Designing Interactive Online Cooking Classes #305

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Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to build an interaction to teach learners how to cook a simple meal. You can create a simple step graphic, video presentation, explainer video, animated slideshow, or any other combination of techniques from previous e-learning challenges. 

Here are some suggested topics to help you get started:

  • How to make and cook pasta
  • Knife skills
  • Beginner’s guide to cooking fundamentals
  • Grilling basics
  • Essential cooking skills
  • Quick and easy recipes

Share Your E-Learning Work

  • Comments: Use the comments section below to share a link to your published example and blog post.
  • Forums: Start  your own thread and share a link to your published example..
  • Personal blog:  If you have a blog, please consider writing about your challenges. We’ll link back to your posts so the great work you’re sharing gets even more exposure.
  • Social Media: If you share your demos on Twitter or LinkedIn, try using #ELHChallenge so your tweeps can track your e-learning coolness.

Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you serve up this week’s challenge, check out the practical things course designers should know about accessibility in e-learning:

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New to the E-Learning Challenges?

The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.

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133 Comments
Amy Aston
2 months ago11/30/20 at 3:35 pm (UTC)
A little late but this is my first challenge! I decided to use a slider for a recipe to create a Victoria sponge cake, inspired by the final of the Great British Bake Off last week... I would like to have included more animation with the graphics but it's a start... any feedback welcomed :) thank you! Link: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/71a480c8-d606-424e-ab7a-e2b50b5438c0/review
Laura McDonnell
2 months ago12/04/20 at 1:47 am (UTC)
It's been awhile since I had the chance to play, so I thought I would jump in with a Thanksgiving Challenge. It was fun, but it helped me realize how much I have forgotten about states and variables, lol. But done is better than perfect. Here's my first entry based on a recipe from Organize Yourself Skinny. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/572e20de-e933-41f6-8890-94f724dd6631/review
David Anderson
1 month ago12/07/20 at 8:40 pm (UTC)
Welcome to the challenges, Laura! Thanks so much for sharing this week. And I totally agree with your "done is better than perfect" motto. I think designers often get hung up trying to perfect their work rather than releasing and improving on future projects. Here's a link to your near-perfect example in this week's recap: https://community.articulate.com/articles/interactive-cooking-examples#LauraMcDonnell
Brandy Gravely
1 month ago12/08/20 at 9:06 pm (UTC)
How to Bake the Perfect Salmon Fillet Hi all, this is my first eLearning Heroes challenge. I'll be participating regularly in order to refresh myself after an unexpected break. I am preparing to start a new position as Learning and Development Specialist and couldn't be more excited to get back to it! Any feedback or comments are greatly appreciated. https://360.articulate.com/review/content/9fdf186c-c32c-4325-b03c-750f15ecb477/review
Noah Mitchell
30 days ago12/21/20 at 4:45 pm (UTC)
Well, I finally got to it several weeks later. I got caught up in a lot of other stuff and could never make it back around to work on my file. I had to expedite the process a bit. So, the end result is quite clunky, but I tried some stuff here I'd never really tried before. Looping motion paths, using transparent gifs, adding my own sounds (and actually recording them). I don't know. It's the second ELH challenge I've ever submitted. So, I hope y'all like it if anyone is even still around this ELH challenge anymore! :P Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, my friends! :) https://nskm1990.github.io/smores/
Noah Mitchell
29 days ago12/22/20 at 1:14 pm (UTC)

Hi, Billi! Thanks for taking the time to check it. There's more I wanted to do, but things go a little complex since i did this all on the base layer essentially. I should have split it up into layers. Oh well! The fire, actually, is a trick I learned from Jonathan Hill's project for this same ELH Challenge. It's a transparent GIF that I got from GIPHY. I credit the author for the GIF and the music at the very beginning of the interaction. So, GIFs can be added to Storyline files; it's as simple as importing a picture file and the animation will still work. Just be cautious: too large a file/GIF can really bog down your slides and up the load time for it. Still, it makes for some very fun ideas! The fire crackling sound you hear, btw, is me recording myself crushing a plastic ... Expand

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