Learn how the Curiosity Rover is helping us study Mars in this demo. Be sure to check out the interactive model of the rover, which was created with the Storyline block in Rise. It's a great way to add custom interactions to the responsive content you create with Rise.
I love the way Rise now incorporates Storyline blocks. Always a fan of Mars! The first question kept coming up wrong for me though, even though I selected false, that Mars is not the third planet from the sun, it told me I was wrong. The answer said it was True!
Still, well done!
I have a Giphy URL that I want to use as my RISE cover image, but I don't have the file. Can I use this type of media in my cover photo it only gives me the option to upload a cover photo?
great stuff!
Was the block that showed different positions and features using a video to animate the rotations? I don't think it was Flash because I right-clicked and there was not a popup showing options that it was Flash or the options that come with a regular HTML page.
Thanks for any info, I made something like that but used Flash, You made what I thought was now the impossible while using Storyline.
cool!
Storyline blocks are:
Lesson 6: 3D rover interaction
Lesson 7: web object with the VR demo (only works in Chrome). I only did it this way to show a webobject from Storyline. Could have used the embed block instead.
The rest are regular content blocks.
Hi Tom, love the creative use of Rise.
Just wondering how you made the image links in section 11.
I have been unable to create an image link with Rise and noticed that you appear to have created this one as a link from the rover image
"http://marsed.asu.edu/"
Can you please share how this is done
Regards, Doug
Tom: Not sure if this is possible, but maybe you could share so we could
look under the hood? That'd be cool. Then again, a lot of things would be
cool that can never happen.
That is some next-level stuff, Tom. Had me scratching my head on how you did things--like having the rover rotate slightly while exploring its cameras, etc. The rest of us will need to up our games to catch you!
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First question I did was a true and false question. It asked:
Mars is the third planet from the sun.
True or False
I answered false and the feedback said "Not quite Mars is the fourth planet from the sun."
I retook this question and answered true to which the feedback said "Correct. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun."
It doesn't matter how responsive a module is or how the interactions are, if the information it contains is clearly unreliable, then all the time spent on design is wasted because learners won't trust it.
(sorry can't seem to attach a pic)
Curiosity rover interactive video and other videos are really nice, but seems to have some padding issues. Mind you I'm using inspector to view it on various screen sizes in landscape mode... Expand
Page 4/13 Mars Trivia
First question I did was a true and false question. It asked:
Mars is the third planet from the sun.
True or False
I answered false and the feedback said "Not quite Mars is the fourth planet from the sun."
I retook this question and answered true to which the feedback said "Correct. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun."
It doesn't matter how responsive a module is or how the interactions are, if the information it contains is clearly unreliable, then all the time spent on design is wasted because learners won't trust it.
(sorry can't seem to attach a pic)
Curiosity rover interactive video and other videos are really nice, but seems to have some padding issues. Mind you I'm using inspector to view it on various screen sizes in landscape mode so that could be part of the issue.
Nice though.
Simon,
I think the point of this Example in the "example" section of this site, is partly to show technical examples that hopefully inspire you on your own project. This was not put up here to have the community train about mars.
On the quiz question, I need to fix that. Of course, I'll add the disclaimer that this material shouldn't be used to qualify for NASA or to pass basic astronomy quizzes. :)
It is just a demo to show some things you can do with Rise so I'm not going to tweak much more. For those who want to play around with the padding, one can do that in the settings or in the margins when creating the Storyline content (as with the 3D rover).
Yes, and like Kyle pointed out this is clearly an example. I guess I was being a bit pedantic. I get caught up on stuff like that and I find it distracts me from the things I should be focusing on - I need to learn to let it go. It's an awesome module. Very cool.
Hi Tom,
Is there a way we could contact you about this cool project? I see lots of questions and I'm sure you are super busy. You should host a webinar on your blog site once in a while that could include a Q&A :) * I meant could, not "should".
I'll do a blog post/tutorial so feel free to send questions to me tom at articulate dot com.
Most of the assets were on the NASA site so I didn't create them. The only thing that I created was the Storyline block and the rover interaction.
Tom,
All right? I found it incredible the way we performed Curiosity Rover. If possible share how did you do it? I wanted to do something of the genres in my projects. Was that on Storyline?
This is a great example of what Rise can do and you just sold me on making the jump to Articulate 360! thanks
I see that there were some parts of the quiz that were not working. I ran into one that is strange. looking at the program on my iPhone it worked when I held the screen in a portrait orientation. It did not work when I flipped to the landscape orientation. In landscape it seemed like the triggers were not responding. Flip back to portrait and it worked again.
thank you a great experience
This is wonderful, Tom!
One question: Some of the videos display in black and others show an image. Are Storyline blocks required in order for an image to appear on the video, as opposed to black? What's the difference in technique used for the videos to display in the two different ways?
Hope that makes sense. Thanks!
If you're seeing black it may come from the video frame. Some of the videos fade in from black. If that's the case and they don't have a poster frame/thumbnail, then you probably see a black box.
You don't need a Storyline block. However, if you are using a video that is black as the first frame and you want to display an image you could use a Storyline block with a slide that has the video. In Storyline you can add a post frame and the video will look better than a black box.
Personally, I think that's a lot of extra work, but you do get more control over how the video will display before being clicked.
Just as a follow up, I'm doing a two part post on the 3D Mars Rover module. The first details how to create the 3D rotations and the second on how to build the interactive elements in Storyline. It'll start on next Tuesday's post. http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
@Jessica: the animated gifs were from NASA. All I did was add them to the image block. They were probably created in something like after effects or some app like that.
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Page 4/13 Mars Trivia First question I did was a true and false question. It asked: Mars is the third planet from the sun. True or False I answered false and the feedback said "Not quite Mars is the fourth planet from the sun." I retook this question and answered true to which the feedback said "Correct. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun." It doesn't matter how responsive a module is or how the interactions are, if the information it contains is clearly unreliable, then all the time spent on design is wasted because learners won't trust it. (sorry can't seem to attach a pic) Curiosity rover interactive video and other videos are really nice, but seems to have some padding issues. Mind you I'm using inspector to view it on various screen sizes in landscape mode... Expand