My middle daughter is five years old and is outgrowing her socks. As with most families, we have a resident sock ghoul who hides them and makes them disappear for weeks at a time, only to reappear in random locations – amongst the Goldfish cracker crumbs on the floor of the
With learning experience design (LXD), you are encouraged to create learning objectives that help learners change their behavior. I've talked about Terminal and Enabling learning objectives before but when I said those were the only two types of learning objectives, I was wrong. There aren't any.
One production tip I implemented recently I got from my team at Pluralsight was something I had never thought of. Exporting my PowerPoint as a MP4 video. 🤯 That way, you can easily keep it updated, and video editing software can handle replacing it in place. Before, I was recording the
My latest course on React performance is my first time doing live video. Here's the course introduction that I iterated on until I got my set up in order: 0:00 /1:15 1× I have to admit, it's a pain – and if someone asked me,
When I say "course" you say...? "Video!" But a course is just format and structure (with learning objectives) – the implementation could be through email, podcast, Slack messages, video, or... docs. For a dev tools docs site which is chock full of written content, one idea for
At the end of a video, how can you drive people to take action? After all, for videos you post on YouTube, you are hoping to get people to go visit your product and use the dang thing. Unfortunately, most videos end with... nothing. No call to action, no next
