Using Animation in E-Learning #201: Challenge | Recap
Animations and transitions are an effective tool to draw focus and attention to an area of your slides. Used appropriately, animations ...
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Great submission Jodi. Thanks for being a leader on this challenge. I wasn't sure exactly how to interpret David's instructions for this challenge. Your clarification helped. Your submission also reminded me I need to be better about adding audio to my projects. I am always looking or good sound effects like you use here when clicking on the different cats. Can I ask if you have a recommended place to get these?
Hi Ryan,
Well, that's how I interpreted the challenge and I'm sure there will be a lot of other ways to do it.
As for sound effects and audio, the short answer to your question is that I have a couple go-to places. Both are pay services. For things like clicks, timers, generic music I normally check AudioBlocks first--recently I needed some underwater sounds for my Aquarium examples and the sound of a tire being flipped. If I need something like a newscast background or something offbeat I use SoundDogs. At minimum I always try to use a click because I like the audio reinforcement to signal that you just touched something. I'm always in search of the perfect click.
As for the music, n this challenge I used audio background music just to entertain myself--from Itunes. There are a lot of debates about how, if and when to use music in e-learning. I'll use it in a client project if the content isn't too heavy. For example, one of my clients (in New Berlin, WI--close to you?) is a promotion/event company and that team insists on being entertained (High DIs). They even give me "walk-up music" when they provide an overview to a course. They spend more time choosing their walk-up music than writing their introductory comments. But another one of my clients is a finance organization and they find the music distracting (High SCs). I always keep the audio button on the player so people can turn the audio down. Another consideration is that audio on the master layers in Storyline is glitchy. If you want to loop music on the intro page it doesn't always work. It would be great to be able to play one track through an entire story--you have to do a code work-around to make it work, and I'm not competent enough to mess with it.
That was probably more than you expected! Have a good week and I look forward to seeing your challenge.
Well, that's how I interpreted the challenge and I'm sure there will be a lot of other ways to do it.
As for sound effects and audio, the short answer to your question is that I have a couple go-to places. Both are pay services. For things like clicks, timers, generic music I normally check AudioBlocks first--recently I needed some underwater sounds for my Aquarium examples and the sound of a tire being flipped. If I need something like a newscast background or something offbeat I use SoundDogs. At minimum I always try to use a click because I like the audio reinforcement to signal that you just touched something. I'm always in search of the perfect click.
As for the music, n this challenge I used audio background music just to entertain myself--from Itunes. There are a lot of debates about how, if and when to use music in e-learning. I'll use it in a client project if the content isn't too heavy. For example, one of my clients (in New Berlin, WI--close to you?) is a promotion/event company and that team insists on being entertained (High DIs). They even give me "walk-up music" when they provide an overview to a course. They spend more time choosing their walk-up music than writing their introductory comments. But another one of my clients is a finance organization and they find the music distracting (High SCs). I always keep the audio button on the player so people can turn the audio down. Another consideration is that audio on the master layers in Storyline is glitchy. If you want to loop music on the intro page it doesn't always work. It would be great to be able to play one track through an entire story--you have to do a code work-around to make it work, and I'm not competent enough to mess with it.
That was probably more than you expected! Have a good week and I look forward to seeing your challenge.
- Jodi and Ryan, I agree and have liked other examples Jodi has used with sound. I like soundbible.com and audioblocks.com As you say, there are many out there. I used several sounds from soundbible on my gamification example I posted. I found that it really adds to the overall effect to have sound especially since this is a game.
- Thank you Jeff.
- Great information!! My CD style is always in competition. My "C" wants to be thorough and make sure all of the details are in the presentation. Then my "D" is like, c'mon, let's get on with this. I have no "i" so I always struggle with the design element of my presentation, but the "D" in me needs something to keep my attention so I have to get better about adding this stuff in. It's about catering to all 4 (or 12) styles, right? And, yes, New Berlin is just a hop and a skip from me. Thank you!
