112 Did You Hear That? No Studio? No Problem!
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Wednesday, October 24
St. Thomas A
Everyone knows that person who has a heavy footstep, a booming laugh, or talks way too loud, and it always seems to be magnified when recording audio. Often you’re working in less-than-ideal environments, trying to make the best of what you’ve got, and you don’t always have time or tools for editing. When you don’t have a professional studio to record audio, the struggle is very real.
Did you hear that? Didn’t think so. In this session, you will learn techniques to help turn a less-than-ideal recording situation into something more manageable. From setting up equipment to final publishing, a few simple steps can improve audio recording quality. On the other hand, if you are next to a busy road with sirens and horns going off almost hourly, editing is a must. Don’t feel pressured to re-record! With a few clicks, that wailing siren can be quieted or removed altogether—all without a recording studio.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to calibrate a microphone so it only records what you want it to
- How to address some of the most common recording challenges, like the “pop” you get at the “p” and “th” sounds
- Considerations in setting up your recording space
- How to edit audio and remove ambient noise
Audience:
Designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Laptops, microphones, Adobe Audition, and Audacity.
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Elisabeth Kozee
Instructional Designer
Aflac
Elisabeth Kozee is an instructional designer at Aflac. With over 13 years of instructional design experience, Elisabeth has seen and conquered a lot. She’s fearless when tackling projects that cause others to run for the hills. In Aflac’s national sales training department, she develops learning materials for over 70,000 sales associates. Prior to Aflac, Elisabeth held many roles in the banking/payment industry that gave her a powerful voice among her leaders and peers. Working with some of the top banks in the world, she developed content, facilitated training, and was involved with starting up several new call centers for clients globally.
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Jose Parker
Instructional Designer
Aflac
Jose Parker is a bilingual instructional designer in the sales/training development department of Aflac. He is actively involved in the company’s diversity council and other company culture clubs. Jose has a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in Spanish. He worked in education and training for the US Army, supporting the SouthCom mission of democratic sustainment in Latin America. At Aflac, prior to the ID position, he held various bilingual internal ops positions. His experience is mostly self-taught and trial-and-error, with an approach of “adapt and overcome” when recording and editing audio in a noisy office environment.
SELT103 6 Ways Every Learning Leader Should Be Using Video
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Wednesday, October 24
Expo Hall: eLearning Tools Stage
Melissa is a rising star at your company. She’s been promoted five times in as many years, and is on track to join your leadership bench program. Unfortunately, she just gave her two weeks’ notice. Capturing the knowledge of exiting employees is just one of the ways you could be using video but probably aren’t. Join this session to explore six real examples of how companies are improving their learning strategies with video. You’ll also explore trends driving the use of video, and how you can tap them within your business.
This session will identify six novel and uncommon ways L&D teams can use video for employee training and communications, based on real examples from companies like Qualcomm, Siemens, Tableau Software, Perkins Coie, and more. You’ll also hear about five technology and social trends that are making video more available and expected among your employees, no matter how much (or how little) you’ve been using video to date.
In this session, you will learn:
- New ways to use video to create and curate formal learning opportunities
- New ways to implement video to support and scale informal learning initiatives at all levels of the organization
- About technology shifts that are making video more accessible to all employees
- How Millennials’ learning experiences in college will accelerate the use of video in business
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, managers, senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.), and anyone convinced they could be getting more value out of video.
Technology discussed in this session:
Video storage and streaming, video content search, and video recording.
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Steve Rozillis
Head of Customer Evangelism
Panopto
Steve Rozillis is part of the team at Panopto, helping L&D professionals to convert general interest in video into concrete, practical applications for video-enabled training, communications, social learning, and knowledge management programs. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Duquesne University. A father of two children under 8, his hobbies today include a surprising number of arts and crafts projects.
212 Design Models for Interactive Video in a Learning Context
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Wednesday, October 24
Jamaica AB
Interactive video often has a wow factor that’s hard to deny. What’s critical for L&D, though, is thinking beyond the wow factor to ensure interactive video truly supports learning and performance improvement. Interactive video offers a range of design models, each with different strengths. Understanding how to align those strengths to different learning needs simplifies your design process, reduces development costs, and produces the best results for your organization.
This session will explore the range of interactive video options commonly seen and used, in order to build a reference framework. You’ll discover how these models can then be applied to different types of learning needs, contexts, and situations to take advantage of each model’s strengths. You’ll also work through instructional design strategies for each model to help you begin your planning and design work. And you’ll gain a range of practical tips to help you make your designs come to life with the best possible results for your organization.
