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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Learn how to transform your unique perspective into helpful content to develop thought leadership as a learning professional.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Repost from LinkedIn. I've noticed that you can overcome the discomfort of posting about your work or your ideas by ensuring that what you have to say has value and will help others. Being willing to serve the greater community results in becoming more visible. It's a win-win.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Remember chain emails? Caitlan Dewey asked the writers of her 7 favorite newsletters what their favorites were. Then she asked the writers of those newsletters the same question and on and on. See her newsletter. HT Dave Gray > linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/your-favor...

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Your favorite newsletter’s favorite newsletters

A chain-letter love note to an expanding multiverse

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

You would never distribute a survey without testing it, right? But your friend does. This short video will tell your friend how to test it so they get the data they're looking for > www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltob...

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3 Ways to Test Your Survey

YouTube video by NNgroup

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I got very curious about curiosity recently and slogged through a lot of research articles to find relevant tidbits. I found lots of strategies to spark curiosity in adult learners > theelearningcoach.com/elearning_de...

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Perhaps the most important aspect of productivity is working with greater intention. I love to research this stuff and found the 52/17 rule, the Zeigarnik Effect and 7 more > theelearningcoach.com/business/how...

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

One of the most important topics in visual design for learning design is organizing graphic space. We never want our designs to interfere with learning. How can you organize graphic space and the information within that space?

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The Picture Superiority Effect states that pictures are remembered better than words. Under many conditions, pictures ARE more easily recognized and recalled than words (such as for concrete visuals).

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I think that the theories of bottom-up and top-down processing do well in explaining how we process visual (and other sense-based) information.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

When we design slides or pages for eLearning and presentations, we typically don't have much time to make each one a masterpiece.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Not all instructional designers realize that sketching is another way to think. It's problem-solving in action. With a simple vocabulary of lines, shapes, arrows and stick figures, you can explore lots of design ideas. In the act of sketching, you may notice new possibilities.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

At least one shade of gray always has a place in my palette. 1. Gray is neutral 2. Gray supports the focal point 3. Gray has many variations 4. Gray calms down busy designs 5. Gray fits with most styles Five more reasons here > theelearningcoach.com/elearning_de...

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Educational Technology is another path into the world of becoming a learning professional. Matt Campbell explains the field and how to break in > theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/86/

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Surprising Variety of Careers in Educational Technology

Ed Tech specialist, Matt Campbell, explains how the variety of careers in Educational Technology, the varied roles, and how to get started.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Educational Technology is a career path into instructional design and related roles. I recently spoke with Matt Campbell, ed tech consultant on The eLearning Coach Podcast > theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/86/

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Have you been to this site for silly fun or fun silliness or inspirational game ideas? Neal.fun

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Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff.

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Connie Malamed @elearningcoach.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

To identify tools for the visual design of eLearning, slides, and print materials, I broke the process into stages and suggest tools for each phase. Any additions welcome > theelearningcoach.com/media/visual...

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