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Explainer video cost
Explainer video cost
Breakdown of the costs and process for creating animated explainer videos. Entry level is $2k-$4k, but costs can go up to $20k or more for higher quality.
·creamyanimation.com·
Explainer video cost
How Much Does Animation Cost Per Minute? (2024 Update)
How Much Does Animation Cost Per Minute? (2024 Update)
This article breaks down different tiers of animation from amateur and free tools through high-end broadcast quality prices. This shows more of what you get at each tier of pricing. It will be interesting to see how AI tools affect these prices moving forward, although I think most of the AI video tools aren't quite there for production yet.
·yumyumvideos.com·
How Much Does Animation Cost Per Minute? (2024 Update)
AnimateAI
AnimateAI
Create animated videos with AI. Start by generating characters, which the site says will be consistent throughout your story. You can turn scripts into storyboards and customize them. Then, create videos in 30-second clips. The voice syncing doesn't look great in their demo videos, but this still might be worth experimenting with. The free plan should be enough to test it out.
·animateai.pro·
AnimateAI
Napkin AI - The visual AI for business storytelling
Napkin AI - The visual AI for business storytelling
Paste your existing text and generate visuals related to it. Includes icons, diagrams, organizers. Looks like it would work well for presentations to have visuals other than a list of bullet points. There's a limited free plan, and paid plans for more options including exporting to SVG.
·napkin.ai·
Napkin AI - The visual AI for business storytelling
Inclusive Learning Survey
Inclusive Learning Survey
Will Thalheimer and Ingeborg Kroese have developed survey questions to help measure how inclusive learning experiences are. You can read about the research, development, and pilot process on the website. The survey questions are available for free with a CC license.
·inclusivelearningsurvey.org·
Inclusive Learning Survey
(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
Miranda Verswijvelen's doctoral thesis on narrative design in branching scenarios (which she calls "interactive stories for learning" for clarity). Using techniques from game design, she created a framework for writing better scenarios.
The expert advice emphasised the pivotal role of emotions and player self-expression in crafting interactive narrative, along with the importance of designing believable characters and meaningful choices. A comprehensive heuristics framework to craft ISL was developed based on the insights from this phase. Through iterative prototyping and reflection, the heuristics framework was evaluated and refined, and subsequently applied to the recrafting of a virtual patient for compassion training
While no statistically significant differences for narrative transportation were found, the results from the playthrough data and open-ended questions demonstrated that incorporating emotional depth into virtual patient design significantly impacted learner engagement and empathy. Participants exhibited more compassionate care when interacting with the recrafted virtual patient, showing highly improved decision-making to promote patient outcomes.
·researchgate.net·
(PDF) Reimagining the Virtual Patient Crafting Game-inspired Interactive Stories for Compassion Training
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Ethan Mollick is one of the prominent voices on AI who I follow closely. He spends a significant amount of time experimenting with AI and reporting the results, as well as researching what is and isn't working with AI. I would not have thought of all of these suggestions for when to use AI. Note the list of 5 times to avoid using AI at the end of the article as well.
Work where you are an expert and can assess quickly whether AI is good or bad.
Work that is mere translation between frames or perspectives. For example, you have developed a policy but now have to turn it into a dozen different training documents for different audiences in your organization. AI is very good at this sort of translation, increasing and decreasing complexity of documents so that people can understand them.
Work where you know that AI is better than the Best Available Human that you can access, and where the failure modes of AI will not result in worse outcomes if it gets something wrong.
Work where you need variance, and where you will select the best answer as an editor or curator. Asking for a variety of solutions - give me 15 ways to rewrite this bullet in radically different styles, be creative - allows you to find ideas that might be interesting.
Beyond these clear-cut cases, here are five subtle but important areas where AI use can be counterproductive: When you need to learn and synthesize new ideas or information. Asking for a summary is not the same as reading for yourself. Asking AI to solve a problem for you is not an effective way to learn, even if it feels like it should be.
·oneusefulthing.org·
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Fugatto AI Audio Generator - Create Unique Sounds and Music with AI
Fugatto AI Audio Generator - Create Unique Sounds and Music with AI
This tool isn't available yet, but it promises the ability to generate sound effects and other audio based on text prompts. One especially interesting feature for my work is the ability to change the emotion for an existing audio sample. Plenty of AI voice over tools can do neutral narration well now, but they're all limited for emotional variability. This could be an improvement.
·fugatto.pro·
Fugatto AI Audio Generator - Create Unique Sounds and Music with AI
Alt Text: What to Write
Alt Text: What to Write
How do you write good alt text? What images need alt text? This article from the NN group answers both questions. I learned something new about adding periods to the end of alt text.
End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text.
Summary:  Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.
·nngroup.com·
Alt Text: What to Write
SCORMBridge: Stream SCORM Content Securely and Seamlessly
SCORMBridge: Stream SCORM Content Securely and Seamlessly
This is a tool for distributing SCORM files without providing the actual full file, useful for licensing content to clients. This can also be used to update a single published source file and have the changes propagate through multiple LMSs for different sites.
·scormbridge.com·
SCORMBridge: Stream SCORM Content Securely and Seamlessly
ViddyScribe
ViddyScribe
AI-generated audio descriptions for videos. This is a way to improve accessibility and make videos more available to blind and low-vision users. Audio descriptions are time-consuming to create manually, which means most orgs skip them. This could potentially be a way to improve accessibility quickly and cheaply.
·viddyscribe.com·
ViddyScribe
Shifting Focus from Learning to Performance
Shifting Focus from Learning to Performance
Tom McDowall shares an overview of Thomas Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model as a way to think beyond training and look at other interventions that support improved performance
BEM helps us shift our focus from learning to performance. Instead of just making sure people know stuff, we ensure they can actually do stuff.
BEM breaks down performance into six key factors. These are split into two categories: environmental supports and individual attributes or behavioural repertory. By looking at these factors, we can figure out what’s holding performance back and how to fix it.
·idtips.substack.com·
Shifting Focus from Learning to Performance
Is XCL an alternative to the LMS? | Mark Berthelemy Consulting
Is XCL an alternative to the LMS? | Mark Berthelemy Consulting
Mark Berthelemy reviews Build Capable's new XCL tool. This is designed as a way to track training completion and other data without using an LMS, just a link to the course or resource. XCL is in beta right now, so some of the issues noted may get solved later.
·consulting.berthelemy.net·
Is XCL an alternative to the LMS? | Mark Berthelemy Consulting
MagicQuill
MagicQuill
MagicQuill is an online image editing tool focused on AI inpainting of existing images. Upload and image and draw the shape of what you want to add or change in the image. The tool guesses what you want and generates a text prompt for you. If it guesses right, you can run it and generate the edited image. If it guesses wrong, you can tweak the prompt. Open source tool with a CC license; you can get the source code and run it on your own server if you want.
·magicquill.art·
MagicQuill
Leonardo: Color tools for design systems
Leonardo: Color tools for design systems
Tool for generating and analyzing color schemes. This site includes a tool for creating color scales for data visualization so that all colors in a range have sufficient contrast. That's different from the typical color scheme requirements, so it requires a special tool.
·leonardocolor.io·
Leonardo: Color tools for design systems
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.
AI-generated feedback on website design. Enter a URL and get a score and feedback on the visual design, layout and clarity, and content. The site provides recommendations for improvements as well. As with all things AI, the recommendations should be viewed with some skepticism, but I found it overall reasonably accurate for the few sites I tested.
·ratemysite.app·
Rate My Site: Rate your site in seconds – get instant feedback.