Rich Johnstun
Rich Johnstun
Sr. Instructional Designer at Instructional Media
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    Rich Johnstun

    I've been involved with adult education (mostly technical training) since '01. Since '08 I've been focused completely on instructional design and e-learning/media development.
  • Canton, OH
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion New to Instructional Design
"The best is designing courses for our legal department. I dare say that those good people would be perfectly happy with nothing more than..."
  • over 11 years ago11/02/12 at 7:47 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion New to Instructional Design
"I've had stuff that I refused to put my name on because I was told, "We appreciate your input, but we want you to do it the way we reques..."
  • over 11 years ago11/02/12 at 7:34 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Microphones
"I do a lot of audio recording and my default "go to" when someone asks about mics is the Audio Technica AT2020. Having said that, most of..."
  • over 11 years ago11/02/12 at 7:26 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion New to Instructional Design
"I completely agree Bruce. Too many designers follow the "rules" and completely neglect the learner. I've seen many programs that hit all ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/02/12 at 4:59 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion New to Instructional Design
"If you are just getting into it, start reading up on the ADDIE model. Strive to really understand what each of those steps means. I know ..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 12:41 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Creative ways of presenting a list of 30 line items
"Maybe consider build an animated info graphic. They can take some time to do, but I've used them with very high retention and recall. I d..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 12:34 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Freelance Heroes
"Sheila Cole-Bulthuis said: For what it’s worth:  I think being self employed (freelancing) is *more* secure than a lot of corporate jobs..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 10:15 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Freelance Heroes
"What advice can anyone give me on the transition from a corporate gig into the freelance world. I've spent the last 5 years as an Instruc..."
  • over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 7:09 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Should all Face-to-Face Training be recorded and placed online?
"I can be done in a manner that makes it very useful and beneficial. Having said that, in order to make that happen you'll probably have a..."
  • over 11 years ago10/26/12 at 6:09 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Question on narration
"Bruce Graham said: Rich Johnstun said: The big issue I have is making courses multilingual. We support 11 languages so that's 11 differ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/10/12 at 7:52 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Question on narration
"The big issue I have is making courses multilingual. We support 11 languages so that's 11 different voice overs I have to deal with on a ..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/09/12 at 10:17 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion What Translation Solutions Do You Use for Training Projects?
"We are a global company and have 11 languages that we consider "standard".  What we usually do is once the script is built, we will send ..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/29/12 at 6:15 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Elearning Repository?
"Similar to Steve's setup here.  We have a "storage server" where source files go once a project has been deployed (multi TB Linux powered..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/27/12 at 10:31 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion A new project which I'm pretty pleased with.
"Great use of graphics.   I noticed that you have the Attachments link enabled but when I clicked on it, there weren't any attachments. "
  • almost 12 years ago06/13/12 at 7:54 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion LMS Question - Cornerstone vs SharePoint
"As a person who spends part of his time supporting SharePoint for a reasonably large group, you can build SharePoint into almost any type..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/29/12 at 5:48 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Is anyone laptop shopping over the Memorial Day weekend?
"My personal recommendation would be to go with an i7 processor if you can swing it. The multi-threading capabilities makes a big differen..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/29/12 at 5:18 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Cause of delay at beginning of slide when playing on LMS?
"My guess I'd that the content is buffering. There are a lot of variables...firewalls, server types and speeds, etc. Any and all of these ..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/22/12 at 4:03 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Cool vintage marketing and training videos - prelinger archive
"I'm a huge fan of the prelinger archive. I've been using it for years as bits of levity in the classroom. I used to show health videos fr..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/17/12 at 12:04 pm (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Too many reviewers!
"Similar to Bruce and Simon. We always have a project "owner" and that person has the final say. This is usually the person who came to me..."
  • 12 years ago05/16/12 at 4:17 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Swing Open Effect
"I can do it with video production tools. I've done very similar effects using Adobe AfterEffects and the NewBlueFX titler in Sony Vegas. ..."
  • 12 years ago05/07/12 at 10:11 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Protecting Content from Piracy (Mobile)
"I'm interested to see what solutions people come up with for this. This is a big concern for us because a lot of the information in our t..."
  • 12 years ago05/07/12 at 5:26 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Blended learning - advice for a new and dangerous journey
"I do this with all of our instructor led courses (mostly technical). I take the outline and all of the materials and build a website for ..."
  • 12 years ago05/07/12 at 4:58 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Time Frame Question
"Katie G said: Is what I've described outside the realm of what most people here do, or is it just that nobody wants to answer? ..."
  • 12 years ago05/07/12 at 4:44 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Seeking advice on purchasing a new PC
"I've had it for about 3 months now with 0 issues. I'm running Win7 64-bit and I bumped the RAM to 16gb. It's so wonderful to have Outlook..."
  • 12 years ago05/04/12 at 11:32 am (UTC)
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Rich Johnstun replied to the discussion Seeking advice on purchasing a new PC
"@Steve: I didn't get the multi touch display. It looked cool, but I couldn't think of a serious application (espically given the added co..."
  • 12 years ago05/04/12 at 11:28 am (UTC)