This is my favorite interactive in this course. I needed a GIF to illustrate the practice being explained here, a mindfulness Body Scan. 

I found a character over at eLearningArt, dropped the SVG file into Adobe Illustrator, tweaked the image a little to look like the character was breathing in. I added a horizontal line for the scan, saving the image anew each time I moved the line. I put all these images into TechSmith Camtasia and made a .mp4, which I then dropped into Canva to export it as a GIF. 

The course was made in Chameleon Creator and the target audience is young adults. 

You can find the whole course, The Art of Mindfulness, on the LifeSkill.Academy website. 

I incorporated opportunities for learners to practice within the course. After learning about some mindfulness techniques, learners are given an opportunity to them out with a “10-second Try.” For the longer techniques, learners are asked to reflect before and after the exercise. 

After each experience, learners land on this PDF page, where they can go back and try another technique or download a reminder PDF to queue them in the mindfulness practice they learned in the course. 

The PDFs are simple, printer friendly, and use the icons from the course.

One of the things I was looking to do was to have a really meditative look to this course, since it is about mindfulness. So most of the backgrounds have this parallax background of calm nature/water scenes.

I used Pixabay for images and then changed the color pallet in Canva.

For the icons, I wanted to keep them really simple and of a unified look. I wanted them simple, so the focus would be on the content and the practice. 

The client didn't have access to their own icons, so I found icons at different free sites that had similar looks and used Adobe Illustrator to rework some of them to create new icons. I used Google Drawings to create a few of them from scratch. 

Google Docs allowed for collaboration with the client. It was also the word processing app used in the school district of the client.

7Taps was chosen as the tool to deliver this compliance training, as it allowed volunteers to complete the training on their phone. The micro-learning platform also forced the edit of content so only what volunteers really NEEDED to know what left in the course. 

The interactivity required from the learner leads to greater engagement and retention of the content. Edited the content to be delivered as micro-learning made it easy for volunteers to finish their training quickly.

Rise was chosen as the tool for this course as it is a quick authoring course that allows all work to be completed in a browser.