Using Lightbox Slides in E-Learning #200: Challenge | Recap
Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to share one or more examples that demonstrate how lightbox slides can be us...
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MY SUBMISSION: A lightbox that allows developers to view variable outputs using a lightbox slide. The lightbox can be accessed via the link on the top left. (This would be removed before final publish).
http://bit.ly/elh-200-lightbox
There are so any interesting examples posted here of lightboxes used to display content and aid navigation that I didn’t think I could add much to that effort. That got me thinking about how I might use a lightbox in unusual ways.
I often find myself creating temporary textboxes on the canvas to hold variable readouts, particularly when a project is fairly complex. This personality profile example required a bunch of logic to calculate the results of a personality quiz. It required even more logic to conditionally displav layers on the results screen and order side readouts in descending order. I just thought of this solution for this challenge, but I would love to have thought of it during the initial build.
At the end of the project, I’m often devoting a single QA pass just to ensuring I’ve remoted meta content like variable readouts. Using this method, the developer need only delete the lightbox slide and remove the single link in the master slide.
A related idea – use the lightbox to read and WRITE variable data; let devs and QAers manipulate variable data in published output to simulate learner inputs without having to go through all possible learner input combinations. I can see this being useful for testing branching, feedback slides, and adaptive learning paths.
http://bit.ly/elh-200-lightbox
There are so any interesting examples posted here of lightboxes used to display content and aid navigation that I didn’t think I could add much to that effort. That got me thinking about how I might use a lightbox in unusual ways.
I often find myself creating temporary textboxes on the canvas to hold variable readouts, particularly when a project is fairly complex. This personality profile example required a bunch of logic to calculate the results of a personality quiz. It required even more logic to conditionally displav layers on the results screen and order side readouts in descending order. I just thought of this solution for this challenge, but I would love to have thought of it during the initial build.
At the end of the project, I’m often devoting a single QA pass just to ensuring I’ve remoted meta content like variable readouts. Using this method, the developer need only delete the lightbox slide and remove the single link in the master slide.
A related idea – use the lightbox to read and WRITE variable data; let devs and QAers manipulate variable data in published output to simulate learner inputs without having to go through all possible learner input combinations. I can see this being useful for testing branching, feedback slides, and adaptive learning paths.
James, that was very interesting. Even though the design aspect was complex, you made the user experience simple and straightforward and your graphic design worked well with the subject matter. I really enjoyed this one, it has a lot of useful information, is easy to navigate and is presented nicely.