Content index

Take a browse using these categories:

Teaching Reading

Working as a guest Learning Designer on a product needing more interaction and engagement.
• Teaching Reading - The SVOR
  The simple view of reading (SVOR) infographic needed lifting from print.
• Teaching Reading - Struggling reader
  How to compare good reading with that of a struggler? The creation of a useful interface.
• Teaching Reading - Blending or segmenting
  Multi-modal presentation of phonemes and graphemes offering exploratory learning.
• Teaching Reading - Developing click-to-reveals
  Analysing the Gulliver's travels text with a well-applied click to reveal and adding visual spice and then usable functionality to the carousel.

Primary Pedagogy

Sharing responsibility in modifying 20-odd hefty .pdf files' content into usable blended online materials while balancing needs vs. wants.
• PPP - Secondary to Primary phase
  An introduction to the pedagogy pack product and some basic screens' design
• PPP - Scenario with timeline
  Developing a story-telling strategy enhancing the 'traditional' carousel

Coming soon...




Primary pedagogy

8 short modules to turn satisfactory teachers' performance to good.

• Comparative pie chart
  Beginning with a calendar; then a diary - how'd we arrive at pie?
• Noise levels
  Limitations spoke volumes.
• Bloomin' Bloom's hierarchy and questions
  Another pyramid, only a little more useful?
• Engagement levels
  Simulating classroom behaviour.
• A twist on MCQ
  "Game". It's a dirtier word than boring.
• Other games
  Unused ideas around teaching pedagogy.

Writing

A selection of surviving drafts.

• Military Acute Care manual
  Write two loose one.
• OP HERRICK (Afghanistan) medical tactical insert
  18 pages? But we budgeted just one.
• Combat Medical Technician Pocket Handbook
  Tactical Aide Memoire for medics.
• Combat Medical Technician CPD tools
  Data capture for CPD audit.

Digital imaging

Cut-price graphics and photography.

• Photography
  Landscapes, portraits, and cars, etc.
• Clip art
  Fruit and nuts.
• Logos
  A handful of designs that went to press.
• Cartoons
  A selection of short 'toons from my diary.

University projects:

Some highlights of my study projects (not perfect - just highlights).
• XHTML project - Looking at Castles (1st year deliverable with some great JS interactions)
  Containing some fresh interactions for learners of all ages.
• Flash prototype- AMBi (2nd year deliverable)
  A high-fidelity prototype with basic warts 'n' all.
• Developing a hybrid Visualisation strategy for eLearning. (The research project blog.)
  An obsession with reducing the cognitive load of reading.
• The demonstration Learning Icon prototype (Flash)
  A working prototype (proof of concept). Use icon 'B'.
• BCDT PowerPoint concept with Learning Icons (2Mb)
  The original PowerPoint proof of concept (not the prototype eLearning)
• BCDT Mobile learning prototype
  An early forray into mobile learning for Sony Eriksson V600i (pre-iPhone!)

Older stuff

Bits and pieces I'd like to share.

• BATLS.com
• SLUMP
  Cartoons about the famous Mexican caver incident released before my Sister-in-Law ever was :)

Suggested reading

Books that inform.

• E-Learning Strategies: How to Get Implementation and Delivery Right First Time, Morrison, D., (2003), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester
  A superb book covering the multi-disciplinary strategies that drive eLearning with examples and a great dip-in section on learning theories.
• Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies), Redish, J., (2007), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco.
  We are all too busy to read much on the web. This practical, informative book will help anyone creating web content do it better.