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I think this e-learning course is absolutely amazing. It took me a second to get the hang of moving the character around however it did put the learner in control of the experience. Not sure about the music though.
http://bottomlineperformance.com/clients/BLP/Blockbusters/Kathryn/Abby/story_html5.html
How come when you go shopping for something, you find the perfect something else that was never on your list. I’m looking for inspiration for an set of Storyline modules I am creating for a Graduate Online Orientation. I’m all into scenarios. So, I came across this blog post, from awhile ago … https://blogs.articulate.com/word-of-mouth/why-tim-buteyns-articulate-storyline-course-wins-gold/. I love what ThinkingKap Learning has done with this tutorial however, that impressed me the most was the design of their website, https://www.thinkingkaplearning.com/.
I am always creating step-by’s for something or another or my students are creating a project to do the same. I have tried different designs but I love this one by David Anderson and plan to try to duplicate this design either within Storyline and out. The directions are here. I love the look!
Here is the best example I have found so far for gamifying e-learning self-paced modules. I need to remember this for inspiration since we have so many e-learning module projects coming up. I thought they handled building the case-based scenario well.
I att
ended a terrific ELI webinar called “Humanizing Your Online Course” given by Michelle Pacansky-Brock in June. She provided a number of great ideas to bringing an online course to the “next level” by providing visual interest using a number of tools. As I explore them myself by adding them to the Instructional Design capstone course I teach. I’m just so excited …
Here are the resource links:
Behaviors and Strategies for Improving Instructor Presence Online: http://page.teachingwithoutwalls.com/instructorpresencestrategiesci
Course Design Tutorial
Newsletter
http://tlinnovations.cikeys.com/
Online Courses for Faculty
http://tlinnovations.cikeys.com/
The Humanizing Tool Buffet
http://page.teachingwithoutwalls.com/tool-buffet
I came across this blog entry on recording audio. It has tons of tutorials on working with audio, free web based tools and creative commons audio sites. This is the best collection I have seen so far on the topic for elearning:
http://www.articulate.com/blog/50-tutorials-to-help-you-achieve-e-learning-awesomeness/
A challenge in co-teaching ORLD 5055 – Staff Development and Training has been to have students explore other possibilities than Powerpoint for training. This year I decided to infuse the course with examples of other choices, especially with content where students had questions or did not do well. This week I created a little movie on FAQ’s students had regarding their Organizational paper assignment. Below is my attempt using a free online tool called xtranormal found at http://www.xtranormal.com/ . Even though this tool is very simplistic, it can still be effective. I love animated characters and the research has shown that people identify with them. I would love to have the opportunity to try something more sophisticated such as Code Baby.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6661709/
(for some reason it is not embedding into my blog post correctly) 🙁
I’m working on gathering resources for our TLTC Summer Series day Stand Out in a Crowd – Effective Presentations to be held on June 30 and I came across this example of a Prezi created by Paul Hill. It is the best example of a Prezi I have seen that demonstrates how Prezi can be used for elearning or the face-2-face classroom.
This is an introduction to ORLD 5055 – Staff Development and Training I made this evening using Crazy Talk and an image of my Second Life avatar. Our challenge in this course at Teacher’s College has been to get students to try different, more creative approaches for their final project, a training module. This semester I thought I would use a variety of tools to cover areas in the course that students struggle with the hopes they will take a risk when it comes to producing their project. My Crazy Talk is a little rough around the edges however the course starts tomorrow and I wanted it to be available.
Fast Tube by Casper
Tom Kuhlmann published a post on how to make effective “Flash” elearning tutorials using PowerPoint. I have to say this is the best elearning tutorial I have seen so far.
The blog entry can be found here.
The tutorial can be found here …