As an educational writer for both formal and informal educational clients, I've always been involved with multisensory and hands-on instructional techniques. As a 21st century educational writer, without thinking much about it, I've collected a diverse set of skills for creating digital teaching tools. As clients have turned to technology, I've followed suit.
Thought I've always thought of myself as a "writer," I now realized
that I've morphed a bit. Over the past decade, I've become an eLearning specialist
with significant knowledge of and experience in the tools, philosophy and techniques of the field. While I'm not a programmer (and don't plan to be one), I've jumped into the eLearning field without plannig it.
I've worked with PowerPoint and Camtasia, storyboards and smartboards, interactive kiosk scripting and blogs. I've learned to build teaching and assessments tools based on Flash, Java and HTML "interactives" such as drag and drop modules, puzzles, quizzes, and -- of course -- good old fashioned multiple choice. With all these tools, I've had the opportunity to develop some really exciting products:
- two distance learning courses for Drexel University's Goodwin College
- three interactive web-based classes for MediaBistro.com
- interactive lectures for college students for Pearson Publishing
- 21st Century Skills video scripts for Pearson (for elementary students)
- interactive tools for exploring personal finance for Apex Learning
...and that's just the start.
To celebrate the discovery that I've successfully navigated the bridge between print and digital educational writing, I've created two new tabs for this site. One focuses entirely on elearning and Instruction Design; the other on printed books and other publications. Need a writer? I'm up for either one!
When I was studying website design in Perth five years ago, I always keep in mind that whenever I create a website it should be user friendly. E-learning is really popular nowadays especially for those people who wants to learn more about some topics. I tried an online school before and I took a short course that teaches about graphics virtualization. Their website is easy to navigate but they need some improvements to make it look better.
ReplyDeleteI am a freelance educational writer and I plan to create my own e-learning website. I agree with you that as time passes by we are continuing to develop different set of skills. I plan to hire a website designer Perth to help me design my website so that it will be easier for me to launch it soon.
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I am expecting that online education will soon be reliable. More people will have easy access to education without paying for the uniform, school materials, utilities like water, electricity etc. That is the basic problem of a community that has a large number of poor people. I think online education will be a great way to spread education efficiently and effectively.
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