You’ll find the weekly Articulate E-Learning Heroes Challenges here.. Anyone can play along, and you never know what you’ll learn or who will inspire you! These are my entries.
#368: The Challenge of Progress
This week’s challenge is to show an example of using progress indicators to show learner status. I showed progress in keeping my demos alive.
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#200: Lightboxing Some Art
This week’s challenge is to show an example of using lightboxes. I lit mine up with some of my favorite artists.
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#199: A Yummy, Fresh and FREE Tabs Interaction!
This week’s challenge is to create a shareable tabs interaction. I picked some fresh fruit and served up a free download.
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#198: Escape Room Game: When Birthday Parties Go Wrong
This week’s challenge is to create an escape-room-style game. In mine you’re not escaping a room as much as a very bad party.
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#197: Dining Out in Italy: Do it for the Progress Bars and Badges
This week’s challenge is to show indicators of achievement in e-learning. Mine includes an Italian progress bar that serves drinks.
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#196: Clowning Around with Adaptive Learning
This week’s challenge is to design an example of adaptive learning. Mine has you headed for clown college.
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#195: E-Learning Avatars and Super Powers
This week’s challenge is to show ways to select and use avatars in e-learning. I gave mine some super powers, too.
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#193: Using Storyline Blocks in Rise
This week’s challenge is to share an example of using Storyline blocks in Rise. Mine features a good thunderstorm.
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#192: When Postcards Need Glossaries
This week’s challenge is to create a glossary for e-learning. Mine untangles German idioms causing some vacation confusion.
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#189: Navigating a Tasty Circular Menu
This week’s challenge is to create a circular app-style navigation menu. You can use it to decide what’s for lunch, too!
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#186: Pantone’s Ultra Violet: Best Worn with Sunscreen
This week’s challenge is to feature Pantone’s color of the year: Ultra Violet. Don’t forget your sunscreen.
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#178: Keep-It-Or-Toss-It Interaction
This week’s challenge is to come up with a simple keep-it-or-toss-it interaction. Mine features a good thunderstorm.
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#154: Pantone’s Color of the Year
This week’s challenge is to show how to use Pantone’s new color of the year in e-learning. I dialed up a little guy who’s hungry for some green.
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#153: Build and Share Your First Rise Course
This week’s challenge is to build something in Articulate 360’s new browser-based Rise tool. I buzzed through a Storyline makeover that was quick as can be(e).
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#152: Combining Text and Images in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to show how anthropomorrphic characters can be using in e-learning, so I took a meeting and this is what happened.
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#151: Using Interactive Dials in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to show how to use dials and knobs in e-learning. I combined it with the current Pantone challenge and dialed up some RGB deliciousness.
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#150: Using Animated Timers in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to share an example of how countdown timers can be used in e-learning. Mine helps you escape the kitchen and keep everybody happy.
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#147: Accordion Interactions in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to show how to use accordion interactions. Though mine looks more like a book – it started as an accordion template from ELH!
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#113: Anthropomorphic Characters in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to show how anthropomorphic characters can be using in e-learning, so I took a meeting and this is what happened.
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#112: It’s a Turkish Video Slider!
This week’s challenge is to show ways to use video in e-learning. I took bit of video from a recent trip to Turkey and made it all slide.
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#111: It’s Pantone Color-of-the-Year Bingo!
This week’s challenge is to feature Pantone’s colors of the year, so I made a game about allllllll of Pantone’s colors of the year.
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#110: Star Wars: The Droid Quiz Awakens
This week’s challenge is to make something Star Wars happen, so I booted up BB-8 and made a mini droid quiz.
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#109: How Long Does It Take To Create E-Learning?
This week’s challenge is to share an instructional design job aid, so I turned one of my faves into a zippy little interaction.
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#108: Show Your Work with ELH’s New Member Profiles
This week’s challenge is to add some of your work samples to your ELH member profile, then take a capture of it. So I did!
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#106: New! A Deliciously Frustrating E-Learning Cereal
This week’s challenge is to create an e-learning-themed cereal, so I channeled a bit of Toucan Sam and made some loops.
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#105: E-Learning Conversations
This week’s challenge is to show e-learning conversations and I let Storyline’s characters take the lead.
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#104: Making a Simple Voiceover Portfolio
This week’s challenge is to put together an e-learning voiceover portfolio, so I rounded up some of my greatest hits and hit “play”.
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#103: What People Love & Hate About E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to make in interactive graphic about what people love & hate about e-learning, but I only saw love.
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#101: There’s an Atsumi for That!
This week’s challenge is to show how you use Articulate Storyline’s founding character Atsumi. She anchored my German drinking game template, so I had to give props.
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#100: Before & After Comparison: Is It Coffee Cake Yet?
