A webinar by Training Magazine Network on 4/3/13.
The presenter, Ray Jimenez, discussed story based design and how to transfer ideas and engage learners with an effective story based design. See samples of vignettes.
Ideas from the webinar: focus on the learner experience, let a character talk to the learner, provoke, break and reinforce patterns, show the characters, add the environment, use multimedia reinforcement, sparingly use images, text and audio, use a minimalist approach to get a visually driven interaction so learners will focus on key information.
I’m a very strong supporter of the mixing of education and entertainment. We should not forget that narrative is the foundation for much of human learning over the eons…and narratives have characters, plots, scenes, action, dialogue…along with various “arts” involved in “presentation”.
Homer and the Bible being two large examples of the usefulness of story. Others like Joseph Campbell have said narrative is an inherent human way of perceiving the world. To understand, sometimes we need to have a story…and stories seem to be connected to one of the core ways we “remember” in the brain.
Presentation of a story involves methodology, technology, and art and we who would support learning would do well to master those three elements of presentation. Here at the PSA website, we are endeavoring to make use of what tools make sense for this format, and are “investing” in Prezi as one of those tools.
But we believe that all manner of multimedia tools have a place in presentation of a DLE for learners. Kudos to Kris for finding this webinar. One could also learn by taking a film class on the great directors, or curating effective YouTubes etc etc.