High Performance Training Workshop

1. High Performance Training Workshop Second Classroom/Lab October 15, 2008

2. Agenda for Today • Move along your projects • Outline to PowerPoint ?? • PowerPoint to Flash (Articulate Presenter) ?? • PowerPoint to Participant Guide (PG/IG) - next • Video • Learning and Support Portal (LSP) • Word to HTML • Designing the LSP • Editing Web Sites and Pages • Rapid Application Development • Review Methods • Selling High Performance Training Creating High Performance Training

3. PowerPoint to Participant Guide (PG/IG) • Publish > Create Handouts in Microsoft Office Word • Notes next to slides • Probably no notes • Add Notes • Add notes in PowerPoint • Add notes directly • Write a tutorial; copy and edit notes from the tutorial • Copy and edit notes from the outline √ • Use as Instructor Guide • Slightly different notes Creating High Performance Training

4. Video • Record video with camcorder • Flip or other • Edit • Microsoft Movie Maker • Free component of XP SP2 • Adobe Premiere, and others • Post directly, or • Convert to Flash, or • Add to PowerPoint Creating High Performance Training

5. 60 minutes record time LCD screen (1.5”) Advanced Profile MPEG-4 AVI Very high sensitivity (>2.0V/lux-sec) with automatic low light detection 30 frames per second Internal Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Battery Up to 4 hrs of use between charges Windows or Mac Built-in Video editing $100-155 from Amazon Flip Mino Creating High Performance Training

6. Word to HTML Methods • Paste Word contents into a Web page editor • Doesn’t retain formatting • From Word, Save as (HTML) Web Page • Problems with quality • No margins • Correct in a Web page editor • Add an invisible table in Word • Solution use Word to HTML method (posted) Creating High Performance Training

7. Word-to-HTML Method (W2HTML) Creating High Performance Training

8. As a Web Page in the Browser Creating High Performance Training

9. Designing the LSP • Pick a page design/template • HTML • Flash • Choose a theme, e.g., ADDIE • Choose colors • Add main pages as links • Secondary pages (Yahoo directory style) • Add a navigation panel (optional) • Graphics • Use Nielsen’s Guidelines • Correlate with presentations • Correlate with deliverables Creating High Performance Training

10. The HPT Website (LSP) Creating High Performance Training

11. ASTD Golden Gate e-Learning Portal - a review site Creating High Performance Training

12. What goes on the LSP • E-Learning • PowerPoint, Narrated PowerPoint, custom containers • Learning Tracks • And Slides (PPTs), Books, Manuals, Job Aids, Templates, Methods and Procedures, TechNotes, Data collection and other forms, Wizards, One-Page Expertise, Example projects, Example reports, E-Learning Courses, JIT Learning Modules, Tutorials, Videos, Images, Knowledge Bases, Help Pages, Reference Pages, Glossary, Encyclopedia, Chat, Forums, FAQs (Q&A) Creating High Performance Training

13. Deploying the LSP Web Server or Learning Management System Review Server Developer’s Computer Creating High Performance Training

14. WIP (source) documents on my PC C:\Documents Book DevTools EPSS TechNotes Examples Informix, etc projects PPT Reference (cached stuff) TBT_Works http://highperformancetrainingworks.com/ \Root assets Book DevTools EPSS TechNotes Examples Informix, etc Projects PPT Reference (cached stuff) TBT_Works PC vs Website Organization \Documents folder corresponds to Website \Root; addresses work in both locations Creating High Performance Training

15. Editing Web Sites and Pages Site • Remote and Local Directories • Access controls • Put and Get Pages • HTML Code and Design (WYSIWYG) Views • Formatting and Linking • Tables • JavaScript Behaviors • Popups, timelines, preloads, swap images, etc. • Validation • Rename, search, move, and much more Creating High Performance Training

16. Adobe Dreamweaver Creating High Performance Training

17. Rapid Training Development LSP Train. Plan ID/IS Outlines Slides Flash IG and PG Tests Tutorials TechNotes Simulations Videos Articulate PPT Goals Objectives Outlines Slides Flash IG/PG Tutorials, etc. Simulations Tests Video Creating High Performance Training

18. Methodology • Develop instructional design/instructional strategy • Content Outline • PowerPoint Presentations • PowerPoint to Flash (Articulate) • Instructor Guide and Participant Guides • Learning and Support Portal Optional • Tutorials • Simulations • Video • Tests Creating High Performance Training

19. Methodology Job Aid Creating High Performance Training

20. Break Slide • Is it time for a break? Creating High Performance Training

21. Selling e-Learning • What is it (use the triangle) • Benefits • Any time, any place • Saves time, Costs less • Gets better results • Sell LSP with HP Case Study • Selling Plan • “Elevator Pitch” • Online Training Initiatives • Prototypes • Presentations Creating High Performance Training

22. What is High Performance Training ILT Balanced HPT LSP eLearn Creating High Performance Training

23. E-Learning Benefits • Saves time • Costs less • Gets better results • Tailored for individual students • Current information - easily kept up to date • Retention and accuracy are improved • Comprehensive • Consistency of instruction • Easy to manage • Easily integrated with an EPSS/LSP/LMS Collaborative development and update . . . and it Works and . . . . . . it is a wining horse to ride Creating High Performance Training

24. RAD Methods Next slide Tools Prototypes Effective Learning Instructional Design Multimedia Multi-level Job aids Comprehensive Standards and Guidelines Training and Learning Performance Training Learning Total effectiveness is 2-3x conventional training Creating High Performance Training

25. Development Tools • Microsoft Office Suite (or other) • Templates • PPT Conversion Tools (Articulate or other) • Web Development Suite • Page editor, Flash, Drawing, etc. • Specialty Products • Test builders, simulation tools, graphic tools, video tools, validation tools Creating High Performance Training

26. Review Methods You can put notes off to the side; they won’t show in slide view. • Freeform, e.g., e-mail • Review forms • Review features of application • Notes added in color • Notes off to the side in PowerPoint Creating High Performance Training

27. Review and Revision • Plan on it! Get comfortable with it! • "One of the most important skills of a good instructional designer is the ability to revise . . . . Good instructional design requires constant revision, elimination, and addition . . . . Your program is not written in stone until the day it is taught, and even then only for that day; you should begin making revisions for the next class based on what you learn in this one." • George Piskurich in Rapid Instructional Design Creating High Performance Training

28. Summary • HPT is . . . • ILT, e-Learning, and LSP • RAD Methods, Design/Development Methodology, Multimedia, Multi-level, Job aids, Comprehensive, Standards and Guidelines • Could include: virtual classrooms, videoconferencing • RAD methods: W2PPT (outline), PPT2PG, PPT2Flash, W2HTML, Simulations (e.g., Captivate), Videos Creating High Performance Training

29. Q+A • Contact me for questions • Phil Reagan preagan@mindspring.com • See FAQs on Website (TBA) Creating High Performance Training

30. Your Evaluation • Learning quality 1 2 3 4 5 • Presentation 1 2 3 4 5 • Technology 1 2 3 4 5 • Instructor 1 2 3 4 5 E-mail Feedback Phil Reagan preagan@mindspring.com Creating High Performance Training

31. What's Next • Your Project continues . . . • HPT Web Site (steady development) • More Examples • ISD Module (Mod3) • HPT Planning and Methodology (Mod2) • Session 5 Online • Send me your deliverables; I’ll post them • Continues for three weeks Creating High Performance Training