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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THINKING CLOUD NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Tips from a VO professional for eLearning audio scriptwriters Please ensure you provide phonetic pronunciations for anything you think I may not know how to pronounce. Hi all, my wife is a professional Voicoever artist (www.maireadcurran.com) handy for me yes;) Anyway, I stole some stuff about preparing scrips for VO from her website to post here: Overview. If you follow these tips below, you will get a better result from your voice artist and they will finish faster, saving you time and money. Timing. If you want your audio track to adhere to a specific time, please specify the time and the allowed variance. Naturalistic. If not then rewrite it. | THINKING CLOUD DECEMBER 6, 2009 Joint attention and avatars in learning activities As a consultant I have rarely advocated the use of avatars to my clients, preferring other ways of providing mentoring/advisory scaffolding. Check out this interesting research in joint attention and avatars. It examines the role of leading someones gaze with your own in stimulating the reward and motivation centres of your brain. It also shows that when you follow someone elses gaze, it stimulates those parts of your brain responsible for imagining another persons thoughts. In effect you could use it to activate the learners imagination. Here’s an example. | | | | | |
| THINKING CLOUD NOVEMBER 16, 2010 The value of storyboarding If you are working with corporate branding, style guides etc, its provides an opportunity to create a consistent approach/message, brand – eg adds a governance/compliance layer to the dev process. How valuable do you think formal storyboarding is in rapid elearning design? It is valuable generally because: A signed off storyboard gives you a basis for variations and asking for more time and money. It helps you defend yourself during blamestorming sessions (should they arise). How much time does storyboarding add to development? | THINKING CLOUD NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Putting the Instructional back into ID Learning activities center on challenging perceptions, creating dissonance and providing supporting evidence for the new position. I have used many Storyboarding/ID processes over the years including: Word docs with columns for text, interactions, programmers notes, images etc, giving the developers/designers a fair amount of flexibility. Specifications/wireframes docs, that incorporate script elements, but are also very proscriptive about design and functionality. Powerpoint or visual storyboards, that help clients experience what they want before it is built. | THINKING CLOUD NOVEMBER 16, 2010 How do you provide learning for different levels? A simple way is to pitch the material at the middle and provide a simpler layer and a more in depth layer available as pdf’s or other resources. You can do this on screen too, with drill down information. Also things like pop-up definitions on words can help. Learning styles is bunk so I wouldn’t worry about that, recent research has found everyone likes visual learning and active/task focused learning. | THINKING CLOUD NOVEMBER 27, 2009 Branded eLearning Embedded with brand messages and contextual calls-to-action, this subtly differentiates their brands and generates loyalty, while providing the consumer with something they actually value. Dell and others provide fee-for-service consumer eLearning, creating a new revenue stream. For most people, eLearning conjures images of some poor schlep doing a safety compliance module, usually a spartan meal of screen text and multiple-choice questions that make them long to watch paint dry. This isn’t just eLearning, it’s ‘branded content’. | | | | | | | |
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THINKING CLOUD | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009 Joint attention and avatars in learning activities
As a consultant I have rarely advocated the use of avatars to my clients, preferring other ways of providing mentoring/advisory scaffolding. Check out this interesting research in joint attention and avatars. It examines the role of leading someones gaze with your own in stimulating the reward and motivation centres of your brain. It also shows that when you follow someone elses gaze, it stimulates those parts of your brain responsible for imagining another persons thoughts. In effect you could use it to activate the learners imagination. Here’s an example. MORE >> -
THINKING CLOUD | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009 Branded eLearning
Embedded with brand messages and contextual calls-to-action, this subtly differentiates their brands and generates loyalty, while providing the consumer with something they actually value. Dell and others provide fee-for-service consumer eLearning, creating a new revenue stream. For most people, eLearning conjures images of some poor schlep doing a safety compliance module, usually a spartan meal of screen text and multiple-choice questions that make them long to watch paint dry. This isn’t just eLearning, it’s ‘branded content’. MORE >> -
THINKING CLOUD | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009  Compliance training treatment hierarchy
range of reasons were given for this approach; “It’s important that staff understand their obligations under the law”, and; “The company has an obligation to provide a safe workplace for its staff.” In this analysis, just a few examples were provided and the risk was considered from multiple perspectives, including the type, mechanism and source. This can result in not just better compliance and reduced compliance costs, but can also contribute to brand value and increased revenue. Underpinning weaknesses. In this case the risk is manifest. So why is the response so cursory? MORE >> -
THINKING CLOUD | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009 Blending operational and strategic elearning
Learning is often delivered through second or third-generation enterprise systems integrating performance, learning, content, information and processes based on either an internally hosted or application service provider (ASP) model. To most people, e-learning conjures images of staff learning at their desks, as a cost-cutting replacement for what was once classroom instruction. Many organisations are yet to take the next step in e-learning’s acceptance by adopting it at both the operational and strategic levels. MORE >>
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