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Ideas for your projects
 Get practical tips from Making change: Ideas for lively elearning. It's a blog that's quick and fun to read.
You'll find:
- Tips you can use immediately
- Examples to inspire you
- Concise advice based on research
Elearning Blueprint™
Anyone can design lean, powerful elearning with the Elearning Blueprint. It's a website that helps you quickly identify the best activities and content to meet your business goal. Its research-based recommendations will help you confidently make decisions about navigation, graphics, audio, and writing style, and you can use it whenever you need to design elearning.
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Dump the Drone
Get some quick ideas from the original "Dump the Drone" slideshow, which looks mostly at writing style.
Topics:
- What makes online courses boring
- How to create compelling characters and stories
- Ideas for adding "safe" humor
- How to tighten flabby text
- The best uses for readability analysis
Download the slides (5.8 MB PDF)
Download the handout (8-page PDF; has more details than the slides)
Hey, Australia!
Did you attend one of my Australian sessions in November or December 2009? Here are some of the resources I mentioned:
- Chart of classic story lines (PDF)
- Fiction techniques: presentation slides (PDF) (mostly pictures and so might not make a lot of sense)
- Dump the Drone: presentation slides (PDF) (also mostly pictures and might not be exactly the presentation you saw because I tweak it often)
- Will Thalheimer's research-based report Using Linguistically, Culturally, and Situationally Appropriate Scenarios to Support Real-World Remembering is available for download from the catalog section of his site
- Michael Allen's Guide to E-Learning
 discusses how to lead with the activities and offers many other ideas
- Action Mapping: Get a quick overview of a visual approach to instructional design in this slideshow, and be sure to read the comments for more ideas and tools.
Handy tools
Improve instructional design: When you've developed a course outline, quickly generate a graph to see how engaged the learners will be at each point. Enter values representing the factors you want to measure, such as interactivity and challenge, and immediately see how well each part of the course meets your requirements. The graph looks best in Open Office but also works in Excel. It's a simple spreadsheet with instructions included. Download it here:
Create a corporate memory wiki: Explore a sample wiki that shows how you could build a corporate memory of your clients and projects. The sample shows how a fictional elearning developer shares information across project teams and helps new hires get up to speed quickly, but the concept would work for many types of businesses. I use a wiki like this to keep track of what my clients prefer and what we've done together. See the sample.
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