Veronica B’s personal posts
Anthropomorphic characters The latest challenge set by Articulate’s challenger supreme, Dave Anderson, asked participants to use unconventional characters in an e-learning course or sample. Enter: anthropomorphic characters! Say what?! Making something ‘anthropomorphic’ simply means attributing humans characteristics to non-human things, like animals or objects. Now, some of you know that I plant vegies and fruit…
The Mission For a while now I’ve been wanting to use a set of characters I found online, and finally found the perfect opportunity through the e-learning heroes Pantone Color of the Year challenge. I like these avatars because they look clean and classy, see for yourself: The Idea Realising there had a Pantone…
The missing piece This is the last part in this series, phew! If you missed the previous 3 parts, you can find links to those at the bottom of this post. Here, I’ll show you how I told Storyline to show the appropriately-dressed teddy based on the learner’s choice. So, if you’re looking for…
Storyline 2 variables let you to control when and how your content displays. This post tells you how you can make and combine variables in Storyline 2 to show the appropriate feedback. So, if you’re looking for a quick demo on how to use variables to show feedback in a drag-and-drop interaction, you’re in the right…
A few months ago, I had no idea what an Emoji was. I was still doing this : ) ; ) :0 Now, I am cooler than all that. How cool, you ask? So cool that I used this e-learning heroes challenge to shoehorn emojis into an online interaction. Concept: Use emojis These…
The challenge this week was to create a cover slide for an odd e-learning title. I’ve been busy at work this week and a bit time-poor, but after reading about it, I couldn’t resist: this quirky little activity seemed like just the right rib tickling opportunity to blow off some steam. So, when I cornered my creative partner…
This week, the e-Learning Heroes challenged us to find engaging ways of teaching maths concepts. Now this might initially seem unrelated, but my kids love the EJ Spy School books. Recently, we read one of them where the eponymous character has to crack a code to get into the Spy School. Riveting stuff, for the kids anyway. The code…
Clipart is so 80’s, am I right, people? Sure it is. There’s no point trying to deny it. Any 80’s kid with even the slightest interest in computers tried to make use of cheesy Clipart at every opportunity. Illustrations jazz any subject up, right? That’s why images of ice creams and vintage cars were crammed—no matter how inappropriately—in the…
