Episode 36: Season 2 Wrap Up

12/22/16 • 8 min

Season 2 of Dear ID is finally over! In this episode, I share some stats about my 2016 year of projects, takeways from Season 2's focus on tools and tech, and what's next for Season 3 of Dear ID. I'm sick (for the first time in forever!) but I wanted to get out this season review.

Also, a call to action for a crazy idea: If you wouldn't mind talking with me for a few episodes in Season 3, reach out!

##Books I Read This Year
(Highly Recommended, All!)

Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
Brain Rules by John Medina
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Design for Real Life by Eric Meyers and Sara Wachter-Boettcher
You're My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro

##Learning Opportunities We Learned About this Season

Torrance Learning xAPI Cohort (keep an eye out for the 2017 cohort announcement): http://www.torrancelearning.com/
Designers for Learning: http://designersforlearning.org/

##Tiny Projects I've Shipped This Year

This Podcast!
Adapt Sample Course: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/trying-out-kineo-adapt-open-source-elearning-authoring-framework/
Adapt plugin for HTML5 Games: https://www.adaptlearning.org/index.php/plugin-browser/
Google Forms Branching Scenario: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/unconventional-using-google-forms-for-text-based-branching/
xAPI Experimental Project: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/tracking-everything-in-storyline-with-xapi/
Last 7 projects for the Front-End Development Cert in Free Code Camp: https://www.freecodecamp.com/anthkris

##Tiny Games I've Shipped This Year
See most of them here: https://anthkris.itch.io/

A Bike for All Seasons (mini game in the Adapt course; created using Phaser JS)
Sweets for Sweeting (created using Construct 2)
Paleo (created using Phaser JS)
Espiritus (created using Phaser JS)

Also, a call to action for a crazy idea: If you wouldn't mind talking with me for a few episodes in Season 3, reach out!

##Books I Read This Year
(Highly Recommended, All!)

Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
Brain Rules by John Medina
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Design for Real Life by Eric Meyers and Sara Wachter-Boettcher
You're My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro

##Learning Opportunities We Learned About this Season

Torrance Learning xAPI Cohort (keep an eye out for the 2017 cohort announcement): http://www.torrancelearning.com/
Designers for Learning: http://designersforlearning.org/

##Tiny Projects I've Shipped This Year

This Podcast!
Adapt Sample Course: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/trying-out-kineo-adapt-open-source-elearning-authoring-framework/
Adapt plugin for HTML5 Games: https://www.adaptlearning.org/index.php/plugin-browser/
Google Forms Branching Scenario: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/unconventional-using-google-forms-for-text-based-branching/
xAPI Experimental Project: http://www.knanthony.com/blog/tracking-everything-in-storyline-with-xapi/
Last 7 projects for the Front-End Development Cert in Free Code Camp: https://www.freecodecamp.com/anthkris

##Tiny Games I've Shipped This Year
See most of them here: https://anthkris.itch.io/

A Bike for All Seasons (mini game in the Adapt course; created using Phaser JS)
Sweets for Sweeting (created using Construct 2)
Paleo (created using Phaser JS)
Espiritus (created using Phaser JS)

Previous Episode

Episode 35: What's Next?

In this episode, I want to gaze into the future and talk about three areas I think may be useful for other instructional design newbies looking to develop their skills or dive into a niche area: virtual and augmented reality, chatbots, and interactive video. Tons of shownotes today.

##Chatbot Examples:

Duolingo Bots: http://bots.duolingo.com/
How I Turned my Resume into a Chatbot: http://lifehacker.com/how-i-turned-my-resume-into-a-chat-bot-1775565350

##Chatbot Tools

Chatfuel: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatfuel | https://www.producthunt.com/posts/chatfuel-for-messenger
Botsify: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/botsify
Octane AI: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/octane-ai
Rebotify: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/rebotify

Interactive Video Examples

A Trip out to Sea: http://sortieenmer.archives.grouek.com/
10 Early examples of interactive YouTube videos: http://mashable.com/_#mB_pZeU3OkqE
Interactive video in Storyline: http://elearningexamples.com/interactive-video-quiz-example/
Interactive Video Quiz: https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples/storyline-interactive-video

Interactive Video Resources

WireWax: https://www.wirewax.com/staffpicks
ThinkLink: https://video.thinglink.com/
Vizia: https://vizia.co/
Playposit: https://www.playposit.com/ (OER Resource)
Hapyak: https://corp.hapyak.com/ (Up to 5 free; expensive subscription)
Make a branching video in YouTube with annotations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSYpRhd1TiM

Next Episode

Episode 37: Will You Fit into Deloitte Teardown

This episode, I try something a little different! A detailed teardown of the interactive video, Will You Fit into Deloitte?

In keeping with the theme of this season, taking a look at real projects out in the world, I'm doing a series of episodes where I take a deep dive into some interactions, videos, courses, and other learning objects to talk about what I think works, what maybe doesn't work so well, and ideas I think we can take to use in our own work.

As a part of these episodes, I'm also releasing a video version. You can check out the video teardown on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpR3BodENo

Let me know what you think and if you'd like to hear more (or less) of these!