Tiny E-Learning: What Can You Design on a 100x100 Slide? #331

Tiny E-Learning Examples  #331: Challenge | Recap

This week's challenge was inspired by a chat I had with Dave and Nejc on their E-Learning Guys podcast. 

During the show, we started sharing off-the-wall ideas for possible challenges. For example, Dave had the crazy idea of building a course using Storyline's minimum slide size: 100x100. 

At first, that seems painfully small. But when displayed in the player, the size is scaled much larger.

Working in such a small space creates challenges for content choices and the types of media you choose. Keep in mind that your text size will be around 3px in size. That's crazy small, but it's all vector, so it scales beautifully. 

And with Storyline's recent Text AutoFit improvements, the scrollbars can also help accommodate text that doesn't fit in the slide.

Tip: Remove the margins from your text box and shapes. This will give your text more breathing room. 

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share an example using a slide size of 100x100. If you're using another authoring tool or PowerPoint, work within the tool's limits to use a small canvas or slide size.

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:

To help kickstart this week’s challenge, check out the creative ways course designers applied Mayer’s Multimedia Learning principles to e-learning:

Multimedia Learning Principles RECAP #330: Challenge | Recap

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.