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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Creating your own Interactive Training Part 2

OK, so you’ve got your video handy and you’re ready to go right?? Not so quick.  At the heart of every good interactive training program is a good design.  What are you trying to teach, what are the learning objectives and what are you going to do to accomplish those objectives.  A good outline is one place to start.  List all of the key learning objectives and the think about how you will tell if you have accomplished them.  What questions will you ask to see if those objectives have been met?  This list and outline forms the basis of the storyboard for your interactive training program.  Once you have a plan in place, you can take a look at the video that you have and select elements that help to illustrate and convey the objectives that you have identified.  Plug this information into your outline/storyboard.  I am talking about file names at this point.  Look at other media to fill in the gaps.  Still images and audio narratives are easy to create and add.  I have simplified this part of the process down to a few sentences, but this is where you will spend the bulk of your training course creation time.  Once you have all the prep work done, then comes the easy stuff.  Starting with MODIFY from Mastery Technologies and a MODIFY course shell, sit down and drop it all in.  Well, sort of...it really does get easy at this point and if you’ve done a good job with the prep work, this part should only take a few hours.  Stay tuned for part 3.