Rediscovering Traditional Skills Through E-Learning #491

Reviving Traditional Skills & Lost Arts #491: Challenge | Recap

What Are the Lost Arts?

Lost arts are the basic skills for self-sufficient living that have been forgotten or replaced by modern technology.  

Some examples include using a slide rule, reading a map, or even renting movies from Blockbuster. Here are a few more examples of lost arts:

• Basic survival skills: starting a fire, foraging for water, and identifying animal tracks
• Navigation skills: reading maps, using a compass, and decoding Morse code
• Handwriting skills: cursive, calligraphy, and writing personal letters
• Crafting skills: sewing, knitting, and crocheting
• Food preservation: canning, fermenting, and other preservation techniques
• Traditional photography: developing film and creating prints

Lost Arts: Animated Knots

This site is one of the best examples of ways to use animated GIFs for learning. 

With a slideshow format featuring animated GIFs, you can easily learn how to tie a variety of knots. Player options include adjustable speed controls and multiple perspective views for a better learning experience.

View Animated Knots

Challenge of the Week

This week, your challenge is to share an example or how-to that teaches one or more skills that qualify as lost arts.

Your entry could be as simple as a list of lost arts you’d like to see make a comeback. If you’re up for a more detailed project, consider creating a tutorial, how-to guide, or process interaction that teaches a lost art or forgotten skill.

Even if you don’t have time to create a demo this week, we’d still like to hear about a lost art or skill you think deserves preserving.

✨ Share Your E-Learning Work

• Comments: Use the comments section below to link your published example and blog post.
• Forums: Start a new 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 to your posts, so your great work gets even more exposure.
• Social media: If you share your demos on x or LinkedIn, try using #ElearningChallenge so your peeps can follow your e-learning coolness.

🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:

Before you get revive your favorite lost art, check out the fresh tabs interactions your fellow challengers shared over the past week:

Using Tabs Interactions in E-Learning #490: 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.

Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.