It is day four at my internship. The big news is that I get to put all of those Instructional Design skills to work. I have started a project for creating a training to teach users how to create DVD’s from the film footage that the LDS church creates. Like all large organizations, the structure of this one is changing. This skill that used to be handled by a core group of individuals is now going to be made available to each department, and there is a large need to have training materials available for them so they can create this content on their own. I have started creating a project plan and a flow chart and am working with the content experts to get the materials that I need to produce the training. Very cool.
In other news I got my hands on an Ipad for the first time. It is a great device for content consumption, but I am not sure it is the best thing for content creation. I know people who have one will be saying what of course your can create content. I am not arguing the merits of this, but it is an apple device. Can it run parallels? No. Can it run the major windows suites on it? No. So while it is a great device, (and maybe in history it will be seen as a transitional device between the laptop and the tablet thing that we see in Star Trek) I still see it as an auxiliary device not a replacement for your computer. And as this is a web 2.0 class, and we are discussing produsers, I would have to say it does not move web 2.0 forward, as Web 2.0 is all about users creating content and sharing it.
Well that’s all for today. Still really enjoying my internship. . .
Glad to hear that you enjoying your internship. Sounds you are experiencing variety of technologies at there. I always wish to have this ipad… but as your mentioned, one device cannot be the best for everything. And because of different belonged company of devices, we should consider their inter-convertibility. However, ipad looks soooo great and stimulates my curiosity.
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