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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It’s the classic storyline pattern from all of your favorite childhood fairytales: Hero is introduced; hero encounters trials; hero rises triumphant. Professor of Literature and mythologist Joseph Campbell was the first to formally identify the archetypal protagonist’s pattern in his 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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Instructional Designer’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions

Association eLearning

So it’s easy to make a pledge that sounds good, but doesn’t have a lot of investment behind it. This may sound weird, but if you’re just trying to make one change it could be harder than a major overhaul. This will give you a visual snap shot of how you’re doing and can help you spot patterns, opportunities, and trouble spots.

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20+ eLearning Tools and Resources

DigitalChalk eLearning

Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. With Audacity, record live audio, cut, copy, or mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more. Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker is an easy to use video editing production suite. Garageband.

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John Maeda The Art of Leadership #LSCon

Learning Visions

Every leader that is successful follows this pattern. Technology…delivery text, images, music, movies…there’s a pattern across CD ROMS to browsers to phones…we’re kind of stuck in this loop now. It’s sounds scary, but we can work with it with a different VUCA (Visioning, Understanding, Clarity, Agility).

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Voice-over videos for eLearning: A step-by-step guide

TalentLMS

Voice-over is an extremely versatile type of video and can be used on anything from movie trailers to college lectures to, of course, corporate training. It sounds complicated, right? These videos are created using screencasting software (like Loom, for example) that records your screen while also recording sounds. A lecture?

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Instructional Design: The Process – 1

Origin Learning

If we step back and think, we will realise that each of us has a preference for one or more preferred sensory patterns. Some of us create anchors of memories using sight, sound, smell or touch. Does the smell of fresh popcorns trigger a movie time memory? This preference creates our learning style. Let’s break it down.

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Audio Best Practices

TechSmith Camtasia

If you are recording with mobile devices or lower end cameras, they will most likely have very poor built-in mics that are designed to pick up a wide pattern of sound. Each mic has a different pick-up pattern and connection type so youre going to want to determine what’s best for your situation. Watch it on YouTube.

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