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NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
The Learning & Development industry is a vast array of many disciplines and technologies. A deeper look into each major discipline and we see an enormous amount of energy in order to learn the skills to be proficient. Looking at Instructional Design as it applies to elearning where there are many theories, models and methodologies, it that take years of practice to become proficient.
NuggetHead
JANUARY 29, 2016
Storyboarding an elearning project comes in many forms and processes and is ultimately dictated by the project itself. To that end, storyboarding is not a rule that must be included in every project, rather a process that becomes part of the workflow. The “art” in storyboarding does not refer to artistic talent or the graphic design elements of the project.
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NuggetHead
OCTOBER 3, 2011
It’s been quite the busy Summer as indicated by my lack of posting on a regular basis. In fact it was over four months ago! When I started this blog I had full intentions of writing at least every other week if not once a month. However, my increasingly growing freelance business didn’t include this [.]. Carreer Development eLearning thoughts
NuggetHead
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Back in 2013 I wrote a series of blog posts titled, Sketchnote School: 6 Steps to Great Conference Sketchnotes. Step 3 of that series is about Characters and Locations where I write about how to draw simple characters in the form of stick figures. By adjusting, moving, and positioning the sticks of a figure, they help tell a better story. Below is the sketch from that original blog post. Original 2013 sketch. Fast forward four years to 2017 when I received a random email from a reader.
Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, ELB Learning
In this fireside chat, leading L&D expert Stephen Bauer will discuss the exciting technological advancements in eLearning and how you can choose and implement the right technology for your company.
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
I picked up my first Ukulele last year and really enjoy learning how to play. A fun and elegant sounding instrument! I’m attending the Elearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo this week. Of the many concurrent sessions offered, Ellen Wagner ( @edwsonoma ), Jane Bozarth ( @janebozarth ) and Shawn Rosler ( @rosler ) are presenting – Ukulele Learning: Exploring the Relationships Between Music and Learning on two occasions.
NuggetHead
OCTOBER 6, 2015
The word efficiency resonated with me all week while attending the Elearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. This event is the industries premiere event and one I look forward to most all year. The pre-conference workshop I delivered on Monday was about being a better, efficient, elearning designer by documenting your process through storyboarding.
NuggetHead
OCTOBER 15, 2019
What happens when you push people out of their comfort zone yet put them a creative space and atmosphere? Amazing results! I couldn’t quite pin down a description of what Step Away was about, but I knew that I would learn skills that would help me in my career. Little did I know, that my mind would be blown!
NuggetHead
OCTOBER 15, 2019
What happens when you push people out of their comfort zone yet put them a creative space and atmosphere? Amazing results! I couldn’t quite pin down a description of what Step Away was about, but I knew that I would learn skills that would help me in my career. Little did I know, that my mind would be blown!
NuggetHead
AUGUST 17, 2016
Taking hundreds of photos on vacation end up in cloud storage and forgotten. A graphic record of your vacation is a perfect way to capture the entire adventure! The Problem: Growing up as a kid going on annual vacations I would always get those disposable cameras to capture the adventure. However, these little cameras usually came in 24 or 36 exposures and I could only afford two or three for the trip. Try restricting yourself to less than a 100 photos on your next vacation!
Speaker: Tim Buteyn - President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions, Inc.
In this webinar, Tim Buteyn of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions will explore how to optimize learner engagement with scenario-based training. You'll learn what makes up scenarios, how they benefit the learner, and why this is important to your organization. You'll also dive into real-world examples across a wide range of budgets and look at how typical training content can be completely transformed.
NuggetHead
DECEMBER 3, 2014
In this final step of Sketchnote School: 6 Steps to Great Conference Sketchnotes we’ll look at a few things that bring your sketches to life. The pretty stuff, as I like to call it, are those little things that draw (pun intended) attention to specific key points or add mood, tone, or general visual interest to your overall sketchnote style. Action. Adding action or movement to a sketchnote is little extra lines that take no more than a flick of your pen to create.
NuggetHead
DECEMBER 10, 2014
We take a lot of notes. We do. Take a moment and think back a week every time you jotted something down. A quick glance into memory and I’ve jotted things down on sticky notes, made a few checklists, messages in holiday cards and a few other times I remember taking pen to paper. Our handwriting. Whether it’s the multiple little notes we make on a daily basis or a concentrated sketchnote at a conference, it is our handwriting. This got me to thinking about handwritten fonts.
