Audience:
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Primary: Adults seeking to improve their emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and emotional regulation skills.
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Secondary: Educators, counselors, or coaches can integrate this activity into a comprehensive program on social-emotional learning or stress management, enhancing its effectiveness and impact.
Responsibilities:
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Instructional Design: Led the needs analysis and designed the overall learning experience.
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Action Mapping: Created a detailed project plan outlining the design and development steps.
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Storyboarding: Sketched the visual layout and text content for slides, including the flow of the activity.
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Visual Design: Sourced images and built the photo mosaics within the chosen eLearning tool.
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Mockups: Potentially created static mockups for client review or to test design concepts.
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eLearning Development: Built the interactive experience in Articulate Storyline, handling the navigation and branching logic.
Tools Used:
Canva, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Illustrator, WellSaid AI Voice Generator, Google Suit, ClickUp, Slack.
Learning Design Model
While not strictly formalized, the design approach loosely follows a constructivist model:
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Learner-Centered: Learners guide their exploration based on the emotions that resonate with them.
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Knowledge Building: Prior emotional experiences are acknowledged, and new coping strategies are introduced, building upon a learner's existing knowledge base.
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Reflection: The optional self-assessment prompts encourage thoughtful introspection around emotions.
Action Map
Project Scope: Consult with clients and define project goals.
Research: Investigate emotion theories (e.g., Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions) and common, healthy coping strategies.
Photo Curation: Source images for mosaics, ensuring diversity and sensitivity to the topic.
Storyline Build: Construct the main Emotion Wheel and corresponding emotion detail slides. Design navigation and slide transitions.
Content Creation: Write onscreen text for each slide (overviews, prompts, etc.).
Review & Testing: Client review, pilot with users, iterate based on feedback.
Launch: Integrate activity into the client's website or existing learning platform.
Mock-ups
Results & Takeaways
Positive Client Feedback
The client felt the activity was a unique addition to her program and reported increased client interest in the topic of emotional well-being.
Engagement
Informal learner feedback showed that the visuals were more engaging than traditional lists.
Areas to Expand
Some learners desired more in-depth content on specific coping mechanisms, suggesting a possible need for additional linked resources or a more profound module format.