Tuesday 16 April 2013

3. Start Sketching Course / training.







Create a online training course is an Art. 

Make a Table Of Contents [TOC]


  • To start creating course content you need to do some research and brainstorming. Find existing available training on Internet and collect all course highlights at one excel sheet. Find books available on your training topics and checkout the books index and pick the topic you like to include in your training. or nothing is available then think by your self and start making a fresh list of all topics you want to include in your training.


Here I am going to make a list of some sample course content links:

  • Now start collecting definitions and descriptions of topics. Start making comparison tablesDifference tablesPros and cons tables. Start making highlights and Introduction and conclusion for each topics. start making chartscheat sheets, shortcut, mind maps, flow charts for your training. convert all content into easy steps content.




  • Always add flash back of what we learn and What we are going to learn next.




  • Start collecting images. you can search images using Google search. You can get images from fotolia,istockphoto[photos, illustrations, video, audio and editorial photos],pinterest.comwikipedia.orgflickr.com,  and search for royalty free images on Google and get good websites.



Collect Musics you need by search on google royalty free background music, royalty free music OR [ soundcloud.com,myspoonful.comccmixter.orgarchive.org/details/audiofreemusicarchive.orgichillmusic.com]

 





If you are making programming training videos. Keep making library to tested code. 

If you are making photoshop, audio/video editing, film making training videos then keep making library of all ready to use material in training like images, short clips, audios, videos, 

Break It Down With EXCEL
Use Excel to make this whole TOC and track your progress. 
Excel 2010 Essential Training

So,
Once you have make all base work for start making training then you should make 2-3 main things,
Transcription file for each topic.
Presentation file for each topic.
Resources file or folder for each topic[Ex. Code snippet file].

Here I list of sample transcription file in Microsoft word format and template for that as well:

script the entire workflow.

* script-template.doc - http://bit.ly/dN0W8m
* captions-speech-to-text-71.doc - http://bit.ly/fOzaPo



  • Always keep in mind that length of the videos should be short maximum 10 minutes. Which is reduces your effort for making videos and help viewers to learn topic easily.


  • organize all files and content in appropriate folder structure. So you can maintain it easily.

Things to know:
How to work with Templates in powerpoint?
How to work with Transitions in powerpoint?
How to work with Slides in powerpoint?
How to work with Images in powerpoint?
How to work with Shapes in powerpoint?
How to work with Charts in powerpoint?
How to work with Formatting Text in powerpoint?
How to Embedding Video in powerpoint?
How to work with Actions in powerpoint?
How to work with Animating in powerpoint?
How to Exporting The Presentation in PowerPoint?





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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL514136EF76796787
http://www.teach-ict.net/software/ppt/powerpoint.htm#basics
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to/training/powerpoint







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