Let's say your beloved project has become a total dumpster fire. What do you do? How do you handle this situation? On today's show, we will talk about steps to help you and to put out that fire.

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• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

What can you use a GPT for? Under the right circumstances, these can be fantastic to help you and your students. On today's episode, I'll share with you three real world cases for how I'm using custom GPTs.

👉 Mentioned Links:

• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

Let’s say you’re an instructional designer and you’re trying to get promoted. How do you achieve this goal? Well, there are a few ways you can go about this, and on today’s podcast, I’ll share with you 10 tips on how to get promoted as an instructional designer.

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• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

There are certain types of phrases that can trigger an instructional designer. Learning styles, using “understand” in learning objectives, cognitive overload, last minute stakeholder changes, and more are enough to drive the best instructional designer crazy. Over the years, I’ve had to channel these grievances into more productive ways with sharing best practices. But even now, there are still some things that pop up where I shake my head and pray for divine intervention. So come commiserate with me as we talk about my top three instructional design pet peeves.

👉 Mentioned Links:

• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

Are you planning on going to a learning conference soon? I just came back from D2L's Fusion and it was amazing. There were a few changes I made compared to my normal conference routine and it made a huge difference. On today's episode, you'll hear my top 5 tips on how to get the most out of your next conference.

👉 Mentioned Links:

• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

How do amazing concepts turn into disasters? Well, I can think of quite a few reasons. On today's show, you'll hear about some real-life examples and blunders about how ideas can quickly take a turn for the worse.

👉 Mentioned Links:

• Transcript and blog post

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level

• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?

• 📙 My Book

• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)

• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)

• ✍ Backwards Design Course

• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn

• 🐦 Twitter

• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy

• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace

In graphic design, web design, and user experience design, portfolios are essential, but what about instructional design? They were once considered a nice-to-have, but I think we are moving towards portfolios being required. Let's chat today about the ID landscape and why you should be thinking about a portfolio.

👉 Mentioned Links:

• Blog post for this episode
• So, you want to become an instructional designer
• How to design an instructional design portfolio
• Instructional Design Fundamentals course

👉 Recommendations:

• 🎓Take your instructional design skills to the next level
• 📚So, you want to become an instructional designer?
• 📙 My Book
• 📗The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)
• 🎤 My interview platform recommendation (Riverside)
• ✍ Backwards Design Course
• 👥 Join our Group

👉 Connect with me:

• 👨‍💼 LinkedIn
• 🐦 Twitter
• 👨‍💻 Blog

🙌 Support the Channel!

• Check out IDOL Courses Academy
• Check out my favorite LMS: Brightspace