Lindsay O'Neill Consulting
H5P is an elearning game-changer. Previously, interactive lessons were only possible with expensive and proprietary software, “freemium” online platforms that come and go like the wind, or advanced HTML and Javascript programming knowledge. Now, H5P allows anyone to create advanced and instructionally sound interactive online lessons from within the web browser. Lessons can be downloaded, […]
I’m presenting at TCC Online Conference 2018! Digital Badges Exposed is a 45-minute session at 4 pm Hawaii/7 pm Pacific/10 pm Eastern. Program Description Our academic library’s tutorials program has dramatically scaled up the number of students that receive basic library instruction without requiring any additional librarian time beyond development and maintenance. This program gives […]
This webinar featured 20 amazing applications for educators. We covered apps that increase student engagement, apps for you (and your students!) to create your own instructional media, and productivity apps to keep you focused and organized. All of the featured apps are free and cross-platform. Presentation sponsored by ALA University Libraries Section. View the […]
Updated 2025! Instructional design competencies as requirements in library job postings are commonplace! Just as instructional design has grown, more librarians are being asked to be familiar with instructional design models and principles. I always encourage librarians to learn more about instructional design! I love being an instructional designer and eLearning developer and think these […]
I’m presenting at ACRL and ER&L 2017! My presentations are about my Spark Tutorials project and the technology needed to make digital badges happen. Both my slides and my handouts are licensed as CC-BY-4.0. You are welcome to download them, reuse them, redistribute them, etc., as long as you give me attribution. A three-part recording […]
Head to ACRL next week? I am! I’m excited to be presenting both a webcast and a TechConnect presentation. This will be my first ACRL presentations! Interested in scaling up your instruction by going online? Thinking about launching your own badges program? I love it when conferences offer “tracks” of programs on a given topic. […]
It’s not often that I get awards, so I hope you’ll forgive me for being super excited to share that I was recognized at my campus’ recent Honor an Educator event! It’s an annual fundraiser put on by the California State University, Fullerton, College of Education. I was nominated by the director of the Master […]
New to eLearning Development? Read this first! I love Camtasia! I use it regularly for anything from simple screen recordings to long informational videos. All of the videos on my YouTube Channel were created with Camtasia. Camtasia is a video editing program, but you can create surprisingly robust interactive mini-courses using its hotspots feature. Whether […]
New to eLearning Development? Read this first! Adobe Captivate 9 is very powerful authoring software. It’s also very challenging to learn. Sure, you can easily pick up how to do screen recordings, but to create interactive tutorials you’re going to have to roll up your sleeves! Captivate is similar to Storyline, but it does not […]
New to eLearning Development? Read this first! I love Storyline! It’s the authoring software I use most often. I used it for creating the Spark Tutorials and for several of the items in my Portfolio. Storyline is fairly easy to learn. Because it’s similar to PowerPoint, you can use Storyline to make something as simple […]
So you’ve built an eLearning course – congratulations! Now, you want to give your learners access via the open web. (If you want to host it on an LMS, that’s a whole ‘nother topic!). Maybe you’re building your portfolio, maybe you want the SME to review it, maybe you just really enjoy building tutorials and […]
I love developing eLearning! It’s one of my favorite parts of my job. I developed my first Camtasia video as a library intern, and then dove deep into Camtasia, Storyline, and Adobe Captivate as a student in my master of educational technology program. Now, I use Camtasia and Storyline regularly to design info lit and […]
As an Instructional Design Librarian I get asked periodically for my job description. (I’m trendy!) Since I started this job, I’ve been curious what other ID Librarians do, so I collect job postings as I see them, and I also Tweet out any ID-related librarian job postings that I see. You can download a zip […]
I’m now halfway through my third year as an Instructional Design Librarian! This is officially the longest I’ve ever held a single job. This is also the first time I think of my stay here in terms of which year I’m in as a result of the tenure-track process. I had to turn in my […]
Halfway through last year, a directive from the Cal State Fullerton Provost filtered down the ranks to me, the Instructional Design Librarian: Develop a 10-minute library tutorial that all freshmen will be required to complete. For such a short sentence, it sure turned into a large project. For starters, a 10-minute tutorial could never be […]
I attended Library Instruction West last week: June 8-10, 2016 in Salt Lake City! It was a fantastic conference, I had lots of interesting conversations with awesome people. Here are my biggest takeaways by day and session: Thursday, June 8 Keynote: Dr. Donna Lanclos Dr. Lanclos said that she is an anthropologist that studies higher ed. […]
Last year LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com, the go-to subscription video service that teaches software, design, and more. Since the purchase, LinkedIn has been doing a lot to increase the value to users of both companies by integrating their best features. Now, LinkedIn users can complete one of 53 “Learning Pathways” on Lynda.com and display their achievement on their […]
I attended Library Technology Conference last week: March 16-17, 2016 in Saint Paul, Minnesota! The TL;DR: it was SO WORTH flying out from California. I Tweeted (#LTC2016), and talked, and discussed, and I even presented. The company was good, the food was good, the presenters were awesome. Here are my biggest takeaways by day and session: […]
Learn about our eLearning efforts at Pollak Library, and how we can scale up our instruction and impact without using more librarian time. I originally prepared this presentation for a library meeting.
