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What did you think of the July meeting format?
I liked the July meeting format.

Is this something you would like to try in the future?
Yes, I would like that
Any additional thoughts/questions?
It was very interesting hearing what other
training people in the group had attended. It was
inspirational.

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1. I really liked the format of this meeting!
2. Yes, I'd like to do it again.
3. This was great for encouraging discussion. I also really liked the continuous learning as a whole - I enjoyed getting the chance to learn something new and talk about it with others!

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I watched Instructional Design for Adult Learners, Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning, and started (but did not finish yet) PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Business Presentations.
1. I chose these trainings to get another perspective on these topics, and to round out some of the existing knowledge I had.
2. I was familiar with the frameworks (70-20-10, Knowles Andragogy) covered in the ID course, but it was useful to see them explained again. For the Accessible Learning, I found it helpful to think about designing content to be delivered in multiple modalities, and to build in a variety of assessment approaches.
3. Both the ID and Accessibility course reinforced for me the idea that as we design new material, we should be thinking about (a) how the learner will apply the knowledge, i.e. what is their motivation for taking the course? (b) how to build in more independent and peer-learning exercises, with periodic guidance from instructors (c) revisiting designing for accessibility in all our materials. I have been focusing lately on guidance for self-paced learning (i.e. created in Storyline) but want to think about how that can be expanded to other formats.

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1. What did you think of the July meeting format?
I liked it!

2. Is this something you would like to try in the future?
Yes

3. Any additional thoughts/questions?
I like that everything appears to be saved here to read later. I didn't have a chance t read everyone's responses in the moment. I bet there are a lot of cool features we could try too.

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Instructional design for adult leaners.
1. I wanted an update on instructional design for adult learners. I have a grad certificate in it, but it's been a while since I took a course on it.

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Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning
1. I chose this training because I often wonder if we are doing enough as educators to meet accessibility needs of our students. Do we think in this realm when we are creating courses? How can we do better?
2. Simplifying assessments to drive home teaching points. It's less important to have complex examples that address "ABCD and XYZ," and more important that everyone fully understand "ABC."
3. We could make a URATT resource for accessibility guidance. A PowerPoint template may not be a bad idea, but I would worry that our courses may look redundant and less creative.

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PowerPoint Essential Training: Office 365
(the first 3 hours of it)
I wanted to see what kinds of features in PowerPoint I was missing.

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Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning

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I didn't take one :(

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PowerPoint Tips & Tricks
I have a basic knowledge already but always helpful to learn more tips & tricks that are often left out of other trainings.
One thing I learned about different auto formatting options for slides.
We can make sure our trainings and slides/resources are created to be as assessible and easy to digest as possible.

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Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning
1. I manage the our school's research admin website so I thought the topic was important for me
2. I didn’t realize that so many people have disabilities but they don’t even know/haven’t been diagnosed
3. To make sure that we do follow the accessibility best practices at all times (i.e., not only in presentations but in guidance docs). Color contrast, captions/transcripts, and alternate text are so important (I had no idea). Have long and short

*** I found it very interesting that they mentioned acronyms as a potential language disability. Personally, I FOR SURE felt incompetent my first year at Harvard with the acronyms people were throwing around. The military at least has them listed in their "smartbook." So I did the next best thing and googled it. Turns out, I didn't get many hits. I know OPC is working on it (thank you OPC!) but it's something that we (myself included) should keep in mind whenever we reference any acronyms in our presentations, guidance docs, and websites ***

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Instructional Design: Adult Learners

Teaching Techniques: Making Accessible Learning

These trainings felt foundational for the first (how to meet our target audience) and for the second, it was a personal connection because I have had to make some accessible docume
nts lately

Accessible Learning - many different techniques to make training more accessible in different ways and to think about accessibility in different ways

Instr Design - Learning approaches and how to offer a variety that meets all three learning styles

Can definitely work towards building more accessible trainings - would be good to have an accessibility review before a training goes live.

Should definitely try to reflect adult learning techniques into trainings - I need to spend more time with this one to get specific
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PowerPoint Quick Tips
1. I wanted to learn tips on how to enhance my PowerPoint presentations
2. I learned that I can practice rehearsing my PPT presentations using the Presenter Coach/Rehears with Coach option. I am very excited to use this tool!
3. I think the training includes lots of helpful suggestions that can be incorporated into the PPT presentations we use for trainings to make them more engaging for participants. The Presenter Coach option is a great way for instructors to ensure their presentation sounds more polished and professional.

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PowerPoint: Eight Easy Ways to Make Your Presentation Stand Out

1. I've had to create a lot of presentations for report outs to stakeholders lately, so I thought it was time to refresh my skills
2. I thought the eight easy ways were good, but some of them don't translate well to accessibility concerns (like adding animations, or using lots of pictures with no mention of alt-text).
3. There were good ideas on how to make the presentations engaging and more than just text on a screen, but as mentioned above, I would advise looking at the tips through a lens of accessibility before implementing them.

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Powerpoint Essentials "Quick Tips"
1. Why did you choose this training?

I wanted to learn more about the different functionality to enhance the online training experience/develop more dynamic trainings/engaging trainings
2. What did you learn from this training?
Shortcuts in for developing powerpoint slides, advanced editing features
3. How might we be able to use information from this training in our URATT work?
Ease of slide development, tools and resources for subject matter experts.