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This example is a response to Articulate E-Learning Heroes Challenge #193: How Are You Using Storyline Blocks in Rise?
Authoring tools for this presentation: Storyline 360, Articulate Rise, Plotagon for creating animated videos, Camtasia for video editing
The Holiday Office Party is another submission to Using Interactive Video Quizzes and Scenarios in E-Learning, Articulate’s E-Learning Challenge #258. Click the image below to view the comic book-themed gamified demo.
The boss is pretty strict! Can you meet her unwritten dress code standards and win prizes at the office holiday party?!
Authoring Tools: Camtasia, PowerPoint & Storyline 360.
Sexual Harassment 101 is my submission to Using Interactive Video Quizzes and Scenarios in E-Learning, Articulate’s E-Learning Challenge #258. Click the image below to view the demo.
Did Lola sexually harass Joe? View the demo, and render your verdict!
Authoring Tools: Plotagon, Camtasia, & Storyline 360.
E-Learning Heroes Challenge #230 is: Course Starters: E-Learning Templates for Leadership Training. This week’s challenge from Articulate is to share a course starter template for leadership training.
Click the image below to view the Storyline version of my comic book style demo.
I started creating this demo by leveraging Paul Alders’ PowerPoint template, which you can download for free on the Articulate E-Learning Heroes website: https://community.articulate.com/download/powerpoint-comic-strip-template
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To make the template my own, I changed the colors on the slide master backgrounds, using PowerPoint’s picture tools. I like bolder colors for comic books, so I darkened and increased the color saturation and color contrast on most of the background images. (I thought it would be quicker and easier than it was, because I thought the backgrounds were shapes rather than images! So, I’m not sure I actually saved myself much time in this process!)
I replaced the existing fonts with some I already had on my computer (Bangers & Back Issues BB – both can be downloaded for free), and decided to go with photographic images, rather than cartoons, for the characters in the scenario. I altered the photographic characters by using PowerPoint’s artistic effects. Then, I included some office backgrounds, again altered by using PowerPoint’s artistic effects tools.
I like creating in PowerPoint when I want to manipulate images extensively, using PowerPoint’s image-editing tools. It makes for a smoother workflow for me, rather than uploading images into Photoshop, editing them, then downloading them from Photoshop and uploading them to an eLearning application. When I’ve edited all the images in the PowerPoint to my satisfaction, I can upload the PowerPoint to Storyline, or use Articulate Presenter, to finish my eLearning course and add interactivity. Sometimes I export the PowerPoint to video, and use Camtasia’s video-editing tools and quiz capability, too.
To download my version of the comic book template, click here: https://secureservercdn.net/72.167.242.48/m3j.4f6.myftpupload.com/DevelopLeadershipSkills_ELH230.pptx
PowerPoint, Storyline 360
In response to Articulate’s E-Learning Heroes Challenge #217, I developed a trivia game called Malaria: Do you know the Facts? The game features Plotagon animation.
To view the game, click the image below.
For more information, consult the Malaria FAQs on the CDC website: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html
Widget World Presents: Interpersonal Skills Training is another submission to Articulate’s Creating Animated Characters in E-Learning Challenge #163.
Workplace anti-bias trainings have proliferated in recent years, culminating with the Starbucks chain closing more than 8,000 company-owned stores in the United States on May 29, 2018 to conduct racial-bias training for all employees. Although Starbucks chose to focus almost exclusively on racial bias in their recent training, biased behavior in the workplace is not limited to racial bias.
Such workplace training programs often focus on getting people to own up to their implicit biases. Unfortunately, there is little evidence that getting people to acknowledge their implicit biases alters their behavior in the workplace. In fact, a meta-analysis of 494 anti-bias studies (with 80,356 participants) found no evidence that getting people to come to terms with their implicit biases alters behavior. (A Meta-Analysis of Procedures to Change Implicit Measures)
The goal of workplace training should be to see some measurable, desirable change in employees’ behavior on the job. One approach that can be effective in producing behavior change is scenario-based training that aligns with the behaviors learners are expected master once the training is complete.
During the scenario-based training, learners are plunged into situations where they are allowed to practice skills and develop relevant behavior strategies. In this way, they can safely learn from their mistakes and acquire beneficial experience.
In the short animated example demo, the learner must make a decision about how to react to a workplace interaction. The learner experiences consequences, and has the opportunity to correct any mistakes made.
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The animated video scenario in the demo was created with the Plotagon animation application, then edited with Camtasia video editing software, and imported into Articulate Storyline 360 to add learner feedback.
This week’s Articulate E-Learning Heroes challenge is to share an example of an interactive video quiz.
Click the image above to see the short demo. I created the video scenario in GoAnimate, used Camtasia and PowerPoint to do some editing, and imported the video into Storyline 360 to add the quiz questions.
Authoring Tools: GoAnimate, Storyline 360, Camtasia, PowerPoint 16
Updated 6/3/18
Articulate E-Learning Heroes Challenge #193 asks the question: How Are You Using Storyline Blocks in Rise?
Click the image below to view the demo.
Rise is one of the apps in the Articulate 360 suite of eLearning applications. It allows eLearning developers to quickly create responsive courses that look great when viewed on desktops, laptops, tablets, or phones. The best part is, as an eLearning designer you don’t have to make layout adjustments manually; the program does that for you automatically.
The course on a desktop computer:
The course on mobile devices:
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The Storyline block feature in Rise allows course designers to include custom multimedia interactions. In this case, I created animated video scenarios using Plotagon animation, and edited the videos with Camtasia. I used Storyline to include quiz questions superimposed on top of the videos at the end of each scenario.
Plotagon is a fun and easy-to-use application for creating animated videos. In the application, you are limited to two characters who can participate in a dialogue for any given scene. I get around this by creating separate scenes set in the same location, with new characters and camera angles. Then, I edit the separate scenes in Camtasia, and voilà! I can have as many characters as I like interact with one another. In the bar scene in this demo, I had 5 characters interact in one scene.
Authoring tools for this presentation: Storyline 360, Articulate Rise, Plotagon for creating animated videos, Camtasia for video editing
My entry for Articulate’s #ELHChallenge 125 is a gamified demo called ERASE & REPLACE.
I created this demo using Plotagon animation, and edited the result in Camtasia. I imported the video into Storyline 2, to incorporate the interactions. Learners identify misspelled words, erase them, and type in the correct spelling. The feedback is immediate, and utilizes the learner’s name, if they have typed it in on the opening screen.
Authoring Tools: Plotagon, Camtasia, Storyline 2.
My entry for Articulate’s #ELHChallenge 122 is a scenario-based demo called E-Learning Design Do’s & Don’ts.
“Where did I go wrong?”
In this demo, I used Plotagon animation again, and edited the result in Camtasia. I imported the video into Storyline 2, and added a drag & drop interaction. Learners identify E-Learning Do’s & Don’ts in order to help Alicia, who has created an “awful” e-learning module.
Client Reaction
Authoring Tools: Plotagon, Camtasia, Storyline 2.