What would constitute an Analysis and Design Document - Any Thoughts?

The Analysis and Design document is an important document for any e-learning project. It is a document that states the findings of the Needs Analysis and is a written agreement of what will constitute the course and how the course will look like.
Most companies have standard templates and all that you have to do is [...]

Online SoftwareTutorials - Are they useful or messy?

I love playing with software applications and tools. If I have to learn to use an e-learning tool like Captivate or say software products like a BRMS or BPM, what I usually do is hunt for some online tutorials. I follow these tutorials and try and build something in the context of real life [...]

How to Get Creative with PowerPoint Animations?

Tom Kuhlmann has again come up with a very interesting post on PowerPoint and this time it is about PowerPoint Animations. He has some practical demonstrations on how to create interesting animations in this post of his.
I never realized that PowerPoint could be such an effective tool to create interesting e-learning courses until I read [...]

Resources for Game Based Learning

B.J. Schone has an interesting post on game based interactions in his blog.
Additionally he has given useful references using which you can create simple games for your e-learning courses.
Do check out Online Training Games Starter Kit (PDF) for sure.

How would you design a Bloom’s Taxonomy Interactive?

I have seen a lot of learning interactions on Bloom’s Taxonomy and most of them follow a similar strategy.
Most learning interactions use the image of staircase to represent the six levels of learning. I have also seen tabular representations of Bloom’s taxonomy. I just find all of them too boring and hard to remember.
I [...]

Yipeeee I am a Gamer 4.0 - What type of a Gamer are you?

I enjoyed playing the Gamer Rater posted in Prof Karl Kapp’s blog. I am very happy that I am very much part of current generation gamers.
Hope you enjoy playing the game too.
To read more on the Game Rater, read this post here.

The Value of Instructional Designers - Interesting Post by Cammy Bean

I just read this interesting post by Cammy Bean.
She has started off a good discussion in this post of hers.
I request all Instructional Designers to participate in the discussion and make it more interesting

My Top 6 E-Learning Resources

Hello All!
Here is the list of blogs that I visit often. Hope you find them useful too.

The Rapid elearning blog
Kapp Notes
Making Change
Learning Visions
Experiencing E-learning
Engaging Interactions for eLearning

Rook’s Binocular and Avian Resurrection - Interesting Instructional Games

I recently caught a 7 year old boy playing two games on the web. One was Rook’s Binocular and the other was Avian Resurrection. Both these games have two things in common:

Birds
Instructional Value

I was amazed at the 7 year old kid’s knowledge about birds and animals. I was amused at how easily he managed to [...]

Top 10 Posts of 2007

Hello All!
Here are the top 10 posts of 2007:

E-learning Design Challenge Series - Designing a Game Based Course
Storyboard Templates in Instructional Designing
8 Easy Steps to Create a Storyboard
Top 8 Reasons Why Captivate Rocks
Needs Analysis in Instructional Designing
Designing an Effective Instructional Design Strategy - Learning from Gaming
Tips to design a User Manual (Part 1)
Innovating [...]