The Concept This week’s eLearning Heroes Challenge was Keep It or Trash It: Drag-and-Drop Sorting Activities #439. Now, I’ve created a drag-and-drop activity for an actual course that involves taking items and sorting it as either trash or recycling. I could have taken that interaction, sanitized it, and called it a day. But that’s no […]
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Volunteer Project: United Way of Dane County
The Need In late 2020 to early 2021, I was part of a volunteer project by my local Association of Talent Development chapter (ATD-MAC) and our local United Way of Dane County (UWDC). UWDC wanted to grow their leadership skills in non-managerial employees and ATD-MAC had identified several key skills to focus on: I was […]
A More Complex Drag and Drop Interaction: OSHA Hazard Mapping Interaction
What do you do when you need to create a more complex drag and drop interaction? One with multiple groups of drag items? Will you throw the learners into a world of chaos where they can drag whatever they want wherever they want, or can you use intuitive design to cut through the chaos? The […]
My eLearning Storyboarding Process
I’m a firm believer in the power of an eLearning storyboard to reduce the overall amount of time and effort (read: money) required in training development. While I haven’t always use them when working on internal projects, I use them 100% of the time when acting in a consultant capacity. I define storyboards as a […]
Social Networking Infographic
I recently worked with a client on a short eLearning course about digital prospecting for their employees. As part of this project, we determined it would be useful to have a job aid. This job aid would refresh employees with social networking best practices days or weeks after they had completed the course. It would […]