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Here's that other Articulate project I referenced in my last post.  Inheritance is a common concept for Biology 1010 and other introductory life sciences classes.  I chose to do a module on this concept because a) I understand it and b) it has a lot of combinations that lend themselves well to creating interactions.  I wanted to make something that would use layers and logic to create a custom activity. Here’s a screenshot of the first screen in action.  It is an interaction called the “Gene Scrambler”: (Click here to view a PDF of the whole module) ADDIE: An important thing to mention here was the ADDIE method to develop it.  I started out with an idea of the material I wanted to cover and quickly realized upon outlining it that I had WAY TOO MUCH!  So I decided to pare it down to just the basics of inheritance – no incomplete dominance, gene interactions, etc. Once I had determined the scope of my learning and written out the major points I wanted to co

I found this Articulate Storyline challenge online this week, and I thought it looked like fun.  As I started playing with it, I decided I would use these size comparisons as a language learning activity to compare superlatives.  I made this drag-and-drop interaction where users place comparison words on the correct plane.  I’d love any feedback!  Comment or email me. Start Screen: I wanted to find a font that looked “airplaney”.  Lo and behold, Air Americana.  I love finding awesome fonts!!  This is definitely a font to use sparingly.  I like it, but it would be awful to try and read a paragraph of this.  Even the smaller text in the instructions box is not as easy to read as I’d like.  Overall, though, I think it works for this piece. During the Activity: A couple things worth mentioning here.  If you drop something correctly, it stays and turns green.  If you drop something incorrectly, it just goes back to its spot instead of turning red or something li