This week’s challenge is to create an interaction to explore before-and-after images.
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#99: Branching Scenarios
This week’s challenge is to show a branching scenario, so I came up with a scenario and let it branch.
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#98: It’s Pantone Color-of-the-Year Bingo!
This week’s challenge is to create a bingo game, and I enlisted the help of Pantone’s colors of the year to keep things on trend.
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#97: Santa Likes Switching Things Up, Too!
This week’s challenge is to come up with creative uses for buttons & switches, so I had Santa help me deliver a customizable greeting card.
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#96: It’s a Kid-U-Cational (+ Free!) Template
This week’s challenge is to create an education-themed template, and I thought I’d help you get ready for the science fair.
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#95: Video Backgrounds to Enhance E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to use video backgrounds to make e-learning more engaging. With help from a yoyo and a beach, I did.
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#94: Interactive Video: An Intimate Conversation with Bert
This week’s challenge is to create an interactive video conversation, and I knew there was only one guy I wanted to call.
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#93: Grabbing Attention & Motivating Learners
This week’s challenge is to give an example of how to get learners’ attention to draw them in. I drew them into a potentially nerve-wracking situation…
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#92: Seriously – How Do You Navigate This Course?
This week’s challenge is to perk up your navigation instructions. So I found a guy with just the right prescription.
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#91: Two Truths and a Lie: Icebreaker Game
This week’s challenge is to create a simple icebreaker game, so I rummaged through my archives for some personal fodder.
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#90: Engage Learners with Interactive Conversations
This week’s challenge is to create an interactive conversation, so I chatted you up a bit about language teaching.
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#89: Buttoned-Down Design (+ Free Storyline File!)
This week’s challenge is to create some cool buttons, so I made some animated ones and gave away the file!
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#88: Soundboards in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to create an interactive soundboard, so I let the guys at the end of the course make some noise.
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#87: I’m on Fakecation!
This week’s challenge is to take a little #fakecation to work on your franken-photo skills.
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#86: Interactive Maps
This week’s challenge is to show how interactive maps can be used in online training, so I decided to map my vacation.
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#85: Making a Simple Prototype
This week’s challenge is to create a course prototype about fall prevention. So I whipped up some stick figures and made fall prevention happen..
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#84: Turkey Needs Photo Sliders!*
This week’s challenge is to create a photo slider, so I used it as an excuse to trot out some photos I took in Turkey.
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#83: Can I GIF You My Reaction?
This week’s challenge is use reaction GIFs to illustrate something about e-learning, so I illustrated my reaction to this week’s challenge.
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#82: Working Together to Create E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to share your process for making online training. Mine helps explain the collaborative process to clients.
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#81: Checking Out Some Ergonomics
This week’s challenge is to make an ergonomics training demo, so I sat up a little straighter and started brainstorming.
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#80: Why Flies Should Pay Attention to Science
This week’s challenge is to create a science-related demo. Using web-related inspiration, I made a spider slider.
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#79: Custom Navigation Menus for E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to create a custom menu for an e-learning course, so I shared the navigation design I created for this digital magazine demo.
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#78: DIY E-Learning Icons (+ Free Download!)
This week’s challenge is to create and share a set of icons with the e-learning community. (I’m in!)
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#77: Getting Emoji-nal
This week’s challenge is to use emojis in place of text. Mine turned into a bit of vocabulary practice.
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#76: Using Educational Animations
This week’s challenge is to show how animations can be used in learning. I used them to teach a little something about typography.
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#75: Punctuation Tic-Tac-Toe
This week’s challenge is to create something to help teach punctuation, so I made a game of it.
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#74: Using Toys in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to use toys to tell a story in e-learning. My toys were game, so we made it happen.
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#73: Keeping It Odd
This week’s challenge is to create an odd course title screen. Mine features some local talent.
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#72: Build & Share Your Own Image Library!
This week’s challenge is to create e-learning images to share, so I grabbed my camera and got to work.
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#71: Hey! You Got Your Math in My Football!
I tackled this week’s math challenge and added it to a recent football one. Score!
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#70: Play to Find Your Valentine!
This week’s challenge is about Valentine’s Day, and my game could help you find your perfect match!.
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#69: Taking the Sting Out of Medical Training
This week’s challenge is to do something with medical training. Good thing this e-learning doctor is “in”.
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#68: Hey! You Got Your Math in My Football!
I tackled a recent math challenge and added it to this week’s football one. Score!
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#67: Podcast: How I Get Things Done as an Instructional Designer
This week’s challenge is to explain how we do what we do as IDs.
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#66: Here’s an Easy Way to Make Money…
This week’s challenge is to create an invoice so cool your client just can’t wait to pay it.
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#65: A Template Unification Plan
This week’s challenge is to take 3 disparate templates and create one peaceful template whose elements coexist in harmony.
