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Hello Friends,

Welcome to the August ’07 edition of Wavelength’s Instructional Design Newsletter.

Turning over a new leaf…this phrase acquires a lot more color and meaning when the Monsoon season is about to end. Almost the entire plant kingdom has donned new clothes, having shed their old ones – they’ve all entered into a new phase of their lives. I am sure, if the plants would celebrate their new year, they would celebrate it at the beginning of the Monsoon season.

This little talk about nature sets a nice, lush scene for this month’s Mystery of the Month article. Though this may not be the time of appraisal in many organizations, but the relationship that the annual appraisal and its “intended” effects share with Monsoon and its effects on the Plant kingdom, cannot be denied. Just the way appraisals are conducted to sustain and reward performance for infusing life in organizations – the Monsoon infuses life into the plants. Appraisals help people turn over a new leaf…if need be! This is exactly what the appraisals should do – but do they?

This month’s Mystery of the Month article, “A New Leaf – Performance Vs. Training” discusses the issue of performance and how it relates to training. This article should be of interest to the training managers who act as consultants for their organization’s operations department. The complexities of the human mind result in equally complex appraisals and so analyzing the reason(s) behind a person’s lackadaisical performance could be humongous task. This article tries to dig out some of these reasons and classify them for the training manager’s advantage.

Your next question probably is – what’s new at Wavelength? Well, here’s what’s keeping us busy these days.

• Wavelength Launches Elearning Development Services:
  Wavelength is now offering eLearning Development Services (EDS) to non-eLearning organizations. If you are an organization that is engaged in businesses other than eLearning content development, you are welcome to contact us with your eLearning Content Development requirements.

• Wavelength’s Corporate Training Programs in Instructional Design and eLearning:
  We are also organizing some Instructional Design corporate trainings for some excellent IT/ITES organizations. Additionally, the following are trainings/workshops are scheduled for September and October.

  Here are the details of our upcoming workshops in September 2007.

  • Instructional Design & Content Writing Training Workshop (5-Days, Sept 24-28, 2007)
    This workshop is being held in September (Sept 24 – 28, 2007,) at Wavelength, Noida. If you are interested in either attending this workshop or sponsoring participants for the workshop, please write to us at: connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

   

  • Flash Components Workshop (1-Day, Sept 15, 2007, Saturday)
    This workshop assists you in mastering the use of Flash components. If you are comfortable with Flash but would like to learn the effective use of Flash components, you are welcome to register for it. Please read the details of the workshop at http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/flash_components_training_sep07.htm write to us at connect[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com for details of the registration process.

   

  • FREE Workshop – Printing Technology Orientation Workshop (Sep 16, 2007, Sunday)
    This workshop provides you a window into the world of printing. It introduces you to the different types of printing methods and helps you identify the different factors that influence the printing method selection. This workshop also gives you a quick overview of the different software applications, the pre-design settings and the pre-press procedures for printing. Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/print_workshop1.htm to read the details and register.

 

• Wavelength’s Online & Contact Courses:
  • 1. The Instructional Design for Senior Professionals Certificate (IDSP Online) Course (Nov–Dec, 2007)
    If you are a professional working in training, eLearning, or academics; and have more than 4 years of experience in any of the above areas, you are welcome to register for this course. The details of the course are available at: http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idsp_online.htm
    
    You are welcome to write to us at your queries to our IDSP Online Course Coordinator at idsponline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

   

  • 2. The Instructional Design & Content Writing Certificate (IDCWC Online) Course (Oct-Dec, 2007):
    The sixth session of the IDCWC Online course shall begin on October 01, 2007. If you are interested in joining the October - December 2007 session of IDCWC Online and you haven’t sent in your application yet, please do so. You are also welcome to write to us at your queries to our IDCWC Online Course Coordinator at idcwconline[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

   

  • 3. The Instructional Design & Content Writing Certificate (IDCWC – Contact) shall begin its next course group on September 30, 2007, while the ActionScript Developer Certificate (ASDC) course shall start classes on September 09, 2007.

I once again thank you all for being with us through these years inspiring us to do our best.

Thanks and Warm Regards,
Shafali


Shafali R. Anand.
(Editor & Publisher - Wavelength)

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