Clive on Learning

APRIL 23, 2010

All online communication, whether that’s published content, live online events or social media, make use of the same key media elements: text, audio, images, animation and video.

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Communication Media Online Social Media 40

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Phil Green alerted me to this amusing image which originates from a JISC InfoNET article Approaches to course design with technology. Of course it isn’t that amusing because it’s really rather sad. I don’t blame the sponsors and others who commission learning interventions for this state of affairs, because they don’t know any better.

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Teach Images Technology Learner 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 21, 2011

Lulu didn’t do a great job of printing images that extended to the edge of the paper (it left a tiny margin at the bottom) but this was not a deal-breaker, at least not for me. Publishing to Kindle It quickly became obvious that an elaborately laid-out PDF was in no way suitable for input to the various e-book readers.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 6, 2009

Well, sometimes you can strike lucky and find exactly what you want on Google Images or in your organisation's own image library (chance would be a fine thing); you could take your own photos or knock up a simple chart or diagram in a graphics programme. But in my experience that leaves an awful lot of gaps.

Photography 40

Photography Stock Photoshop Specialist 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 25, 2012

Again in groups of three, they designed and ran a second online session, this time restricted to the use of images and audio (to get them out of the 'designing with text' habit). I ran another virtual classroom session on using audio, video, graphics and text online. I ran another session on using interactivity in virtual classrooms.

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Virtual Classroom WebEx Theory Classroom 69

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

You can use text boxes as the draggable elements or images. The tool outputs the activity as a zip containing an HTML file, an XML file, a Flash movie and the various images. Using the default parameters provides an easy way to generate a decent end result, but just about every aspect of the activity can be customised if you wish.

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Authoring eXe Articulate Presenter Flash 40

Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2008

Images are by far the easiest things for the human brain to remember." " However, these images do not have to be specially constructed by a teacher: "The experience itself provides by far the richest images. " Nevertheless, "if we can convert an idea into an image, we should do so."

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Brain Change Sound Lecture 61

Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

What I mean is being able to put together a slide show (perhaps even add a narration), create a quick demo of a piece of software, create and edit still images, write a simple how-to guide, put together a quiz, perhaps shoot a simple video. In fact, many of these tasks are becoming life skills and most children take to them easily.

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Virtual Classroom Wiki Rapid eLearning Specialist 78

Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2007

Nugent (1992) found increased achievement for combinations of audio and images, but not for audio and text. After all, images are powerful. According to Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor ( Social Cognition , McGraw-Hill Education, 1991), the most effective way of conveying information is through the use of concrete, vivid images.

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PowerPoint Scanning Cognitive Brain 40

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Treat the type as image, as though it's just as important : Type is visual material that needs to relate compositionally to everything else included in the design. Create images - don't scavenge : Nothing is more banal or meaningless than a commonly-used instance of stock photography that shows up everywhere.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Jane Hart pointed me to typoGenerator , a site that creates sort-of-abstract artwork, sort-of-randomly, from the text that you type in, using your text to source images online and integrating them with the text. This pic shows my first result. With no pretensions to being any sort of art connoisseur, I quite like it.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2010

Myth 2: Family viewing is a thing of the past It may seem dated, but the image of the family clustered around the living-room set is an accurate depiction of how most people watch television in most countries. Colleen Fahey Rush, head of research at MTV, puts this down to the rise of two-earner households.

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Long Tail Streaming Internet Website 74

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I'm definitely going to try this out, because I often need a series of images of the same character to accompany an interactive case or scenario. You can get these figures to adopt whatever pose or expression you like - something that's not possible with clip art or stock photography.

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Stock Photography Photo Tips 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

It’s helpful for l&d people to explore the technical side (perhaps using a rapid authoring tool) or the creative side (simple image, audio and video editing), but never to venture into the extreme corners where lurk software engineers, graphic designers and other media professionals.

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Big Question Authoring Tools Tools HTML 61

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

My favourite for glossy and highly professional images is iStockPhoto. For $1 a time, I've been able to download masses of fantastic images for blogging, print documents and presentations. Apart from Google image search, I've also been exploring Flickr, now a bit of a cult site.

Photography 40

Photography Photo Stock Search 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2009

Instead you arrange your images, text, audio, video and PDF files on one great canvas that you navigate throughout your presentation. Prezi is the most exciting new presentation aid I've seen in ages and today sees its formal launch. Prezi is a Flash-based tool that does away with the traditional slide show metaphor.

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Privacy Offline PDF PowerPoint 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

You may be able to accomplish this using text alone, but many ideas will be more easily understood with the help of images, audio or video. Use activities that help the learner to relate the new material to what they already know. Present your idea clearly and simply. Eliminate all unnecessary detail.

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Content Design Simulations Asynchronous 68

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 25, 2009

It will even find and read the text within any images you import. You can copy and paste from PDFs or web pages, or import them wholesale. You can record your own audio notes from your phone. Perhaps one of the most remarkable differences that Evernote has made is in the quantity of hard copy notes that I keep.

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Evernote Research Google Docs Doc 56

Clive on Learning

JULY 20, 2007

There were much wierder ones, but I have to think of my image. It would have been quicker to have just shot the expressions live, but nowhere near the fun. In this pic I do cool, smiling, sneering and sad.