In this session, you will learn:
- About the design models commonly used for interactive video
- How these models can support different learning needs and contexts
- Instructional design and planning strategies for each design model
- Practical design and creation tips that help speed up the creation process and improve the end-result learning experience
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Interactive video examples, as well as some related authoring and delivery tools.
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Paul Schneider
SVP Business Development
dominKnow
Paul Schneider, the senior vice president of business development for dominKnow, has worked in distance communication technologies in academia and corporate for over 18 years, primarily focusing on distance learning. Paul has provided services in most areas of learning, including instructional design, distance education, mobile training, and performance support. He currently oversees operations and business development at dominKnow Learning Systems and has presented at many professional conferences over the past 25+ years. Paul holds a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
214 Making Friends with Illustrator and Photoshop: Tips for eLearning Designers
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Wednesday, October 24
St. Thomas B
How often do you source a near-perfect image that you want to manipulate to meet your needs, but don’t know how? Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are powerful tools for manipulating and creating images and design assets, yet many eLearning designers find them intimidating to approach. Rather than a shotgun approach to learning how to use the software, eLearning designers need to target the tricks that best work for them!
In this session, you will learn how to overcome your fear of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to become a visual design asset guru. Using these top tips, you will be able to curate ideal stock illustrations, photographs, and EPS and PSD files to modify in order to create your own design assets. You’ll be guided through the process of finding images suitable for editing, and you’ll learn how to import, crop, add, erase, merge, flatten, and export your way to a visual design masterpiece!
In this session, you will learn:
- How to recognize image file formats and understand their implications
- How to remove backgrounds
- How to crop out unwanted elements while maintaining the integrity of the overall image
- How to combine more than one image
- How to color-correct
- How to add simple effects
- How to import and export images
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and image stock sites (e.g., Dreamstime and Freepik).
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Kataryna Nemethy
eLearning Developer/Instructional Designer
Baycrest Health Sciences
Kataryna Nemethy is an eLearning developer and instructional designer at Baycrest Health Sciences with years of experience in eLearning, instructional design, and educational technologies. As a formally trained biomedical illustrator and animator, she is passionate about the interface between education, technology, and design—particularly when they come together to produce a simple, effective, and good-looking product.
SELT105 Deliver High-Impact Training with Video
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Wednesday, October 24
Expo Hall: eLearning Tools Stage
Technology is driving every aspect of business, and learning is no exception. Driven by an always-on, mobile culture, learners today have an “instant gratification” mindset and are easily distracted by email pings, text message buzzes, and fitness tracker updates. For instructional designers and other eLearning pros, this means every second counts when fighting for attention, focus, and retention. How do you arrest attention away from everyday distractions and deliver engaging content?
Video is a catalyst for engagement. Studies show that adding video to your content improves the ability to remember concepts and details with effects that increase over time. Plus, your audience prefers video over static content like slide decks—it’s simply more interesting. In this session, you’ll learn how to move from static presentations to video. You’ll find out how to boil your subject matter down to its key components, approach story and dialogue writing, and reimagine your content as video. Learn to use the power of dynamic visual elements, sound effects, and music to captivate your audience and drive your message home.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to develop compelling stories and scenarios that hold learners’ attention
- How to write realistic-sounding dialogue that supports your learning objectives
- How to visualize your ideas in a storyboard
- How to build a complete animated video from start to finish
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, managers, and senior leaders (directors, VP, CLO, executive, etc.).
Technology discussed in this session:
Vyond Studio.
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Chetan Parmar
Customer Success Specialist Lead
Vyond
Chetan Parmar is a customer support specialist lead at Vyond. He assists customers using the Vyond Studio platform by responding to inquiries via email, Live Chat, and phone calls. He has led initiatives and created new processes to help enhance how the customer support team interacts with customers. He also assists the sales team in providing demos of the platform to prospective users. He and his team set up Vyond’s customers to experience success when using the product.
SMNX105 Improve Your Videos with a Simplified Review Process
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Wednesday, October 24
Expo Hall: Management Xchange Stage
One of the keys to making effective training videos is to gather feedback from stakeholders and colleagues along the way. However, the headaches associated with this process can frustrate and deter even the best content developers. The process can take longer than desired, feedback can be provided on the wrong areas, and often feedback comes at the last minute, causing a major rework way too late.
