It's all coming together

I have had several successes this week in the eLearning Technology arena. To set the stage, my employer has hosted a Trainers' Institute for at least six years as a live, face-to-face event. However, budget cuts eliminated that this year. In an effort to keep the momentum and learning of that event, my team decided to put on a virtual event. For 4-5 hours each day this week, we are offering 60-90 minute sessions via WebEx by Fugent. We have a broad range of topics and have made full use of WebEx's meeting manager capabilities.
Since we don't have Training Center on WebEx (not yet, anyway, but we are working on it), for one of the sessions we had breakouts where we divided participants into four groups and gave three of them different phone numbers to call. One group stayed with me, we all stayed in the online session so we could communicate via chat, and each team had their own group of white boards. It was really awesome to see it all come together.
Anyway, I offered a 60-minute session on eLearning Trends, which I recorded. It was very well received, and I am going to see if I can use it for my final project for this class. I had planned on something else, but I have copyright issues and may not have them resolved in time. A side benefit of the class today is that at least one person wants to take this class because I talked about it in my session.
I am still doing the other project for myself, but may not be able to make it available on my web site. That is actually one of my other aha's, which occurred just moments ago. I figured out that instead of recording sound directly into PowerPoint, which will probably make a huge file size, I made the sound recording separately, as an mp3, and added it as a sound object to the PowerPoint. Now all I have to do is time each slide to see how long it takes to read it, then set the animation to advance the slide automatically after that many seconds. It is time consuming, but I believe it will be worth it.
Even though our class is coming to a close, I feel like my learning journey is just beginning. When I think about how far I have come in the weeks since we started, I am filled with anticipation that I can't explain. I have to wonder if it's not a little like an explorer feels when confronted with the reality of his journey and the vastness of what he has yet to learn. As Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise would say, "Make it so."