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Masie Photo Conference Software 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2007

It is much easier to import images. Let me tell you: I can compose and edit my posts offline, which is really useful when I'm away from my desk. The text editor is much more robust than Google's, which provides me with all sorts of formatting glitches and problems. It allows me to insert tables, without having to write the HTML.

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Microsoft HTML Offline Google 40

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

explained - images and music only - BEAUTIFUL ) which led me to a wonderful video by Michael Wesch on YouTube called Web 2.0. But in those days I was never hands on - and now I can be you'll find it hard to get me hands off again. Anyway, what inspired this was a post from Brent Schenkler ( Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us. and I do.

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Video Music Director YouTube 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 8, 2007

I could have knocked the whole thing up more easily in Word, but that's not the point - more fun documents with lots of images and trendy layouts can follow as my confidence grows and as I can find good ideas to copy. So, if by any chance you would like a copy of Clive's Columns , you can download it here (PDF, 744K).

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Creative Commons Adobe PDF Suite 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2008

The choice of medium is not a pedagogical one, it is primarily practical. Once you have chosen the methods that you feel will best fulfil your goals, you select the media that will allow you to implement those methods in the most efficient manner.

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Methods Brandon Hall Instant Messaging Tutorial 40

Clive on Learning

JULY 29, 2009

SlideShare is essentially a text and graphics medium - it converts your slides to a simple sequence of still images, which can be viewed on the SlideShare site or embedded in another blog or web page. It also means choosing the most appropriate delivery format: PowerPoint > SlideShare.

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Slides Slideshare Adobe Presenter PowerPoint 40

Clive on Learning

MAY 1, 2006

ethic and image, so it was irresistable to give it a go. I had cause recently to work jointly with one of my clients on a design document. I'd heard it was possible to develop documents online collaboratively using a sit called JotLive. It looks nice, has that Web 2.0

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Ideas Website Format Web 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Where online tools have the edge is when you're working collaboratively as a team - writers, graphic designers, subject-experts, a/v specialists, reviewers and so on - and when you are likely to be producing a large number of modules that share assets such as text, images, audio and Flash movies.

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RapideL CD-ROM Atlantic Link eXe 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2007

This new arrangement may help asynchronous e-learning to recover its rather tarnished image. And they won't pay $20K/hour or more for simple page turners, even if they do have nice graphics. The lower-tier will get the job done quickly and no-one's going to expect fantastic quality.

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Rapid eLearning Simulations Specialist Virtual World 40

Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2007

Visualise (think of an image that represents) the first key point. This is another case where The Business of Memory can help as they provide specific recommendations for remembering a speech. Here goes: Identify each key point in the speech. Visualise the second key point in a way that connects it to the first.

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Picture CD-ROM PowerPoint Slides 40

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Avoid including words in your images and animations. Not everybody can afford an online authoring tool, so I asked Steve Rayson at Kineo how they approached localisation if they were working with a tool like Articulate or Captivate. Use on-screen text in preference to narration. Sounds sensible.

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Captivate Cornerstone Internationalization Storyboard 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2007

I'd say mobile performance support will be just like its desktop equivalent, just smaller and simpler. It could be highly interactive, in the form of troubleshooting guides and expert systems, although most will probably be quite straightforward.

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Instant Messaging Voice Performance Support Movie 45

Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

I've used an old M/S tool called Image Composer for ten years because I knew how to use it, but this is the d's b's. It looks so cool it was definitely worth upgrading from Photoshop Elements. Adobe Illustrator: Still learning this tool, but I'm determined to make it my first choice for creating artwork.

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Tools Photoshop Pinnacle ActionScript 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

An inductive question is much simpler; all that's required is (1) a way to present the question using a variety of media (text, images, audio, video), (2) a variety of input formats (multi-choice, multiple answer, free text input, drag and drop, etc.)

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ActionScript Rapid eLearning Score Learning 40

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 27, 2006

Games might help, but so would good story-telling, thought-provoking questions, illuminating images and the chance to share thoughts and opinions with peers. They know that a lot of the e-learning they see is not very challenging or captivating, so they feel disappointed and who can blame them.

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Learning Objects Blended Learning Cognitive ASTD 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 3, 2015

Still images (photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams) show what things look like, clarify cause and effect relationships and depict trends and proportions. Speech is more expressive than text and combines brilliantly with moving images (animations and videos). Still images, animation and video are visual elements.

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Media Content Music Voiceover 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 3, 2015

Still images (photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams) show what things look like, clarify cause and effect relationships and depict trends and proportions. Speech is more expressive than text and combines brilliantly with moving images (animations and videos). Still images, animation and video are visual elements.

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Media Content Music Voiceover 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2012

Yes, we have had some breakthroughs through cognitive neuroscience and perhaps also through new perspectives on learning such as connectivism, but thinking will inevitably shift again as we discover more.

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Blended Learning Cognitive Design Write Blog 97

Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2015

Don’t worry, because in the next post we’re talking images, speech, music, animation, video and perhaps even some text - the basic media elements. .); and, if your content forms part of a series, a teaser for what comes next (think soaps). At this stage, you may be concerned that you still have nothing on the screen to show for your efforts.

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Content Music Picture Benefits 40