Weekly Notes: July 27-31, 2015

This week I’ve been getting back into EdTech:

Learnt more about the improvements to Strategic Sourcing Workbook – thinking about how to create learning materials around the improvements (how will I train staff that already have taken the e-learning and classroom session)
Tried working on communication and collaboration learning conversations
Delivered a presentation on L&D for orientation – realized some people have never played Bingo before (must go over rules of Bingo prior to playing the game)
Tried to improve the videos for Strategic Sourcing Workbook e-learning (creating the videos in SnagIt). The audio was poor and SnagIt kept crashing. I’ve go to think about a better way – have requested Camtasia software (fingers crossed)
Did some editing of the L&D newspaper – The Owl – to be published next week
Reviewed some resumes for a L&D Manager position
Created template for Casual Pool e-learning course (played around with Articulate Storyline – need to do more with Buttons and states)
Started work on a presentation for building Training Plans (need to finish presentation and organize a date for training)
Created a project plan for Casual Pool training
Finished a spreadsheet documenting all the evaluation feedback from the all courses that have run so far
Created a wishlist of all the software I would like to be used within the team (fingers crossed for VideoScribe, Camtasia, Storyline 2, InDesign, Photoshop, AdobeConnect, and Slack)

Next week, more of the same.

Weekly Notes: July 20-25, 2015

This week:

Talked about learning management systems (LMS) and how to transition from one to another (who owns what etc.)
Worked on some interface designs for an Excel spreadsheet (also explored PDF fillable forms)
Involved in a change management session for e-Procurement (Coupa) – lots of work coming up to develop training plans
Talked about taking on the education/training for Standardization
Created a new employee presentation about Learning and Development
Created a spreadsheet of the evaluation results from the different courses that have been delivered over the past year

Plans for next week:

This week:

Delivered training on the Strategic Sourcing Workbook in Kelowna and Willingdon (I learnt a lot from both training sessions)
Brainstormed improvements to The Owl publication
Used Visio to diagram feedback loops for training
Started work on feedback from Kelowna training sessions

This week:

Revising Product Implementation Process e-learning (making it more interactive and visual)
Analyzing project charter and Terms of Reference documents to condense and shorten length
Creating templates for Coupa e-learning, classroom, quick references, and microlearning videos
Investigating the cost of Turning technology – clicker

Next week:

This week has been a quiet week because of Canada Day on Wednesday, however, I’ve been working on the following:

Strategic Sourcing Training – virtual classroom session with learner on the island (interesting because they couldn’t see my screen and I couldn’t see their screen)
Arranging future Strategic Sourcing Training
Working on a re-design of the SOP e-learning templates
Experimenting with learning wrappers
Developed a template for Coupa e-learning – A week in the life of … and learning wrapper for individual tasks
Analyzed the analysis for Coupa (i.e. the business documents that have been created so far)
Thinking about incorporating feedback loops into training for managers/leads, learners, and L&D
Worked on Action Plan/Checklist for managers/leads for Implementation training