Corporate Training Sessions
Train the Trainer
Is your in house training dull? Do your employees dread going to training sessions? Many times the content isn't creating the "bore factor" but rather the way in which the content is delivered. This training session shows how to use the instructional design process for developing your own in house training sessions, supplemented by engaging openers (not traditional, cheesy ice-breakers), meaningful learning activities and technology components that can be easily integrated, even by the most novice or "technology deficient" trainer.
Facilitating Effective Meetings
Leave ineffective and off task meetings behind. During this session, participants will use a proven process for facilitating meetings, experiment and practice their own facilitation skills through role play, and evaluate the effectiveness of facilitation techniques by viewing and discussing provided video vignettes.
Using CPS (Classroom Performance System) to Increase Learner Participation
Are you looking for a way to increase participation in your classroom or training session? Classroom Performance Systems (by eInstruction) are a great way to stimulate discussions, increase participation, and gauge overall comprehension. This technology makes it easy to collect and analyze data, to conduct polls and surveys as well as assessing student progress. Learn about the uses of CPS such as test taking, verbal question/response, and reporting.
Digital Storytelling
Tell Your Story – Technical Training in a Narrative Context
The goal of the workshop is to design and produce a 3-5 minute digital story. The workshops are usually held as all day, contiguous day intensives, involving 6-12 participants. Participants are given materials prior to the workshop to assist them in preparation, including suggestions of limits in script duration, number of images, and use of video clips.
The workshop involves four major components:
- Presentation of Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling
As both a guide to scripting and design, and as a showcase for design examples, each workshop begins with a lecture-demonstration as guidelines to creating a digital story. Outstanding examples that illustrate the elements are presented as well. - Group Script Process
As in a creative writing class, we facilitate a review of story ideas or actual scripts as a group process. Both the general approach and specific editorial issues are addressed, and issues of storyboarding and design are touched upon. - Hands On Software Tutorials
Participants are taken step by step through the basics of the software(s) used in the process. While we often use two professional softwares, Photoshop, for image manipulation, and Premiere, for video editing, the process can be done with a large number of alternative tools as well. - Production Support and Management
Most of the workshop is spent with participants working on producing their own projects, with their own ambition and pace. CDS staff has trained extensively on the process of assisting users during the various steps of multimedia production. Great attention is given to time management, troubleshooting, and prioritizing the process to assure the participants achieve the goal of a completed project. Additionally, these workshops will touch on integration of this type of media/exercise within curriculum for teachers and how this type of work increases media literacy not only for teachers but for their students.
