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15 Jan

Happy Same Year!?

Welcome to 2016! As a new year is upon us, it’s that time again where folks who blog about learning and development share their predictions for the coming year. It’s always fun to see where people think the field is going and it would be interesting to look back on the year in December to see how close their predictions were. So, in the spirit of a new year I thought I’d throw out a few ideas of my own about L&D for the year ahead (specifically for those working in L&D). My overall prediction is that what’s easy to...
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13 Dec

Looking Back at 2015

Posted by Matt Guyan | Blog, eLearning, Reflections, Storyline |

Well another year has just about come and gone and at this time of year like many folks who write blogs I like to look back and reflect on the posts I’ve written. Blog writing is a personal thing and everyone has their own style and approach which makes the diversity between writers and topics both interesting and thought-provoking. If I had to sum up where I’m at with my blogging and the style of posts I write in one word, it would be Practicality. I read a lot of posts and tweets that are critical of eLearning modules (some...
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06 Dec

More than One Way with Storyline 2

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design, Storyline |

Sometimes I like to experiment with ideas for eLearning interactions and a few months ago one of these experiments led me to creating this carousel-style interaction (you can click the image to see a demo): I wrote about it here but essentially it uses a slider to show layers with each image in a different position. I also posted the demo to an E-Learning Heroes Community forum and someone asked if the same effect could be created using buttons instead. The short answer is yes and here’s how I did it. I started by making a duplicate of the current slider-based...
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23 Nov

Template Facelift

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Show Your Work, Storyline |

A few months ago I created a demo for ELH Challenge #18 which was called ‘Using Characters in eLearning’ (you can see a recap here). For this one I did a 'meet the team' style interaction that was based on something I’d seen a few years ago. The idea is that you have some people and some questions and you pick a person and a question you’d like to ask them, then their response is shown. You can try the demo by clicking on this image: I was happy with it originally and it works fine but I’ve felt for a while...
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19 Nov

Half-baked Ideas

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

This week is Work Out Loud or #WOLweek and the purpose is to be more open and share what you’re working on. So, in the spirit of the week I went to my notebook where I write down ideas and thoughts about what I see and read from the world around me. They’re raw, not fully formed and some not fully thought through (sometimes I was just venting) but they are things that at some stage I thought were important enough to write down. The idea is that they might become posts of their own eventually. Here they are in no...
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Happy Same Year!?

Looking Back at 2015

More than One Way with Storyline 2

Template Facelift

Half-baked Ideas

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