A lot of the things I do involve writing. I struggled with writing growing up, and I still would rather be drawing. However, it happens that all my hobbies, interests, and the rest of the world want me to write. For one of my hobbies, I spend time writing creatively for and with friends. We joke about our bad spelling and form, but we still have a structure:

1. Introduce the story (hook the reader or player and give them something to be excited about…like a goal) >
2. Give them the information they need to guide them on their quest >
3. Create a conflict >
4. See the conflict resolved either with story or with interaction (to my instructional design friends, we’ll identify this the short-term cognitive process of learning) >
5. Summation or epilogue

Flip-side of the writer’s coin

Technical writing: While not as entertaining as the story writing, it follows a similar process.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download

1. Introduction (goal) >
2. Give the information they need (and only what they need) to guide themselves (objectives) >
3. Challenge them with some activity that builds on reading >
4. Assess their knowledge of the information they have learned >
5. Review the information

It’s funny—I think my creative writing is sometimes too technical. Theories of human learning and the structure of story-telling tend to have a lot in common from my limited experience. I think this might be what I research next, the correlation between story-telling an human learning.

The new software we are using, Articulate, has a product called Storyline. I’ve just installed it on my computer at the office. I’ll try to post the similarities and usefulness of this product as we start to create several learning objects for our learning management system training needs.