ISPI SoCal
Free for ISPI SoCal Members
Get Good with Articulate Storyline, with John Morley, ATD San Diego
ISPI SoCal has partnered with ATD San Diego to enable ISPI SoCal members to participate in the series Get Good with Articulate Storyline. Articulate Storyline is our profession’s option of choice for developing online learning support. This open forum is for learning and sharing techniques and insights.
Articulate Storyline is our profession’s option of choice for developing online learning support. This open forum is for learning and sharing techniques and best practices.
Social media is influencing the learning landscape. Learners are looking for “edutainment”—being entertained while learning. One option is to gamify the learning content. We’ll walk through an example of how you can use motivational mechanics (without gimmicks) to create deeper engagement and make a performance difference.
Cyd Walker has spent over 20 years in areas from nutrition to healthcare; and from industrial to golf and municipal turf. She has been working in instructional and learning design since 2017, for clients including the Toro Company, Great Minds, and Mary Washington Healthcare.
Cyd enjoys crafting learning adventures that really hit home, pushing folks to dive in and figure stuff out. And she loves giant schnauzers enough to have lived with one, which has sadly passed away.
John Morley has helped to improve job performance for clients and employers including Genentech, Hitachi Data Systems, Southern California Edison, Kaiser Permanente, and most of the Asian car companies. Author of the book Scriptwriting for High Impact videos, he has taught at Cal State Northridge, lectured at UCLA, and conducted workshops at a variety of professional organizations and conferences, including ADT Tech Knowledge.
An experienced coder, he has developed and managed numerous websites, and developed software used by clients including Saturday Night Live. An external consultant, he is available to help you on a project by emailing: John@IDforHire.biz.
It's an open forum, so come prepared to click along, ask questions, share your own experiences with Storyline, or just sit back and take a look at what Storyline can do.
The workshop is for intermediate to advanced users, but if you are new to Storyline, this is still for you: It will show you what Storyline can do, give you a look under the hood to see how it works, and let you ask questions of practitioners who are using Storyline now.
To click along, you need access to Storyline. If you do not already have access, a free trial is available (once on the page, scroll toward the bottom). https://articulate.com/360/storyline
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO RELEASE
Note to registrants: This webinar may be recorded for chapter marketing purposes.By registering for this event, you are giving permission to San Diego ATD to make and use at their discretion photos and a video recording of this event that may include you or your property. Although you may choose to not have your face recorded by by not activating your camera, your name and voice may still be recorded.
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ISPI SoCal Presents: GEMS RoundTable
Join us to discuss this month's article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-flying-taught-me-leading-change-lessons-from-cockpit-adams-spztc/
Facilitated by: Connie Halvorsen
The RoundTable is an exciting approach that stimulates incredible conversation and insight around the topics and trends impacting our discipline.
We read aloud the RoundTable Guidelines and this session's article for about 15 minutes. Then for the next 45 minutes, we offer everyone in attendance equal time to share their thoughts and experiences on or around the topic. Come explore with us!
NOTE! Please download and print the article, or view in browser, for your use during the session (link above).
To facilitate and/or propose an article for a future RoundTable, contact Laura Braeunig laura@nationalitc.com
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#PerformanceImprovement #L&DandInstructionalDesign #GEMSRoundTable
The GEMS RoundTable format was provided by Sue Gabriele, President and Owner, Gabriele Educational Materials and Systems. Website: www.gemslearning.net Email: sgabriele@gemslearning.net
ISPI SoCal Presents: First Tuesday Webinars
Managing Change in the Midst of the AI Storm
James Eicher
What is your organization's human / AI change management strategy?
Organizations are in the midst of escalating social and technological change, driven by rapid development of human / intelligent machine partnerships.
Session Description
In this session, James Eicher identifies three emerging change challenges:
Current research unequivocally reveals collaboration linking human and intelligent machine expertise results in optimum performance on multiple levels. Note, the current term to characterize and promote human / intelligent machine collaboration is Human AI Team, or "HAT". However, in the midst of the AI driven change storm, have organization leaders made a defined, operational distinction between the impacts of AI and managing the impacts of AI?
Organizational change now includes people change in tandem with intelligent machine change. Thus, organization leaders need to embrace an executable framework of behavioral change in order to optimize HAT performance.
About the Speaker
James Eicher is the creator of Cognitive Management™ which applies research from the cognitive sciences to organization and leadership behavior. Mr. Eicher has held leadership positions at KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton, Symantec and IBM, and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Selling magazine.
