Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

Hi Everyone!

My name is Jake Whiteford and I am located in south central Pennsylvania. I work with the Innovations Institute at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Our work focuses on supporting the workforce in child-, youth-, and family-serving public systems. I am the instructional designer for our organization, which means I create the asynchronous online training modules that we produce for our partners. My day-to-day is made up mostly of working in Storyline (and occasionally Rise) to create modules from either PPT or a Word script and all of the steps in that process through to publishing files for our LMS. We are already using the AI assistant for voiceover/captions and I have used it occasionally to generate images (though our team's Shutterstock account still gets most of that work). I've also used it in Rise to generate a course from a Word doc. I'd like to learn what I'm not using and also ideally how to use AI assistant to create Java Script triggers that will liven up my modules. Learning Java to do this has been on my "to do" list for years, but I never had the time to learn it. I'm hoping that this will be a nice shortcut. In terms of pets...we have so many. We have three cats, three dogs, and a horse (who unfortunately does not live at the house, though I wish we had a farm so he could). Since his "gotcha day" was on Sunday, I'll share a photo of our boy cat, Chester.