Instructional Design Tips (#25)
I’m a fan of Cathy Moore, who is all about action. I try to focus on what learners need to do, in their jobs, in their…
Add Video (#95)
This week we were challenged to incorporate video into our elearning to engage learners. Many of my colleagues used cinemagraphs for this challenge and I’d love…
Grab Attention and Motivate (#93)
David Anderson never generates a challenge without giving us some resources to work with. This week he linked to an interesting article at HBR.org called 7 Ways to…
Recolouring Artwork
I often recolour photographs in Storyline to achieve a consistent look-and-feel throughout an eLearning module. Yesterday, I was playing with this idea while creating some new…
Two Truths and a Lie (#91)
I admit the eLearning Challenges are fun; almost too fun. They are distracting. Between contracts, I should be working on my portfolio site, marketing, networking and…
Conversations (#90)
The idea here was to design a situation in which you appear to be speaking with the learner. Good challenge! Any challenge that involves audio gets my vote!…
Creative Buttons (#89)
This week’s challenge was Creative Button Styles and Effects. We had quite a thunderstorm last night so I thought I’d use weather as my theme for…
Soundboard (#88)
I have a great little audio-recording studio and Articluate’s eLearning Challenge #88 gave me an opportunity to play with some of the effects in Audacity that…
Interactive Maps (#86)
I love living in Calgary, mostly because it’s so close to the mountains! eLearning Challenge #86 had us create an interactive map of where we live.…
Functional Prototypes (#85)
For this eLearning Challenge, I didn’t really follow the rules. So my end product isn’t so much a functional prototype as a template. David Anderson introduced…