Top Resources for Instructional Designers

So where do you send new practitioners for ideas and inspiration? Here’s a list I recently compiled for some new members on my team.

Allen Partridge Adobe Captivate Blog
For those of you who work with Captivate, you can’t miss Allen Partridge’s blog -- practical know-how with a spark.
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/author/allenp

Articulate’s Online Community
Lots of sharing of templates and ideas in the user community.
http://community.articulate.com/

Cathy Moore
Cathy Moore is a smarty-pants in the elearning community who’s got a bit of Kineo flair to her style with a real focus on “doing.” She has a process she calls “action mapping”.
http://blog.cathy-moore.com/

Clark Quinn
Clark is a man of passion and principle, admonishing us to avoid committing ID Practice and calling out the hogwash in the industry.
http://blog.learnlets.com/

Connie Malamed “The eLearning Coach”
Connie writes a lot of posts that use the word “cognitive”. She helps translate theory to practice and has also just created a great little iphone app of useful ID terms.
http://theelearningcoach.com/

ID Guru iphone App: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instructional-design-guru/id452974687?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Judy Unrein
Judy’s a big geek and I love her for that. She knows about things like HTML5 and 508 Compliance. And she’s big into tools (even has a new podcast with Brian Dusablon in which they drink beer while talking about tools: The Toolbar).
http://onehundredfortywords.com/

Kineo Website
And then there’s our very own website, chock full of case studies, interviews, free guides and loads of elearning top tips.
http://www.kineo.com/us/elearning-tips/
Be sure to subscribe to our monthly newsletter: http://www.kineo.com/us/kineo-newsletter.html

Screenr
Need design inspiration or how-to-tips for creating that really cool PowerPoint effect? Check out the screenr gallery and my personal favorite: Dave Anderson of Articulate: http://www.screenr.com/user/elearning

Tom Kuhlman’s Rapid eLearning Blog
Tom is the VP of Community at Articulate and quite a rockstar.
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

Will Thalheimer
Will helps bridge theory and research to practical application -- keeping us on our toes and inspiring us all to better practice. Although he’s been a bit quiet in the blogging world of late, rumor has it that Will is actively at work on a new book that takes a look at the research and translates it into information you can actually use.
http://www.willatworklearning.com/

Want more?
Explore Jane Hart’s ever-growing list of bloggers and tweeters.
http://c4lpt.co.uk/connexions/wpl.html