While an Undergraduate attending UCSC he was both John Grinder’s and the late Gregory Bateson’s teaching assistant. His most recent work, Ecology of Truth, is inspired by Bateson’s work on what he termed the ecology of mind.
Jim is the author of the management communication text Making the Message Clear and many articles, assessments and book chapters. He is co-author, with the late John Jones and William Bearley, of the management assessments the Matrix Manager Inventory: Leading in a Collaborative Environment; the Neurolinguistic Communication Profile; Rapport: Matching and Mirroring Communication and Post-Heroic Leadership: Managing the Virtual Organization.
Jim has also authored or co-authored many articles, assessments and book chapters including: Cognitive Arbitrage: The Outsourcing of Intelligence; the Leader-Manager Profile; The Change Bully: What to do when Demagoguery Masquerades as Organization Change; Making Strategy Happen; Organizational drift: Why organizations drift off keel and what human resource professionals can do about it; The Execution Gap: 7 Questions You Must Ask; the Strategic Action Profile; and Cognitive Management: Managing your Organization’s Mind.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how schools design learning, support teachers, and scale high‑quality instruction. In K–12, the stakes are even higher: equity, engagement, and time. This month’s AI@Work session spotlights practical ways Canva, Gemini, and Khanmigo can streamline course builds, spark creativity, and make learning more engaging—without sacrificing academic integrity or accessibility.
Join us for an interactive conversation with Rashena McWhite, Canvas LMS Administrator and Instructional Designer for Escambia County Public Schools. Rashena will share how she weaves AI tools into everyday workflows, plus a live demo of real setups you can adapt for your district, school, or classroom.
In Canva (integrated with Canvas LMS):
Magic Media for quick visuals and professional assets.
Translation features to support multilingual families.
“Code for Me” interactive activities to support coding and STEM practice.
With Google Gemini:
Brainstorming and drafting parent/colleague emails.
Lesson‑plan generation with standards alignment and differentiation prompts.
With Khanmigo:
Fun engagement strategies like the summary poem to check understanding and make learning memorable.
Student‑friendly interactions that promote deeper reflection and creativity.
Ready‑to‑use workflows in Canva (Magic Media, translation, Code for Me).
Prompt strategies in Gemini for emails and lesson plans.
Creative student‑friendly engagement using Khanmigo.
Practical examples of how AI can reduce busywork and give teachers back more time.
Rashena McWhite is a Canvas LMS Administrator and Instructional Designer for Escambia County Public Schools. She builds teacher‑friendly systems that reduce friction, support equity, and empower creativity in the classroom.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore AI’s role in the classroom with practical tools you can use tomorrow. Register here: [Insert Wild Apricot registration link]
Accessibility: Live captions available. All registrants will receive the session recording and resources.
In design, it's often the nuances, done over and again that add up to a big impression. And in learning support, even the smallest interaction reinforces knowledge and even the smallest animation elevates engagement and heightens the impression that this has been so thoughtfully done that it must be worth paying close attention to; if only to be delighted by the next tasteful detail.
In this workshop, you can learn how to create those micro-things that have a big impact on user interface design, from a master of creating professional and innovative online learning solutions, Daniel Canaveral.
Daniel is an Instructional Technologist with Osaic, Inc - one of the nation’s leading wealth management firms. He is an industry-recognized visual design expert and experienced eLearning developer, and frequent contributor to the Articulate eLearning Challenge.
Located near historic Charleston, South Carolina, Daniel enjoys creating professional and innovative online learning solutions.
Neuroscience Reveals 4 Ways to Get Smarter, Make Better Decisions, and Stay Mentally Agile
Join us to discuss this month's article: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/neuroscience-reveals-4-ways-to-get-smarter-make-better-decisions-and-stay-mentally-agile/91210158?leadId=4487745
Facilitated by: John Morley
Storyline does a great job of automatically creating states for buttons: hover, down, selected, visited, etc. But there is so much more they can be used for, from assigning avatars to changing field entries and control settings during simulations. This session can change your thinking about states and open up a whole new range of new possibilities.
Thaddaeus Smith began his over 24 years in education and learning by earning a BA from Clemson University. He later continued his education by obtaining an MA from Georgia State University and certification from the Applied Instructional Design Academy.
He is the founder of TMS Instructional Design, and has worked for clients including SweetRush, Endurance Learning, and Siemens.
He has participated in over 20 of Articulate's E-Learning Heroes Challenges, and has spent ten years developing media for learning German and English as a second language. Thaddaeus is fluent in German, conversational in Spanish, and kinda knows Dutch and Mandarin Chinese.
