Veronica B’s personal posts
A few weeks ago I was in the car with my family. It was a weekend and we were going away to see the penguins at Phillip Island. I was casually checking my emails on my phone when I did the biggest gasp I have ever done. My man nearly had a heart attack:…
I was so excited to see that this week’s E-learning Heroes Challenge was to create a Choose your own learning adventure style interaction. Growing up I used to love these books. How cool was it to get to *an* end, and then be able to change your destiny? Branching scenarios At the core of…
I am a big fan of bright colours. You should have seen my wardrobe in the 90s. But every time I see an e-learning course or demo that uses only black and white, I love how it looks. It’s just so elegant and minimal. So, when Dave Anderson announced an e-learning heroes challenge for…
The most recent E-learning Heroes challenge is all about creating a hand-crafted explainer video. Now ideally this would have all been done manually, like in the example posted where we set up a camera at a very funny angle and move our cut-out pictures around while narrating the story. But, I (also) cheated (or,…
This week’s E-learning Heroes challenge is about creating an interaction using a top view perspective of an office. This seemed like a great opportunity to share where I work. My office As many of you know, I run my own e-learning biz from my comfy home office. It’s spacious and cosy, and I really, really…
Rotoscoping In last week’s E-learning Heroes challenge, the mission was to use a technique called ‘rotoscoping’. Simply put, it involves creating hand-drawn animated graphics. Nick Russell shared a cool example as well as a great tutorial on how to do your own rotoscoping. I actually followed Nick’s tutorial and created a similar sort of…
This week, Dave challenges us to find creative ways to combine text and images. Most of the work I do is pretty corporate-y, so with challenges and demos, I like to cut loose and find topics that are completely different to my normal everyday work. For this challenge, I created two demos. The first…
E-learning that rocks I’ve been busy so haven’t had heaps of time to participate in Dave Anderson’s weekly e-learning challenges lately. However, when I saw the topic for this week, I simply could not resist: E-Learning Röck Band Challenge! The task is “to design an interactive graphic or micro site for your (fictitious) e-learning…
Board games Sure, I like computer games—but I’ve always been a huge fan of board games. Give me a night playing Taboo or Trivial Pursuit, and I’m happy.I’m also a big fan of games for learning, so when Dave Anderson set the challenge to create a board game for e-learning, I was sold. Family…
Multimedia Learning Principles This week’s ELH challenge is about teaching one or more of the multimedia learning principles. Immediately I remembered something somewhat related that I read a while ago… To audio or not to audio? A long time ago I read a great post by Cathy Moore on whether audio narration should be…
