The Secret in the Cellar
| Whole Podcast 38 mins
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Designers discuss how they created the award winning Webcomic, “The Secret in the Cellar – A Written in Bone Forensic Mystery from Colonial America”.
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The Webcomic, “The Secret in the Cellar – A Written in Bone Forensic Mystery from Colonial America”, won the 2009 Best Practices in Distance Learning Programming Gold Prize from the U.S. Distance Learning Association (USDLA).
Developed by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the Webcomic combines graphic novel techniques and interactive activities to tell a story.
On the Panel:
- Robert Costello, National Museum of Natural History
- Dan Bliton: Project Designer, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Paula Dosch-Haworth: Instructional Designer, Booz Allen Hamilton
Topics discussed:
- Why use a webcomic
- Hitting the target audience
- Designing a webcomic
- Writing for teens
- Not using audio
Very interesting podcast. I particularly enjoyed the exchange between Robert and Dan on the instructional design perspective to support the decision to not use audio. They raised a great point that an audio track forces a pace upon the user. I’ll definitely keep this in mind when designing web-based programs in the future.
Comment by darlenec — July 2, 2009 @ 1:59 pm