Thursday, November 13, 2014

Final Project




My final Adobe Captivate project is a training to help managers learn to coach in different situations. The manager is give three scenarios to choose from, if they choose an incorrect answer they are coached as to why it is incorrect and if they choose the right answer they are congratulated and the reason the answer is right is reinforced. I am finding Captivate fascinating.  It is a very dynamic tool. I am going to try and do more tutorials with it to see if we could master it enough to design trainings for my organization.

The biggest take aways for me from this class is how I will think of technology and education. It is amazing how technology is influencing how we learn and the opportunities it is providing.  Will Richardson's TED talk was very powerful.  When he said, "We need life prep not test prep," it really stuck with me.  We are at the beginning of a revolution in education and it will be interesting to see how it progresses.  The other big take away was the importance of building a personal learning network.  Technology gives us a multitude of opportunities to develop our personal learning networks through blogging and social media.This will be something that I focus more on in the future.

Overall this class has enlightened me on how to better use technology for learning, developing trainings,  the use of learning analytics, and building my personal learning network.  Even though I really disliked blogging to begin I am very grateful that I now have the knowledge to use this tool.  I am really excited about Captivate (even though it is a little intimidating) and I am going to ask my organization to purchase it to develop some online trainings.  This class has made me more current with technology.