In this session, you will learn the main themes discovered in interviews with over 100 chief learning officers and instructional designers addressing feedback cycles for video content. Attendees will be provided a series of best practices that can help reduce the frustration involved with this process. Additionally, attendees will see a live demo of TechSmith Video Review, a new tool designed specifically for designers and developers creating videos. With this tool, reviewers can leave time-anchored comments and mark up the video using drawing tools as they watch. Making it simpler for reviewers leads to faster turnaround times and quick project completions.
In this session, you will learn:
- The importance of proper feedback loops in the video development process
- How to get feedback on video content being developed that is actionable and useful
- The insights shared by numerous training executives and practitioners related to reviewing video content
- How to utilize new tools to simplify and streamline feedback loops during video creation
- How to consolidate and manage feedback on videos in a single secure location
Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Videos, mobile, TechSmith Camtasia, TechSmith Snagit, and TechSmith Video Review.
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Daniel Wittenborn
Product Strategy Manager
TechSmith
Daniel Wittenborn is a senior product strategy manager with TechSmith. In this role, he is responsible for understanding how videos and images can best be used to educate and inform learners. Prior to joining TechSmith, Daniel spent eight years at The Boeing Company, most recently as a senior strategic business partner in the Learning, Training and Development organization. Daniel holds a PhD in technology with a specialization in education, as well as an MS in computer graphics technology, both from Purdue University. He also holds a BS in industrial technology from Southeast Missouri State University.
308 Sound and Motion: Film School Techniques for Live-Action Video Learning
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wednesday, October 24
Montego DE
You’ve started using live-action video at work. Perhaps you’ve used it in the past but weren’t happy with the results. If this is you, you’ll agree that using live action to tell a story with the goal of educating the viewer is challenging. A video can just as easily distract or confuse as it can inspire and educate. And it can be expensive to get it wrong!
In this session, you will explore how the five fundamental dimensions of filmmaking taught at film school can be applied to creating live-action videos for learning. You will learn how to combine your knowledge of learning principles with some of the first principles of the film industry, and how to bake this into your scripts to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of how you bring your concepts to life. Ultimately, you will learn to create more compelling live-action learning videos.
In this session, you will learn:
- How you can use light and color to convey warm vs. cold feelings, saving you valuable storytelling time
- How to use the 2-D space of a screen to focus attention by placing the most important information on the right
- How depth and volume allow you to manipulate point of view and angles to convey new information about characters
- How to neatly control subjective time and use slow vs. accelerated motion to create momentum
- How sounds can convey time, mood, perspective, location, and environment, among many other pieces of information, in your videos
Audience:
Designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Video-based learning.
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Andrew Barry
CEO
Curious Lion
Andrew Barry is the CEO of Curious Lion. He is a qualified CPA and previously worked at KPMG for 12 years. During that time, he rolled out national training for over 4,000 audit professionals a year and served as a technical advisor on the International Accounting Education Standards Board. He pivoted to video-based learning when he joined Lobster Ink, a leading learning platform in the hospitality industry. There he led the development of their learning methodology, combining the best of adult learning and filmmaking. Andrew founded Curious Lion, where he and his team now create custom video-based learning solutions for clients across industries.
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Jessica Eule
Technical Education Program Manager
1010data
Jessica Eule is the technical education program manager with 1010data, where she oversees the technical education team and has the mission of turning traditional instructor-led learning into self-service, scalable training at professional production levels. As a certified project manager, she leads a team of full-time instructional designers and producers and also oversees all externally led training development. Prior to 1010data, Jessica was the head of learning and development at IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and Mediabistro, overseeing both companies’ efforts to transition from ILT to online self-service training. She began her career in journalism, working at Conde Nast for Vogue and Gourmet magazines.
408 Getting Started with Stop-Motion Animation for eLearning
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Thursday, October 25
Jamaica AB
Searching for new ways to present content in eLearning is an ongoing challenge for most designers. Animation effects beyond the typical require deeper thought in design, and often involve additional storyboarding. Barriers to learning new animation software result in some designers not pursuing a more engaging approach than typical animation effects. With new smartphone cameras, available apps, and software, you can dramatically reduce those barriers to get started with stop-motion animation.
In this session, participants will create a stop-motion animation to demonstrate a simple approach and explore available tools and other techniques to get you started. You’ll find that this technique is easy to implement in eLearning and a great way to animate objects, such as rotating a product in 360 degrees; display the assembly of a process without human intervention; and many other creative applications.
