Eric's Blog (until a better title comes along...)

Have you ever been surveyed about service you received at a restaurant or shop?  Has anyone ever filled out a survey about you?  Are you the type of person who gives a 3 if you are content with service but not overwhelmed with joy?  Those people are "3-Givers".  Or are you the type who gives a 5 if you are content?  Ah, "5-Givers".  Bless them for their score-inflating generosity... 😀 If you are being surveyed, you probably just assume you are answering the same way everyone else does.  However, if you are on the receiving end of those results, you have a vested interest in things being answered uniformly, especially if those results are taken into consideration when promotions and raises come around! This week I asked a couple of my coworkers how they answer surveys and found out that one is a 3-Giver and one is a 5-Giver.  They are both intelligent, and I was actually a little surprised by their answers.  I would have thought the o...

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 ma...

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 j...