We will be working on evaluating some really awesome tools for e-learning.

Our owner Diane W. is a mentor for the FIRST Robotics Program.  She has been mentoring for 7 years for the program. She will be creating e-Learning for FIRST Robotics and her team, the Highland High School Robotics Team in Gilbert, Arizona.

We wanted to post some blogs from time to time to discuss some of the awesome software that has been donated to the team to use.  Quite a few companies have donated software to help Diane facilitate her vision.  Her vision is to create e-learning classes to help students to learn new skills, or to brush up on skills that they may have missed because they couldn’t attend a meeting due schedule conflict. 

Diane wanted to help ensure that a student wouldn’t miss a critical skill if they had a schedule conflict or were sick.   This would help free up mentors to be working with the group while a student catches up on a missed workshop.  “Our build session is only 6 weeks long,  it’s not a lot of time to brainstorm, design and build a robot.”  The schedules get extreme and conflicts inevitably arise.    The e-learning program will help solve some of the schedule conflicts and missed skills issues.  We also will have a great way to track our students progress.  We will have our e-learning loaded into an LMS (Learning Management System).  The learning management System keeps track of student info, student progress, testing results and reports all the information back to the administrator.  We will have safety classes on place to ensure that the students learn basic safety skills.  We will also track their progress to ensure they pass the course and issue a certificate of completion.

Please check out a list of our fine sponsors:  (We urge you to visit their websites and start using their tools)

• Harbinger Group (Raptivity and Elicitus)  http://www.harbingergroup.com/
• Flypaper                        www.flypaper.com
• Articulate                      www.articulate.com
• Presentation Space   www.presentationspace.com
• DIY e-Learning           www.diyelearning.com
• e-Learning Brothers  www.elearningbrothers.com
• Coggno                            www.coggno.com
• Rapid Intake                 www.rapidintake.com

We also will be discussing some of the other awesome tools that were donated for our team to use, that can help your business to be more productive.

• Wufoo                 www.wufoo.com                 Form creation software for your website, with loads of additional features like payment integration, reporting and more.
• MailChimp        www.mailchimp.com        e-mail campaign manager.
• Artist Valley    www.artistsvalley.com     Icon Collections.
• Footage Firm   www.footagefirm.com      Stock video footage.

We will be working on some short blog posts to discuss tips, tricks and tools that are useful  when creating         e-learning content.  There are so many choices out there, we want to help you to decide on how to choose some of the tools or approaches toward creating an e-learning course.