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Videos Account Options Videos Enjoy your holiday favorites on the big screen. 'Tis the season for Chromecast. Privacy Terms Settings Advertising Business About Communications 416.703.3662 590 KING ST W, TORONTO, ONTARIO INFO@INVIVO.COM Continue to Site Lost in the Stream? Return to the heart of things here. BrittaniLouiseTaylor's Channel‬‏ Want $3 off? Coupon! Click here! :D CONTEST! Ribbon Bomb and WIN! 9 Free Tools That Help Me Build Better E-Learning I get a lot of questions from blog readers who are on a limited budget. They want to know about free tools that they can use to build their elearning courses. In this economy, the question probably means more than it did a couple of years ago. I’m a junky for all of the free stuff online. If there’s a beta program or new software application, I’m quick to sign up and play around with it. However, just because an application is free or can do something cool doesn’t mean that it’s really practical.

everything elearning. Evaluating Media Characteristics: Using multimedia to achieve learning outcomes George Siemens Originally Presented at AMTEC 2002 with Stephen Yurkiw February 7 , 2003 5 Common Visual Design Mistakes I was working with a student intern the other day. We reviewed his first attempt at a rapid elearning course. For this review, we focused on the course’s visual design. Overall, he did a great job, especially for someone just starting out. However, he made some mistakes that are common to many of the courses I see. I thought I’d do a quick rundown of what they are and provide some tips on how to prevent them.

A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking My approach to staff development (and teaching) borrows from the thinking of Donald Finkel who believed that teaching should be thought of as “providing experience, provoking reflection.” He goes on to write, … to reflectively experience is to make connections within the details of the work of the problem, to see it through the lens of abstraction or theory, to generate one’s own questions about it, to take more active and conscious control over understanding. ~ From Teaching With Your Mouth Shut Over the last few years I’ve led many teachers and administrators on classroom walkthroughs designed to foster a collegial conversation about teaching and learning. The walkthroughs served as roving Socratic seminars and a catalyst for reflection.

Create Custom Characters for Your E-Learning Scenarios Has this happened to you? You’re building an elearning course on site safety and need a woman in a hard hat? Yet when you search your clip art, all you can find is the same people you’ve used in your previous courses. Now you’re left with the only clip art you haven’t used–a man in a Zoot suit and a Cardinal. Contrast - Four or More Ways to Use the Principle of Contrast in Graphic Design and Page Layout Contrast is one the principles of design. Contrast occurs when two elements are different. The greater the difference the greater the contrast. The key to working with contrast is to make sure the differences are obvious. Four common methods of creating contrast are by using differences in size, value, color, and type.

About the "Building Better Courses" Tutorials This series of tutorials will take you through the basics of building a rapid elearning course. We’ll start with a simple PowerPoint file and publish it. Then we’ll look at what it takes to assemble a good course including some visual design ideas and how to add interactivity. The tutorials include demo videos and none of them are over 5 minutes long. We also include all of the practice files you need to follow along and do at your own pace.

Here’s Some Background Information for Your Next E-Learning Course During the year I conduct dozens of elearning workshops. I dedicate a large part of the workshop to graphic design because based on what I see, it’s an area that challenges many elearning developers. Most of the people I meet have a training background. They may have some graphic design skills, but they usually find their roots in training.