Comments on: Have You Thought of Character Driven Stories for Your E-learning? http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/ One Stop Resource for Instructional Design Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Characters | MinuteBio http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-7445 Characters | MinuteBio Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:18:20 +0000 http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/?p=1929#comment-7445 [...] great information on using characters among other useful things, The Writers Gateway’s Have You Thought of Character Driven Stories for Your e-Learning?, and Speak Out’s Characters in [...] [...] great information on using characters among other useful things, The Writers Gateway’s Have You Thought of Character Driven Stories for Your e-Learning?, and Speak Out’s Characters in [...]

]]> By: Rupa Rajagopalan http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Rupa Rajagopalan Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:28:06 +0000 http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/?p=1929#comment-1819 Thank you all for your thoughts :) Thank you all for your thoughts :)

]]> By: Archana Narayan http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1815 Archana Narayan Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:35:18 +0000 http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/?p=1929#comment-1815 This blog post inspired me to write on it myself. Thanks Rupa. :) I love the quote from Francis Glebas' book. Read my response to your blog post <a href="http://archiespeaksout.blogspot.com/2009/09/characters-in-elearning.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Cheers, Archana This blog post inspired me to write on it myself. Thanks Rupa. :) I love the quote from Francis Glebas’ book. Read my response to your blog post here.

Cheers,
Archana

]]> By: Dan Roddy http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1813 Dan Roddy Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:22:59 +0000 http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/?p=1929#comment-1813 I agree so much with this. So much attention has been given in the recent past to "interactivity" that the power of a character to connect learning to a narrative is forgotten. Silly really because that is a well understood mode of learning that has worked for millennia. Interactivity in the guise of "click to reveal" or whatever, interrupts this narrative flow unless given very serious thought, and I think that is where Amit's comment about it not being easy on a budget rings true. I agree so much with this. So much attention has been given in the recent past to “interactivity” that the power of a character to connect learning to a narrative is forgotten. Silly really because that is a well understood mode of learning that has worked for millennia. Interactivity in the guise of “click to reveal” or whatever, interrupts this narrative flow unless given very serious thought, and I think that is where Amit’s comment about it not being easy on a budget rings true.

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]]> By: Amit http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/2009/08/31/have-you-thought-of-character-driven-stories-for-your-e-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1811 Amit Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:54:54 +0000 http://blog.thewritersgateway.com/?p=1929#comment-1811 I am a great believer of movies as a teaching medium. Some Hindi movies have great learning value. For instance - Lagaan is an excellent one on Leadership Skills for one (and there are many other things to learn from it). The characterization, the plot, and the execution all adds to that emotional appeal and leaves a lasting impact. We all want that lasting impact from our eLearning too and yes, character based eLearning would work very well in most situations. Doing it on a budget is probably not so easy. Look forward to other responses. I am a great believer of movies as a teaching medium. Some Hindi movies have great learning value. For instance – Lagaan is an excellent one on Leadership Skills for one (and there are many other things to learn from it). The characterization, the plot, and the execution all adds to that emotional appeal and leaves a lasting impact.

We all want that lasting impact from our eLearning too and yes, character based eLearning would work very well in most situations.
Doing it on a budget is probably not so easy.

Look forward to other responses.

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