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
Posted in Sketchnotes This next step in the Sketchnote School series is a continuation from last week about preparing to sketchnote. You may be saying to yourself, “Self, isn’t preparing and format the same thing?” Well, yes…sort of. Format in this context is more about how your sketchonte reads rather than the physical shape and size. We’ll look […]. Sketchnotes
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Communicating visually is one of those skills many believe they can’t achieve. There are others on the interwebs and authors of books that have extensive examples, tutorials, and styles to help you get started. Even with great books like Dan Roam’s, Back of the Napkin and Mike Rohde’s book, The Sketchnote Handbook some still struggle with the idea of capturing what they see in their “mind’s eye” and transferring those concepts to paper. My Sketchbooks. This is my spin on the craft.
Speaker: Mark Stelzner - Founder & Managing Principal at IA
Join Mark Stelzner of IA as he discusses how to optimize your current HCM system and the opportunities for new tech.
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Posted in Sketchnotes Communicating visually is one of those skills many believe they can’t achieve. There are others on the interwebs and authors of books that have extensive examples, tutorials, and styles to help you get started. Even with great books like Dan Roam’s, Back of the Napkin and Mike Rohde’s book, The Sketchnote Handbook some still struggle […]. Sketchnotes sketch sketchnote
NuggetHead
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Posted in DESIGN In an earlier post I introduced a project I started this year – an Interactive Graphic Novel style Serious Comic for elearning. That’s a mouthful! It’s not really a ‘novel’ although it is a serious topic, and it’s really not elearning rather more of an awareness piece. It’s a scenario told in a graphic novel [.]. DESIGN "graphic novel" comics serious comic
NuggetHead
JANUARY 15, 2013
Posted in Uncategorized Basically, sketchnoting is doodling while you’re taking notes. I’ve been doing this ever since I got in trouble in the 2nd grade for drawing Dr. Seuss characters when I was supposed be taking a quiz. I’ve got a library of Moleskine sketch books littered all over the house today. I have one for Sketch Quotes [.]. Uncategorized sketching sketchnote
NuggetHead
AUGUST 11, 2013
Posted in Design Sketchnotes Storyboarding is part of the design process. The DESIGN process. In the elearning industry there are a lot of authoring tools from the rapid family to those that require skills in programming languages. I run a company that develops primarily in rapid tools, but I don’t develop rapid elearning and I don’t design in those […]. Design Sketchnotes sketchnote storyboard storyboarding
Speaker: Deniz Olcay, Senior Director of Product Marketing, and Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager
In this value-packed webinar, Deniz Olcay and Jake Miller will unravel and debunk the top three SCM myths and explain how to get the most from your SCM solution.
NuggetHead
MAY 19, 2015
Inspiration can strike at anytime. Inspiration struck me when I was preparing to recycle old prescription bottles. 10 minutes later a lingering problem was solved! I invested $30 about 4 years ago into a set of Logitech headphones and they’re still going strong. USB Headphones are not the easiest to put away between uses, though.
NuggetHead
JANUARY 29, 2015
There’s something about the tradition of a classic game that will forever stand the test of time. One of those games is Tic-Tac-Toe. With Super Bowl XLIX only days away I thought to myself, “Self, why not make a Super Bowl themed Tic-Tac-Toe game. So I grabbed my pencil, sketched out a strategy, opened Articulate Storyline , and several late nights later finally have a working model. Launch Game.
NuggetHead
AUGUST 25, 2015
That time of year is quickly approaching. Everything from preparing presentation slides, handouts for session attendees, travel plans, connecting and reconnecting with friends, and packing a pencil pouch for sketchnoting! The Elearning Guild’s annual DevLearn Conference & Expo is by far the industry’s leading event. With my sixth consecutive visit to this conference I got to thinking.
NuggetHead
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Sketching my notes is something I’ve been doing all my life long before it became a thing. As someone who enjoys drawing it is often a challenge to separate the difference between the skill and talent of drawing and sketching visual notes. First, sketchonting has zero to do with artistic ability. Sketchonting has everything to do with processing what one hears and making visual notes of key concepts in a hierarchical structure for immediate retention and later recall.
Speaker: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels LLC
Today's work culture requires giving people the ability to control when and where they participate in their professional development. Learn how you can provide valuable, self-directed bites of learning content (and strategies to make that content stick) in this webinar!
NuggetHead
APRIL 23, 2012
Posted in thoughts Self-talk are those silent conversations we have with ourselves. Most of the time it’s subconscious and we really don’t realize we’re talking to ourselves. I do it all the time…consciously! For the last years I’ve been having this re-occurring conversation that went something like this, “Self, I love my work I just hate my job.” [.]. thoughts inspiration
NuggetHead
JANUARY 4, 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is not just another movie to carry on the franchise, rather the rebirth of one of the largest pop cultures the world has ever seen. Okay, maybe not. Whether you are a fan or not you would have to be living on a remote beach not know the release of the latest Star Wars episode has captured the interest of the world. As an elearning designer/developer as well as an artsy guy, the creative community came alive for the arrival FN-2187 and the seemingly new Jedi, Rey.
