ELH Challenge #392
Welcome to my blog! I added a blog to my website to document my journey as I develop new skills as a Learning Designer. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect and share all of my little unfinished experiments that aren’t “portfolio-worthy.”
I’m back to the eLearning Heroes Challenges, and this week’s challenge has to do with question-and-answer activities using variables. This was exciting to me because I’m taking Google’s Data Analytics Certificate course, and I’ve loved how they incorporate question-and-answer activities. In addition to completing discussion boards and reflection logs, learners have the opportunity to complete short response questions and then compare their answer to a suggested response. It’s a great engagement technique and challenges learners to synthesize the course content.
I’m also reflecting on backwards design this week in my coursework for an assessment/evaluation class for my eLearning Design and Development graduate certificate. When I saw this week’s challenge, I wanted to use Articulate’s new print screen function and decided to have my learners generate their own “job aid” script for a salary negotiation (something I hope to use very soon!!) As a classroom teacher, I loved when learners could develop their own learning supports through a lesson or activity, so I can envision a lot of cool applications for the print screen function along these lines.
With that in mind, I started researching and storyboarding using a template I’ve never used before! I like how detailed it is, and I found that it didn’t take me any longer than usual. (It was offered as a free download over the summer and wish I could remember who made it so I could link to the creator!) Next, I sourced images from Freepik.com, edited them in Illustrator, and created visual prototypes in Adobe XD.
Finally, I developed my module in Articulate. I had a lot of fun with animations and even used a little bit of Javascript so that the actual date appears in the email headings. I would love to hear your feedback! Please feel free to add you thoughts using the Review link!
Time spent: around 8 hours
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Articulate Storyline
