{"id":391,"date":"2014-06-22T00:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2014-08-23T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:29:31","slug":"weekly-e-learning-challenge-podcasts-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/weekly-e-learning-challenge-podcasts-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Learning Challenge #39: Podcasts for Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Image credit: David Anderson<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hat’s off to David for this week’s e-learning challenge<\/a> – this was a fun one! I’ve never been interviewed, but I feel like it helped me out in chatting candidly (or kind of candidly…alright…not really at all – I scripted myself haha) – something I’m going to be doing next month at the E-Learning Heroes Community Workshop in Toronto…I’m scared!<\/p>\n

The Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, we were tasked with recording our responses to the following 10 questions:<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Tell us a little about yourself and the types of e-learning projects you most enjoy.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0How did you become an e-learning or instructional designer?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0What are the essentials of good e-learning design?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Tell me about your most successful e-learning project.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0What are the most important criteria in evaluating e-learning?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0What are some common mistakes new course designers make and how can they avoid them?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0How is designing mobile learning different than designing for the desktop?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0How do you evaluate whether your course was effective?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0How do you keep up your skills and stay current in the industry?<\/p>\n

–\u00a0What is the future of e-learning?<\/p>\n

The Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

I loathe public speaking and I’m working on getting better, so the first thing I did was script my responses to these questions, because I’m really not great at responding to questions on the fly. After scripting out all of my responses, I hit up Camtasia and recorded (and re-recorded) all of my responses! I exported to .wav format (thanks advanced export options!) and uploaded the entire playlist to Soundcloud, added tags and a description, and saved the playlist – easy peasy!<\/p>\n

The Result<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can listen to my recording, below (or by clicking here<\/a>), in all of it’s awkward glory – hopefully you find my responses insightful or informative – that was the goal!<\/p>\n