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Creating Interactive Scenarios in Twine
It has been almost three years since my Fulbright journey concluded. Upon my return to Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Petropavl,...


Week 13. Feedback and Iteration
As an instructor and designer, I agree that feedback is a powerful tool that helps create great content that is tailored to end-user's...


Week 12. Designing for Environments
Given a task of creating a list of the most common characteristics of formal learning, every educator would probably include the...


Week 11. Designing for Habit
If you think about teaching foreign languages, it becomes clear that mastering a foreign language has a lot in common with developing a...


Week 10. Designing for Knowledge
As Julie Dirksen (2016) states, "a lot of times learners already have some knowledge of a topic". If we go back to Bloom's taxonomy and...


Week 9. Design for Education
According to G. Cox (2005) design links creativity and innovations. As educators, we always try to improve the quality of the materials...


Week 8. Empathy
When we talk about the differences between knowledge and understanding it is important to know that understanding is "Multidimensional...


Week 7. Why assessment and feedback matter
Assessment is a powerful tool that can be utilized to improve learning experiences. I am a proponent of implementing assessment practices...


Week 6. The week that was lost
As a graduate student, you get used to counting time in weeks at some point. Moving on from one big assignment to another definitely...


Week 5. Crumbs & Whiskers
"Whenever you are designing a learning experience, it's critical to have clear goals defined" (Dirksen, 2016) I would say here that it is...


Week 4. Engaging the Elephant
This week has been mostly about learning new things which have always been exciting for me. Discovering more facts about the processes...


Week 3. Fun and exhaustion
Today's week was all about practicing the Pomodoro Technique. I was trying to follow the advice on maximizing your work efficiency....


Week 2. Salt Lake City moments
Last week was overloaded with new information, emotions, and impressions. I was just as concerned about my memory capacity as I had been...


Week 1. Is it easy to be grateful? Let's try!
Welcome to my journey in Instructional Design. There are 14 weeks ahead when I will be writing short reflections on what I learn as an...


Practice your grammar
Learning English grammar can be exciting! Check out this fun game


TOEFL can be fun
Learn some helpful tips that can help plan your preparation better


Why now?
I believe there are hundreds of thousands of young people asking themselves who they are at this very moment. It is never too late to...


Welcome to Bethlehem
Got to know Bethlehem a little better before beginning my studies
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