Learning designers sometimes struggle with the use of sound effects in online learning resources. The right sound effects, at the right time, can add value to e-learning by adding emphasis. Sound can also help keep learners’ attention. One area that I’ve seen sound effects used really well is to indicate correct or incorrect answers in […]
Our city recently launched a new organics curbside pick-up program – Yeah Chilliwack! – along with a great app and other resources to make it easier to sort the recyclables and organics from the garbage. What I’ve noticed is that adults use the app but the younger kids and teens, not so much. So I’ve […]
I’m finally jumping into the E-Learning Heroes challenge arena. I thought I’d slip in slowly with this challenge to transform a simple static infographic into an interactive graphic using Storyline. For this challenge I used the SAVE ME Naloxone training infographic. Here’s what I did to convert the poster from a static image to an […]
A short decade ago Moodle and Blackboard were the only real options for providing online training or education. Today there is a growing number of course authoring platforms to choose from. Over the past few weeks I’ve been exploring several of these new options and want to share my experiences with them, beginning with Versal. […]
I love that Twitter did this – You can now create custom timelines in Twitter and embed them on your website. How cool is that! My Top Tweets of 2013
I got the best gift this Christmas – a gift card for books. I love books! I love real books that have pages that crinkle and curl and I love online books that let me begin reading on my smart phone and then don’t lose my place as I switch to my iPad and then […]