Saturday, March 1, 2014

Where did the time go?


 

I've been somewhat lax in my posting because creating my intervention has been all encompassing. I almost bit off more than I could chew. But it's done. I'm collecting my data this week, Monday and Friday; or Friday and Monday if we have a snow day on Monday. I've always been ahead of the game until now and it makes me uncomfortable. I just hope I can crunch my results data in a reasonable amount of time--yikes!

Learning how to use Articulate Storyline has been eye-opening and it has so much potential! Luckily the product support is excellent. I bought a book but have had to turn to the forums to find answers to very specific questions. My supervisor seems to see a future for it so I guarantee I'll have more learning experiences with the tool--think UDUTU on steroids. I was at work last night until 10:30, trying to finish it, and thought I did. There's so much to it that no matter how many times I look at it, there's something about it that I could change. I think I was getting obsessed--I had to step away...until I had my daughter complete the tutorial this morning and found 3 things I had to fix--ahhhhhhhhh!. So off to school we went this morning. Luckily I was able to find a maintenance person to let me in! So feel free to go to the website and sign up for the 30 day free trial and share my insanity:-).

Oh, and did I mention that Articulate doesn't play well with a 32 bit operating system? I have to disable everything on my computer, including the operating system to use it.  I asked tech to load a 64 bit system but they've been strangely silent on that--ha! Every time I save I say a prayer that it will work--I've lost about 5 hours of work due to this!!!

On a happy note, there are forty days until we leave for Utah for some spring skiing/riding. I am so excited. I just want to get out west and breath the fresh air and see the beautiful vistas. Serenity now.