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AlyssaGomez's avatar
11 days ago

Welcome & Introductions

๐ŸŽ‰ Let's Get to Know Each Other

As a reply to this thread, post an intro and tell us:

  • Your name and what you do for work (we love to hear your title, but we're even more interested in your day-to-day)
  • Why you joined this certification cohort and what you're hoping to get out of it
  • Bonus: if you have a pet at home, we'd love to meet them, too! Share a picture of your furry (or, scaly?) friends along with your intro ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ˜บ๐ŸฆŽ

44 Replies

  • SuziLee's avatar
    SuziLee
    Community Member

    Hello everyone! My name is Suzi Lee, and I am the Learning Experience & Designer Lead on the Koch L&D team. I'm super excited to be a part of this cohort, especially learning alongside all the various learning professionals across our organization. I work with several authoring tools, but Articulate Rise360 has definitely been a regular go-to!

    I mainly work in the Georgia-Pacific building in Atlanta, but when I WFH, my two cats, Momo and Luna, are my work companions - although their idea of "work" is very different from mine. ๐Ÿ˜ธ

     

  • jessica_smlwd's avatar
    jessica_smlwd
    New to the Community

    Hi! I'm Jessica. I am an Immersive Learning Specialist at Leaf River Cellulose. I work with Matterport, creating training videos, instructional design, and I help create our computer-based training modules for the mill. I'm so excited to learn more about the AI tools available to us through this course! We have three pets at our house: a fish, a bearded dragon, and a German Shepherd. I couldn't find a decent picture of the fish or lizard, so here's our dog, Scout! She's my oldest son's very best friend. 

     

  • Hello everyone, :)!  My name is Scarlett; I'm so looking forward to the cohort.  I am a long time Georgia-Pacific Muskogee mill employee and have worked in several different capacities.  I started out with Articulate back in 2010/11, building training for our Poly Printing Department.  Now, I am currently the L&D Training Administrator, I have used E-Learning off and on for quite some time, but until recently wasn't able to include Learning Software's in my daily schedule, but with my transition last year this has become almost a weekly or at least monthly opportunity to learn new skills.  I utilize the Storyline AI Voice over function extensively as we have been adding voice to many of our traditional PowerPoint training.  I want to learn how to use AI in more ways than just this to make our trainings more interactive and memorable.  
    We currently do not have any pets, but my logic behind this is "I Love going to the Beach" but where I am located in Oklahoma does not include a Beach :( so in order to not have to figure out accommodations for a fur baby, we are holding off with the pets or small farm animals.   But if we ever get to "retire and relocate" to a beach area, I could see us getting another Toy (or at least small) Chihuahua.  We had one for 17 years so, yes, we occasionally question the "Beach" limitation.

  • jgillus's avatar
    jgillus
    Community Member

    Hi everyone! My name is Jen Gillus and I'm a Customer Solutions Optimization Specialist supporting Georgiaโ€‘Pacificโ€™s Consumer Products group. I focus on creating onboarding content that helps our new hires get comfortable with our systems and set up for success right from the start.

    Iโ€™m always on the lookout for better and more engaging ways to present information, especially using AI, so learning is enjoyable, information sticks, and new hires feel confident when training wraps up. Iโ€™m really excited to start learning Storyline and canโ€™t wait to incorporate it into our onboarding program!

  • ASMcIlwain's avatar
    ASMcIlwain
    Community Member

    Hello all! I am Scott McIlwain. I work for GP CPG at the Naheola Mill in Pennington, Alabama, as an L&D area manager, responsible for the Converting department. After 15+ years in production, I transitioned to L&D about 2 years ago. I was interested in creating more engaging learning solutions for my team, which led me to request permission to obtain an Articulate license. I taught myself to use Rise 360 because it was a bit easier. I am currently enrolled in the Master's in Instructional Technology program at The University of Alabama. I am wrapping up a class called "third-party tools". You guessed it.... Rise and Storyline were the tools of choice. This was a great introduction to Storyline. I'm looking forward to using it more going forward. In the Fall, I will take a class on AI for Instructional Design and Technology. If everything goes well, I will graduate in December. Looking forward to this Cohort. Using AI to design courses should be a great way to think through and create learning more efficiently. Sorry, no pets here.