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#64: The 12 Days of Data Presentation
This week’s challenge is to present data using interactive charts and graphs, so I decided to chart a popular Christmas carol.
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#63: Is Marsala a Good Color for George Washington?
This week’s challenge is to use Pantone’s color of the year, and I chose the father of our country to help show off how good it can look.
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#62: Nine Stress-Free Low-Cost Ways to Enjoy the Holidays
This week’s challenge is to come up with some ways to survive the holidays. I grabbed some cookies and a toy soldier and went to work.
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#61: My Top 10 Tips for Freelancers
This week’s challenge is to share your top tips for freelancers. I wrote a few words, grabbed a few photos, and made it happen.
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#60: Progress Meters in E-Learning
This week’s challenge is to create a progress meter. When a thoughtful challengee entered my drinking game progress meters on my behalf, I went with it.
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#59: Learning to Spend Money the Yummy Way
This week’s challenge is to create an educational game for kids, so I gave you some money and took you to a cupcake shop. You’re welcome!
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#58: Can You Give a Better Speech Than a 12-Year-Old?
This week’s challenge is to create a demo of a digital learning magazine. Mine pits 12-year-olds against sales and marketing execs.
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#57: Preventing Workplace Violence Holiday-Style!
This week’s challenge is to create a scenario about preventing workplace violence. Ironically, mine takes place at the jolliest time of year.
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#56: 10 Treats (& Tricks!) I Hear as an Instructional Designer
This week’s challenge is to share 10 things you don’t like to hear as an ID. I put a Halloween twist on it.
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#55: Dating Zombies as a Survival Strategy
This week’s challenge is to outline a plan to survive the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse, but my strategy might be flawed.
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#54: Faces of the Ebola Response
This week’s challenge is to create an interaction about the current Ebola outbreak. I wanted to highlight the efforts of a few individuals.
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#53: Create Your Own Pictogram Characters (With Free Character & Slider Files!)
This week’s challenge is to create your own custom pictogram characters. Mine came out ready to perform.
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#52: How I Dolled Up Storyline’s Sliders
This week’s challenge is to use Storyline’s new sliders. I dolled them up and had some vintage paper fun.
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#51: Fontcracker Suite
This week’s challenge is to create a game or interaction to teach something about typography. Tchaikovsky was free, so he helped.
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#50: My Multidimensional (Yet Flat) Desk
This week’s challenge is to render your work space in flat-style images, so I illustrated my nifty new desk.
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#48: The Challenge of Storyboarding
This week’s challenge is to share how you storyboard and some of your favorite tips. So that’s what I did.
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#47: Call Center Software Training
This week’s challenge is to share ideas for call center training. I shared some software training with style.
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#46: Show Your Work: Creating Portfolio Images to Share
This week’s Articulate challenge is about creating images to showcase your work, then sharing them!
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#45: How I Record Audio For E-Learning
This challenge is to talk about how you record audio for e-learning. I believe I can do this.
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#44: My Scenic Route to E-Learning Design
This week’s challenge is to create a virtual tour, and my path to e-learning could use a tour guide.
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#43: Do I Have To Learn Everything Right This Second?
This week’s challenge is to create an interactive org chart. Mine included a swimming pool or two.
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#42: The Downside of Leaving the House: A Video Diary
This challenge is about creating video with a smart phone. Fortunately only the phone was required to be smart.
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#41: Help! Someone Abducted My Digital Tools!
For this challenge I created emergency response instructions using paperclips and a cardboard box.
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#40: Can You Motivate This Monster?
For this challenge I created a quiz about the ARCS model of motivation, and you get to motivate this guy.
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#39: Podcast: A One-Sided E-Learning Interview
In this challenge, that intrepid David Anderson came up with yet another remarkable idea: Create your own podcast.
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#38: Sell Like Your Surfboard Depends On It!
This challenge is to create a game using a customizable template. I chose a sales game that ends with tropical drinks in paradise.
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#37: A Non-Regulation Spelling Bee
This challenge is to create an interactive vocabulary quiz. I created a somewhat questionable spelling bee.
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#36: Step Graphics to Success as an E-Learning Designer
This challenge is to make a step graphic to explain a process. I chose the process of becoming awesome.
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#35: 4 Free E-Learning Tools I Rely On
This challenge is to share the free e-learning tools we really use. These are the Big 4 I use.
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#34: A Model Smart Enough to Teach Itself
This challenge is to teach something about instructional design, so I used the CCAF Design Model to teach itself.
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#33: Does Context Matter? Here’s a Before & After
This challenge is to take last week’s example of bad e-learning and make it better.
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#32: Does Context Matter? Here’s a Before & After
This challenge is to share an example of bad e-learning. See it here in all it’s useless glory.
