iBerry Elearing blog

Great post on how to use powerpoint to recreate the floorplan used in the Michael Allen HR course.  Includes downloads of overhead images! 

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/how-to-design-the-visual-elements-for-interactive-elearning-courses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RapidElearningBlog+%28The+Rapid+E-Learning+Blog%29

Process covered a while ago back at TK09.  I don’t remember what it al means.  This is taken from my notes

Lay out the optimal path.  Give people a way to get back on track if they stray.  It is possible to have a linear design with the illusion of complexity. 

5 Step Process

1. Design Scorecard: Goals and Boundaries
2. Establish Storyline and Events: Challenges
3. Create Cast and Background: Context
4. Enable Triggering: Consequences
5. Apply Scoring: Outcomes

When meeting with the SME ask, ” Where do you see the most problems.  Can you describe the Best Practices. ”
OR
“Talk me through a typical day in the life.  Tell me some war stories.”

Lay out the optimal path as a linear timeline.  Write feedback for a choice when authoring the choice itself.

This site has a ton of tutorials for editing images in photoshop.   Great resource!

http://graphicreporter.com/tutorials/photoshop_tutorials.html

Link to a courses built in smartbuilder.  http://www.suddenlysmart.com/effective_elearning.htm#section1

I like the way the Cruise course  it is layed out, easy to know what to do next. 

The army course design is interesting and different and has good use of motivation factors.

Cathy Moore example…good ideas for a look and feel.  Her character poses came from elearningart.com.  It is about $100 for a pack of 75 pics of one character. 

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2009/10/how-to-steer-your-client-away-from-an-information-dump/

The sidebar is not working out as a navigation tool because people are using it to click through the slides for the first time and are skipping slides by doing that.  Here are things to try to fix it on the next module:

1. No problem! One more idea that might or might not suit you … maybe at the beginning you could instruct users to click on the view-mode toggle button whenever they want to jump to a different slide – that way they can pop up the sidebar and click on it only if they need to. And you could set each slide’s view as Slide Only (or No Sidebar) in the slide properties manager… to ensure that each slide always starts out on that view unless/until the user toggles the view mode.
2. *****This blog post gives instructions to add a tab (like exit, or attachments) to the top of the player that will jump to any slide you want.  http://frameentered.com/content/articulate-tab-jumps-any-slide-you-choose
   I could create the review slide at the end of the module with links back to content topics and a button to proceed to the post test.  I could make the new tab say something like review or Return to Review…something like that and make it so that you jump back to the review slide when you click it.  The person could then pick another topic to review or proceed to the test.  It would allow people to just reveiw part without having to click through the whole thing. 

Opening Photoshop can take forever.  Saw this post today on making it run faster.  I don’t see the eed to make any changes now, but holding on to this for the future just in case.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-photoshop-faste-on-slower-computers/

Mouse on Drugs: I love this one.  It took a boring topic and made it interesting and interactive.  The theme and just a little itneraction and animation go such a long way.  Taking the subject and putting it into the contect of the mouse experiment, grab a mouse, drag it into the chair drops it into a machine and the machine shows you its brain.  I like the interface and the eject mouse button as well. 

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html

Types of Print:  I like the look and feel and how the animations work to show you a process, but the content is too dense to pay attention. 
http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html

Build A Buiness: This is interesting.  The fun flashy stuff I think could be built in smart builder.  I like how you start with a name.  Then there are categories along the bottom and for each one you need to choose one of three options on the right.  When you make your choice the picture in the middle changes.  Bar graphs on the upper right track the impact of your choices.  When you are done selecting you launch your business and see if it worked.  I like alot of the visual interactive concepts, this is definately one to go back and reference.  However, I was able to click throught it with out paying attention  and pass so need something else to draw in the passive learner.  I cas see having this set up to mimic a jchao survey and and the end finding out if you passed.  THe more I think about it the more I like it!
http://www.btplc.com/Societyandenvironment/Businessgame/BetterBusinessChoices/index.html

Diagnose a PT (SB):  This scenario example  was built in smartbuilder.  First slide sets the stage, second is how the simulation will work, 3rd presents case and user decides what questions to ask.  4th Gives answers and lets you ask follow up questions.  Need to reference this one because everything here is possible.  http://www.suddenlysmart.com/examples/Patient_Management/player.html

There are still more examples to check out.  Vendor Demos and below.  http://blog.cathy-moore.com/elearning-samples/

Weathiest Americans:  This has great rollover grapics.  I like how the recent people are in color, there are links within the rollover http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070715_GILDED_GRAPHIC.html#

Minnesota: Uses a comic strip format to tell a person’s story.  Also has a skin that matches the theme of the course.  http://discovery.mnhs.org/connectingmn/

I got as far as the basic examples and them got tired of looking.  Need to go back and check out the more advanced group and simulations: http://blog.cathy-moore.com/elearning-samples/

Here is a link to a course built in Smartbuilder that has some great elements I may want to incorporate into a course.  

http://www.suddenlysmart.com/examples/Computer_ports/player.html

Elements I like:

Interactive review, timed exercise, stars to track progress, entering your name.