Example
What happened at Bluff Creek?
Hello!
This week, I used Rise's new Custom Block to add extra layers to this microlearning mystery.
Can you solve the mystery of what happened at Bluff Creek?
As this Beta feature is not yet fully accessible, I needed to hardcode the captions into the videos I used in the Custom Blocks.
Otherwise, it was very easy to angle the videos and combine them with shapes, images, and text, to create 'interactive collages' in the Custom Block.
Bonus feature
I've used Fire Mods from Discover eLearning to add a custom reflection block to the course. (ChrisHodgson​ is a genius!)
This allows you to jot down your hunch during the investigation, and then refer back to your notes before the final reveal. Just like Columbo would.
The voice of 'Annie' is 'River' from Storyline 360's AI Text-to-Speech. I exported the audio files and added the tinny tape recorder effect in Audacity.
For the final reveal, I asked Rise's AI Assistant to generate an image of a "Bigfoot creature wearing a trilby". Then I used Pixlr to give him a nose job and blur the image slightly, so the creature resembles the earlier footage of 'Bill'.
The audiovisual elements were made using CCO footage from Unsplash, with a dash of Synthesia, edited in Camtasia. Then I mixed it all together in Rise and... voila! One half-baked mystery.
Can you piece together the events of Tuesday, 13th July, 1976?
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