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#31: The Stuff That Résumés Are Made Of
This challenge is to create an interactive résumé or portfolio. I went vintage with a detective-inspired theme and an original soundtrack.
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#30: My Sketchy Life as an e-learning Designer
This challenge is to use a visual meme to show what it is to be an e-learning designer. I also drew some pictures.
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#29: Let’s Start at the End of Your Course
This challenge is to come up with good end screens. I made them using some animals and a few disturbing sounds.
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#28: What Do I Think of Storyline? Well, Since You Asked…
This challenge is to create a “Top 10” list of resources you’d recommend for Storyline. That’s when things started popping.
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#27: This is Why Freelancers Need Floaties
This challenge is to create a photo collage that tells a story. Mine was about a man with a plan and a nice beach outfit.
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#26: We’ll Always Have the US Passport Office
This challenge is to use interactive screenshots to add value to a UI. I interfaced with a nice passport application.
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#25: You Can’t Escape Good Design
This challenge is to take a favorite instructional design quote and create a poster making good use of typography to express it. (My second entry for this challenge. Sometimes you just can’t help it.)
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#25: You Can Quote Me
This challenge is to take a favorite instructional design quote and create a poster making good use of typography to express it. (My first entry for this challenge.)
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#24: At Last! A Drinking Game I Can Win
This challenge is to come up with a simple game. What’s simpler than drinking your way across Germany?
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#23: Please Don’t Let Me Be Martha Stewart
This challenge is to turn an infographic into a branching scenario. You also get to discover what kind of leader you are!
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#22: What if I Just Dreamed I Made a Great Template?
This challenge is to create an olympics-themed template. There were some issues, but it ended well.
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#21: Dragging & Dropping Your Seat Mate
This challenge is to create a drag-and-drop interaction. I made a tool to pick your next seat mate.
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#20: No One Loves the “Next” Button Until It’s Gone
This challenge is to find a way to hide the “next” button until the learner confirms they’ve understood.
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#19: Video: How to Customize This Sobered-Up Drinking Game
This challenge is to create a screencast for online training. I showed how to…well, I think the title says it all.
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#18: Sexual Harassment Training with Character
This challenge is about using characters in e-learning. This guy was definitely a character. Here’s how I created the course, too.
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#17: Using Job Aids in E-Learning
This challenge is about job aids. I shared a course road map that always seems to help. You can also learn more about the course right here.
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#16: Creating Custom Drag-and-Drop E-Learning Interactions
This challenge is to create a custom drag-and-drop interaction. Mine is all about getting ready for the job.
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#15: A Radiantly Delicious Template
This challenge is to create a template using Pantone’s color of the year. I made one both radiant and delicious.
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#14: Quiz Results Slides
This challenge is to get creative with your quiz results slides. Mine told a story and provided good information.
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#13: Interactive Timelines for E-Learning
This challenge is to rebuild Big History’s interactive timeline. I used Storyline to chart a few billion years.
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#12: Where Infographics Meet Interactivity
This challenge is to about taking a static infographic and making it interactive. Fittingly, I chose an infographic that dealt with info about graphics.
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#11: Fighting Harassment Comic Book Style
This challenge is to create a comic-book style template. My heroine had to deal with some harassment.
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#10: Shooting Your Own E-Learning Background Images
This challenge is about shooting your own background images. This is what happened when I staged my own shoot.
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#9: Designing an Ethics Course in MS Clipart Style 1368
This challenge is to create an ethics template using Microsoft clipart. Turns out clipart folk have ethical dilemmas, too.
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#8: Product Sales Training with Clipart
This challenge is to create an e-learning template using clipart, so I shared my clipart-based design. You can also check out how I designed the entire course.
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#7: Converting Static Content Into Interactive Knowledge Checks
This challenge is to take one of your existing content slides and turn it into a knowledge check. Mine helps interpret a federal code.
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#6: Bring This Medical Training Course Back to Life!
This challenge is to create a flat design template for this medical training course, and it’s a good candidate for resuscitation.
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#5: Desktop and Office Theme Designs
This challenge is to build out a desktop or office-themed design. I did just that and shared it here.
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#4: Flatten Up Your Course Design Skills
This challenge is to build out a theme using flat design. I trotted out an old desktop-themed course and flattened it.
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#3: Gate Screens in Online Courses
This challenge is to create a course gate screen. Inexplicably, it got me thinking about my Swiss heritage.
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#2: What’s Your Best Tabs Interaction?
This challenge is to share your best tabs interaction. Here’s mine, and here’s how I designed the course.
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#1: How Would You Show Meaningful Comparisons?
This challenge is to compare things in a meaningful way. I chose to compare the sizes of two countries I featured in my virtual tour, but using a more accurate scale.