From October 24 - 26 Vegas holds DevLearn - the learning and technologies conference. DevLearn is commonly known as one of North America's favourite cutting edge conferences for technologies. Every year with fail The ELearning Guild brings outstanding keynotes, sessions and activities allowing for some serious learning and networking opportunities. This year, IDIODC goes live with Brent at the conference giving us the scoop on whats to come! Stay tuned and in the loop with #IDIODC and #DevLearn2...
Oct 24, 2018•33 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast For this special episode of #IDIODC, the gang brings on Bianca Woods. The three chat about this years upcoming and greatly anticipated Learning and Tech conference in Las Vegas, DevLearn. The three go over what's new this year and what makes DevLearn so great. Bianca Woods is Senior Manager of Programming for The eLearning Guild and the founder of Clever Raptor, an L&D design studio. With degrees in both art education and education media design & technology, she's passionate about demyst...
Oct 17, 2018•35 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee This audio cast was recorded candid and live, we apologize for technical difficulties with sound. This week we bring on another special guest from Gamification Nation, Marco Faccini to talk about VR. Currently used as one of the most modern forms of gamification and game-based learning (and just flat out gaming) in the world; virtual reality is so much more than just a shiny toy! Marco joins the IDIODC guys to showcase VR's pros on business impa...
Oct 10, 2018•32 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee While the many in the L&D industry know, it's important to use engaging forms of learning tools past the basics to maintain learner retention and performance improvement. Expand your organizations learning ecosystem with gamification! Welcome to an introduction to the basics of gamification and how you can easily use it to add more value in your learning solutions. In this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest and master ...
Oct 03, 2018•40 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris talk about leveraging the design potential of responsive design to help tell stories. Responsive design was created from a practical need to ensure that content could be accessible across all devices. More than just a solution to a problem, responsive design has actually created new opportunities to frame content and user experience – which has some very practical applications for the learning and development world. Chris and Brent will review some grea...
Sep 26, 2018•45 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee For this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Jo Cook on to discuss webinars and virtual classrooms. Both done live and over the web, virtual classrooms and webinars typically do have many similarities, but still vary greatly. Each with their own unique pros and cons, Jo and the gang will discuss the differences and what angle is best to take for learning in different situations. Jo Cook is a speaker, instructional designer ...
Sep 19, 2018•40 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this episode, Brent and Chris chat with the one and only Megan Torrance from TorranceLearning. With the xAPI Fall Cohort just getting kicked off, the three go over the ABC's of xAPI and get you a full scoop of what the xAPI Cohort is all about. (Don't need to read anymore on xAPI Fall Cohort and want to get started ASAP? Well, here's the link! https://www.torrancelearning.com/xapi-cohort/ ) The xAPI Learning Cohort is a free, vendor-neutral, ...
Sep 12, 2018•34 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Choosing an eLearning authoring tool can be tough, especially with so many options available; while trying to balance current and future needs. In this episode, we'll offer some advice on how to choose an authoring tool for you. Be sure to subscribe to the dominKnow channel for more episodes of #IDIODC - Instructional Designers in Office Drinking Coffee, where our goal is to help our peers create better eLearning content and learning experiences. https://www.youtube.com/user/dominknow Interested...
Sep 05, 2018•45 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this episode, Brent chats with Kevin Thorn from NuggetHead on comics in eLearning. When and how to use comics in eLearning and the value it adds to the learner experience. Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique custom design and development studio specializing in online learning experiences. After retiring from the US Army, Kevin pursued a career in corporate...
Jul 25, 2018•44 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee While Chris is away for this week's episode, Brent continues the conversation on Part 3: Audio in eLearning with Matt Pierce from TechSmith Academy! During this session, the two will chat about the lessons learned while creating the audio for the videos in the TechSmith Academy. Matthew Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador from TechSmith Corporation, has created videos for learning and marketing for over a decade. Matthew has been a speaker a...
Jul 18, 2018•42 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent goes live with special guest John Kissinger for a special one-on-one about voice over acting in eLearning while Chris is away. The two chat tips on how to ensure the highest quality and authenticity out of your voice. Want that tea John talks about in this session? Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Medicinals-Organic-Throat-Seasonal/dp/B0009F3POO/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1531314678&sr=...
Jul 11, 2018•34 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris bring you the first episode of the interactive, video-cast series: A Beginner's Guide to Audio for eLearning. The first topic of discussion will be specifically on recording hardware and best practices. Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Become virtual friends with the gang: Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: https://twi...
