Trond Kristiansen's eLearning Devcon 2011 session, Using Photographic Techniques In eLearning, really got the rusty gears of creativity in my brain churning about how to incorporate some photographic techniques into eLearning.
I've previously covered how to easily manipulate stock images, but Trond's ideas were decidedly more high brow...and fun. It had never before occurred to me to incorporate time-lapse or stop motion techniques into eLearning. Now that it's been presented to me I am flooded with ideas where this could be really dynamic in learning modules.
In Garin Hess's eLearning Devcon 2011 session, Intro to mLearning, Garin mentioned that the healthcare market made up 17% of the total US market for mLearning, which is a 24% growth rate. I think the medical field in particular could benefit from time lapse and stop motion in eLearning. What about a 360 degree tour of campuses/facilities/offices? 360 degree shots around medical equipment? What if those 360 shots had the option to zoom in on specific parts? We can do this in online shopping carts, so why not in eLearning? Or how about a time lapse video showing the accumulation of germs on unwashed hands or equipment?
So, today, for your viewing pleasure... some inspiration:
This one appears to have been made for fun, but could probably be very useful as a portfolio or how-to situation in the beauty field.
This one is rather long, but just watching a small snippet of it illustrates how you could use this technique to run through software processes or to show how much work goes in to a project.
This is a fun use of stop motion for educational purposes.
Time-lapse of a stop motion! Totally meta. (And, in case you'd like to see the stop motion he's creating, you can watch it here).
This is in another language, but is a good example of a 360 degree tour that allows for zooming in for a closer look.
And for some serious professional quality:
About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Communicator and author of both "PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials" and "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials."
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