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Mayer's 12 Multimedia Principles for Instructional Designers
A pdf of the slideshow: THIS . Let me know if you would like the original slideshow to repurpose. I'm sharing this slideshow today, in case anyone wants a review of Mayer's synthesis of instructional-design tips for teams that include both writers and graphic designers, but I'm working on an adaptation, as Mayer's approach doesn't always serve accessibility needs well. If ideas come to mind about making presentations more accessible, drop a comment please.

Dr. Christine Diane Allen
Feb 201 min read
Lesson-Plan Template and LLM Prompt for Source/Objectives-Specific Plans with Accessibility Features
Stop drowning in prep work and spend more time dreaming up schemes for inspiring your students to do their best work. If you're balancing a graduate seminar, a second job, or a family, you don’t have the luxury of spending three hours at 11:00 PM drafting a single lesson plan from scratch. This tool is designed to move you from raw research and instructor notes to a classroom-ready, inclusive curriculum in minutes. By automating the mechanical structure of pedagogy, you recla

Dr. Christine Diane Allen
Feb 173 min read
The Citation Shortcut for Liberal Arts Scholars: Printable Tables & AI Editing Prompts
Quick quiz: Do you know what the following stand for? ibid. passim s.v. q.v. ca. fl. aet. OE Lat. mss. fol. If you’re working on a thesis, dissertation, or manuscript, you likely don’t have assistants to handle the formatting. It’s just you, your sources, and a deadline. The biggest time-sink isn’t the writing—it’s the constant context switching. Every time you stop to look up whether it’s v.i. or v.t., or how to properly cite a footnote from three pages back, you lose your

Dr. Christine Diane Allen
Feb 174 min read
Here's a Stylesheet for Global Changes to Adapt to Your Workflows and LLM Multishot Prompts
Efficiency and typesetters and copy-editors isn't about how fast you can read—it's about how smart you can search. When you're managing a 300-page book or a multi-volume EIS or RFP, you don't want to trust your eyes to catch everthing. Whether I’m cleaning up a 500-page technical manual or a complex scholarly work, these automated global changes transform hours of tedious labor into minutes of precise execution. Sharing these stylesheets with staff and subcontractors ensures

Dr. Christine Diane Allen
Feb 162 min read
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