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Designboarding: Leveraging good treatment for your content - Jane Bozarth, Kevin Thorn

 Www.diigo.com/user/jbo27712/thorn. Links to all the slides and examples within this session. 

 

What do you do when you have no budget, few resources and you are aof one. (or at least small)

 

How bad can elearning be?

• Clipart that has nothing to do to with the topic
• Too many words
• Narrator reading every word on the screen 
• Text place that reads like a book
• Courses that take hours and hours to get through

 REMEMBER Classroom training can be just as bad

 

Think about transforming learning. Not converting learning.  

 

A. Pintura Art Detective. Example of learning with context. 

 

You don't need an army of artists and developers. Think more and only about the learner's experience. Think of something better to do with the content. Bullet points can be turned into a situation. The info on the text can be introduce with links, pop up, images, etc. 

 

Use more links (images, icons, popups) that allow the users to explore the content as they wish to. Some can be push, but much can be their choice to explore as much or as little as they may need.   Or the more they explore they more they will be able to apply the information, better answer/solve a solution. 

 

Look to Kevin Thorn's Turf Wars

http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/MissionTurfgrass/player.html  

 

• Context
• Engaging
• Challenge
• Narrative 
• Characters

Where can you find narratives?

    

Listen to the stories that SME's are coming in with

Ask for the top 5 questions

Ask how users handle it

Look where mistakes did go wrong

Look to real world news stories 

 

Listen for keywords that the SMEs are using 

 

Beware of your audience though. Don't go too cute if your audience is not appropriate for the audience. Make sure your narrative works with the group. 

 

Examples of engagement using the scenario of election procure changes   

• Allow them to make mistakes
• Follow the process through
• Headlines from failures
• Managing a situation vs not

  Take a chance by asking a end user what experience they may want to go through. 

 

We must look outside our "worlds" for inspiration. Sharing our stories often inspire others.  

 

Map out the experience. If you are designing for yourself how would you like it delivered. 

 

Take images out and focus on the story or treatment.  Get approval on the content and then put the images in. Elearning development tools last.