eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Just as any good instructional designer uses or creates graphics that support the learning, use of music and audio should do the same. However, it is not always easy to find the right music, or musician to create music, that will support the learning and design. Well meet mOsno.

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eLearning Cyclops

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

While attending the Enterprise Learning Conference & Expo today, I saw an example of the use of augmented reality as created by BMW. It is not every day I use "wicked" as an adjective, but this calls for its use. I promise it will wow you and even if you are not a New Englander, like me, you will still say is "wicked cool."

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Here is a free, practical tool for creating charts. ChartGo.com provides an incredibly easy to use web-based tool for creating charts, including bar, pie, line and area charts. You can quickly create a chart, save it, and add it to a course, website or blog. If you want something more sophisticated, stick with Excel.

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eLearning Cyclops

AUGUST 29, 2009

It is a glimpse not just into their development tool preferences, but it also provides some reflection into the approaches they take in creating courses. Adobe Flash - creating interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, etc. Adobe Acrobat - creating PDFs included in courses (e.g.

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eLearning Cyclops

MAY 21, 2013

FYI: The zombies used in this job aid were created and generously shared by Kevin Thorn, Chief Nuggethead at NuggetHead Studioz. Ossie, the robot sidekick that assists during the Office 2010 course and also keeps the course''s superhero, Captain Upgrade, out of trouble. graphics Characters'

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eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 20, 2011

Cacoo (create diagrams) ChartGo (create charts) Google Public Data Explorer (Create charts and visualizations form public data) QR Code Generators - Put QR codes in your manuals and on the classroom screen. Participants can create their own and use them to share their new skills with others. Kaywa Snap.vu

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eLearning Cyclops

JULY 13, 2014

You find the right graphics, make any necessary edits or create them from scratch when you can''t find what you need. Graphics Artist - Unless you have one on staff or in the budget to hire someone, you are the project''s graphic artist.

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 11, 2009

They are not stand alone e-learning tools, but together allow me the ability to create effective e-learning courses. Adobe Flash - An essential tool for creating highly interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, and almost anything else you want if you can manage writing or finding the actionscript.

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eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 3, 2010

Graphics editing : There is a good chance you will need to create and/or edit graphics for your courses (e.g. Keep in mind some may be DHTML output, others create Flash SWFs. By 2015, I am sure many will create HTML5 files too. Photoshop or Fireworks).

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eLearning Cyclops

DECEMBER 1, 2009

These awards celebrates higher education students who are creating amazing art with Adobe technology. Here is Adobe's description: The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts.

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eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 20, 2009

Again, an e-learning/instructional designer is needed to create engaging, instructionally sound courses. Not conducting a needs assessment prior to creating a course. Too many training departments act as order takers and end up creating courses that are not addressing the solutions needed. Creating page turners, ugh!

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I Don’t Have to Be an Art Wiz to Create My Own Design Assets? It was a great audience and he was very good at getting them to share ideas and solutions during his session, which was also invaluable. link] What?

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eLearning Cyclops

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Here is a video created to inspire teachers to use technology to engage our "digital natives." Created by B. Nesbitt.

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eLearning Cyclops

MARCH 7, 2010

FYI: If you are interested in creating screeencasts, Screenr is easy to use and free. If you are creating Flash tutorials on Screenr, please feel free to add a link to it in the comments section. Because screencasts on Screenr have a five minute limit, they are usually very succinct, which is what I like. Below are a few I found.

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eLearning Cyclops

JANUARY 1, 2013

Many a nights I have said to myself, "I spent the entire day on my PC designing and creating eLearning, I don''t think I want to spent tonight writing about it." It has been an very busy at work, which of course limits time to blog but has more directly affected the motivation to blog.

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eLearning Cyclops

MAY 15, 2009

link] They are creating "immersive cultural simulation" programs, which uses realistic video created in California, but also combines it with actual footage from Iraq. Here is an article on one way the army is using videos in online learning. They make an important point in the article that ".soldiers

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eLearning Cyclops

MAY 17, 2009

This can give more of a pen to paper approach to creating graphics, which for me is a big advantage over creating graphics only with a mouse. If you do not know what is, it is a graphics tablet. You can connect it to your PC and with it's pen you can write, draw, illustrate, etc.

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eLearning Cyclops

JULY 14, 2009

How do you get a an organization out of the rut of making page turners and to start creating more engaging and effective courses? Create a prototype to demonstrate the level of interactivity and engagement your organization can produce in a course. It got me thinking. Find case studies, articles, evaluations, etc.

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

my videos Screenr - creating quick, easy screencasts that I can Tweet and/or embed in my blog ChartGo - this one is new for me, but I like how easy it is to make charts that I can keep on the cloud or save on my hard drive (yes, I have a hard drive too) I think I have established a bit of a residence on the Cloud.

