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Preparing and developing e-learning materials is a costly and time consuming enterprise. This paper highlights the elements of effective design that we consider assist in the development of high quality materials in a cost efficient way. We introduce six elements of design and discuss each in some detail. These elements focus on paying attention to the provision of a rich learning activity, situating this activity within an interesting story line, providing meaningful opportunities for student reflection and third party criticism, considering appropriate technologies for delivery, ensuring that the design is suitable for the context in which it will be used, and bearing in mind the personal, social, and environmental impact of the designed activities. Along the way, we describe how these design elements can be effectively utilized by contextualizing them with examples from an e-learning initiative.

The art of making information beautiful. How do you make statistics look interesting? According to the writer and designer David McCandless, you just need to apply the rules of visual design to information. David Sillito meets him and investigates the trend of applying the rules of visual design to information in order to help us cope with the oceans of data we are bombarded with.

Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

We have condensed the project design process into six steps. After outlining the steps briefly below, we offer examples that show how one might use these steps to develop a germ of an idea into a project plan that emphasizes inquiry. Read the steps and examples all the way through before digging in to your own plan.

This is about inquiry through project based learning. The steps to start designing your projects are an excellent place for you to think about your inquiry learning outline for Assignment 2.

App Learning Tasks By Brad Wilson www.21innovate.com This list is in no way designed to be exhaustive. It only includes apps that I have downloaded and tried and comes from the viewpoint of my 4th grade teaching experiences and curriculum.

Below are some QR Code Scavenger Hunts that I have designed to be fully printable and ready to use. As long as you have a wi-fi enabled smart device that can scan, you can use these 'hunts' to support student literacy skills.

QR codes - ideas for the classroom.

A video that could be used to get students thinking about the number of ways in which we use mathematics in everyday situations. It has been designed so that teachers can pause the video at certain intervals for students to discuss some open-ended questions and to work through some of the mathematics problems in their own way. The idea behind this is for the audience to recognise that we all have different perspectives when it comes to mathematics and different ways of working through mathematics problems or tasks... there is more than one way of thinking about numeracy and solving mathematics problems! 

This video is an educational video designed to assist students, parents and teachers with numeracy in the primary years. This video addresses the topic money and looks specifically at buying items at the shop with a budget and also discusses the ways to round money.

A movie about buying books for school, but having a budget and making sure you've still got money left! To encourage kids to think about numeracy in their every day lives.

This numeracy video was created for educational purposes and designed for students teachers and parents to use as a resource when teaching fractions in a junior primary setting. Our video aims to communicate the importance of numeracy as a life skill as it shows how numeracy can be used beyond the classroom. For example, real life situations such as baking a chocolate cake :)

This video could be used as part of numeracy learning experiences, either as a base to a numeracy lesson, lesson introduction, or lesson idea. It could also encorporate cross curricula links to subjects such as ICT and Home Economics!

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=34078 You could also check out the link on the 'WatchKnowLearn' website - a website where you can view hundreds of free educational videos!

On the benefit side, people become more engaged when they can filter information that is presented visually and make discoveries on their own. On the risk side, Professor Shneiderman says, tools as powerful as visualizations have the potential to mislead or confuse consumers.