I’ve been working on some How-to instructional design materials and came across this  How-to video:

I suggest you open this link[below] in a new window, so you can continue to read my comments, as you watch.

Cool ideas to streamline your home office:

The somewhat quirky presentation, I feel,  lends to the home-iness of this design. Which allows the viewer to be comfortable and have a sense that  ‘This is going to be ok.‘  What I really like is how well this has been compartmentalized: Intro, Get Started, Follow the Steps and Conclusion–it makes for a nicely organized feature of the presentation itself.

In Instructional Design terms, Allison Carter has included several good key design components in this video: Alison is teaching a procedure here and takes the viewer thru several steps….in her Intro and on down thru her Conclusion.  So, Alison is:

• Teaching– in this case chatting conversationally about factual information–office disorganization
• Teaching  the viewer about the concepts of an organized office
• Teaching the viewer new learning procedures to make their office more organized
• Teaching and showing the viewer those new learning processes–so they can re-organize their office
• Teaching  the principles of how the viewer’s newly organized office will benefit them.

Alison is able to do all this Content Performance by visually organizing the: Facts, Concepts, Processes, Procedures & Principles within a ‘Display Method [the video]’ that is pleasing, fun, short, to-the-point, and has created a scenario the viewer can easily relate to.

Just read the comments, below the video, to see how readers/viewers became motivated!

I even started to look around my own office and think of ideas where I can use a little re-organization.

• Did Alison motivate you to get your home office into shape?