Articulate Rise | Course Content
In my online course design, I use Articulate Rise to present weekly lesson content. Rise allows me to present media-rich lessons that make use of the internet’s vast resources. Embedded within the lessons are a mix of curated resources, which I place in a useful context, and original content. I aim to utilize a variety of media for the original content, including animations, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts, images, and text.
I upload these weekly lessons in Rise to the LMS for my course as SCORM 1.2 packages.
This Rise project, “The Writing Cycle,” was developed for an introductory creative writing class at the undergraduate level. While the writing process is not new to undergraduates at this point in their academic career, my creative writing classes devote a great deal of time to the revision process.
In the age of ChatGPT and large language models, I focus even more closely on process than I did in the past. Students are not just required to write a sonnet—they are also asked to show me the different iterations of the poem as they worked on it.
This project highlights the creative process of well-known writers and introduces the concept of generative revision to students.
This provides a closer look at one piece of embedded microlearning that I created. By navigating this genially presentation, they can view a short interview with the author Stephen King, view an infographic that I created with information about different prewriting techniques, read a brief excerpt of an essay by Ann Lamott, and view a slide show highlighting different versions of a poem by the poet Elizabeth Bishop.
