This week’s elearning challenge is to design an elearning course explaining something complex . As a long time fan of Randall Munroe, whose book Thing Explainer inspired the challenge, I had to give this a whirl!
I decided to step back to GCSE biology and create a mini course about cells. Mostly because for some reason, “cell” is one of the 1000 most used words on Munroe’s list. Although frustratingly, the word plant isn’t.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Since the challenge was mostly content based and I always like to try to explore a new aspect of Storyline with these challenges, I decided to focus on making the transition between slides as interesting as possible without being distracting. I ended up using the push transition alongside a few animation tricks to make it seem like the learner is visiting different parts of a single scene.
As a bonus which I didn’t end up using in the course, here are all the things an organism must do in order to be considered alive (in only the most used 1000 words, of course.)
- Things that are living can move.
- Things that are living can make more things like them.
- Things that are living can feel other things around them. This could be through seeing, hearing, smelling, touching or in other ways.
- Things that are living can get bigger by growing more of the blocks that make up living things – cells.
- Things that are living can get power from their cells. Humans do this by breathing.
- Things that are living can throw away bad stuff inside them that they don’t need.
- Things that are living can get power from outside. Humans do this by eating. They can use this power to get better if they are hurt.
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