Citing Creative Commons Content
We are living a golden age of freely available and open content for you to reuse in your design projects. Photos, audio, PDFs, H5P, videos galore! But are you giving credit where credit is due? Are you reusing this content … Continued
Best of 2018: Top Posts and Recommended Reads/Listens
What a year! This year, I started teaching instructional design full-time, and I left my full-time job as an Instructional Design Librarian. Of course, I remain library-adjacent. I train and consult with librarians in instructional design and elearning development, and … Continued
H5P Essentials 1: Get Started with H5P
*Revised and Expanded 12/17/18* H5P is an elearning game-changer. Previously, interactive lessons were only possible with expensive and proprietary software, “freemium” online platforms that come and go like the wind, or advanced HTML and Javascript programming knowledge. Now, H5P … Continued
Giving Back by Opening Up
Watch the recording (32 min): Download the slide deck for my keynote at the ACRL Distance Learning Section Fall Forum on OER: Slide deck licensed CC BY 4.0.
Link Round-Up: Perfectionism is a trap!
Most of the successful people I know struggle with perfectionism. They are brilliant, they produce great work, but sometimes they fall short of getting their work done at all because they fell into a perfectionist sinkhole. I’m here to tell … Continued
How interactive is your elearning? H5P, Storyline, and Captivate compared!
By now, I hope you’ve heard of H5P, and that you’ve had time to give it a go. Its name belies how fantastic it is. H5P is an open source platform for developing interactive elearning. Haven’t tried it yet? Give … Continued
Embed your Storyline and Captivate courses using iframes
In today’s post, I’ll show you how you can embed your published Storyline and Captivate courses into any webpage using iframes, which is a very simple HTML code. If you can copy and paste, you can do this, I promise! … Continued
Hosting your Captivate or Storyline courses for free
So you’ve developed a fabulous course using Adobe Captivate or Articulate Storyline. Now, you want to show it off. Maybe you want to feature it in your elearning portfolio, or send it to your subject matter expert for review. It’s … Continued
Editing 360 Photos for Virtual Reality
I day-hiked Mt. Whitney the other day. Sure, it was pretty cool. Incredible alpine landscapes, sapphire blue lakes sparkling in the sun. Twenty-two miles round-trip, 6,000 feet of elevation gain, took me 16 hours. But really I was just there … Continued
Showing My Work: Step 1A – Proof of Concept
In my last post, I declared my intentions to make a wilderness survival game using Captivate 2019’s 360 and VR features. Well, my 360 camera came in the mail yesterday, and I ended up making a proof-of-concept using the camera … Continued