Welcome
My name is Brian Covington. I started as a graphic artist converting camera ready art to digital using Adobe Illustrator back in the mid 1990’s. My first experiences as an […]
An Experience with Scope Creep
Scope creep is inevitable. Sometimes the best we can do is just manage it. I remember one project in particular that I worked on. The project was for BellSouth. BellSouth […]
Resources for ID Cost Estimates
Estimating Costs Every project needs a plan, and plans require timelines and cost estimates. The most accurate type of estimate is deterministic. But calculating the costs individually is not practical […]
How long should it take?
Often with Instructional Design, there is a need to be able to estimate how long it will take to do audio recordings, YouTube videos, Adobe Captivate simulations, and other projects […]
Effective Communication
I recently reviewed “The Art of Effective Communication”. (Laureate, n.d.) This little piece was a message in three formats, written email, voice mail, and video. The massage in all three […]
Lessons Learned; A Project Post-mortem
Background Sometimes we learn by our experiences. That can be painful. Just as effective and less painful is learning from watching. In this re-guard, I can say that the worst […]
Best Practices for Blended Learning
Best Practices for Blended Learning Converting an instructor led training class to a blended format class is a lot more complicated than simply transferring course handouts to PDF documents and […]
Distance Learning
My personal definition of distance learning before starting this course, was pretty much anything that could be taught across the Internet where the teacher was separated from the students by […]