Donnie Hoyle has created some very hilarious Photoshop tutorials titled "You suck at Photoshop" that have become rather popular on the net lately. If you haven't seen them you should check out the one below.
Donnie's brand of self-deprecating humor is seriously funny. I have been trying to get better at Photoshop but always get bored stiff about 5 minutes into any tutorial I have started watching. Cheers to Donnie for making some classic training that I could watch for hours.
Some of the humor is a little over the top, and might not be all that work appropriate due to some explicit language, but really, it is very funny.
Donnie's brand of self-deprecating humor is seriously funny. I have been trying to get better at Photoshop but always get bored stiff about 5 minutes into any tutorial I have started watching. Cheers to Donnie for making some classic training that I could watch for hours.
Some of the humor is a little over the top, and might not be all that work appropriate due to some explicit language, but really, it is very funny.
Labels: eLearning Technology
Check out this article at Yahoo that discusses among other things eLearning, and MITs OpenCourseWare initiative which is enabling some serious distance learning:
Internet opens elite colleges to all.
Internet opens elite colleges to all.
Labels: eLearning Technology
Quizmaker results to a database
3 Comments Dave blogged on Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 10:48 PM.
I spent a couple of hours the other day looking at, and trying out the instruction in this forum post by Joep on the Articulate Community forums and I must say, it is pretty impressive what he has done.Joe has created a C# web application that will capture results from Articulate Quizmaker quizzes and store them in a SQL database.
See the original post here:
Quiz to database, instructions and code
Below I have listed some initial impressions.
Positives:
- Probably more reliable than sending results via email (because of technical limitations of browsers and email clients)
- If you have a free Windows Server with IIS the cost is only the time it takes to setup
Drawbacks:
- Requires a Windows Server with IIS
- Pretty technically challenging to setup (not for novice non-IT people)
- Requires modification to the quizmaker.html file after each publish
- Only works in IE (at least it didn't work for me in Firefox, but if you are using a Windows Server with IIS you probably likely in an environment that requires IE)
- Doesn't match the feature set you will get from Articulate Online or an LMS
Good work Joe!
Labels: eLearning Technology, Quizmaker
iQuiz for the iPod as a training tool
0 Comments Dave blogged on Monday, August 06, 2007 at 5:31 PM.
One of the things I am most interested in when it comes to eLearning is eLearning content that is developed for portable devices such as the iPod. I was pretty excited when I saw that iTunes launched iTunes University.
Well, a new game has been developed by Apple called iQuiz, which is a trivia game for the iPod. It allows you to play downloaded "trivia packs" on the iPod.
So you can create these "trivia packs" for your learners so that they can take your quizzes on their iPods. Cool, huh?
What I like about it:
- The UI - The games look and feel is cool. Really feels like you are playing a game. The animations are really slick as well.
- Ability to create timed quizzes
- 3 strikes your out - Some of the quizzes have a "loose" value. A loose value is the number of wrong answers that result in losing the game
Unfortunately there are a couple of things that prevent this from becoming a really effective tool for deploying eLearning material:
- No way to capture results - This makes it an ineffective tool at it as tool for assessing student retention of information. It would be nice if users could take the quiz, and then have the results uploaded to a database or LMS when the user synchronized their iPod.
- No way to provide custom feedback - Only default feedback is displayed (correct/incorrect). So it is difficult to use quizzes as an effective tool.
- End user must have iQuiz installed - Which means any user who wants to take your quizzes will have to have iQuiz installed.
- Installing the quizzes is not intuitive - Quizzes need to be copied to the \My Music\iTunes\iPod Games\iQuiz folder, and there is no ability to manage your quizzes in iTunes.
So basically the game is more about trivia than it is quizzing. But anyways, I think the program is interesting, and in a follow-up blog post I will post instructions for how you can create quizzes (trivia packs) for iQuiz, and instructions on how you can copy the quizzes to your iPod.
Labels: eLearning Technology, iPod
On Friday Tom Kuhlmann (otherwise known as Doofdaddy), launched his blog on Rapid eLearning.This is a great resource for anyone interested in developing any type of eLearning material. One of the most compelling aspects of the blog is that he focuses on eLearning without being biased to Articulate tools. So in other words, the blog isn't a marketing tool for Articulate.
If you get a chance, take a look at the blog, and subscribe to it. By subscribing to the blog you get access to Tom's 46-page eBook on developing Rapid eLearning.
http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
Labels: eLearning Technology
Today Apple announced the launch of iTunes U.iTunes U is a "dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT."
The content currently is a little unusable (poor video quality, difficult to follow), but I love to see this happening. They got some pretty great universities to buy into this (Standford, Duke, MIT) with some pretty good programs.
I love to see that eLearning targeted for college age students is being created for devices that almost all students have (iPods). This makes learning "hip".
Way to go Apple, and the universities that signed up for this.
Labels: eLearning Technology
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