Instructional Design Job Opportunities and Eportfolios

 

Summer Online Classes with Openings Featured Certificates Featured Resources - ID Job Opportunities and Eportfolios Editor: Dennis O’Connor I have enjoyed being your editor. Since this is my last edition of Tech Tips, I want to say how grateful I am to Joan Vandervelde for the 20 years of learning and teaching we have shared. This e-newsletter is brought to you by University of Wisconsin-Stout College of Education, Hospitality, Health, and Human Sciences. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please see instructions to manage preferences at the bottom of this message. Featured Online Certificates Invest in your career with a certificate, certification, or specialization from UW-Stout. "Certificates are the fastest-growing form of post-secondary credentials." (Chronicle of Higher Education) Instructional Design - Begin on May 3 Math Specialist - Begin June 7 Reading Teacher - Begin June 1 Register Soon

Summer Class Start Dates Online Course List If you need a copy of the syllabus for your employer to approve enrollment in a course, email: vanderveldej@uwstout.edu Phone: 715-642-0209 Register Now! Our Favorite Rubrics Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment Dates to Remember July 18, 2021 - Summer Tuition Due

Tech Tip: Great On-Demand Video Training LinkedIn Learning All registered UW-Stout students get full access to LinkedIn Learning. Learn essential technologies. Earn completion certificates to document your skills.  LinkedIn Group UW-Stout Certificate Programs: E-Learning and Online Teaching + Instructional Design  Current and former UW-Stout students can join our group for job leads, tips, and networking. Featured Resources - How to Create an Eportfolio 30+ Ideas for Portfolios - Samples As always, Christy Tucker delivers what she promises "...use this list to jump-start your brainstorming". Key takeaways: Revise Existing Work, Use Short Samples, Focus on Your Intended Audience. Plus all the promised samples and more. It pays to listen to Christy.   How to Create an Instructional Design Portfolio that Makes You Shine Helen Colman's step-by-step advice "is for novice IDs looking to create their online portfolio and seasoned IDs who still don't have a portfolio." Here's What Needs to be in Your E-Learning Portfolio Wondering why you need a portfolio? Tom Kuhlmann's classic post explains it all. Here are five things every instructional designer needs to showcase. Tom's advice never gets old. Portfolio This is the ultimate 'show what you know' portfolio. As you'll see, Devlin Peck knows a lot! Multiple examples of instructional design work from a polished professional.  Careers in Instructional Design Breaking Into The Industry: Become An Instructional Designer And Master The LXD Fundamentals If you are ready to take the first step in LXD (learning experience design), here's a head start from Christopher Pappas, a prominent voice in the industry.   Video: From Instructional Design to Learning Experience Design Luke Kempski's three-minute video with instructional design practitioner Connie Malamed provides a quick shot of wisdom and perspective. Worth the time!  Video: How to Become an Instructional Designer in 2021 Devlin Peck delivers on this promise, "Do you want to become an instructional designer? In this video, I show you exactly what you need to learn and give some step-by-step tips for how to land an instructional design job." Finding Instructional Design Job Opportunities Tips:  Be prepared with fresh resumes and up-to-date portfolios Create an account and set up alerts on at least two systems. Apply immediately to jobs of interest Carefully follow the directions on applications. Personalize every application. One size does not fit all. Regularly update and refresh your job-seeking accounts. USAJobs USAJobs is the front door for jobs in the Federal Government. When applying for positions on USAJobs, use the exact wording from the job posting in your resume. Follow the directions and formats precisely as written. Applications are initially scanned by computers looking for keyword matches. Once you get past the computer, a human will review your resume and refer you to the appropriate decision-makers. The following codes will get you started. 1750 series Instructional Designers/Instructional Systems Designers 1700 series Federal Training and Education-related Positions LinkedIn Keep in mind that developing your career is more than just finding a job. The best work comes from the personal and professional networks you form. It is wise to create a social media-based network using LI. The job-seeking and application process is complex in general, and more so on LinkedIn.  Indeed Considered by many to be the best job board, Indeed gathers job listings from many other job sites. Since employers can list jobs for free, Indeed will have jobs not found on other services. More jobs mean more opportunity, but you must find the needle in a vast haystack.  Indeed has extensive help sections, but sometimes a brief overview article is best.   How to Apply for a Job on Indeed.com  HigherEdJobs.com  This site was established in 1996 and is widely used by academic institutions to post instructional design jobs. They provide excellent advanced search features with Online/Remote and Location/Bound filters.  Take the time to create the free job seeker account. Consider the paid resume and cv options.

