A big thanks to our team member, Claire Collins for sharing a couple of very useful tools in the Monday meet up today. They both could be worth checking out as teaching aids in these challenging times. We can only Read more…
June 22, 2020
Time to start looking at the real world user interface. Understanding the personas likely to use the app, we have many considerations to make. Colour blindness, dyslexia and mobility must be considered. Figma is an excellent tool for quickly experimenting, Read more…
June 1, 2020
After much work by the Learning Design team, we now start to see a structure of materials forming. This allows us to start creating a JSON document describing key attributes of each lesson and its associated activities. This structure has Read more…
May 26, 2020
In this version we start to introduce audio instructions and experiment with visual cues to sync the audio to the interface elements. CSS is being used to run animations. This is a consideration made to save the user battery. We Read more…
May 12, 2020
The development commences At last we start on the development of a most important project. This isn’t vapourware. The final output of this particular project we hope will be beneficial to many people in society. This app really is the Read more…
May 1, 2020
From ABC to ADDIE We started off using the ABC-LD toolkit as a design tool. It’s great as a general purpose design aid for converting existing college / university courses into blended learning formats. It is especially good for bringing Read more…
February 24, 2020
Just starting in on this how people who are new to reading experience story telling via text differently…This came up in discussions with our academic lead, Diane Gardner, who had been writing short stories for her F2F class to start Read more…
December 17, 2019