In this session, you will learn:
- A basic understanding of stop-motion animation techniques
- Various approaches and styles of stop-motion animation for eLearning
- About multiple tools and software applications for creating stop-motion animation
- Best practices for designing stop-motion animation and when to use
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
A smartphone and iPad will be used to demonstrate simple techniques in creating a stop-motion animation.
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Kevin Thorn
Director of Development
Artisan E-Learning
Kevin Thorn holds an EdD in instructional design and technologies and is an award-winning eLearning designer and developer. He is the director of development for Artisan E-Learning, and principal owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique studio specializing in consulting and developing custom learning experiences. Kevin combines his skills in technology, instructional design, eLearning development, illustration, graphic design, animation, video, and educational comics to develop innovative learning solutions. He is a well- known industry speaker and trainer in visual communication, eLearning development, and design workflows and is a certified facilitator in LEGO® Serious Play® methodologies. ?
SEMT203 Video Bookmarkers—Here Comes Disruption
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Thursday, October 25
Expo Hall: Emerging Tech Stage
Short videos—less than two minutes in length—or long videos chunked up into short, digestible bits are retained longer and are more frequently shared and consumed. Creating, managing, and updating short, digestible content has become a challenge in most organizations. The desire is to be able to create content by anyone, anytime, and deliver it in an exciting and digestible way.
This session will demonstrate many ways to easily create digestible content to deliver and track within an LMS. You will learn how to create quick videos with a single message and chunk up your long videos using chaptering technology. Key to the session will be exploration in administrator, SME, and user-generated content. Video learning can create digestible content to maximize the impact of your learning. Engage users with SCORM tracking, bookmarking, PowerPoint association, chapter highlights, and microlearning.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to create short, digestible content
- How to direct users to a specific area of a video for emphasis
- How to take your PowerPoint and create an engaging experience for the learners
- How to take a video and create SCORM object for tracking details
- How to create user-generated content
- About closed captioning in video
- About on-demand video with social discussion forums
Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, managers, senior leaders (directors, VP, CLO, executive, etc.), and creative LMS administrators.
Technology discussed in this session:
KZO Innovations’ enterprise-wide video and NetDimensions’ enterprise learning management system.
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Ali Zaheer
Sr. Solutions Consultant
NetDimensions | KZO Innovations
Ali Zaheer, a senior global solutions consultant at NetDimensions/KZO Innovations, has been in the L&D industry for over 16 years. His experience includes learning system administration, exam systems, and content development. Ali specializes in creative learning presentations with engaging learner experiences. His passion is experimenting with new technologies that increase learner adoption.
509 The 7 Deadly Sins of Video Production
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Thursday, October 25
St. Thomas B
In a landscape of increasing video creation, many learning professionals are approaching video without formal training. This is an amazing opportunity and challenge that brings with it the need to understand what can make videos not work. And while video has gotten easier to create, it’s just as easy (if not easier) to make a bad video. This session will look at seven “gotchas” that video creators should know about.
To build your video creation skills, you need to know more than just how your equipment works and what makes a good instructional video—you’ll also want to uncover what problems and issues commonly arise in video production and what you can do about them. In this session, you’ll explore seven “deadly sins” of video creation. While they won’t kill you, they can make your production more frustrating and your final video less effective. You’ll take a closer look at these common video creation mistakes and find out what you can do to avoid or overcome them.
In this session, you will learn:
- The dangers of not getting to know what your equipment can do
- Why you should avoid thinking you’ll “fix it in post”
- How not to fail at framing your video
- How to ensure your lighting is at its best
- Why you can’t ignore your audio
- Tips for keeping your video moving
- How to edit with the end destination in mind
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Video creation.
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Matthew Pierce
Learning & Video Ambassador
TechSmith
Matthew Pierce, learning & video ambassador from TechSmith, has created videos for learning and marketing for over a decade. He is the lead behind TechSmith Academy, a free platform teaching video and image creation for business, which has been used by tens of thousands of users. He is host of The Visual Lounge Podcast from TechSmith, which streams live on Youtube and LinkedIn weekly. Matthew is a regular speaker at multiple learning and development-focused conferences and is a regular contributor to various training publications.
608 Putting Visuals to Work for Your eLearning Story
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Thursday, October 25
Montego A
You’ve been handed the same old content, and the thought of creating the same old learning experience makes you sad. Worry not! You can transform that tired content into an engaging eLearning experience by applying powerful storytelling and graphic design techniques. You will leave your learners wondering where that new course came from. When they ask, just tell them you put your visuals to work.