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Spring Online Courses January Online Class Start Dates Congratulations Michael Wildman Featured Course – Teaching Online Featured Resources - Tips to Make Video Conferencing Easier Editor: Dennis O’Connor This e-newsletter is brought to you by University of Wisconsin-Stout College of Education, Hospitality, Health, and Human Sciences. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please see instructions to manage preferences at the bottom of this message. Featured Online Course Are you looking for new strategies to make online teaching easier? EDUC 760 Elearning for Educators Register Soon Our Students Say: "The advice I received and the skills I learned while completing the E-Learning and Online Teaching courses have been invaluable. With the pandemic changes, I find myself applying what I have learned almost daily. Thank you, UW-Stout!" ~Judith R Corcoran, RN, MSN, CNE, Associate Professor of Nursing Moraine Valley Community College. Congratulations, Michael Wildman Instructional design certificate boosts recent graduate's career! Less than half a year after supplementing his education with a certificate, Michael Wildman sees big dividends. In May, he finished work on the instructional design certificate, which consists of four classes. Not long after that, he was promoted to program designer at Olive Tree Arts Network, where he has worked since 2018. Are You Using These Video Conferencing Tips?   Questions About Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences? We've Got Answers  Sometimes it takes a teacher to help a teacher. Jill Staake provides field-tested advice from teachers who know how to structure a virtual parent conference.  You'll find great ideas on scheduling, orienting parents to the online setting, how to share student work, and how to manage the actual conference. Want more? For a grab-bag of templates and checklists, try Virtual-Parent Teacher Conferences on Pinterest. Strategies to Encourage Students to Turn Their Cameras On Are some of your students camera shy? When it comes to Cameras On, do you have a community or compliance approach? Liz Byron Loya's article unpacks the social and emotional benefits of how you go about camera use in your online classroom.   To build a safe learning environment, consider surveying students about their concerns, use visual voting, try a video meet and greet in the waiting room 5 minutes before class, play Zoom games, encouraging students to create their videos. The suggestions will help shy or reluctant learners to find their comfort zone. Podcast: How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance  In this 12 minute podcast, Vicki Davis interviews Aaron Johnson, author of Online Teaching with Zoom.  Johnson shares research verified tips to engage your students. He suggests using 1-minute active learning tasks like polls as a quick way to chunk instruction and keep students focused. Vicki provides value-added tips and resources throughout the interview. This podcast is packed with good ideas, don't miss it. Edutopia: Why Teaching Kindergarten Online Is So Very, Very Hard It's a tough road for kindergarteners and their teachers, but great efforts are being made. Marva Hinton shares advice from great teachers, including keeping it simple and consistent, listening to parents' concerns, and checking in with daily emails to help parents be ready for the next day.  Here you'll also find suggestions for teaching the all-important social and emotional skills that make kindergarten so important. For some little kid fun, try 10 Zoom Meeting Activities for Distance Learning. Zoom for Education: Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions  Even if you think you know it all (or are sure you don't), read this. You'll find something that sticks. Here you'll find answers to questions about best practices, security, taking attendance, breakout rooms, screen sharing, annotations, and mobile. It starts with this question: Should I use Zoom Meetings or Zoom Video Webinars to host a class? Which fits you?

Register Today January 2021 Online Course List Online Course List If you need a copy of the syllabus for your employer to approve enrollment in a course, email: vanderveldej@uwstout.edu Phone: 715-642-0209 Register Now! Our Favorite Rubrics Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment Dates to Remember Spring Tuition Due Date March 3, 2021 - 100% Tuition Due Tech Tip:  Civic Online Reasoning Thanks to Karla Legget for sharing this resource. "Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world."

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Instructional design certificate boosts a recent graduate’s career

 Michael Wildman named an emerging leader

Less than half a year after supplementing his education with a certificate at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Michael Wildman is seeing big dividends.

In May he finished work on the instructional design certificate, which consists of four classes. Not long after that, he was promoted to program designer at Olive Tree Arts Network, where he has worked since 2018.  More...

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Tips for Making Group Projects Work

 

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EDUC 651 Project-based Learning in the Flipped Classroom

Our Students Say

"You have opened my eyes to a whole new way to run my classroom, a better way for the students to learn."

~ Denise Tufts, Greene, Maine

"I needn't limit myself to students watching videos at home and working in small groups in class. Instead, I can assist students in uncovering the concepts outside the classroom and use them in various classroom activities. The variety of possible activities is limitless."

~ Jennifer Belanger, Math Teacher, Douglas, Massachusetts

EDUC 760 E-Learning for Educators

"The instructor is an excellent example of an online educator, and I will take this experience and attempt to mirror it in my future teaching."

"Her style of using YouTube videos for visual instruction was very helpful."

Making Group Projects Work

The 5 Students You Meet in Group Projects

Elizabeth Hoyt’s article sorts out group work personality types while offering helpful suggestions on how to cope with the quirks of student performance.

