From the Editor's Desk - March 2007                                         Previous Editorials >>>

Hello Friends,

Welcome to this edition of Wavelength - The Indian Instructional Design Newsletter.

With the cricket fever gripping almost all of us with a ferocity that belies the calm exterior portrayed by the game; most of us have become oblivious to weather’s antics. Our cricket team suddenly found an inner power that made them win when advertisers were threatening to pull out their ad-campaigns. Their performance was certainly far more captivating than the hailstorm that some of us experienced in Delhi a few days ago – hailstorm with the sun shining bright! So far, this year has been the year of surprises. We’ve had surprises on both ends of the good-bad spectrum. Nithari killings, Woolmer’s sad but mysterious demise, even the vagaries of weather, form the negative extreme of this spectrum; while Viru’s performance, India’s economic performance, the dazzling yearly increases in salaries, the expected growth in global outsourcing – all these smile at us from the positive side of the spectrum.

Yet another surprise for the special eLearning and ID community (of course, from the glowing positive end of the surprise spectrum) comes from Wavelength. Wavelength adds three more flowers in its bouquet of courses and services.

Wavelength – The Indian Media Newsletter:
Wavelength now launches the Media Newsletter for graphic designers. This newsletter will address the graphic designers from the digital media perspective. It shall aim to connect the media designers of the web, print, and eLearning industries throughout India and aid their quest for relevant knowledge in the areas of art, design, media technology, inspirations, and media related humor. Those who already subscribe to Wavelength’s ID newsletter may not fret that the media newsletter too will follow the textual theme – I assure you, it will be full of vibrant colors and media-rich content!

Some of you who are media designers (and we know that you are) will automatically begin to receive the Media Newsletter. You will have the option to unsubscribe, which I hope you will not feel like exercising. I request all our other subscribers to gift a subscription of the media newsletter to their graphic designer friends and associates.

Flash Certificate Course (FCC):
The course that we bring to you is Wavelength’s Flash Certificate Course (FCC) a contact program of four weeks duration, for which classes will be held on Sundays. The audience for this course are all those who have no exposure to Flash at all. This four-week contact program shall be conducted on Sundays, and the pre-requisites include ability to work on Photoshop, Illustrator, or Corel Draw; and graduation. This course would also work as a bridge-course for JavaScript, C++, C Sharp, Java, and VB Programmers who wish to learn ActionScript, the programming language.

If you have friends who are looking at entering into the eLearning industry with the ability to use Flash with a flourish, recommend this course to them. This course, however, is currently being offered only at Wavelength, Noida.

Comprehensive Content Review Services (CCRS):
This month we also launch Wavelength’s Comprehensive Content Review Services (CCRS), where we offer the industry, review services for Instructor-led Trainings (ILTs) and eLearning Content (Online Content, WBTs, CBTs). These review services will include; storyboard reviews as well as completed courses/training reviews for instructional design and language. If your organization is interested in exploring the possibility of associating with the passion and expertise of Wavelength in instructional design; contact us by calling 9810324284/9810412295/0120-4315505 or sending an email at: ranjeet[at]vibrantwavelength[dot]com

On a different note, let me ask you a very important question - Are you motivated?
Motivated…for what? Pshaw! You can’t even ask a truly open-ended question any more. Well, motivated to read about magic. Oh yes! About magic…because only magic can ensure that your trainees/learners are motivated. Read about the magic trick to motivate the learners by reading the Wavelength article, “The Motivation Spell”.

Free Workshop - Media for eLearning:
In April, Wavelength shall bring you a FREE workshop, “Media for eLearning”. This workshop is intended for those graphic designers, who work either for the web-development industry or the print industry; and who want to discover how media creation and application for eLearning is different from that for web or print industries. If you have have friends in media, recommend this workshop to them.

If you are interested in joining us for the 5-Day ActionScript 2.0 (with Object-oriented programming module) training program from April 16 to April 20, 2007, click to read the details of the program. If you would like you or your team to register for the program, write to us at connect [at] vibrantwavelength [dot] com

We have closed admissions for the April-June 2007 session of the Instructional Design & Content Writing Certificate (IDCWC Online) Course. Admissions to the next session of IDCWC Online (July 07 - September 07) shall open on April 01, 2007. If you are interested in joining the IDCWC Online session July-September 2007 send your queries to idcwconline [at] vibrantwavelength [dot] com. Click http://www.vibrantwavelength.com/idcwc_online.htm for the details of this course and the application process.

The next course group for the IDCWC contact course as well as the ASDC course shall begin on April 29, 2007. The Flash Designer Certificate course shall begin classes on May 20, 2007. If you wish to enroll for any of the above courses, call us at 9810324284/9810412297/0120-4315505.

I would like to thank our subscribers, our client organizations, our course participants, and the training and the eLearning industry, for being with us and for encouraging us in our endeavor to push the existing standards of eLearning content services and training higher.

Thanks and Warm Regards,
Shafali


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

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