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Think Like An Instructional Designer – IA Summit 2010
Posted by Todd Toler in Interaction Design on April 10th, 2010
I’m in Phoenix this weekend for the IA Summit 2010 – which is organized by the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) and is one of the major national get-togethers for Information Architects and User Experience Designers. I’m not sure if there is a distinction between the two titles anymore, but from what I hear this is the first IA Summit in years not to have a session on what to call ourselves in this profession – so that’s progress I suppose. Did you know that Wiley publishes the journal of ASIS&T? This is my first IA Summit and I was pleased to be a presenter. My talk, “Think Like an Instructional Designer,” was inspired by the fact that e-learning professionals and interaction designers are in silo’d professions. The two fields rarely work together and get a chance to learn each other’s theoretical frameworks. Yet all interaction designers face instructional design challenges everyday, and learning theories can be used to make more persuasive, better converting interactive experiences. Think of e-learning as “everyday” learning.
Zooming in on Prezi: A Review
Posted by Todd Toler in Reviews on July 21st, 2009
The Prezi Menu
PowerPoint slide shows are like commercial jet aircraft– ubiquitous in business life, but with technology that hasn’t seemed to budge in decades. As a communication medium, PowerPoint is one of the great corrupting influences for those of us who trade in the office arts. It’s the junky sit-com of authoring environments, with it’s crammed toolbars full of lazy visualizations and transitions, text distorters, prix fixe layouts and color schemes, royalty free clip-art hokum and assorted other information-free nonsense. Its worst trait of all is more fundamental – that it constrains our ideas to the slide as the uniformly sized chunk of information. Once we commit to dealing in slides, we take an immediate hit on our mental agility and the level of focus we bring to the simple act of conveying our ideas.
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