Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

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  I'm Valerie and I live in central Ohio (USA) and I work for the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.  I'm an instructional designer and design courses mainly for educators throughout Ohio. We are switching to a new LMS so things are really crazy right now.
• I joined this cohort so I could learn more about AI in our jobs.
• This is my litter of puppies born in March and the last one is leaving tonight.  I love raising them but it is so much work.

Hello, I am Andrew. I'm a senior instructional designer for a large hospital and healthcare system. I reside in the central Pennsylvania area (some would say it is a pretty sweet area to live, IYKYK). I have been toying around with the AI tools but am excited to have some dedicated time to focus and gain some new tips and tricks and learn what others are doing. 

As the bonus, this is Sir Bricks A Lot. 

HI everyone. I'm so excited to get started. I'm an Instructional Designer with Versant Health. I'm located in beautiful Central New York, near Syracuse. I'm looking forward to seeing the AI features within Articulate and Rise. 

My pet doesn't sit on my lap, and isn't in my living room with me, but he's as lovable as any dog or cat. This is Artax, aka Artie! 

Hello everyone!! My name is Meghan, and I direct a very talented team of instructional designers and graphic designers to build highly interactive eLearning courses for higher education in the prevention field (hazing prevention, alcohol and drug use awareness, sexual violence, human trafficking, etc.). We are based in sunny Clearwater, Florida. 

I joined the cohort to learn more about how the AI assistant can help streamline our current processes. AliveTek is experiencing a lot of growth right now, so I am looking for ways to keep us efficient while still maintaining the level of creativity and customization we are known for. 

I also have a very adorable office mate named Fred.

Yes, this is Fred's office chair. 
Yes, it was supposed to be mine. 
Yes, I did buy myself a new one.

Hi everyone, my name is Raphael, and I live and work in Solothurn, a small town in Switzerland. I work for santéservices, a company that offers various services for health insurance providers. I create digital learning content on social insurances and other topics.

I have only been working with the AI Assistant for a few days, and I think this cohort is the perfect way to get a jump-start into the topic.

We don’t have a pet of our own, but every now and then we look after my brother-in-law’s cat. He — the cat, not my brother-in-law — is called Keanu, and his special talents are being cute and climbing into the most impossible places, only to then be unable to get down by himself 😅

Hi there! I'm Rachel Duguay, an Instructional Designer hailing from Massachusetts, and I'm part of the awesome team at Axis Communications. I spend most of my time cooking up cool simulations for our software and tools. I'm super excited to be in this Certification Cohort to soak up all the best practices for Articulate AI!

Say hello to my adorable (and sometimes distracting!) co-workers, Lincoln and Dexter!

Hello! I'm Alex, currently located in Raleigh, NC after spending my first 30 years in the Portland, OR area. 

I work for a financial software company on the Client Education team, which means training bank and credit union employees on how to use our tools.  I design interactive SCORM content, short MP4 walkthroughs, and written guides, as well as managing our 120,000 user LMS (Eurekos) and organizing our team of instructional designers. 

I have been using Storyline daily since 2016, and we were an early adopter of Articulate AI primarily based on the ElevenLabs integration for high quality voiceovers.  I'm excited to learn more about some of the features we don't use as much and how we might be able to add them in to our workflows.

I work from home most days, with my terrier mix Milo in his bed under my desk.  He turns 10 years old this weekend!

Hello!  Michael here.  Director of elearning a Littler Mendelson, where we design and distribute general workplace training for our clients.

Good Morning!  I'm Jackie Bartus and I'm an instructional designer for a M&T Bank.  I mainly create digital courses for internal training on everything from process to software to customer service skills.  I also assist with creating materials for in-person (live or virtual) development programs we have here at the bank. 

We have started using AI a lot more in our development and I feel like I'm behind before I've even started, so this program is coming at the perfect time.  I know I can be using AI more efficiently so I'm really excited to learn through this certification. 

I live in Michigan with my family and our five dogs, four cats, a recently adopted bearded dragon, and a fish!

Hello Everyone! My name is Daniel, I worked in banking and finance for 12 years and transitioned into healthcare. I have been a respiratory therapist for 15 years now and work as a clinical educator at a hospital in Irvine, California.

I love teaching students and onboarding employees. I stumbled upon Articulate360 and Adobe Captivate and so I got a degree in instructional design. I now create web-based training modules to facilitate employee onboarding and address performance gaps.

Though I got formal education in I.D., AI was not part of the software or curriculum yet. I am excited to learn more about the Articulate AI Assistant and how I can integrate it into my workflow.

I look forward to meeting everyone and picking up tips and tricks I can use!