Creativity

Designing Online Learning

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When I am designing an online course, I use lots of check lists and charts to help guide me. Then,  when reading an articles on Three Keys That Make Good Interaction Design Great, these words stood out to me:

  • Optimizing: Making daily activities more efficient
  • Engaging: Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning
  • Empowering: Enabling people to go beyond their limits
  • Expressing: Encouraging self expression and/or creativity
  • Connecting: Facilitating communication between people and communities
  • Disrupting: Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets.

Hello, this list can be used to double check an online course.  Are these being represented in the course I’m designing? Why can’t a check list, like this one, be used to help create some dynamic online design?  I say “Yes it can!”

Make Eyewear

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3D Eyeware

About a year ago, maybe longer, I was hunting for a unique wedding gift for some designer friends and happened upon Shapeways: a 3-D printing service.  I played around with their online design tools, however opted for a beautiful glass pitcher.  David Minich was shopping for eyewear and used Shapeways to create his own business: Make Eyewear. David creates infinitely customizable eyewear.  The beauty of rapid prototyping is that you can design just about whatever you want, then print it on demand.  What could you make with this type of technology?

Eyewear

What Do You Read?

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Glasses

I was recently asked what professional publications and social media I enjoy engaging with. I hadn’t realized how long the list has become. These are some of my favorites and regulars [in no particular order]:

Social Media:

  • FaceBook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • WordPress [and WordPress Community]
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo
  • Flipboard
  • SlideShare
  • Tumblr- from time to time

Reading and Research:

  • The New York Times
  • NPR
  • TechCrunch
  • Slate
  • Whitehouse.gov
  • TED
  • Wired
  • Higher Ed
  • iNOCOL: the International Association for K-12 Online Learning
  • iste: the International Society for Technology in Learning
  • Education Week
  • The Rapid eLearning Blog
  • Fast Company Blog
  • Open Culture Blog
  • Daniel PInk’s Blog
  • Seth Godin’s Blog
  • Various Instructional Design Blogs
  • Anything by Cliff Kuang -infographic guru

I am still adding…..so visit again…..after you have checked out some of these good reads….