Jun 27, 2018•44 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris chat with special guest, Craig Wiggins! The three talk about IEEE. ICICLE's work on developing a definition of a "Learning Engineer" as a standard as well as its goal of supporting the development of Learning Engineering as a profession and academic discipline. Craig is the IEEE ICICLE Vice-Chair and SIG Liaison Officer. He is an accomplished ID, eLearning developer/designer and project manager. ...
Jun 20, 2018•43 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris chat with special guest Andrew Hughes! The three talk gamification vs. game-based learning. These are often used interchangeably but are very different. In this session, our hosts get to the core of what makes humans tick and why game strategies work so well in learning. Andrew Hughes is the founder and CEO of Designing Digitally, an award-winning custom eLearning developer that creates engaging content us...
Jun 13, 2018•56 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris chat with special guest Will Thalheimer, PhD! The three talk how to get a better framework for smile sheets in order to utilize the functionality and actually get valid data in return. Dr. Thalheimer brings research-based wisdom to the practice of workplace learning as the President of Work-Learning Research. Consultant, Research Translator, Author, Speaker, Instructional Designer, Writer, Advocate...
Jun 06, 2018•37 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris bring on a special guest, Shannon Tipton! The three talk about the importance of including microlearning in an organizational training setting for better learner retention, engagement and more. Shannon Tipton is CLO of Learning Rebels, an organization focused on improving business L&D through unique blended and microlearning training designs. She also is the author of her new book "Disrupt...
May 30, 2018•32 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris bring on a special guest, Sam Rogers. Recorded completely live and candid the three discuss pre and post-production for eLearning videos. Sam Rogers is the President of Snap Synapse LLC - a content production and consulting company specializing in eLearning. He is a regular contributor to #TLDCast and a speaker at events run by ATD, The eLearning Guild, Training Magazine and Learning DevCamp. Check...
May 23, 2018•41 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris chat about different apps available for editing and enhancing videos made on your mobile device. Here are the applications that Brent and Chris spoke about in this episode for easy video editing: - iMovie - IntroMate - Power Director - KineMaster - Ripl - Adobe Premiere - Adobe Premiere (Clip) - Adobe Spark - Splice - Explain Everything Want to join us live? Check out our Crowdcast: https://www.cro...
May 16, 2018•37 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Here is the link Brent and Chris spoke about: https://www.worklearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Spacing_Learning_Over_Time__March2009v1_.pdf
May 09, 2018•36 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Here are some of the products Brent and Chris spoke about: https://joby.com/gorillapod-tripods http://pakpod.com http://www.rode.com/microphones/videomicgo https://www.olloclip.com/
May 02, 2018•42 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden bring special guest Cara North on this week's episode of IDIODC to discuss the differences between eLearning in higher ed vs. organizational settings. Want to join us live? Check out our Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow
Apr 25, 2018•41 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Here is the link used in this episode: https://elearningindustry.com/microlearning-macrolearning-research-tell-us
Apr 18, 2018•38 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Here are the links used in this episode: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/oriole/gds-design-principles https://h5p.org/interactive-video#example=617 Here are the links used from dominKnow in this episode: http://dki.io/b1d0c9e0 http://dki.io/e47e516a
Apr 12, 2018•40 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Here are the links used in this episode: http://www.chickenbot.it/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-07eeeebb-d450-4e4b-98d4-755369be7855 https://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review http://www.giampierobodino.com/en/artist-jeweler/giampiero-bodino
Apr 04, 2018•44 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden go live from the Learning Solutions Expo in Orlando, Florida to talk about all the best parts of the conference and expo. Want to join us live? Check out our Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow
Mar 28, 2018•26 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden talk about the basics of xAPI and how the new tool can be applied to your eLearning using an LMS and LCMS. Want to join us live? Check out our Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow
Mar 22, 2018•36 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Here is the link used in this episode: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/three-act-formula-novels/
Mar 14, 2018•30 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Here are the links used in this episode: http://downloadtimecalculator.com http://optimizilla.com/
Mar 07, 2018•36 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee #IDIODC Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden talk about the pros and cons of audio narration in eLearning. Want to join us live? Check out our Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow
Mar 01, 2018•35 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Here is the link used in this episode: Chris mentions the Marc Rosenberg article: https://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1483/marc-my-words-from-interactivity-to-engagement
Feb 21, 2018•33 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 
