Hands-On #4: Download your Microlearning Flashcards Demo Source Files

In the context of Microlearning, instant learning happens. Remember your parents or grade school teacher flashing cards and instantly asking you the right answer? I love this a lot in route learning - 10 x  5 (card one), then the back of the card shows the correct answer 50.

Flashcards work well in Microlearning in the memorization of basic key ideas. Although it serves its purpose for building recall and memory, it does nothing for the worker when solving a problem.

The biggest benefit of Microlearning Flashcards is in the fundamental format of making a small bite of idea or concept repeatedly memorized.

Download the source files for the FlashCards

Preview two examples of Flashcards. Then download the Storyline source file. You can own the files for your in-house reference.

Ray Jimenez, PhD

Vignettes Learning

"Helping Learners Learn Their Way"

Hands-On #3: Download Your Copy of the Microlearning Chatbot (Emulation)

The worlds of Learning Machines and Deep Learning are now vocabularies borrowed from the cognitive sciences and now applied in technology. IBM touts its Watson to be a learning machine capable of deep learning and more capabilities. Amazon's Alexa promises the same Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations. Iphone has SIRI as an advance learning machine. There are many more illustrations.

From a learning view, we all wonder how this really works. Click here to view a SIMULATED CHATBOT - Talk with Tobias.

Click here to play Talk with Tobias.

Why are chatbots Microlearning tools?

When trying to solve problems or finding solutions or just following one's curiosity, workers can dive into historical data or scenarios. In the backend, the chatbots are powered by tremendous volume of data which are organized, stored and then served to the worker when he/she is in the inquiry mode. Talk with Tobias is an emulation. We developed this to share with you what a chatbot might look like and how it behaves.

A conversation keeps context

Large systems like IBM's Watson and Amazon's Alexa try to mimic people's experiences like conversations. This is pretty similar to what SIRI says - "How can I help you?" or "I can't understand your question."

Talk with Tobias is our own illustration. Of course, this is very short because it is only an emulation.

Download you copy of Talk with Tobias

Click here to download your HTML5 code on Talk with Tobias as an emulation.

Ray Jimenez, PhD

Vignettes Learning

"Helping Learners Learn Their Way"

Hands-On #2: Download Your Copy of the Story Development Template

When I saw the videos from the University of Western Florida, I thought the way they do "Mistory" is fascinating. The videos educate while entertaining the viewers and learners. Please see the website with several videos.

This hands-on guide is a template that you can use to study and prepare story structures for your videos. For this exercise I took the Lions in the Water: the Impact of the Environment on the Gulf video. In the YouTube version you can see the Transcript which I included with time markers in the explanations.

Watch the video while you also check out the Lionfish PDF large format (11x17 page.) In the PDF layout I also added some comments on key ideas to help you write your proposed script for your project.

Download the Lionfish PDF file and have fun with your learning.

Let me know of your thoughts.

Ray Jimenez, PhD

Vignettes Learning

"Helping Learners Learn Their Way"

Hands-On #1: Technique on Combining Factual Content with Stories

How do you make sure that when using stories in your lesson, you still drill down to the details of the content?

One of the most challenging tasks in Story-Based Learning Design is combining facts within the story.

This WOW series explains an actual demo on a technical production content and how characters have a conversation.

Video by Ray to explain the demo

Click here to view the video

Demo is Downtime

Click to view the demo

Key ideas to remember:

1. Use an event with characters having conversations.
2. Discuss the factual content, like statistics and data, that are relevant to the story.
3. Never insert a fact if it is not within the context of the story.
4. Add more facts as references to support the information used within the story.

See related Tips:

Stories of Real-Life Fiascos and Blunders Motivate Learners

Weaving Stories and Factual Content for Seamless Lessons

Using Problems, Diagnostics and Solutions in eLearning

Ray Jimenez, PhD

Vignettes Learning

"Helping Learners Learn Their Way"