Presentation in HEP meeting -- Washington -- March 27, 2013

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The road ahead for us...

   As you know, September and October were months in which much of my energy and knowledge were focused in the Articulate Studio 09 workshops. Despite that, I was able to sneak out and do some stuff worth telling.

   @ the end of September, there were some efforts to introduce faculty members and administrative personnel in the world of mobile technology. As part of those efforts I participated as a resource in the workshop "Tablet Time". Showing the audience how to work properly with mobile devices such as the iPad and the iPhone and teaching them how to use mobile applications as Instagram, Keynote, Adobe Reader and Pages in the teaching-learning process was a great experience and a chance to see were faculty stands in the adoption of mobile technology.

   Also, I worked with Title V colleague Karina Peroña the development of a rubric to evaluate the usability of the learning objects designed and created by USC's faculty members. The rubric was developed in order to evaluate the design, efficiency, instructional purpose and overall performance of the learning objects. We hope this rubric guides DEDOS in the design and creation of more complete learning objects.

Open publication - Free publishing - More assessment

It's not knowing something, it's how you teach it...

    For the past 2 months, I have been working…designing and giving workshops, creating instructional content, giving advice to faculty members and administrative personnel, making a little bit of free research about mobile and web 2.0 technology, developing assessment tools, reviewing online courses...that’s how you spent 2 months out of this blog fellas! So let’s begin, try to stay with me for the whole ride… 

    Well, September and October 2012 were fun, primarily because I got the opportunity to design and create the Articulate Studio 09 workshops to be given to faculty members and administrative personnel. The idea was to teach them how to use Articulate’s suit for creating interactive content, quizzes and incorporating narration and learning games to PowerPoint presentation, among others. As part of the process, I designed and created an instructional workbook about Articulate’s programs (Presenter, Engage and Quizmaker). This workbook was built in order to give faculty members some guidelines and to give them the exercises to be done during the workshops. 

    Also, I designed and taught the workshops structure and content to fellow instructional designers so they can help me attend the demand form faculty members. This was a great experience for me, since I took charge of everything about the Articulate workshops…teaching it to faculty members, preparing content, designing learning activities, checking my colleagues didn’t have any doubts about how the software works…really, it was one of the most satisfactory experiences I have had as a professional because faculty members were so excited with the possibilities of creating instructional content for their online courses with this authoring system. Some pics of the workshops...

Retaining and Graduating: our second year

Thank you very much!

To all the staff:

Please accept my thanks for all your hard work and dedication.

We r going to the Lake...the Salt Lake

At first, I don’t liked the idea of getting in a plane –I’m a little scare of heights- but I was pretty sure that attending eLearning DevCon in Utah was going to be a great experience. It was great because I learned a lot there…it was even greater because I demonstrated myself I belong in the big leagues of instructional design –not just @ USC, but worldwide. I even showoff some of my knowledge and skills…here is a peek on what I went through in Salt Lake City, but it didn’t even summarize the great experience I lived!!

eLearning DevCon 2012 from Michael on Vimeo.