Young children don’t realize that they make choices every day…what toy to play with, sharing or not sharing a toy and eating or not eating what is put in front of them just to name a few.

Being able to make choices is empowering. That is the function of interactivity in E-learning programs.

When a young child has the opportunity to experience the outcomes of making choices and sees the results immediately, it makes decision-making seem like a safe and good thing to do. It helps a child develop the confidence to make decisions in real-time situations.

We teach our children to be safe. We encourage them to share, to be a friend, to play fair, to be honest, and to behave well.  We hope when they are faced with a situation that challenges what we have taught them, they remember what we said and make the right decision. Unlike riding a bike or crossing a street it is not possible to give our child practice runs in all the life skills situations they may encounter.

E-learning programs give our children practice runs for making good choices when faced with life situations.

E-learning programs also have other attributes that make decision-making attractive to preschoolers. They ask the child using the program to help the animated, cartoon characters to make decisions. While this makes decision-making less personal to a child, it also fosters a sense of responsibility for helping a character make the right decision.

E-learning content is always consistent and is not affected by differences in an instructor’s performance resulting from tiredness or the time of the presentation. E-learning programs are less intimidating, as a child can make an incorrect choice and go back and correct it without feeling that others will know about it.

E-learning programs reinforce what is being taught through engaging the child in interactive decision-making. This reinforcement tends to result in higher content retention rates than a presentation that talks about life skills decision-making.

Campbell Development Group is the creator and publisher of  “Can Do” Street (www.candostreet.com) an E-learning site where young children learn to make good choices through using interactive programs, games, and activity downloads. There are lesson plans for teachers, as well as a blog for parents and teachers and children.

To sample and e-learning program, click on the first logo on the left hand side of this page…Can Do Street, visit the theater and view the program,”Hector is being Selfish.”

Campbell Development Group, LLC, is a digital media company that creates and maintains its own media sites and writes and  produces print media materials and web-based training, E-learning programs and videos for individuals and  health care, social services and educational organizations.

Services include:

• Writing … Articles … web content…blog  content
• Developing… Business materials … grants… proposals… concept papers
• Adapting … Training curriculum to a web-based  format
• Creating …Training curriculum… E-learning programs
• Creating/Producing… Interactive…animated E-learning programs 
• Training… Developing E-learning programs…Adapting curriculum

Services:

We are available to meet in person, when geographically feasible, and meet via Skype as needed.

Fees:

Our fees are billed:

• Production of E-learning and interactive training programs are billed on a project basis
• Writing projects, such as 3-5 page grants and proposals are billed on a flat fee basis.
• Small writing assignments such as articles and blogging content are billed by the hour or by a flat fee.
• Training sessions are billed on a flat fee basis for individuals and groups