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25 Feb

My Word for the Year

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, Motivation |

A few weeks ago I saw a post by Helen Blunden where she was talking about her ‘word for the year’. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a post like this – Dr Jason Fox and Renee Robson also wrote about their words of the year. After reading Helen’s post, I spent some time thinking about my goals for the year and what my word could be now that ‘focus’ was taken ;-) So my word for 2016 is: Build The word build can mean building something completely new from scratch or building on the existing or knocking down some...
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26 Jan

Looking Closer at Images

Posted by Matt Guyan | ELH Challenges, My Portfolio, Show Your Work, Storyline |

E-Learning Heroes Challenge #114 – Interactive Video: Zooming and Magnifying Images in E-Learning. The brief: This week, your challenge is to share a solution to allow learners to zoom in or magnify parts of an image, graphic, document, or video. This was one of those challenges that I wanted to have a go at because even though Storyline has built-in zooming (which is pretty cool) to make parts of an image larger or to get a close up of a section of a scene, I wanted to try to create a way of making parts of an image larger without...
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15 Jan

Happy Same Year!?

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

Welcome to 2016! As a new year is upon us, it’s that time again where folks who blog about learning and development share their predictions for the coming year. It’s always fun to see where people think the field is going and it would be interesting to look back on the year in December to see how close their predictions were. So, in the spirit of a new year I thought I’d throw out a few ideas of my own about L&D for the year ahead (specifically for those working in L&D). My overall prediction is that what’s easy to...
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13 Dec

Looking Back at 2015

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, eLearning, Reflections, Storyline |

Well another year has just about come and gone and at this time of year like many folks who write blogs I like to look back and reflect on the posts I’ve written. Blog writing is a personal thing and everyone has their own style and approach which makes the diversity between writers and topics both interesting and thought-provoking. If I had to sum up where I’m at with my blogging and the style of posts I write in one word, it would be Practicality. I read a lot of posts and tweets that are critical of eLearning modules (some...
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06 Dec

More than One Way with Storyline 2

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design, Storyline |

Sometimes I like to experiment with ideas for eLearning interactions and a few months ago one of these experiments led me to creating this carousel-style interaction (you can click the image to see a demo): I wrote about it here but essentially it uses a slider to show layers with each image in a different position. I also posted the demo to an E-Learning Heroes Community forum and someone asked if the same effect could be created using buttons instead. The short answer is yes and here’s how I did it. I started by making a duplicate of the current slider-based...
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