Designing. Self-publishing. Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world? Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too.
Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content. If we do so, then almost invariably their approach is around developing content in an ‘instructionally-sound way’ to produce a set of ‘learning interventions’. I have a real problem with this approach and the thinking behind it. It simply isn’t appropriate for the needs of the 21st century knowledge industry, and is arguable even more inappropriate for those whose work is carried out with their hands rather than with their minds. Let’s Forget About Events Undoubtedly instructional design is crucial if the mindset is learning events – modules, courses, programmes and curricula. From Content to Activity The vast majority of structured learning is content-rich and interaction-poor. Ebbinghaus and All That.
Three Useful Free Photography Apps For The iPad [Mac] So without further ado, here a few free and practical photography apps for the iPad.
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Portfolio To Go Lite I’ve written before about how useful the iPad is for displaying photos. Well, one app that does it well is the aptly named, Portfolio To Go Lite (iTunes Store link). This app allows you to showcase photos from your Flickr.com account. After syncing to your account, you can select galleries to display photos full screen. Now, you may be wondering, how is this app different from the photo application that comes with the iPad and iPhone? The pro version of this app has some other goodies, but the lite version is a very good start. PhotoPad By Zagg Although the iPad doesn’t take photos, it still can be used for editing and enhancing them.
One of the essential editing tools for all digital images fresh out of the camera is the contrast tool. PhotoPad also includes image editing tools for tinting photos, making greyscale conversions, and adjusting for color levels. Colors Pro Free. Designing for iPad: Reality Check. By Oliver Reichenstein Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: two news applications, a social network, and a word processor.
We worked on iPad projects without ever having touched an iPad. One client asked us to “start working on that tablet thing” even before we knew whether the iPad was real. The question Are we designing desktop programs, web sites, or something entirely new? Has been torturing us until that express package from New York finally arrived. Even though we developed everything inside the black box of Photoshop, it became quite clear that iPad application design is substantially different from web design in many ways. 1. The obvious issue with the resolution gap is typography. Is the font big enough? …we had no choice but to print out 1:1 scale mockups. Reality check: Wow, this thing is sharp!