I don’t have much experience with Captivate.  I’m not an “ID” in the sense that it usually (and erroneously) is used, referring ONLY to online learner. I am, however, an instructional designer of many years in the sense that it SHOULD be used, meaning a person who designs instruction of any type, include “traditional” classroom instruction. EVERY teacher is an “ID,” by definition. There is no reasons to confine the term “instructional design” to online learning.

As a language instructor who teaches both in person and online, I see it as my calling to take the interaction of the live classroom and replicate it as much as possible in online contexts—and that leads me to authoring interactive materials, using Captivate.  As far as I’m concerned, the dichotomy between the “ID” and “SME” is false. To do my work, I am both—one in the same.

Sometimes it seems that I’m the only person who sees it this way—the only language instructor I know who is collapsing this false dichotomy. So, I’ve started this blog to see: Are there other language instructors who are taking authoring into their own hands? I intend to use the blog to describe this experience and find out—who else is doing this?