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This week’s Articulate ELH Challenge is to create an example of a glossary for e-learning. I’ve been meaning to make one lately, so this was a good chance to play.
The Idea
People have done some wonderfully creative interactions for this challenge that you can check out here. In my case I wanted to create an über-practical glossary that was incredibly quick to build, easy to maintain, and that could handle a lot of entries. Oh, and my example helps decode German idioms used by someone visiting Bali.
The Design
Back of the Postcard
The Postcard
The postcard itself is straightforward: A front-of-postcard screen and a back-of-postcard screen. On the back of the postcard there’s an instruction to hover over/select underlined text to see its meaning. When you do, a lightboxed glossary slide is displayed.
The Glossary
Inserted Table Lightboxed Glossary
The glossary itself is built using an inserted Storyline 360 table; a feature I love. In this example I only have a few glossary entries, but for more you could either place a longer table into a scrolling panel, or you could use multiple glossary screens with lightbox navigation to jump between them.
The Result
Ready to see which German idioms cause vacation confusion? See the glossary that straightens it all out in this air mail special delivery interaction!
Lovely job Jackie, the post card was so beautifully written, it conjured up all kinds of wonderful memories from Bali. As you well know, I have certainly NOT had the “nose full” of Bali and would be delighted to get back and gaze at those stars again in Pemuteran! Very clever and creative use of a post card to teach non-English idioms. I could see that being an excellent interaction in a language course.
Thanks, Dan! I’m glad you liked it. :)
Only after I started writing did I realize I had waaaaaaaaay too many great memories to share about Bali on just a postcard and it made me want to go back, too.
I agree! Teaching idioms in a simple context like this isn’t a bad approach, and I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out.