Hello, World!
Welcome to my blog. It is here that I hope to capture the things I’ve learned while working as an instructional designer. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that sometimes I will learn about a great and useful thing (a book! a strategy! a video!) but then, after using the thing, forget all about it. This blog helps me remember.
A few notes:
Grammar. Because it is my blog, I will be using my style guide. There will, for example, be more exclamation points than is reasonable. I will use contractions because I find them useful. And I will allow for the occasional comma splice and sentence fragment because it allows me to write closer to how I talk (awkward pauses and all.)
Content: I come from an interdisciplinary background. I started in academia as a researcher and adjunct professor. Then I shifted to doing instructional design in the private sector. In all my roles in any setting, I asked the question: what works? Sometimes the answer came from an academic study. Sometimes a podcast. I’ve recently found great wisdom in Abbott Elementary. The right strategy can come from an unconventional place. It’s part of the fun.
Audience: I am writing down the things I don’t want to forget. If I could go back in time and tell my instructional design self anything, it would be the things in these blog posts. So I guess I’m writing to my nascent instructional design self. If you too have an instructional design self, whether nascent or experienced, I think you’ll find something here to like.
Ah! Yes! The title. I work for tech company at the moment. It is full of web developers. In the tech space (and maybe in the internet space?) “Hello, World!” signals the beginning of creation. A creation that will be language-filled and complicated, and will hopefully do something one day.
Thank you for reading!