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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.
A Quick Guide to Using Tweego
A Quick Guide to Using Tweego
One problem with Twine is that it can start to lag when your story gets too big (often around 300 passages). For larger games, it may be better to break it up into multiple smaller files. This guide explains how to use Tweego to combine multiple HTML files created in Twine into a single file.
·idrellegames.tumblr.com·
A Quick Guide to Using Tweego
A Modern Developer's Workflow For Twine
A Modern Developer's Workflow For Twine
A developer shares his workflow for working with Twine. Instead of writing in Twine's visual editor, he writes in a text editor and uses VSCode. For larger games (~300+ passages), Twine's visual editor doesn't scale as well. This workflow also includes some information about how he handles version control.
·dev.to·
A Modern Developer's Workflow For Twine
If you give FLUX1.1 a prompt like "IMG_1018.CR2" you get back images that are so very hard to tell they're AI.
If you give FLUX1.1 a prompt like "IMG_1018.CR2" you get back images that are so very hard to tell they're AI.
An odd tip from Twitter/X--use a file name with an extension for raw images as part of the prompt to generate realistic looking photos. I assume this is somehow prompting the model to look for those raw photos, but I wouldn't have thought of trying this.
·x.com·
If you give FLUX1.1 a prompt like "IMG_1018.CR2" you get back images that are so very hard to tell they're AI.
Game On: 6 tips for choice design in branching scenarios - Issuu
Game On: 6 tips for choice design in branching scenarios - Issuu
Miranda Verswijvelen's article for Dirtyword magazine on choice design in branching scenarios. Lots of tips here based on designing game narratives and interactive fiction. I disagree with her point about not starting with the ideal path for writing (although she acknowledges that may make sense for beginners when you're learning how to write scenarios). For game design, I think she's right. For training design, there is typically an ideal path we want people to take. Good to read some thoughtful criticism though, and I love Miranda's work.
Excellent choice design will increase the engagement of your learners in the story, intrigue them about consequences and entice them to replay to check out other paths.
Choices in branching scenarios consist of three closely interconnected parts:Framing: the information the learner uses to make the choiceOptions: the possible choicesOutcomes: what happens due to choosing one of the options.
Choices can offer diverse acceptable ways to achieve the same goal, giving learners opportunity to personalise the experience.
An extra path can also replace boring “try again” situations: the consequence shows your choice was not ideal, but you simply continue and get another chance further in the story to make a better informed, similar choice.
Clear and confined parameters help to make the choice feel integral to the context, while still leaving room for personal expression and emotional connection.
One of my favourite narrative designers, Jon Ingold from Inkle Studios, introduced the accept – reject – deflect model. For example, in a conversational choice where someone asks you a question, this could mean the following:Accept: continue the current conversation, e.g. simply answer the questionReject: react negatively or refuse to answer. Deflect: change the topic, e.g. ignore, bounce a question back or refocus attention
·issuu.com·
Game On: 6 tips for choice design in branching scenarios - Issuu
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
This is an alternative to DocuSign that looks like a good option for freelancers and small businesses. The free plan is limited to 2 documents per month, but the lifetime licenses are pretty cheap to increase that number.
·breezedoc.com·
BreezeDoc | Document signing is a breeze.
Free Image Vectorization
Free Image Vectorization
Convert PNG files to SVG. Useful for converting AI-generated PNG illustrations to SVGs for editing. Works best with flat illustrations without much detail.
·vectorizer.com·
Free Image Vectorization
The politeness effect: Pedagogical agents and learning outcomes
The politeness effect: Pedagogical agents and learning outcomes
Using polite language in elearning improves learning outcomes.
The polite version yielded better learning outcomes, and the effect was amplified in learners who expressed a preference for indirect feedback, who had less computer experience, and who lacked engineering backgrounds. These results confirm the hypothesis that learners tend to respond to pedagogical agents as social actors, and suggest that research should focus less on the media in which agents are realized, and place more emphasis on the agent's social intelligence.
·sciencedirect.com·
The politeness effect: Pedagogical agents and learning outcomes
StoryArtAI - AI Kid Stories Art Generator
StoryArtAI - AI Kid Stories Art Generator
StoryArtAI is an AI image generator designed specifically for creating illustrations for children's books. This probably isn't the most useful tool for workplace training or adult learners, but it might be useful for K12 educators. The tool includes support for creating consistent characters and detailed prompting tips.
·storyartai.com·
StoryArtAI - AI Kid Stories Art Generator
#BasicDesign — Never Use Pure Black in Typography
#BasicDesign — Never Use Pure Black in Typography
Explanation of why to avoid using pure black for text for online reading (which applies to websites and elearning). This article talks about how to pick shades of dark gray that are both readable and align with the color scheme.
White with code #FFFFFF has more striking brightness compared to pure black with code #000000. The brightness polarity requires the eye to work harder to read pure black text on a white background.
·uxplanet.org·
#BasicDesign — Never Use Pure Black in Typography
Reflecting on Research and Practice
Reflecting on Research and Practice
How do we put research into practice in L&D? Clark Quinn reflects on the work of the LDA (Learning Development Accelerator) to improve the field of L&D with approaches informed by science and research. Clark discusses how science is always improving, so our understanding can change over time. Research can also be misleading or biased (or shared in misleading ways). Still, we can be more effective in our work with evidence-informed practices.
·linkedin.com·
Reflecting on Research and Practice
Make consistent and editable vector graphics with AI
Make consistent and editable vector graphics with AI
Brushless is an AI tool focused on creating consistent illustrations, icons, and vector graphics. The tools make it easy to edit the colors, and you can create multiple images in a consistent style. You can get a small number of images as SVGs for free, and for low prices for more downloaded images.
·brushless.ai·
Make consistent and editable vector graphics with AI
https://leonfurze.com/deepfake-game/
https://leonfurze.com/deepfake-game/
Can you identify which images are generated by AI and which ones are real? Test yourself with these 10 pairs of images. I got 9/10 right, but I think more of these AI images would have fooled me if they weren't in a context where I knew one image in each pair was fake.
·leonfurze.com·
https://leonfurze.com/deepfake-game/