiple choice questions mostly measure whether someone can recognize the right answer. In the…
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Before Allowing Children to Use an Online Tool, Read This First
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 are aware of the legal consequences their users may have to be accountable for. Before introducing a new app, website, or AI tool, there are…
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Canva or Adobe Express? Which One is Better?
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 Express can make those everyday tasks much faster and easier. Both have free and paid versions, but are the upgrades actually worth it? Let’s compare…
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