Articulate E-Learning Heroes Road Shows
Apr 02, 2014
Hi everyone! I just wanted to give a quick update about the E-learning Heroes Roadshows. Planning these without the assistance of any event planning staff while also keeping them cost-effective has been a little more challenging that I expected but we are getting there.
While we haven’t set any dates in stone yet, it looks like we’ll be coming to the first four cities (Austin, Boston, Denver and Minneapolis) sometime between September-March. The plan is to continue these events in other cities in the future.
We want to make these events like an extension of our online community. Friendly and informal with a collection of practical, hands-on sessions that showcase exceptional uses, ideas and techniques for elearning, instructional design and Articulate products.
Because E-learning Heroes like you are what make our community so great we’re also looking for people interested in leading a session. Proposed presentations should enhance the audience’s experience and knowledge of Articulate tools with a focus on practical information, real life examples, “how-to” demonstrations or case studies.
Some suggested ideas for presentations include:
How-To’s:
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Explaining the creation process behind different, and creative ways to deliver engaging content
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Creative uses of Articulate products for e-Learning courses and other types of content.
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New ideas for content development
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How I built this course, or interaction, or weekly challenge activity
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Design custom templates, visual themes, graphics for courses
Production Tips
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Top tips for working efficiently
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Shortcuts and time saving techniques
Instructional or Visual Design:
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New concepts, development and advice
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Effective use of typography, colors, etc
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Storyboarding, development, and execution
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Writing for elearning; narration scripts, good questions, etc.
Mobile Learning:
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Development and Design of mLearning courses
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Deployment and execution of mLearning
Gaming/Interactivity:
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Innovative uses of interactivity (Variables and Triggers, states, multimedia,etc)
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Examples/hands-on workshop on how gaming and interaction help the learner experience
Learning Management Systems:
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The integration of LMS, LCMSs and databases with Articulate
Emerging Technologies:
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Development and execution of designing content in the cloud
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Tin Can API
Business Initiatives/Case Studies:
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Successful business initiatives that involve Articulate tools.
Multiple proposals by individuals and groups are acceptable. For each proposal accepted, one complimentary conference registration per presentation will be given.
We’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions for making this a really great event. For example, there are a variety of ways an event can be run, ranging from short 20 minute TED style sessions to longer project-based work sessions (think Weekly Challenge-ish). I even like the fast paced Pecha Kucha or Ignite format. Think of the best sessions you’ve ever been in and what made them work so well.
Thanks for sharing your ideas and we would love you to submit to present at one.
I hope to see you there!
Mike
26 Replies
Hi Mike, does this mean you are no longer doing the one in Toronto on July 10th?
No. Sorry for the confusion Nancy. David and Nicole are still doing their Toronto event on July 10th.
Looking forward to the Toronto event on July 10, can't wait to hear more details
Count me in for Austin. Do you have a tentative date? I have some upcoming travel and want to make sure there won't be a conflict before I submit a proposal to you.
Would love to help out and do a demo or provide some hands-on-training workshop. I'll see if I can think of something and submit a proposal.
I'm hopeful we'll get some E-Learning Heroes Road Show action down here in the Southeast sometime! They sound like fun. (Maybe you'll migrate here in the winter?)
Don't forget Europe.
From my discussions I believe the strategy is ensure the format is right and then come over here.
Fantastic!
Well alright, I'm in for presenting a business case study in Toronto. This would focus on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) - aka CBS or NBC. I can probably have the CBC folks present as part of the session. I created a 10-part series launched late last year as part of their new educational intranet. The series, created with Storyline, is high impact, video intensive with complex video editing simulations. A presentation and a de-construction/re-application workshop would be cool.
Let's do it.
Stephanie
Or Denver if the Toronto date isn't for the roadshow.
Yes, that plan is to continue these to other cities (and countries) beyond these first four. I hope to have some dates by about the end of the month. Stay tuned!
@Stephanie that sounds awesome!
Can't wait for Boston! Very excited about this!
Hey Mike,
I totally missed this. Are you guys still looking for presenters? The link to the form seems to be closed.
Let me know, thanks!
Tim
Yes, we are. We've got definite dates for Denver (September 10 & 11) and Minneapolis (September 22 & 23) We'd LOVE to have you present! ( We should have a registration page for those this week too.)
I think the link should be ok now...but definitely let me know if you still have any trouble.
Thanks Tim!
Any progress on Austin dates?
Thanks Mike,
I'll get some submissions going!
Tim
Hi Owen, it is looking like it may be first quarter 2015 for Austin.
Mike - any plans for UK/Europe yet?
No specifics yet Bruce. We'll get through these and see what works, what needs to be adjusted etc and then look at other locations including Europe.
1st quarter works for me - at least right now it does.
Would you guys consider doing one in the Southeast like Orlando or Atlanta? Of course, I'd prefer Orlando for obvious reasons!
Hi Mike, any dates for Houston? Thanks!
I'm excited the road show is coming to Denver! I'm sad that there doesn't seem to be a lot of advanced functionality on the agenda, though (things like using JS). I can't see paying $250 (minimum) to come when I feel like I already know a lot of what's going to be presented. Is there any hope of getting some more advanced functionality included? Or maybe adding a networking hour to the end of one of the days and charging a nominal feel (maybe $20-$30) to attend?
@Laura: the agenda isn't completely set, but the sessions will be more than basic. Probably not going to cover JS since that's way beyond the scope of what most people do. Although, I'll see about where we can add something like that.
Outside of JS, what else would you like to see?
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