Quick Tips to Create Quick Custom Images for Your E-learning Storyboards and Demos

If you are an instructional designer who does not know graphic design and wants to use quick images in your storyboard or e-learning demos, then the site http://www.toondoo.commight interest you.   Toondoo is one popular site which people use to create and publish comic strips.   You can also use this site to create custom [...]

Computer Tutor: An Excellent Example of Game Based Learning

I came across a really interesting course developed by BBC. This course is to help people get started using the Computer as in to get started using the mouse and keyboard. I liked the way instructional and gaming strategies have been used together in this course. Click on the image below now to explore the [...]

6 Quick Steps to Create a Game Based E-learning Course

If you play a lot of games, you will definitely be able to identify the standard pattern used.   Every game has a goal and the steps to solve it. The challenge of every game lies in how quickly and efficiently you reach the goal.   In games you can skip things and start with [...]

Enhancing the Instructional Value in the Home Sweet Home Series

I thoroughly enjoyed playing Home Sweet Home series of games. You can read the summary of the games here. In this post I share some ideas that could probably improve the instructional value of the game. Before I proceed below is a snapshot of Ms Green’s kitchen. If you remember in my previous post I had [...]

Home Sweet Home Series : Instructional Games for Interior Design Lovers

Yesterday I downloaded the trial version of this highly addictive game called Home Sweet Home  at www.bigfishgames.com. I just could not stop playing. I was totally hooked into this game.If you love interior design and would like to try it out in a virtual set up, Home Sweet Home might interest you too.        Here is [...]

My To-Learn List – Still in the Making

  I readily attempt this month’s Big Question because this is exactly what has been going on in my mind recently. I do not have a to-do or to-learn list on paper. But yes I have been really thinking hard about it. I guess before you have a to-do or a to-learn list for career [...]

My Second Life Woes

After a lot of postponement and thoughts, I finally managed to get into Second Life. I must not forget to mention the post by Christy Tucker that has some useful links to get started with Second Life. This post really instigated me to go ahead and register and download the client. So I did create [...]

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.

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 how easily he [...]

How to Develop an Engaging Low Budget E-learning Course?

Low budget e-learning courses are very much in vogue. By low budget courses I mean e-learning courses that take less development time and do not call for sophisticated or high end graphic design. In my post How Games for the Brain help in Designing Low Budget E-Learning Courses I had hinted about the standard design [...]