Designing Words: Words that Work in eLearning

Here is what you will learn:

• Rearranging your words for eLearning “feng shui”

• Custom wording: The personal touch for learners

• Clauses that compliment your subject

• Clutter-proof your words: keeping learners learning

• Write light and tight: keeping learners awake

• Secret writing tips, tricks, and tools

The Design

View this Prezi:

http://prezi.com/nr0km07usyhs/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

• The Words

  • The six-word memoir
  • The feng-shui of words
  • Words that will keep your learners engaged
  • View Words that Work: Words that Work

• The Sentences

  • Arranging words for emphasis
  • Clutter-proof your clauses.
  • Write tight. Write short.

• The Paragraph

  • Or “chunks” as instructional designers call them
  • Manage with “The Meal Plan” Click to view: MEAL

• The Tools

  • Editing tools and editors – worth the money
  • Use your tools in MS WORD
  • Clean the Clutter of your Words (download checklist)
• The Resources
  • The six-word memoir website
  • Poytner News University
  • Editing tools: White Smoke; Grammerly; Write Check
  • OWL Purdue