E-Learning Challenge

The Concept

This week’s challenge was to share an example of how notecard interactions can be used in e-learning. My gut instinct was to go with my favourite style for learning objective click and reveal interactions:

But then I haven’t participated in the ELH Challenges lately, so I figured it would be nice to whip something up quickly.

The Method

In considering this challenge, I got Pantone colour chips in my head…not sure why, but that’s where my Saturday night brain was going, so I thought it might be neat to have Pantone-style chips that when clicked, reveal the year in which the colour was Pantone’s colour of the year.

To do this, I created the chips, with two shapes: 1 rectangle with a white fill, no border, and a lower-left shadow. The next shape was used for the text, it was a rectangle with white fill and no border. I then looked up a group of Pantone’s colours of the year, took a screenshot, and tossed the image into Storyline as a basis. For the colour section of the chip, I used the colour picker to achieve accurate swatches, and then added the text to the lower rectangle.

I copied these shapes three more times, for four shapes in total and repeated the process. Once finished, I grouped each chip’s shapes, added a trigger to show layer, and created a new layer for each chip; on this layer, I simply added the year in which the colour was Pantone’s colour of the year.

The Result

Click Here to view the full interaction.

Concept

This week’s challenge was to create an example that allows users to navigate without using a traditional Next button.

Method

I started out with my free course starter template – you can download it here, and then I removed the next and previous buttons and added a slider. I then programmed the slider to move to the next slide when the slider meets a certain value, and to move to the previous slide when the slider meets another value.

Result

Click here for the full demo | Click here for the free download

The Concept

This challenge is near and dear to my nagging tendencies. I’ll preface this by saying that I’m a little over referencing Bloom’s Taxonomy, but I think it’s only because I do it so often. Most educators are Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in their chosen domain, and don’t come from an educational background. Therefore, most educators I work with have never heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy…and the same is even true for many educators I work with who DO come from a background in education (say whaaaaaat?!). Anyhow, this challenge is all about helping e-learning designers out by teaching them a thing or two they should know about Bloom’s Taxonomy.

The Method

In my opinion (and many other educator’s), the most critical point of Bloom’s Taxonomy is to demonstrate (haha…a verb) use of appropriate verbs when writing out learning objectives. Most of my time as an Instructional Designer is spent labouring over revisions to verbs, so I really do appreciate the time that Mr. Bloom took in creating his taxonomy and revised digital taxonomy.

For this challenge, I wanted to create a very basic tabbed interaction to highlight some verbs that educators may wish to use when coming up with learning objectives for the indicated outcome types (Remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating).

I created my tabbed interaction using oval shapes with some animations tossed in for a bit of pizazz. I then created layers for each of the tabs, containing the content I wished to highlight.

I modified the player to strip out all unnecessary elements (menu/resources/volume control), and modified the player colour.

The Result

To view the full interaction, Click Here.

Concept

This e-learning challenge was to take the Articulate Storyline 1 top interaction templates and give them a fresh makeover.

Method

To do this, I imported the existing Storyline 1 templates, added a new scene, and chose which interactions I would makeover. The interactions I chose were:

• Sorting Drag and Drop
• Two-Person Scenario
• Tabs Interaction

Once I chose the interactions I wanted to makeover, I selected a colour palette. Using this colour palette and basic shapes, I rebuilt these interactions into simple, but more modern/fresh interactions. For the sorting drag and drop, I added custom correct/incorrect layers, and for the two-person scenario, I used photographic images. Within all of the interactions, I reused the text provided in the Storyline 1 interactions.

Result

To view the full interactions, Click Here.