I ignored ChatGPT for months. I had multiple excuses:

“I have a 3-year-old! I’m too busy.”

“I’m never the first to adopt a new technology!” (A family trait – we didn’t get our first CD player until the mid-90s.)

“I’m not giving it my email and phone number!”

At the start of January 2021, I resolved to make a new recipe every week for a year. My son was 15 months old and becoming quite the little foodie. My first new recipe was homemade rosemary cheddar crackers. On December 30th, I made my last new recipe – sheet pan sausages and pineapple. Like many people, my past is littered with unkept new year’s resolutions. What was different about my recipe resolution that made me want to keep it?

I’m currently developing e-learning for a client using Articulate Storyline – this is an achievement! I first learned about Articulate in 2015 when I transitioned to a career in learning and development. From what I could tell, Articulate was the dominant player in e-learning authoring tools. If you called yourself an e-learning developer, you had to know Articulate and its suite of tools. I decided I should learn how to use Articulate – specifically, Storyline.

We’re one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. You likely haven’t participated in face-to-face (F2F) training in a long time. By now let’s hope all of us are experiencing (or creating) online training experiences that are more than poor substitutes for F2F training. When done well, live online training – also known as “virtual instructor-led training” (VILT) – can be as good as, if not better than, classroom training.