In this session, you will learn key storytelling and graphic design techniques and how to use them in effective ways to transform stale content into an engaging eLearning experience. Moreover, these techniques will be immediately transferable to your own work. You’ll leave this session knowing important foundational graphic design principles, as well as how to use them alongside storytelling approaches to craft visual scenes and bring your content to life.
In this session, you will learn:
- Key foundational graphic design principles, and how to implement them effectively
- A simple method of creating stories for your learning project that is engaging and cohesive
- How to craft visual scenes based on your story, utilizing the graphic principles demonstrated
- eLearning authoring tool tips for bringing your story to life within the context of a typical learning project
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
eLearning authoring tool (Articulate Storyline 3), image editors (Adobe Photoshop, TechSmith Snagit, Microsoft PowerPoint), mind mapping (SmartDraw), and wireframing/prototyping (Adobe XD).
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Jason Kramer
Senior eLearning Designer
Illumina Interactive
Jason Kramer is a senior eLearning designer with Illumina Interactive. He gained critical experience in the corporate training world as a senior instructional designer with Citizens Bank, and was part of the award-winning instructional design team at NECB led by Jean Marrapodi. Jason executed the online build-out of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum at the University of Memphis, where he also served as an adjunct faculty member. Jason holds an MA in philosophy.
612 Precision Video Editing Using Camtasia Studio
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Thursday, October 25
St. Thomas B
You’ve captured a video yourself or been given one to publish, but it isn’t perfect. There might be artifacts in the video that you want to hide, or you may want to showcase a feature that the video skipped. The action on the screen might not sync with the audio, or the audio itself might be bad. You could re-record the entire video—or you could fix it using some handy editing tricks.
In this session, you’ll be introduced to a host of advanced video editing features available in TechSmith Camtasia Studio. Learn how to splice, speed, or extend recorded video to show the features the viewer needs to see, perfectly synced with the audio. Drop in images, annotations, or supplementary video to enhance the original presentation, and employ techniques such as transitions and animations to focus viewer attention. You’ll also get tips for optimizing and editing your video’s audio.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use Extend Frame and Clip Speed to synchronize the video with the audio
- How to drop in images to mask video problems or show missing features
- How to make effective use of annotations and Zoom-n-Pan to focus viewer attention
- How to integrate audio and video elements to make an engaging presentation
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
TechSmith Camtasia Studio, all supported platforms.
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Marie DesJardin
Senior Application Learning Consultant
Verint Systems
Marie DesJardin is a senior application learning consultant at Verint Systems. She brings more than 20 years of technical communications expertise to the art of designing and producing interactive, multimedia online courses and microlearning training videos for desktop and mobile delivery. Her overhaul of her company’s eLearning program boosted revenues, reduced customer support costs, and earned her a Circle of Excellence and a Mission-Critical Delivery award. Marie is an active speaker and participant in the Denver eLearning community, as well as a professional fiction and screenplay author.
708 Simple Strategies for Solving L&D Visual Design Challenges
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, October 26
Barbados A
It’s not uncommon for people in L&D to have to take on some, if not all, of the visual design of their projects. It’s also not uncommon for those same people to not have a background in visual design. So what can you do if you know you want to use design more effectively in your projects but you just aren’t sure where to start?
In this session, you’ll explore simple strategies that anyone can use to solve the most common visual design challenges in L&D projects. You’ll find out how considering audience, context, simplicity, and flow can help you review your own designs and find quick ways to make them stronger. You’ll then start applying these approaches immediately through in-session activities where you’ll brainstorm ideas for how to rework design don’ts into design dos.
In this session, you will learn:
- How considering your project’s audience, context, simplicity, and flow can give you vital clues on how to improve your design
- The basics that can help you quickly improve your graphic design skills—including layout, font choice, color palettes, consistency, size, and more
- Simple techniques for simplifying, organizing, and modernizing your current visual designs
- How to use the strategies from this session to critique weak designs and come up with options for improving them
Audience:
Designers and developers.
Technology discussed in this session:
The visual design skills shared in this session are technology agnostic and can be used no matter what you’re designing.
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Bianca Woods
Customer Advocacy Manager
Articulate
Bianca Woods is a customer advocacy manager at Articulate. Her past experience includes working on the community and event programming for the Learning Guild, learning and communications roles at BMO Financial Group, and teaching art. Bianca is passionate about how visual design and multimedia can help people learn, loves test-driving new technology, and collects photos of bizarre warning signs.
