February 7, 2012
Instructional designer to present SoftChalk webinars
Submitted by Division of Continuing Education
Shalin Hai-Jew, instructional designer, will present a webinar session "Building Interactive Articles for Peer-Reviewed Journals with SoftChalk."
The webinar will be at 2 p.m. CST Feb. 22. Register at http://softchalk.com/learn-more/innovators.
Interactive articles – and e-books – are an enriched form of digital publication which may build in deep exploration, interactivity and value-added learning for readers. These articles integrate multimedia and other digital contents, are accessible and have mobile friendly content.
This webinar will highlight the building of two published articles created with SoftChalk, with a focus on organizational structure, strategic activity selection and multimedia choices, and tailoring to a broad audience. We’ll also discuss the hows and whys and dos and don’ts when considering authoring an interactive article.
The two examples that will be introduced are recent publications in the peer-reviewed Educause Quarterly:
- “Creating an Online Global Health Course and Game” by Brent A. Anders, Deborah J. Briggs, Shalin Hai-Jew, Zachary J. Caby, and Mary Werick
- “The Participatory Design of a (Today and) Future Digital Entomology Lab” by Shalin Hai-Jew
These articles include an exploratory space about insects, a sidebar about rabies prevention, and a built-in game on global health.
The session ends with a Q-and-A period.