Instructional Design Strategies Project

For this assignment I wanted to incorporate elements of infographics. I personally find them very engaging, as I am a visual learner. Besides requiring lots of interesting facts to make the infographics, I also wanted to make it kind of like a sales tool as my training team is currently trying to convince our employer to incorporate more e-learning. I researched a couple different software options and decided on PowToon.

The most challenging part of this assignment was learning new software, I could have gone with something I am familiar with but I wanted the challenge and I am glad that I did. I started out by doing all my research, and then I dove right into creating the page content. This is the number one mistake made by all amateurs, I should have recorded my audio first, although at the time I wasn't sure I was going to even have audio.

Anyways, my manager at work also gave me some advice and suggested I keep my slides more simple and explain the content in more depth with my audio. I was all for that considering it took me about an hour to create one 20 second slide. But then I went to go record my audio and realized that I had to do it all in one go. To make things even more complicated, PowToon only allows you to create 20-second slides, so I had to talk faster during some parts to get my points across. But I think I overcame all of my challenges and I am proud of the outcome. Even though I had to hide in my dark basement while all my friends got to go to the beach and play in the sun, I really enjoyed this project and I secretly want to do it again! (When the weather isn't as nice.)

This is me when I finally finished this project and got to go outside and enjoy the sun!

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