Week 2 - Group 3 Discussion

Hello Everyone:

My QS Link: 

https://share.articulate.com/YMSxvbEnH5qHnfcCNd7vU

I focused on four things in this project:

1. Creating a custom prompt that gave me consistency across the course
2. Converting blocks 
3. AI Audio
4. Creating a quiz

For the custom prompt I was inspired by the photography of Norman Seeff who is known for his portraits of celebrities in black and white. I explored this about a year ago in EL weekly challenge 513 and that was the mood I was in when I started--my ELC link is below.

https://jodisdemos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/513+Icons+in+B%26W/story.html

The custom prompt was: 

Create a black-and-white editorial portrait , capturing a spontaneous, emotionally authentic moment. Use rich contrast, subtle film grain, dramatic but natural studio lighting, and a minimalist background. Emphasize personality, movement, and human connection rather than a formal pose. The image should feel timeless, intimate, expressive, and psychologically revealing, with clean composition and negative space for e-learning text.

I added custom AI visuals to every lesson--you can see them at the beginning of each lesson, in the tabs, accordions and process blocks.

I feel I got a lot of consistency across the course, but the editorial look started to fatigue me after a bit. I got bored with the whole course by the end.

I really liked you can download the images you generate and use them somewhere else. My only frustration was that I wanted a repeat character for the beginning of Lesson 2 (see AI Audio item) and I had to do that outside of Rise. If there is a way to do it, I couldn't figure it out.

For the block conversions, I really hated the flip cards so I turned them into tabs or a table.  I think I left one set because I ran out of ideas. :)

For the AI Audio, I added a mini-case study at the start of Lesson Two.  I let the scenario introduce the topic of communication to gain interest on it's own. I really liked how it turned out, and I didn't realize that audio block has the transcript feature so you can read along. I work with a lot of legal compliance clients and they LOVE transcripts! 

The AI Generated Quiz could save a lot of time, but I have to say it made me a little lazy. By the time I got to that exercise I was bored with my course and wanted to move on. :) IRL I would spend more time on the feedback and making sure the answers truly connected back to the content. 

Thanks for the opportunity to share! I'm going to look at everyone's projects to see how others interpreted the assignments.