Online Students Don't Have to Work Solo

Mark Liberman explains how well-designed online group work helps students learn the curriculum while they practice essential real-world productive collaboration skills.

How to Run Effective Group Projects in Online Education

Laura Lynch’s job-oriented article emphasizes the value of online group projects to simulate 'real-life work scenarios' that demand both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration skills.  

Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work

Are you looking for well a well-produced round-up of video series tips on group work? You found it. Scroll down the page for a set of thoughtful articles about this complex topic.

Four Ways to Structure a Winning Elearning Production Team

Kirsite Greany provides spot-on advice for Instructional Design teams tasked with creating elearning content. The emphasis is on defining and matching a team member's skills with the necessary roles needed to get the job done.

Three Ways to Improve Your Group Work Lesson Plan

Jeff Knutson describes the importance of restructuring student roles into interdependent shared ownership experiences to transform group work into true teamwork.

Teamwork and Group Project Rubrics

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75 Digital Tools and Apps Teachers Can Use to Support Formative Assessment in the Classroom

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EDUC 762 Assessment in E-learning

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"Going through each piece for the final project has given me the opportunity to see how much I have changed from formal, traditional assessments to much more authentic learning activities and hands-on assessments."
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EDUC 648 Math Assessment for Response to Intervention (RtI)

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"I enjoyed the readings and applying the lessons to actual tasks like administering the CBMs to a live volunteer and the practice scoring, graphing and analyzing the results. The assignments were not busy work and provided a great example of how to use the assessments in our classrooms."

Rubrics

Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment.
Learn more about rubrics and alternative assessments. Find what you need by exploring dozens of categories and rubric examples

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything: Assessment Rubrics  
Rubrics, especially those that are revised as you use them, age very well.  Kathy Schrock gives us a deep archive of rubrics that she updates regularly.

Video Project Rubric
UW-Stout's most popular rubric. Includes design, production quality, and captioning.  

Elementary Teamwork Rubric
Help your kids understand assessment criteria as they work together on end of the year projects.

Online Discussion Rubric
This rubric describes practices in the online classroom. Here you’ll find well-crafted criteria for Critical Analysis, Community Participation, Etiquette, and Quality of Writing.

EPortfolio (Digital Portfolio) Rubric
What makes an exemplary EPortfolio? This rubric will show you the way.

Game Rubric: Assessing Student Learning in Virtual Simulations and Serious Games
A grading rubric created by Ann Bell with six performance criteria.

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Show Me, don't tell me: Quick Rubric Video Tutorial from Richard Byrne

Byrne demonstrates how to use the free online tool Quick Rubric in a five-minute video.

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Instructional Design Careers - Time for a new job?

 

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Start or advance your career as an Instructional Designer, Content Developer, Instructional Technologist, Elearning Designer and Project Manager, Training and Learning Developer or Coordinator, and many other positions in both for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Our Students Say

"I did a lot of research comparing different ID programs across the country, and I am grateful that I found this program."

~ Nicole Michelon, Norfolk, Virginia

"I got a job ... a great job as an instructional designer, and it is all because of you. I have accepted a position with a prestigious federal employer. Wow, I never would have had the confidence to pursue this position without your invisible support."

~ Cally Mervine, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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Instructional Design Careers

Trends in Hiring Instructional Designers: UW-Stout Instructional Design Career Center

Check here for current salary reports and job hunting advice. This page is part of a comprehensive ID career center created for UW-Stout students and open to all.

How to Break into Instructional Design

Mark Lieberman’s article from #Inside Digital Learning is rich in resources and hyperlinks. You will find insightful tips and early career advice from instructional designers working in higher education.

Is Instructional Design the Right Career?

Christy Tucker made the transition from high school teacher to a career as a highly successful instructional designer. She describes what it takes to make a move to instructional design. There are dozens of on-point articles to browse on Christy’s Experiencing Elearning blog.

Former Teacher Success Stories: Other Jobs for Teachers

Kari Kinesly shares many stimulating videos and interviews to discover. Success stories may help you find your way. You can also share your journey. Consider it.

Do You Need an Instructional Design Degree?

Tom Kuhlmann’s insights on the “back to school, or not” issue are grounded in real-world experience. His Rapid E-Learning Blog is rich in industry wisdom. You will also find a deep archive, including recent information on all E-Learning topics.

How I became an Instructional Designer: Interview with Xanthe

Xanthe Lawson’s career life story is fascinating. Her path from rural Australia to international instructional design resonates for all who desire to find their way as they learn.

How to Become an Instructional Designer by eLearning Industry

This eBook features ‘How I got here...’ stories from 24 accomplished instructional designers. Each designer shares tips, tricks, and insights about the job and art of instructional design. Read the book online, or sign up via LinkedIn with The eLearning Industry’s Network to download the book.

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