Recently a friend of mine contacted me as he had an idea for an interaction he wanted to create in Storyline 2 and needed some help with building it. He wanted the interaction to work like this: A question with five answer options. Two of the five answers were correct. Only a maximum of two answers could be selected. He also wanted a ‘submit’ button and once clicked, then he wanted: Feedback for each answer to be shown. An indication of which two answers were correct. To still see which two answers were originally selected. With a bit...
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Since my last post on curating content, I’ve been keeping an eye out for articles and posts that discuss this topic especially for L&D folks. Generally speaking I find that lots of people are saying that curation will be a required skill for L&D but these same people are either not practicing curators or getting into the detail of how to curate content. One of the challenges I can see regarding content curation is finding ‘quality’ content in a sea of information. With such a huge volume you can’t be across everything but maybe that’s ok? Then what about sub-categories...
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A few months ago David Anderson started a new type of E-Learning Hero Challenge – creating screencasts (which are short ‘how-to’ video clips). I mentioned in an earlier blog post that one of the areas I wanted to build knowledge and skills in was screencasting so these new challenges would be a great opportunity to get started. Another reason why these challenges appealed to me is that most of my role at B Online Learning is about teaching others – how to use Storyline 2 and the process of creating an eLearning module – so the challenges also seemed like...
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A few months ago I was invited to be part of a panel discussion on personal branding at the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD) national conference. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend so I asked Michelle Ockers (who lead the discussion) if it would be ok if I wrote a blog post on the topic, using some of her discussion questions as a basis of the post. She kindly agreed and so here are my thoughts… Michelle defines a personal brand as: “While we associate brands with large corporations and products, the idea of having a personal brand...
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Curation. Whenever I hear the term I always think of a person working in an art gallery carefully selecting pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition. But I’m also seeing it as a skill needed for modern L&D folks… “We need curators and community managers, rather than course designers” Charles Jennings …and certainly it’s an area (along with community management) that I want to explore more and build my own capability in. But how can I do this? What is curation? The starting point in wanting to learn more about how to do something is to know what it means....
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