Veronica B’s playtime
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…
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…
