From the Editor's Desk - August 2010
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Welcome to this edition of Wavelength.
If you’ve been a content writer, you know that the most
difficult part of any content writer’s job is to start something
on a new page. With the pestering ghost of the question, “How
to begin” floating in front of your blank document –
it isn’t an easy job to begin right. You also know that the
most important part of your document is its beginning – because
that’s what the passerby audience will see before deciding
whether to stop and read or to move on!
Now think. If there was a formula, which could help you write
your first few lines in a way that your content will always make
a passerby stop and read – wouldn’t you have struck
a goldmine?
Instructional Design is full of such formulae. It handholds
you through the most dangerous content terrains, and it ensures
that you don’t slip at all…ever! But then, you’ve
seen people flying over those terrains with the grace of an eagle;
dropping their content straight into their audience’s outstretched
hands. Haven’t you? They, you think, have managed without
using instructional design.
Think again, and read the Wavelength article, “Instructional
Design is a Deficiency Need – Pay Heed to the Signals!”
at http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/articles/need-for-instructional-design.htm
If you are wondering how you can build your own Instructional
Design toolbox for creating eLearning content, you should go through
the details of the Instructional
Design for eLearning workshop, which Wavelength is conducting
in October.
Here are the details of Wavelength's
upcoming Workshop
I.
Instructional Design for eLearning - Open Workshop
Program Code: IDeL_10OW01
Duartion: 3 days (8 hrs/day)
Dates: October 28-30, 2010 (Thursday to Saturday)
This is a 3-day workshop that Wavelength is organizing in the
month of October (yes, the weather in Delhi/Noida is awesome at
the time of the year,) which is designed to meet the requirements
of instructional designers/content writers who want to ensure the
success of their content by consciously applying instructional design
in the right manner.
If you are interested either in attending the workshop or in
sponsoring participants for it, please write to us at connect
[at] vibrantwavelength [dot] com.
Find the details of this training program at:
http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/workshops/
instructional_design_for_eLearning_open_training_workshop_oct10.asp?ltp=st
Wavelength’s Online Courses:
Wavelength’s online courses shall begin their upcoming sessions
on October 01, 2010. You are welcome to send your applications for
the October 2010 sessions.
Here are more details on these courses.
(I also request you to read The
Philosophy of Wavelength Courses before you begin to explore.)
The
IDCWC Online
( Next Session begins: October 01, 2010)
The IDCWC (Instructional Design & Content Writing
Certificate) Online Course Details can be found at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_online.htm.
If you are an instructional designer/content writer who wants
to do instructional design the right way, and who wants to design
and develop eLearning or training content with confidence, this
is the course for you.
NOTE:
If you stay in NCR (Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, or nearby
areas,) you should consider enrolling for the IDCWC Contact program
for which the next session is scheduled to begin on October 24,
2010. (details at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_details.htm).
This course is offered as a 2-month intensive contact program
with classes at Wavelength Noida. If interested, please call us
at: 9810324284.
The
IDSP Online
(Next Session begins: October 01, 2010)
The IDSP (Instructional Design for Senior Professionals)
Online Course Details are available at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm.
This 2-month online course addresses the ID learning needs of
those senior professionals who have more than four years of experience,
but who haven’t learned Instructional Design formally. As
they would confirm, the knowledge of instructional design helps
tremendously in client interactions and team-management.
In the past, this course has been taken by Senior Professionals
ranging from Instructional Analysts/Specialists to the Content/Training
Heads of different eLearning/Content Organizations. This course
requires at least 4 years of experience in a learning related
area.
The
CWWC Online
(Next Session begins: October 01, 2010)
The CWWC (Content Writing for the Web Certificate) Online
Course Details are available at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/content_writing_for_web_online.htm.
Are you someone who wants to write web-content that is recognized
by the search engines, the audience, and the clients alike? If
you would like to learn the nuances of effective web-content writing
through an enjoyable and effective learning experience, you should
apply for this course.
Wavelength’s Contact Courses:
The new sessions for the contact courses will begin as per the following
schedule. Registrations are currently on for all these courses.
If you are interested in taking one of our Online Courses,
send in your application soon:) However if one of our contact programs
interests you, call us up at any of the Wavelength numbers.
I wish you all the best.
Warm Regards,
Shafali
Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)
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