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 25, 2010

However, Adobe has begun prototyping a tool for creating animation in HTML5. As my readers may remember from my past posts, I believe it will be quite a while before HTML5 becomes a practical means of delivering e-learning or a viable threat to Flash. Still a long way to go, but a good start. The video preview from Adobe TV is below.

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eLearning Cyclops

APRIL 25, 2010

When creating e-learning courses I ask stakeholders to sign-off on the final product. Please keep in mind, I am referring to a sign-off for courses created for internal use. This is only after the review process is complete. Very often the stakeholders are also the subject matter experts for the course.

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eLearning Cyclops

JANUARY 23, 2011

The great thing is they are extremely easy to create and use in your online learning or in the traditional classroom. you can create and copy the code to a web page, PowerPoint slide, add it to a manual, print it, etc. Using a QR Code generator (e.g., Kaywa , Snap.vu , etc.),

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eLearning Cyclops

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

link] Want to create your own Air app? Here is an interesting interview with Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeck founder, about his experience developing his now prolific Air application. The video below will show you how to convert a Flash project into an Air app.

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eLearning Cyclops

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They created a sample quiz, which if you score 100% you will be included in our drawing for a free one year copy. ProProfs has been nice enough to give one of our lucky readers a free copy of Quiz Maker Pro.

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eLearning Cyclops

DECEMBER 9, 2012

A commercial sales relationship service was later offered by the bank and for the training I created a sequel, titled "Business Benefit Banking." This was the course's assesssment and by the way when you got an answer incorrect, Big Al was not happy. In this episode Sam Price was hired again to report back to Big Al about this new service.

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eLearning Cyclops

MARCH 13, 2010

You can create charts and visualizations with public data sets. I created the examples below from data provided by the World Bank. Google Labs recently released their Public Data Explorer. The amount of data provided by the World Bank is impressive.

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eLearning Cyclops

MARCH 2, 2010

I am confident there are corporate trainers creating the same training content as their brethren. And in return, I don't need to create those software sims because XYZ, Inc. So, back to the Big Question. Wouldn't it be great to upload those software sims, leadership or sales courses, etc. made their sims available to my staff.

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eLearning Cyclops

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I really prefer the robust ability of creating courses in Flash and only use the DHTML e-learning authoring tools for their ability to make the course SCORM or AICC compliant. And from Adobe, Creating e-Learning Content , which includes configuring learning interactions and tracking to a SCORM or AICC compliant LMS.

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eLearning Cyclops

MAY 1, 2013

In addition, they have a good guide for elearning designers, E-learning Essentials Guide , which is a good resource for anyone involved in creating elearning, especially anyone new to the field. CDC has a goal of developing a central data store for public health training in which LMSes can go.

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eLearning Cyclops

APRIL 1, 2009

But when I am stuck I have found that creating a prototype helps a lot. Something they can see and try for themselves helps create a lot more buy-in. Identifying training needs, offering the most effective solutions and in some cases identifying human performance issues and strategies to resolve them.

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eLearning Cyclops

JUNE 29, 2009

For the last week I have been in storyboard mode for a large course I am creating. Since grad school I have been using the same format for storyboards, when I do use them. Some projects benefit from use of storyboards, some do not, but that is another post.

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eLearning Cyclops

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Blogging WordPress Documents Google Docs Graphics Picasa Web Albums ChartGo (creating charts) Screencasts and Simulations Screenr Social Bookmarking Delicious Social Media and Networking LinkedIn Plaxo Twitter Yammer Video YouTube. If you has an app to suggest please do so by posting a comment.

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eLearning Cyclops

AUGUST 8, 2010

There is more to creating an interactive course than adding pop-ups and rollovers. I know PowerPoint is sometimes used as an authorig tool, but at least use it to create engaging, interactive courses that do not resemble PowerPoint slide decks that you just uploaded to Captivate or Articulate. Need tips on bringing PowerPoint to life?

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eLearning Cyclops

JANUARY 22, 2012

This provided greater ease of animating the characters, creating the navigation, which is non-linear and not as simple as adding next and back buttons of which it has none. Adobe Captivate - I used this for creating every simulation in the course. So here are the development tools I used for this project. an Outlook ribbon).

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eLearning Cyclops

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Thus, I have created an account and convinced a few of my teammates to do the same. Maybe Yammer or a third party will create one soon. For the last six months, I have been using Twitter and getting great rewards from using it. I have searched for such an app and have had no luck. If you do know of one, please let me know.

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eLearning Cyclops

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

First off, most of the courses I have created do not have narration. Prioritize what needs to be done to create the course and put narration low on the list. September's Big Question over at the Learning Circuits Blog is regarding use of voice-over in e-learning. The question addresses numerous topics regarding the use of audio.

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eLearning Cyclops

JANUARY 29, 2010

link] Of course there is "The Rather Amazing and Slightly Distorted History of Flash" created by Nectarine. Now that I got that out of my system, here are a few resources on the history of Flash.

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