NuggetHead
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
DevLearn is the industry’s leading annual event and every year there’s a new t-shirt to sport. All those previous years no one knew where the design came from. This year, the fine folk at the eLearning Guild decided to toss the design out to the community. The window to submit ideas was open for a few weeks and then four would be selected for final vote. The final vote then tossed back out to the community for peer selection for the winning design.
NuggetHead
JANUARY 5, 2015
Every Sunday around here is that kick back and relax kind of days. It’s a time to reflect on the previous week, and think and plan about the coming week. It’s also the day I sketch the most. Meet Gorlon. I draw or sketch daily as it is, but Sundays tend to get more time devoted to it. Some of my best work has come from lazy afternoon Sunday sketches. While this is not an official resolution, I thought I’d share my Sunday sketches this year.
Speaker: Cara North - Learning & Development Consultant, Speaker, & Researcher | Maggie Quigley - Senior Account Executive for US Market Userlane
In this webinar, L&D professionals Cara North and Maggie Quigley will discuss the various factors that affect training and how you can stretch your budget to create an effective L&D program.
NuggetHead
AUGUST 3, 2017
Join me at NuggetHead Studioz Facebook Page as I go live re-imaging the Tower of Hanoi puzzle game and then develop in Articulate Storyline. Check out this video: I teach design processes and workflows using Articulate Storyline and to keep relevant I often challenge myself to see if I can discover new techniques. I’m intrigued by the Tower of Hanoi puzzle game and thought it would be fun to re-imagine it as an online interactive game.
NuggetHead
MARCH 22, 2016
Walking out to load my bags in the car last Monday (March 14), I tapped the Weather app on my iPhone to check what to expect as I headed to Orlando for the 2016 Learning Solutions Conference & Expo. Where I stood the current temperature was nearing 70 degrees while in Orlando it was slightly cooler. That’s a first! The temperature in Orlando really didn’t matter because I knew the temperature at the conference would be high (metaphorically speaking).
NuggetHead
JUNE 24, 2015
Explaining a complex topic is often riddled with pages and pages of documentation. Usually within a few pages of that documentation things tend to split off into sub-explanations. Before too long the topics of connectivity get lost in a tangled web of confusion. It’s topics such as these that simplifying the content into storytelling and presented with light visuals and visual metaphors may be all that is needed to “get it.”
NuggetHead
AUGUST 12, 2015
The Visual Cortex is that little spot in the back of our brain where we store long-term memories and behaviors. In the learning and development industry, the focus is around visual design and can be applied to both PowerPoint presentations (classroom training) or elearning. In elearning we often add unnecessary text on screen such as, “Click the next button.”
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps genuinely engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion. In this exclusive webinar with Chris Paxton, learn how to ensure that authentic translation and localization work for your organization!
NuggetHead
MARCH 31, 2013
Posted in DESIGN I can’t believe it’s been a month and a half since I last posted about this project. It’s been a crazy time with traveling to a couple conferences and keeping pace with this development. My next post was going to be about how to storyboard a serious comic, but a lot has changed in the [.]. DESIGN "graphic novel" comics
NuggetHead
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
Inspiration. That single word sums up my experience at DevLearn 2011. I was inspired by the passion of the attending audience. I was inspired by the general consensus of the vendors truly working hard to bring us the services, tools, and technologies we need. I was inspired by all the really smart people in one [.]. Design inspiration
NuggetHead
JANUARY 1, 2015
It’s that time of year where just about everywhere you look or read it’s reflecting on the year’s end. The best of…, The top this or that…, # things to make next year better…, and more. It’s a time of renew. A time to look back and reflect while re-energize going forward. Reflection: Life is a balancing act both personally and professionally. Sometimes it’s hard. As an independent contractor, both those lives intertwine almost on a daily basis.
NuggetHead
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The annual Elearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo was recently held on November 18-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada. DevLearn is the premiere event in the Learning & Development industry and one I anticipate the most. Three days of learning together with friends and colleagues by discovering new techniques, products and innovative technologies. DevLearn is also a great place to practice your sketchnotes!
Speaker: David Kelly - CEO The Learning Guild & Luke Talbot - Chief Product Officer at Userlane
During this webinar, you will learn how to streamline your software training, boost ROI for your systems, and increase employee productivity.
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