Excited about video skills fair

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Specializes in Oncology.

I've been working on a video skills fair for our NACs (for a 200 bed hospital). It's basically a powerpoint with professional quality audio dubbing put into DVD format, 35 minutes long. The goal of the project was to create a generally informative, portable, and fun skills fair. New orientees will watch the video, and skills fair make-ups will be a breeze. And unless every policy in the book changes in the next couple of years... then the video skills fair can be used over again, thus saving time. Has anyone ever tried this before?

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I have never been involved in either watching or making such a teaching tool. But as an employee, it sounds fun to watch, and I bet it was fun to develop. Congrats and I hope your employees love it!

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

That does sound like fun. Being an educator is just the best job ever, isn't it?

I develop eLearning using many different types of media.. most programs are delivered via our LMS, but we also do stand-alone via DVD or just hung on our Intranet. I'm currently having fun learning to use CrazyTalk a new (very inexpensive) software for creating animated 'talking heads'. It creates Flash (mpeg4) files you can attach to PowerPoint - you may want to try it.

I'm curious - obviously the presentations can 'demo' the skill or review a policy, but how are you validating the skill/competency? Is this part of a blended learning design?

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