713 Managing Video for eLearning
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Friday, October 26
St. Thomas B
Video continues to have explosive growth as a delivery medium for knowledge transfer events. Organizations are incorporating video-based learning into the daily flow of work and establishing methods for delivery and tracking of video assets in their learning ecosystem. This session will explore these new workflows, as well as how video can become an integral part of your students’ learning journey.
In this session, you’ll learn how to create a video action plan for your training organization. The video action plan establishes student touchpoints for video, channels for delivery, and the view analytics to be collected. You’ll also learn about video content management systems and their benefits. You’ll leave this session knowing the requirements for successful learner video content creation and maintenance.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to establish a video action plan for learning
- Touchpoints of a video action plan
- How to audit your video delivery channels
- About actionable video analytics
- The benefits of a video content management system (VCMS)
Audience:
Designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Video recording, video content management systems, metadata.
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Josh Cavalier
Founder
JoshCavalier.ai
Josh Cavalier has been creating learning solutions for corporations, government agencies, and secondary education institutions for nearly 30 years. He is an expert in the field of learning & development and has applied his industry experience to the application of ChatGPT and other Generative AI frameworks for business and life skills. Josh is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has a popular YouTube channel that shares tips and tricks on Generative AI. He is a seasoned speaker, presenting at conferences like DevLearn, Learning Solutions, ATD ICE, TechKnowledge, NAB, and Adobe MAX.
805 Making Your Mobile Video Look Great
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Friday, October 26
St. Thomas B
It’s easy to make video that’s not very good; a lot of bad video gets made on smartphones. But that doesn’t mean that mobile devices can’t make great videos too! The truth is that the camera on your phone is way better quality than those you grew up watching.
Let’s turn your iPhone/iPad or Android into a rapid video production studio—one that you can use to make eLearning videos on the cheap back at work next week. We’ll use this session to get you started framing shots, focusing, getting good sound, trimming clips, and using some simple storytelling devices. We’ll also discuss how to avoid getting off track or over budget with your mobile video project, be it for microlearning clips or long-form eLearning video. Bring your (charged!) device, and be ready to use it.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to use your phone or tablet to make effective eLearning
- When mobile video is the wrong solution
- Top 10 tips for mobile video capture
- What add-ons to buy, and when
- Basic principles of capturing light and sound
Audience:
Designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), iOS/Android, Adobe Premiere Clip, microphones, lighting.
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Sam Rogers
President
Snap Synapse
Sam Rogers, the president of Snap Synapse, creates more effective, efficient, and engaging ways to deliver learning for clients including Google, Capital One, Deloitte, and AAA. He produced YouTube’s first online certification training, and he is a writer, director, producer, composer, and performer for stage and screen. Sam also writes and speaks frequently at conferences, sharing his passion for solving the problems that matter and inspiring learners to action.
808 Creating Learning Podcasts on a Shoestring
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Friday, October 26
St. Croix A
Audiences are almost universally busy, and there is a huge amount of content out there to take in. eLearning courses were promised to fit flexibly into people’s schedules, but they often still require a computer and aren’t designed or developed well for a mobile device. What’s one answer to this issue? Podcasts. People squeeze podcasts in during their commutes, while making dinner, and even in the shower!
This session will look at how you can inexpensively create podcasts yourself. You’ll find out what podcasts are good for (and not so good for), and you’ll look at a basic production process. You’ll also explore some of the hardware and software needed for capturing voices in a “studio” and virtually, and hear about some common mistakes and best practices. You’ll leave the session with a clearer idea, and even a plan, of how to integrate podcasting into your learning offerings.
In this session, you will learn:
- What podcasts can and can’t do
- What basic hardware and software you need to produce podcasts, such as Skype, Adobe Audition CC, and Audacity
- How to develop a process for pre-production, production, and post-production of a podcast series
- Ways to host, launch, and market a podcast (including how to get it into the iTunes podcast library!)
Audience:
Designers, developers, and managers.
Technology discussed in this session:
Skype, Adobe Audition CC, and Audacity.
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Kirby Crider
Learning Technology Specialist
Training Resources Group
Kirby Crider, a learning technology specialist at Training Resources Group, is an instructional designer and consultant with a decade of experience designing and developing high-quality products on tight budgets for clients like the US Agency for International Development and the Forest Service, producing videos, podcasts, animations, and interactive online courses.