So – since 2014 I’ve been the Instructional Design Librarian and now Instruction Coordinator at Cal State Fullerton. I’ve been interested in badges and scaling up library instruction with eLearning for a while. I pitched badges last year to our interim university librarian, and he’s super excited about them, but we’re a ways off yet from implementing them in a […]
I really, really like instructional design (aka ID). It is a growing field whether in libraries or without. I often get asked about what I do and I like to peruse/collect instructional design-related librarian job postings. So here goes! What does an Instructional Design/eLearning Librarian do? It varies! (Helpful response, I know!). My job is mostly developing […]
I have a B.A. in English and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS). Later on I earned a Master of Education in EduTech/Instructional Design. Every now and then I get asked why I got this second masters, and here’s the answer(s)! The Short Answer I spent years applying for librarian positions without having any luck. […]
It’s been exactly one year since I wrote The Making of an Instructional Design Librarian for ACRLog. At the time, I was six months in to my new position. Now I’m a year and a half in! Time flies. That post seems to be fairly popular on the interwebs as evidenced by readers writing me about ID […]
This post was originally published at ACRLog on January 20, 2015. I’m now in my sixth month and second semester as a tenure-track Instructional Design Librarian, which is a new position at my library. In December I completed my second master’s in Educational Technology (specializing in instructional design) so now I can call myself an instructional […]
I used to live and work in Yosemite National Park, very close to Happy Isles, which is the northern terminus of the John Muir Trail. I long wanted to do the JMT, but couldn’t (or wouldn’t) get the time off. Eventually I left Yosemite for Arizona to pursue my career (and to enjoy a warmer […]
I did it! I finished and turned in my 2nd year full Retention-Tenure-Promotion portfolio. Next year I will turn in an Abbreviated Review (just a CV), and then my 4th year I’ll do another full portfolio. I am SO GLAD to be done. I could spend decades adjusting punctuation, wording, or evidence numbering! It’s a […]
It’s my second fall! I’ve been working here a whole year. As CSUF’s first ever Instructional Design Librarian, I’ve had my work cut out for me. Work that I’ve assigned myself, and work that is now being assigned to me! It’s been a while since I blogged, so I thought I’d organize my thoughts and […]
The idea of digital badges is that you offload lower level library instruction (what’s a database?) onto a website, then motivate and reward students for doing some online learning by awarding them colorful badges that they can show off on LinkedIn and other places. How awesome is that!? We save in-person instructional time, and students can […]
Our interim UL came into my office last week and said that while the individual colleges on campus would only ever impact the lives of their respective students, the university library has the opportunity to impact each and every of our 38,000 students. So – we should explore gamifying library research skills, he said, to get […]
At this moment, I am preparing to teach three one-shot sessions back-to-back (all for one instructor, how does she handle this workload twice a week??). I’m also meaning to finish up a proposal for ACRL’s Assessment in Action, I need to record a short something for a virtual poster presentation for ACRL with a colleague, […]
Having to explain what I do is difficult and helpful, in equal measures. Difficult because I’m still figuring it out but I also feel compelled to justify my existence to random colleagues, in the library and out. Helpful because it forces me to clarify my priorities and market my services to people that might like to […]
My projects are piling up as my schedule is booking up with one-shot sessions for the semester, so I was thrilled to take my first release day last week to finally have some quiet time at home to catch up on reading and work on my article and tenure portfolio. (My university gives “release time” […]
I enjoyed the heck out of my winter break! I had 12 whole days off from work. I spent it beach camping, hiking, running, swimming, strength-training, reading, and binge-watching TV. I brought home work-related educational books to read, but didn’t even crack them. I really need to stop deluding myself that I’m going to work […]
Now that I’ve been an Instructional Design Librarian for almost five months, it’s time I started blogging more about what I’m up to. I’m a brand new academic librarian in a brand new position at my library, so I’ve spent a lot of my time so far figuring out what it is I’m supposed to […]
The Articulate e-Learning blog had a great post about the difference between teaching and informing, and the value of an instructional design degree in the real world. The blog post opens with a brief discussion of what educators are using instructional media software for. Are we using it to entertain and inform, or are we actually […]
I tell people that I teach library skills to college students. So I thought that I had a good prior knowledge base from which to approach my graduate courses in education. In one of them, we’re assigned to plan a one-hour lesson. I decided to design a lesson for a particular composition class whose instructors […]