RKCS Learning Solutions

It’s a new year and we have all made goals and resolutions. Haven’t we? Well, maybe its just me. One of my main goals for this year is to try new things. I know how easy it can be as e-learning providers to get comfortable with our tools and get stuck in its use. The flip side is that we can get sucked into so many new pieces of software and apps that we don’t ever really gain mastery of any of them. That said, I plan to focus a bit more on some of the tools I already use while trying to gain a balance with some new things. Not sure if Jane Hart has created her Top 10 for 2010 yet, but here are a list of 10 tools for 2010 that I am either already using or plan to use:

1. iMac – (Just purchased the 27 inch quad core. It’s a beautiful machine and transfer of all my info has been easy. I will post later on some of the things I am doing with it)

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I just started a new contract and they are already mid-project. The bad? I come in and have a whole lot of catching up to do. I need to learn the new processes, figure out why certain decisions were made, learn the likes and dislikes of the client and not try to fix things that were already attempted before I came. The good? I am a new, fresh set of eyes and bring new energy to a project. I can also more quickly assess things that the team may miss because they are tired of addressing them.

One of the things that came up in my first team meeting was a flash of white. Huh?? Well, the project they were working on used Captivate swf files that had been ported into Articulate Presenter. There were some images/screenshots in use for the application we are describing. However, there are also some Captivate demo movies inside of the file. Because the client wanted a grey-ish background for the slides, there was apparently a flash of white that showed right before the Captivate movie played. At first, I really could not see what they were referring to. Because I was not looking at this during the meeting, my initial thought was that they were talking about the pre-loader or the delay in time that it took to load the movie. One of the team members sighed a bit and said to me that it was probably a minor detail but because they had all been working so hard on this project, that little thing was annoying for them. They noted that the end user might not see it or be bothered by it, but it bothered THEM.

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