Hello! Thanks again for attending the elearning developers lab. Here are the notes from the 2-26-08 discussion:

Introductions:

What are the one or two things that really popped out at you from the conference?

• It doesn’t have to be fancy to be good, this is a common misconception, step back and do something simple at first

• Time and cost and budget all have a piece to play in how fancy you get

• Adobe captivate is a good tool to create mandatory training

• One of the difficulties is trying to train facilitators to become elearning tools

• Articulate presenter is  a lot more priecier than captivate, but it can sometimes do the job better.

• Adobe connect is another good tool to present and train instructors how to use.

• How can adobe connect be used to help convert power point online learning?

• Loadstone was a company of consultants that cam ein to develop templates for power point and articulate that had all of the instructional design built right into the page. This is great for teaching people who aren’t instructional designers how to create elearning. Embed the instructional methodology right into the templates, that makes production go a lot faster

• Are there some backgrounds that you can use for your elearning? You can find some on the articulate site.

• The Microsoft office website is a good place for clipart of the same style

• Codebaby is a good site to create free avatars.

• Two of the best websites for photos are istockphoto and fotolia.com.

• Mlearningpedia.com is a great blog to check out, Judy brown is the blog author, everyone check it out.

• Camtasia is a little harder to use than captivate. Captivate is a stand alone tool and is better for interaction.

• Captivate has evolved to include branching, scorm, testing etc.

• Rapid design tools for a technical environment session was awesome, dave myllot, session w107 david.mylott@vsea.com. He was a grad student and did all of this research. Was part of his dissertation project.

• Sometimes it can backfire if we just give templates to people to fill out. Ideally you want an instructional designer to help.

• Swish is a great tool for creating animations, but not for full courses.

• One of the big take aways was the use of web 2.0 in the training field

• You need to make sure you have a strategic need for a wiki or other web 2.0 technology, don’t just use it because it is the new thing.

• Intuit is wiki based, and  if new hires can’t find the information they want, or it is not in a central place, they will create a wiki themselves to help store the information as a community. People also set up a discussion group to cover and continue talking about a subject after class

• Two ways to use web 2.0 are to gather knowledge from the organization.

• Institutional knowledge is critical to the training function to start collecting and using. Also good for collaborative training.

• Only issue with wiki’s si people can cut corners and it is hard to keep a handle on everything. You need to have manpower to moderate the wiki and make changes when needed.

• Another application for the wiki, besides the knowledge gathering, is to document communities of practice, processes, etc. There was a presenter who used it document processes. Another way to use it is to write documents together.

• Go to Google docs and you can write and edit docs as an organization across the world.

• One of the products available for office 2007 is sharepoint. It comes with a wiki option, same capability as other tools that allows you to setup projects for groups and assign documents, track projects, keep track of information etc.

• Go to the wiki astd-tke-learningdeveloper.pbwiki.com to see the notes from our meetings.

Please feel free to edit or update any of this information. Thanks again for attending and participating!

Michael Suhaka

Manager, Learning and Performance

Purchasing and Travel, LDS Church

suhakamj@ldschurch.org

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