PE4_Google Docs

As a manager of a growing team of individuals, I started this project wanting to help my team of individuals to do their job with as efficiently and effectively as possible.  This being said, I searched for their struggles to determine an area of opportunity to help them grow and develop on a professional level.  After much thought and consideration, I decided to develop and design an instructional tool to help my employees do their jobs to the best of their ability.  I looked through a few different tools such as Schoology and UDUTU to help create an interface that was easy to use and interact with, and finally decided to run my RILS project using the Google Docs web 2.0 tool. 

I started by watching a few Youtube video clips on Google Docs to get my self more acclimated to the tool.  I wanted to make sure that this tool could be editable and updated as policies and procedures change on a frequent level in our world.  I also thought it would be best for 1 person to be held as the primary account so that when revisions are needed, the information could easily be updated. 

My team uses many different resources from a culmination of different websites and databases of files and folders updated by many different departments.  It is my thought and dream to create a one-stop-shop for all trainings, tutorials, and informational pieces to be housed in one designated device that everyone could use without having to search for information all over the companies network. 

This being said, I got to work on creating an educational design tool using Google Docs to house all of this information.  I started creating this tool by adding the first two folders like developing an outline and continued to grow outwards.  

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Here is the Web 2.0 video that I created.  As a Cert Program student, I didn't have a camera to use, so I did the best that I could to create footage and clips from other forms.  I reviewed the Web 2.0 Prezi.

BP6_Link to Dana's Blog

Follow this link to Dana's Blog where she reviews Diigo as a Web 2.0 tool.

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Follow this link to see what you can do with a Web 2.0 tool called Tagxedo and see what you can do!

BP4_Web 2.0 #2 Review

I chose to use the Web 2.0 Tool Prezi.  I have seen it a few times in YouTube videos that I have watched for work meetings and conferences, but have never dabbled in it myself until now.  I actually assumed that it was a program for sale, which is true, but never knew that there was a free program out there on the web. 

As a manager, I am constantly looking into new ways to get information out to my team.  I find myself using Powerpoint and Keynote for presentations which can be enticing for a few slides, but I find myself embedding a lot of sound and other text effects to keep my team intrigued and paying attention to the updates and facts.  This is taxing, as the extra effects takes a decent amount of extra time to add these extra components to the presentation.  Using Prezi puts an extra component to it, as it is a clean cut presentation, as well as an attracting module that keeps the most unattached observer engaged in the learning prospect of the demonstration.

Prezi allows a few different preview settings, as you are able to set it for a timing factor for time-specific presentations, as well as the ability to move at your pace as the presenter.  It also gives the presenter or author the ability to add an additionally context to the piece, as you can create any sort of shape that the presentation is originally developed into, and creatively input a new facet on the appearance of the piece.  The idea behind Prezi is to make any corporate meeting intriguing and enticing for every audience.

PE3_iMovie

The instructor from Lynda.com definitely made this project look easier than it is. Since I don't yet have my camera, I took a video of my niece's 1st birthday that I had on my computer, and edited it into one of the movie trailers that were described and taught in the video tutorials.  I used about a 5 minute video that I had of her eating her cake and edited it into a few short clips to fit into the trailer.  Once I imported the video, I had to pick and choose the clips that I wanted to add into my project.  I also had to rename the headers of the trailer as the ones originally in the template did not apply.  It took a lot of editing, but I like the outcome.

PE2_iMovie

I completed the video tutorial of IMovie on Lynda.com.  This was very informative and definitely prepares you to start working with IMovie immediately.  As I was watching through the clips, I started thinking of ideas to implement in my first project.  I was told that once completing the course I would be getting some sort of certificate, however I am not sure where to find the certificate as I checked my email once the tutorial was finished and I can’t seem to find it anywhere.  Here is a screenshot showing that the course was completed.