Interagency Training Expo Resources

Thank you for attending one or more of the 2018 Interagency Training Expo’s elearning track sessions! Below are materials mentioned by Microassist presenters:

• “Using Microlearning to Develop Your Workforce”— Brandon Winston
• “Wham! Bam! and Pow! Using Comic Book Design to Engage Learners”— Kevin Gumienny

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10:45 a.m.
“Using Microlearning to Develop Your Workforce”

Presenter

Brandon Winston, Microassist Instructional Designer

Resources

• “Making Learning Easy by Design: How Google’s Primer team approached UX” – Sandra Nam
• Will Thalheimer on Subscription Learning
  • “Stuck in an E-Learning Box? Try Subscription Learning” – TD.org
  • “Subscription Learning for Leadership Development” – TD.org
  • “Spacing Effect and Subscription Learning” (at the Learning Technologies Conference, 2017) [VIDEO]
• “WNYC’s Note to Self sent 300,000 texts to 15,000 people” – Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab
• “How to Make Microlearning Matter”  – Annie Murphy Paul, SHRM.org
• “New action mapping job aids available” – Cathy Moore

Thanks to the Texas SACC Training and Development Subcommittee and the many volunteers from Texas state agencies for organizing this year’s Texas State Government Interagency Training Expo. Thanks also to the E-Learning Council for sponsoring the elearning track.

2:30 p.m.
“Wham! Bam! and Pow! Using Comic Book Design to Engage Learners”

Presenter

Kevin Gumienny, Microassist Senior Learning Architect

Examples

World War Fighter

• “Connect with Haji Kamal” (Flash-based activity)
• Cathy Moore’s discussion on making “Connect with Haji Kamal”

Elearning Engaged 

• “Broken CoWorker”

Resources

Books

• Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics and Making Comics
• Nick Sousanis – Unflattening
• Will Eisner – Anything
• Mort Walker – Lexicon of Comicana

Blogs, Websites

• Nate Piekos — Blambot
• Your comic book (or strip) of choice
  • Comics Kingdom
  • Go Comics

Thank you for attending the 2018 Texas State Government Interagency Training Expo! We’ve served Texas government for nearly three decades and count many state projects among our greatest client success stories.  Could your training project be next?

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