Artifacts: INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENTS 

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NARRATIVE

•  Demonstrates the disposition for life-long learning and continuous professional development.

 

The principles of Andragogy are constantly at play. I am forever motivated; a seeker of relevant information to not only solve problems, but innovate creative solutions enhancing learner engagement. Because the modern day learner is a distracted audience, we as educators must do battle with attention robbing mobile apps, games, theatre – while at the same time increase knowledge. You have to engage, you have to be effective, and through technology and visual design, along with great writing, you will. But not if you sit idle.

 

My artifacts presented here illustrate this lifelong commitment to riding the slippery buttered edge of technology; staying on top of trends (Hello Storyline 360), being in the loop. One lapse of attention in this rapidly moving industry within industries, and you are stale toast.

 

Admittedly, I’m a Linkedin junkie. My smartest colleagues thrive there, drawing upon the sparks of their own connections. Within this network and the Groups I subscribe, I ride forward with the pulse. One has to keep looking around their shoulder for the next wave to ride, with a balanced approach of implementation.

 

I’ve been known to spend a Saturday night or two hanging out with Lynda. Lynda.com is a wonderful Camtasia land of software tutorials where few dinosaurs roam, a place one can keep up with the latest software versions. I have taken and continue to take relevant courses.

 

Who needs badges? An old habit from Boy Scouts, I have enough badges from the Purdue Passport program to prove my insatiable desire to learn new technologies, including Captivate, Storyline 2, Premiere, Evernote, Popplet, Wix, and Camtasia. I took a special course in Badges, and earned a few outside of my wheelhouse as well. I will add to my sash the Powtoon badge, having utilized it for intros and outros of my professional project (which I’m not given privilege to display). Many other Adobe CC badges such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects will be earned when they are offered. I’ve been a master at all three for over a decade, but as versions change, you have to up your game or get knocked off the board.

 

I have been fortunate as the lead cameraman of the inaugural Ted Conferences, and many major corporation conventions, to have witnessed and absorbed speeches from some of the brightest minds in the world. Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Jeffrey Katzenberg… okay, I’m name dropping, but I’ve also attended major multi-media conferences such as NAB (National Association of Broadcasters), where multimedia feeds education, and plan to attend more. As part of my work as Digital Media Manager and Head of Video Production for a Fortune 500 company, I was fortunate to have attended 3 Supercomputing conferences. Here, I interviewed the brains behind Indiana U and several other major universities, where they enable education through wielding big data, and also became interested in Virtual Reality applications towards education, one of my impetus’ toward joining the LD&T program (applying VR to language learning gamification). But as I continued into the program, I decided to focus on using my experience to play a significant role in shifting education through the implementation of a wide range of shifting technologies, and this requires tools of engagement. As these tools change, and theories evolve into practice, my disposition for life-long learning and continuous development marches forward in an effort to shift, change, implement – the right technology in just the right places. That’s what eLearning is all about.