Pingendo is a cross-platform free WYSIWYG application for prototyping web pages. It uses Twitter’s Bootstrap as a base, and responsive web design support ensures your sites will adapt to fit phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. (Review)
Download at: http://pingendo.com
Learn how changing technology, innovation, interactive gaming and e-learning all combine to transform a line of data on the screen into what is known as serious gaming. If kids love to spend hours on video games, why not make video games that teach? It turns out North Carolina is the gaming industry’s east coast hub. Watch as game designers demonstrate how to build a video game backed with higher level thinking. Ask students to use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real world problem with numerous criteria and constraints on interactions within and between systems relevant to the problem.
Source: Game to Learn | Science | Classroom Resources | PBS LearningMedia
Great web based tool (a desktop version is available) to check your writings readability. Great for creating directions, help or just about any type of content. Provides a quick break down of paragraphs, sentences, words and characters as well as providing analysis on the writing level with Grade level analysis.
Great resource for writing: http://www.hemingwayapp.com
Great example of drawing, music and lyrics to create a catch, fun way for kids to learn about the states. My 10 year old was shown it in school as part of their Social Studies project.
If you are attending eLearningGuild’s Learning Solutions in Orlando, FL 3/24-27, be sure to join us at DemoFest on Thursday from 4:45 – 6:45pm. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about what our peers are doing in developing learning solutions, what tools and techniques are being utilized and what challenges they face during development. It’s a great chance to ask questions and share so plan to take advantage of this great opportunity.
Learn more: http://goo.gl/V6kfna
Watch the Best of LS DemoFest: http://goo.gl/hkLEmF
Join us for 1.5 day workshop on getting started with Mobile Learning with Clark Quinn and Sarah Gilbert in March.
Learn More:
https://www.td.org/Events/LearnNow
Here’s the presentation deck from the November PANMA event in Philadelphia.
http://www.slideshare.net/nickfloro/designing-prototyping-turning-ideas-into-reality
Whether you are creating a new project, developing a app or launching a new website, join us to learn about the latest strategies in brainstorming and prototyping. During this session we will highlight specific tools, techniques and workflows to help you kick-off any project the right way. Learn how to communicate a concept, beginning with low-fidelity prototypes, gather user feedback and translate into high-fidelity prototypes BEFORE you start development. So bring your pens, crayons, markers and paper to get your ideas out of your head and make them a reality!
What you’ll learn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZmIiIXuZ0
What did you notice about it?
How did it make you feel?
What did they use for audio?
What about the graphics?
Lots to think about and get inspired by…
This one is from 2014 WWDC called Perspective, interesting effect and message.
In this workshop you will learn the latest strategies, techniques, and best practices for using audio and video in your learning programs. You will discover how to plan your media using storyboards, discuss the importance of selecting and preparing the talent that will be featured in a video, explore how to create a video or audio file, and how to edit and prepare the source file to ensure it is the highest quality while still being accessible to your audience. You’ll examine techniques and interactivity that you can add to video and learn about the latest standards. You will explore the various low-cost hardware and software that is needed to create your own in-house studio for under $1,500.
Learn more at goo.gl/83VN5Y.
View & download a copy of presentation for 2/3/14 at Training 2014 in San Diego.
This presentation will provide you with the foundation you need to get started in mobile design and development. You’ll learn best practices for designing for mobile and what challenges you may face in platforms, smartphones vs. tablets vs. next generation touch devices. Floro will discuss and provide techniques for designing mobile apps that work, from sketching to wireframing to prototyping and launching a course, web app or mobile app. You’ll learn what tools you can use to help visualize concepts and how to prototype quickly without breaking the bank.
Watch the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw69xCzu5hU