Articles by Pascale Swanson

Prison break (#198)

This portfolio piece was created for the eLearning Heroes Challenge #198 (designing escape the room puzzle games in eLearning). This was the first eLearning Heroes Challenge that I attempted; however, it took me a whole month to complete, so I worked on other challenges in the meantime. I wanted to…

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This portfolio piece was created for the eLearning Heroes Challenge #200 (how are you using lightbox slides in eLearning?). With the World Cup coming up, I was caught up in the soccer fever and decided to design an interaction based on the Icelandic soccer team. Since Icelandic names are difficult…

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This portfolio piece was created as a combination of three eLearning Heroes Challenges (#179 using eLearning to teach foreign languages; #195 how can learners choose their own avatars in eLearning?; #197 using badges, awards, and achievements in eLearning courses). Instead of setting up the characters as different states, I created…

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Colouring book (#190)

This portfolio piece was created for the eLearning Heroes Challenge #190 (designing interactive colouring books for eLearning). I wanted to add a small aspect of learning into the design, so I added a language learning component. I used the text-to-speech functionality of Storyline to create the voices

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This portfolio piece was created out of curiosity about the dragged over states in Storyline. I first came across this functionality when exploring the eLearning Heroes Challenge #155 (design an interaction to simulate the grocery store checkout process). Instead of choosing this topic, I created a new scenario based on…

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Circular menu (#189)

This portfolio piece was created for the eLearning Heroes Challenge #189 (circular menu navigation). This was my first experience creating nesting animation for a button. Rather than creating content simply for the challenge, I decided to create a buildable forest scene. Select the image to launch demo

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